Onine Finds In For This Week!

Here are a few items that I received the past week...

This awesome VTG Chalkware baby doll head wall plaque, from Ebay, is just one of my favorite finds this week. It showed up the week I came back home and when I won it, I was completely giddy. It is made in Canada, and probably used as a medicine advertisement piece in a pharmacy perhaps? It came with a blue ribbon, but I changed it to the pink you see. I may need to trim it a bit more. It has a wire for hanging and stamped, "The Gas City of the West, Medicine Hat Alberta, Canada." Just adorable and a lovely roly poly style baby for sure!

 Next, this lovely Rune Naito style coin bank of an Indian girl holding her baby or a doll perhaps. It came in a lot with a necklace. I decided to bid and won her through Yahoo Japan. I will list the coin bank in my Etsy shop later today. She is in lovely condition and still has her original stopper. Just adorable and rare too. The necklace is a lovely pose doll style Ayumi Uyama look, with plastic shell and beaded pearl decor. A teen girl's fashion necklace. Sadly, one of the shells has a chip, but still a lovely necklace. I will keep for my collection for now.

 Then, I also got a lot of 2 vintage walker dolls with sleep eyes, both possibly 1950s and 1960s. One in her wedding dress above. She stands about 19 inches tall, comes with her white gown, white panties, socks, and a pair of red shoes. Her sleep eyes are a bit off, but can close and open. Similar to Oike sleep eye dolls. She is marked, "20" at base of the head. The 2nd doll is also about 19 inches tall also, wearing a white sailor dress with socks, panty, and shoes. She might be the younger of the two, and I believe may be called, "Margaret", not absolutely sure. Possibly made by Nakajima Seisakusho, no markings sadly. She has the most amazing blue eyes. I washed both dolls hair and clothing, because they were completely dingy and dark with age and dust. But, they turned out okay. I will definitely list the wedding walker in my Etsy shop.

 Last, I found a few things at the Goody store, and these cute pastel furry bow key chains are just adorbs. Chika chan clone wearing a Pippa jumper! She stopped by to say, "Hi!"

 Hope you all are having a safe weekend!

Thank you for reading! ~ ggsdolls

Happy Mail Opening, Now that I'm Home!

It was a great trip, but now back to the grind... I received several boxes in the mail while I was away and here's what I got...

 Inarco Baby figurines from the lovely Victoria of Classy and Sassy shop on IG. I was stunned to be able to snag these minty babies. They are just adorable and arrived safely to me. Thank you too for the gift Victoria!! I love these sets of figurines made around the same time frame. There are so many too! But, I don't think I can collect them all. Haha!

 Next, I found this cutie just before leaving for my trip via Etsy. A vintage Hong Kong Chika-Chan clone doll. She is about 6 inches tall and is wearing a lovely orange dotted jumpsuit, so mod and cute on her. I washed her hair and added a red ribbon and shoes, since she was missing hers. I love her tan face and dark brunette hair. Generally, Chika-chan is blonde, well at least the Japan version. I believe this version was called, "Teresita".

 I also, found this lovely deer art print lithograph. It's quite heavy and in lovely condition considering the backside is not so lovely. It's signed, "Herb". I just love the deer's big eyes. Quite unique and hard to find in the USA. This one came from all the way from the UK. The print matches my Lowes deer quite well too! Don't you think?! I may put this print up for grabs in my Etsy shop... I just don't have the wall space for it... LOL

 Last, my ultimate find on Etsy, for this month, at least... A vintage SIO made in Holland Boutique Dollhouse/Room. I was doing my usual searching, and this was listed, and immediately bought it. Quite unique, I know, I've seen something similar to this in an online museum for Puppenhaus from Germany. I just can't find the link as yet, but, I will update this post when I do. The boutique has advertisement decor and mod coloring through out in orange, pink and black, perhaps 1960s or 70s? A mirror at the back, with bars and tabs to hang clothing or decor for the shop. It is a bit larger then 1/12 scale, perhaps 1/10 in scale. Barbie would be too big, but, I believe Tadie Muz would fit nicely in here, since Chika is able to fit inside. I will try to break out my miniature furnishings to create a mod boutique look inside soon. Be looking forward to a photo shoot on this piece soon!! It has a stool that can be removed from the floor. Stamped, "SIO made in Holland", and "made in Holland, 13577".

 Truly an awesome find! Hope you all have a wonderful weekend!

 Thank you for looking! ~ ggsdolls

Trip to South Dakota!!

Start of my trip here in this post!

 I forgot to add the photos from my Goodwill visit in WA. There were a few things cute that I saw...

I was able to change my flight plans to fly into Rapid City, SD. Tevin would make plans to pick me up, I just had to get a hotel and we'd have a chance to spend a few days together before his deployment in early October.

 I made it out of SeaTac with no problems, I took a later flight that morning too. Whew. I said my goodbyes and Lita dropped me to the airport. I will miss my sister so much. But, good news is that I will be seeing her in February! Yay! My flight landed into Denver Airport with no major problems. However, I did not get on the first flight out, ugh. But, no worries, because by the 2nd flight, we had a bigger plane and I made it on First Class too! Yay! While there, I looked out the window, Denver was humid when I left, and saw some interesting sights along the way. The woman sitting in front of me, turned back and asked if I was on Instagram?! I was like yes, I am! She asked, "Is your name Linda?" At first, I was thrilled, to possibly bump into one of my fellow kitsch collector friends and on a flight, whaaaat?! But, nope, she had mistaken me for a botanist! It was okay, and truly flattering to say the least. Haha!

 When we landed, there was so much cloud coverage and it was dark already. Chilly too about 40 degrees and raining, eeek! After, I checked into my hotel, which was a really nice new one BTW too! Thank you Danaya!! I put my luggage and Tev took me to get some meds for my cold and then to a place, that I forgot the name of because you read why in just a bit. Ugh. I ordered Fish N Chips, Yum! It was definitely delicious. The only disappointing part was, experiencing some prejudice attitude while there. It took awhile before the server came to our table and Tevin had to call him over. I've heard of some people still having issues of this type, but to see it happening on the first day I arrived, was not a good experience. I could sense, it was because of we were people of color. Truly sad, that attitudes like this are still present in the United States, considering, there is a whole melting pot of other nationalities here.

 But, I didn't want to let that ruin my happy visit with my son! I had a great hotel, great dinner, and spending time with my son was the highlight of this part of my trip. We headed back to the hotel as it was late. Our plan was to go see Mount Rushmore, just hang out, shop, and spend much needed bonding time while he was still in SD and while I was able too! I got up early, headed downstairs to the continental breakfast and found out we could take it to our room! What?!! Booyah! I made sure to get a bit more for lunch later. It was a foggy morning and I waited for Tev to come get me. We were planning to go to Mt. Rushmore. By 10am, he arrived and plans changed, his friend Danaya took us instead to Crazy Horse Monument! It was amazing too! We watched a documentary of how the monument began and why. We did a simple tour around the museum and took some quick pics. By the end, we headed back to Rapid City because Danaya had to work. I will just have to come out next time and see Mt. Rushmore then. We had lunch at a Vietnamese Restaurant called, Pacific Rim. Dropped Danaya off and took a nap before deciding to go to a few stores for some souvenirs and gifts for family back home.

 Rapid City wasn't so bad, with the exception of people looking at us, oddly for being a person of color. We did go have ice cream at a place called Armadillos and Tev even stopped by Sonic to get me a burger to try. Yum!

 On my last night in Rapid City, we went to have dinner with Danaya and her family. It was really nice. Tevin got me a Blue Hawaiian, appetizers of cheese sticks and breaded shrimp. By the time our meal came, we were full. Haha! Danaya's Mom had given me an Indian print fleece blanket and beautiful Black Hills Gold earrings! I was not expecting that. They were truly so sweet to meet and I enjoyed getting to know them and being with my son. It was a beautiful evening, but we had to get to bed for my early flight at 5am. So, we left said our goodbyes and went to bed.

 By morning, Tevin dropped me to the airport and I made it out of SD with no problems. I arrived at Denver Airport, and had to wait til' 1pm for my next flight out to Narita. I made it on First Class too, whew for the 12 hour flight! A blessing too, thank you, God. I was exhausted and by the time I was in Narita, and I had only an hour wait time before the flight into Guam. By 11pm, I was back on island Wednesday night. I had lost a day from travel. Exhausted, Tabytha picked me up from the airport and when I got back to the house. I showered unpacked and went to bed.

It was truly a rush of emotions and definitely an amazing mini vacay to see family. Now, I feel refreshed and ready to open up my shop and get back into the swing of things! It feels so good to be home...

Thank you for visiting! ~ ggsdolls