I found Pleasant Company's trunk for Molly!
It was $20 and I found it in a pile of stuff in the garage (!) of my local thrift store.
It's a wonderful piece, but Molly is not my girl, so this trunk is going to live with a friend instead.
Mattel probably does not owns the rights, but I would 100% buy a bookmark or a Christmas ornament that looks like the PC logo plate on the trunk.
I am working on fixing up Molly.
She was soooo dirty, I could see that with my naked eye.
I scrubbed her with Magic Eraser so hard that the eraser disintegrated. Dirty water was coming off of her as well.
I brushed and re-braided her hair.
She had glitter up her nose, so I had to literally use a Q tip to pick her nose and get it out.
The Q tip also helped removing make up from around her eye.
I think she could probably use another going over with Magic Eraser, but she's a lot better.
Her hair is in pretty good shape. It's a little dry at the end.
I dressed her in some clothes that I sewed myself. She's wearing Maryellen's saddle shoes.
Her glasses were from a different thrift store. They are a little too big for her and won't stay on on their own. I was able to use barrettes to fasten the glasses to her hair and help them stay on.
Her legs are very loose and need new elastic.
She's a newer doll than I thought. She had the dress from 1993 on, so I assumed she was Pleasant Company. However, she doesn't have an artist's mark, she doesn't have squishy vinyl. Her head says Pleasant Company and she has a small body tag. So I am guessing that she is a transitional doll.
Anyway, Molly is feeling better and looks much more like herself now!
Yesterday, I had a doctor's appointment in a town about 30 minutes away from me.
Several hours after the appointment, I had an ASL class in the same town.
I decided to not spend time and gas driving back and forth after my doctor's appointment.
Instead, I visited several of my favorite stores in this town.
Since I had plenty of time, I decided to stop by one thrift store that I never find anything at. I thought maybe I would find some small accessories to use in the doll house.
To my utter surprise, I found Wellie Wishers Emerson for $7 in among the kid's toys. She had her dress and boots and everything.
I was even more surprised when I found Molly in the collector dolls section. Molly was very dirty and had messy hair.
She was marked at $5.
And she was wearing Addy's prototype meet dress.
I knew what it was immediately. I have seen one in person before. One of my friends has it and showed it to me.
I couldn't believe it.
I circled the store several times to make sure that I hadn't missed anything, then I went to check out.
I still can't believe it.
I don't know how I have such good luck at the thrift store. Living in Wisconsin probably helps, since we had the MCM sale for many years.
Wow.
I thought for sure I would wake up and find that this was all a dream.
I joined a challenge on Ravelry to sew doll clothes for the mini dolls.
It worked out perfectly. I bought this mini Molly last year. She had her original hair ribbons but was missing her skirt.
The first thing we had to make for the challenge was a skirt for the mini dolls!
I used fabric from an old pair of pants. It's a different color than Molly's original skirt, but I feel like the texture is perfect, and makes it look better than making a blue cotton skirt.
Molly says it's about time she has a skirt again!
I love these older mini dolls. Their faces are so cute, in a chipmunk-y kind of way.
Another thrift store find- I found Molly's desk at the thrift store!
It was $7 and it is missing its top. I hope to replace that with a piece of wood. If the wood doesn't match perfectly, that will be fine. I am going to use it for Nanea, and her whole school burnt down. It makes sense that they might have had to replace parts of the furniture to use it again.
I'm just not a Molly fan, never have been. Sorry, Molly fans!
The hinges are still there, which will make it easier to replace the desk's writing top.
American Girl has done a release for its 35th anniversary.
There are limited edition released of Kirsten, Samantha, Molly, Felicity, Addy and Josefina- the original six dolls.
They are wearing their original meet outfits and come with their original accessories and books.
I am very happy to see this release and how popular it is. I idolized these girls and memorized the Pleasant Company catalog.
I don't think I am going to buy any of them. I own Kirsten, Samantha, Felicity, Addy and Josefina and their original meet outfits.
I briefly owned a Molly but she is just not for me.
I was excited to find out that the Create Your Own T-shirt now has a theme called "AG 1986."
It includes graphics for the original six girls that hits me right in the nostalgia feels.
However, one of the graphics is terribly racist. It is a graphic for Kirsten and features a log cabin and the words "Settlers Gonna Settle."
This graphic does not acknowledge that settlers were on land that was stolen from indigenous people.
This graphic is hurtful to those of Native descent. American Girl should remove this graphic immediately.
Update: They fixed it already by removing the caption and leaving the graphic as just a log cabin!
That's a really fast response from AG! They have been known to take months to fix an offensive graphic in the CYO section. Kudos to them.
I do really enjoy the other vintage graphics from the "AG 1986" theme and have been playing around with them.
I am sorry that AG had to spoil their release in this way.
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I found Pleasant Company's trunk for Molly! It was $20 and I found it in a pile of stuff in the garage (!) of my local thrift store. It...
