Thank You, Naperville Doll Show!

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.

SFBJ in Gorgeous Brittany Costume

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.

Panorama of one of the booths.

My Friend's Booth

A selection from my booth made up of items from the Museum Gift Shop

More books and tiny things for dolls from my booth

Dr. Tweet's Vintage paper airplanes

My own book was for sale and sold well.

Overview of my booth and the rest of the show.