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 

Update on Special Creation!!

 An update from my post here! Below, two photos of 'Sea Monkey' Bloop in its proper place of display!! Robert sent these photos! Now, this amazing creature is where he's meant to be! Robert shared with me prior to the idea of creating S.M. Bloop he found this cool vintage Merry Go Round Sea Horse and it would be great with this special Bloop. His vision was for the creature to sit atop the vintage Sea Horse. So it is so cool to see everything in its place!

The 'Sea Monkey' bloop definitely fits right in with the Sea Horse. Even the coloring of the Sea Horse matches S.M. Bloop so well! Truly a one of a kind gem in his collection!

I am so thrilled and beyond humbled by how well Sea Monkey Bloop compliments Robert's Sea Horse! Enjoy Robert and family and thank you again for giving me another chance to create something so unique!

Thank you for reading! ~ ggsdolls 

Handmade Journal Fun Part II!

 

@ggsdolls_vtg I made this journal to hold my Vtg and modern Anime Shoujo style girl collection. 📓🥰🎀 I used Vtg anime girl fabric from Japan and tulle from my last Daiso trip while in Japan. I have more to add, but I was excited to show it off! 🥰🎀🫰🏼 #vintagekitsch #shoujoanime #handmadebyme #journaling #scrapbook ♬ おいしいおにぎり作ろう - kimimi

 Above a video of my latest creation!! Since making the Rushton Journal in this post, I decided to make an  Anime girlie one too and fill it with a lot of my Shoujo retro galaxy-eyed girlie art in it!! I began the project late February when I found and ordered this lovely anime girl vintage fabric lot. I got two styles of the anime fabric and it was just enough to make the cover for the file holder/journal book.

I decided to add Tulle in pink, a blue satin bow and felt anime girl art to the front along with some pink and white gingham ribbon to secure the journal when not in use. At the back side of the journal I added the same pink felt but shaped in a heart and the same pink and white gingham ribbon.

Inside the front cover, I wanted to add an pink ribbon prize badge and attach an anime girl wallet to it. The first card insert, I will need to add some embellishments to it just to keep the same colorful look. I was so in a hurry to share it that some pages are blank and I need to look at my anime collection and insert them into my journal. 

I added pages with pockets and clear card files along with journal pages that are blank and pockets for holding larger items. At this point it is kind of random, but I will refine it as time goes on. Teehee...

I even added this adorable Pop corn paper bag below I got from the Daiso in Japan last year. Inside holds a coin wallet with cute anime girl art!!

 I was also able to find at my local Daiso these side pockets you can easily stick onto your journal to hold items. I just need to get more. Haha! They are perfect for holding larger items, like this second anime girl coin purse I have in my collection.

It was fun to add items I got as gifts from sellers and other vintage anime girl memorabilia, like this watch which has Hana no ko Lunlun on its face! Too cute!

I even added some miniature manga gatchas that I got a few years back. Hopefully, the journal can hold more things. But so far it is a bit too bulky. Haha! I may need to cut back on big items and just put in flat items like cards, stickers, etc. 

It was so much fun to make and fill. I hope to create more later on. Below, when I found those corner pockets at Daiso, I also found these cute bath bombs there that have compacts in them! I've seen boy style bath bombs, but this time while I was at Daiso they refilled with the girl bath bombs, Yay! They smell nice too and are fun to watch melt away! Haha!

Also, sharing some items I got in the mail. This vintage Licca Chan doll clone. I cleaned her up and she is already listed in my shop! She's small like Dawn dolls, but still unique and cute! 

Last, this adorable vintage children's tin harmonica. I fell in love with the graphics on the box and on the harmonica itself. Cute retro style animals on the harmonica. A great addition to my little instrument collection for sure!

Well that is all for now. I hope you all have a great rest of your week ahead!

Thank you for looking! ~ ggsdolls