My friend Diane R. and I traveled to Naperville, IL for the semiannual doll show. My great finds are the two French dolls below, but I brought home lots of other goodies, including many generous gifts from the Windy City Doll Guild; these included parts, patterns, ethnic dolls, a composition doll, and more. Free will contributions went to the UFDC, and I contributed generously.
Pat of Mostly French on Ruby Lane gave away lovely doll items and clothing. I purchased miniatures and clothing for museum dolls from several booths, especially knitted and crocheted. I was happy to meet Pat and Kevin; while pinning for Ruby Lane I often pinned her lovely dolls. Those interested, go to the Ruby Lane doll boards to see my work, and explore the blog where I often wrote posts.
Many of these came from Diane's booth. I also found paper ephemera for my own art projects, and an awesome set of vintage Taiwanese dolls from Gigi's Dolls and Sherry's Teddies and a great wooden mouse bank from Spain from Ragamuffin Doll Shop, Galena.
Fritzi's Antique Dolls provided a doll house sized Parian with three hand made dresses; she has a lovely beaded, molded cafe au lait hairdo.
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| SFBJ in Gorgeous Brittany Costume |
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| FG Fashion, all original, with long, lovely bisque arms. She came with an amazing wardrobe and accessories which I will be posting soon. Courtesy of Nancy McCray, who has been a great friend to our museum. |
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| Panorama of one of the booths. |
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| My Friend's Booth |
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| A selection from my booth made up of items from the Museum Gift Shop |
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| More books and tiny things for dolls from my booth |
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| Dr. Tweet's Vintage paper airplanes |
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| My own book was for sale and sold well. |
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| Overview of my booth and the rest of the show. |
