A Storm is Afoot!!

 We have a storm knocking on our door this weekend! Darn!! July is here and we are getting hit by our 2nd serious typhoon for the year!! Typhoon Bavi below slowing making its way toward the Marianas. 

 So to keep busy here's some items and things I've been doing the past few days...

I got this lovely Barbie style pendant from Japan and I believe it was a free pendant if you got the Shoujo Manga Ribon for girls. The pendant is around the 1950s in pink and gold and a silhouette of a lovely girl. Similar to the silhouettes by Junichi Nakahara. I paired it with a peach satin bow and gem. Than realized the lovely colorful pearl necklace I got would be amazing with it!!

I also decided to sew a lovely puppy journal for my son's partner, Monica. I hope she likes it. It just too cute for words. Always fun working on things for loved ones for sure!!

 Next, I decided to find and take out from storage my vintage Jewel Star and Toei Little Mermaid books to be scanned. I finished scanning both books so you just need to email me or contact me on here to purchase a copy! 

Then, I also took down my previous display above my shelf and decided to display my children's suitcase collection. These are just a small feature of my faves. I love seeing them, and brings back so many childhood memories too!!

This lovely baby card I found and it came with an adorable pink plastic comb. Just too adorable for sure!! NFS. Sara and I also finished another Rokr puzzle set. This one was started by a family friend and he gave the set to us for us to complete. It's a globe that lights up!! It was fun to complete too and took us about 2 days. It comes with a USB plug and all the things needed to help it light up! 

I also won and received this lovely vintage 50s Rattle Head plush baby. Needs cleaning but he is still just too cute!! I have him displayed with Alice at the moment.

Yesterday we made our way to Daiso and I saw some new Bath bombs for kids above and my purchased items below. I hope to make some cute things while we patiently wait for the typhoon Bavi to pass... More on that later on!!

Well that's all for now! I hope your July is an enjoyable one!! Happy Thrifting!

Thank you for reading! ~ ggsdolls

June Finds!

 June is here and we are mostly halfway through. A fellow collector friend who owns a jewelry shop online made this adorable brooch I just couldn't resist getting!! So cuute!! She's from the UK so if you want to buy any of her amazing jewelry you can find her here!! Acid Banana!!

Me wearing the brooch that is my fave and below another style she had available that is also so cuute!! Be sure to visit her shop! She has amazing jewelry pieces that even Post Malone wore!! 
 

I found these gacha jewelry pieces while searching Instagram! They are called, "Ephemeral" jewelry and I love the styles that you can find! I got myself four styles and my fave of course is the pink bow heart!! I've always loved bows and finding "bow" themed items is really easy these days since a lot of it is popular now!! Haha!!

Above, I finally acquired this lovely Fruit Drops tin. Made in Japan, they can be very hard to find even in Japan and cost a lot. But I was able to snag this one for much much more cheap, whew!! One of my faves is the Panda decorated one, but there are other styles.

Next, this lovely Yukiko Tani memo book. Inside it has a loose mirror and memo book. It mostly speaks of Astrology and you having a husband?! LOL I just love the artwork on it! Definitely a special memo for sure!!

I also found out that Swimmer released a figures sets of our cute Happy bear and friends! I thought they'd be a lot larger, but this cutie is small at around less than 3 inches tall. I will just have the one figure. They sell the lamb, kitty, and bunny too! Each will come with a stand.

I've always loved kids vinyl suitcases and now I can display my collection instead of store them away! I have more than this, but I will need to put up a shelf to display them at some point. Haha!

Lastly, my lot of vintage cards. Love many of the anthropomorphic ones and cause they are cuute animals I will add to my journal soon! They don't make cards like they used too. Oh well!!

I hope you all have a wonderful time thrifting!! Happy Weekend all!!

Thank you for checking out my blog!! ~ ggsdolls 

Good Thoughts, Good Words...

 "... Good Deeds." ~ Bohemian Rhapsody (2018).

May is on its way out! Than, I made more handmade journals!! I was commissioned to make two journals for a friend. I was so excited to work on it that I finished it quickly! LOL

I actually began working on a bunny journal and cut out the fabric. While doing that there were other cute animal prints on the same fabric along with a bunny, there is a fawn, bears, a lamb and the puppy above. I decided to use the puppy and fawn for the commission.

I also had similar colored fabric with a slightly different design to use as the back covers. I added the baby blue pompoms and blue satin ribbon along with the cute car appliques. These are journals are to be use for my friend's grandsons and I think with the color palette being blues will be a nice way to commemorate her journal writings about them. Annnnd she can add more to her journal as she goes!

All the journals I completed in about two days. I made a birthday bear journal and you can also see the blue bunny with yellow pompoms, I made first than the other journals below.

The birthday bear below, feature a boy bear on the front and a girl bear on the back. I added some hot pink ruffles and hot pink polkadot ribbon. I haven't decided on an applique yet. But even without it, the journal looks so cute! It was fun to decide the design as I went along.

The journal below, I made before the others, and it features the blue bunny and I added some yellow pompom trim along with a peach satin ribbon. This one I will use to hold my vintage baby cards, etc. Just because it is perfect for my baby themed ephemera collection. I can't wait to work on it!

Sweet Lamby on the back, it will be fun to add things to the journals and I will share more soon! This has been a busy few weeks. My youngest will graduate from High School and Sam and I will become empty nesters!! Haha!

I hope you are either being creative or finding treasures! Have a wonderful summer!!

Thank you for looking! ~ ggsdolls 

Retro Cookie Journal Made by Me!

     I just completed making a cute retro Kawaii "Cookie" journal scrapbook. It was so much fun to create and sew! I began with this lovely retro vintage sweet animal fabric in green with adorable cookie tins on it like Butter Cookies, Biscuits, and Assorted cookie tins on the fabric. I took this adorable fabric and added some hot pink pom pom trim and for the inside, this floral blue fabric I got from my local "Goody Store". 

 I decided to get some cookie style cabs and found some online. Once they arrived, I added them along with the pastel pink ribbon. I had sewn the ribbon and than added this yummy "Pretzel" style butter cookie as an accent on top of the ribbon. So cute and yummy to look at as well!

 Inside the journal, I added a pocket holder to hold stickers and others small items, I even added dividers in neutral and pastel rose colors. I also added some clear card pages to each section along with some journal pages and yellow card stock style pages. I had these Sakuma fruit & creme candy packaging that work well as pockets to hold other goodies, and lastly a popcorn bag at the end to hold larger paper items or sticker sheets. All you have to do is fill it up with what you'd like to put into the journal!

 

As you can see there are some extras inside already for the lucky person who wants to adopt this OOAK journal piece. I had fun creating it. Below, a short video on TikTok looking at the journal pages! Journal is already SOLDOUT but visit my shop for more soon!

 

@ggsdolls_vtg Cute hand sewn retro kitschy cute journal 📓 available 🛍️🎀 #kitschycute #handmadebyme #ggsdollsshop #cookies ♬ Animal Crackers In My Soup - Shirley Temple

Some other finds that came in!! I got these Amifa Licca Chan set of goods that were released recently. I wanted the acrylic doll stands, clips, bags, and sticker set. So many cute retro Licca Chan dolliness! These will be great to add to my dolly journal once I get that made. Haha!

Next, I found this adorable Meyercord decal of two bears and a basket. Just too cute! A great addition to my collection. It's about medium in size and I don't see these types too often. So it was nice to discover this one! Sadly, it's getting harder to find new to me decals!

Last, this adorable Krueger puppy rattle doll. So small at about 5 inches tall. He is in awesome vintage condition and a lovely addition to my collection!

I hope your month of May is as fruitful as mine!! Happy Thrifting guys!!

Thank you for reading! ~ ggsdolls

Why Kindness Matters...

 ... "Because you don't know what others are going through and being mean doesn't help either." ~ gg

 May is here and so much has happened between then and now. We had a typhoon (Sinlaku) barely miss us, but sadly it still was strong enough to do damage on Guam, and I can almost imagine the damage it had on the other islands it hit directly. We had no cell service for a few days and no power. But luckily during the storm we had water and it didn't go out. Whew! We did survive this and it wasn't as bad as Mowar back in 2023. So I will not complain at all.

I did find a few items prior to and after the storm. Just 2 days before the storm the Japanese Spring Festival happened and I'm so glad Sara and I attended. We had a plan to get the items we wanted and it worked out well. It was a beautiful breezy day too and overcast with no rain, Yay! We won some fish for Taby, and I got two masks one for TJ and one for my wall. We watched the festivities and ate some food. But called it an early day and made our way home. 

A few days after the storm, I took this photo below of the Korean Vodka Soju Apple flavor! It is definitely different. But I had to take a pic of it with Caleb from LADS. As it was fitting. If you know, you know! Haha! During the day with no cell service or power, we decided to work on a mechanical music kit that I was gifted back in December. Sara and I had a blast trying to get the pieces together. 

Some parts was a bit trying, but mostly of it was fairly easy. Even the music box worked and the horses and lower section with the city scape moves as the carousel turns. It was so much fun getting it to work!! Sara and I had fun watching it come together and it was great for times like these after a storm and literally nothing else to do. Haha!

 I even took out my Phomemo printer to make some cute stickers to add to my Rushton journal. It was fun and just adding some embellishments to the journal was relaxing to do. When power and cell service came back. We ventured to McDonald's and got the Huntrixx Happy Meal. Just once, because when we realized how much it was, it was not as worth it as we thought. We got a collectible card and the Ramen Fries were yummy for sure. 

But that was about it and we both decided not to do that again. Oh well. Haha! My friend in Japan had sent a box prior to the storm and it arrived to me the week after and it was so needed. Because I was feeling a bit down and this box made my day! Inside, was this adorable Japanese Festival mask that reminds me of a Pose Doll or Kiichi Tsutaya's works. The mask had green hair and wore a red dotted scarf. I couldn't wait for her to be added to my Festival Masks Wall!!

My Festival Masks Wall updated above. The green haired gal came with two other masks a tiger and a bunny. I only had one hook and needed to get more, so I just hung up the tiger for now. My Masks wall is growing and I love how it all looks. 

 Lastly, this one of six retro Adelia cream soda minis. They are gacha and light up. I couldn't help but get myself a set. I love the design and retro feel they give. Also, it matches my mini GE Little Miss kitchen counter! I even brought my shaker with Meyercord decals out from storage to set this one up for display in my room. There are other items from my latest box, but I will show them next time.

That's all for now. Happy Thrifting my friends!!

Thank you for looking! ~ ggsdolls