WOOOO! Made it!

Congrats to the newlyweds!  I love that from all over the doll world people are joining Van's Doll Treasures in celebrating Rod and Danielle's 1/6 wedding.


I don't even know if  Vanessa even knows who I am, but good job!  So much fun :)

Susie and Coe make it to the wedding in the nick of time!

Here's the invite.

Here are the international guests!  Look in the right column of the Facebook Timeline, Recent Posts by Others on Van's Doll Treasures  and then click 'see all.'

Made for Each Other

Whew... It's still February so this post is still relevant!  Love is in the air at SuperCoolDollHouse and we enter the SCDH TV stuidos to find a little of it.  What better place to find love?  One kajillion reality shows can't be wrong (yes the can)...  SuperCoolDollHouse however, prefers to go the classy route (is there such?) and bring it old school, a la The Dating Game.  Long before the Bachelor, The Dating Game gave us some innocent and not so innocent entertainment, back when there were .... gasp... three channels... 5 if you're sister was willing to hold the  uhf (vhf? I forget) antenna, and the higher channel (above 13) fine tube knob wasn't broken off.  This post has alot of parenthesis... (sorry).  

Anyway, Susie is trying to find love, probably in all the wrong places.  Seems like everywhere she turns, the male population of SCDH seems meant for someone else.  It's true actually, I buy very few dolls by themselves.  They usually arrive with a friend in tow.  Susie however came via TheRealDollNerd (TRDN).  I traded him a little resin boy for her.  Since she came to me, I've been in search of a mate for her.  Dang you R and D Dolls!  No proper boyfriend for Susie? Well, we'll soon see if a Love Connection was made :) -enjoy!

Susie:  Bachelor number one, what do you love to do?

Ken:  uhhh... Barbie Barbie Barbie

Susie:  What now?

Ken:  Barbie Barbie Baribe

Takeo:  Sorry Susie, sounds like he has a one track mind.

 Susie:  Bachelor number three, do you get stressed out easily?

Takeru:  Well, if I'm handled roughly I can fall to pieces.

Susie:  Oh that's a shame.

Takeru:  It's ok, my girlfriend is the same way.

Susie:  Why are you here if you have a girlfriend?

Takeru:  Beats me, but I heard something about a lack of diversity on the shelf.

Susie:  ooooookay then.

Susie:  Bachelor number two, what kind of stuff are you made of?
Coe:  Well I used to be a GI, but after that ended, I changed my body so it'd be more slim and nicer to look at!
Susie:  Oh my!  
Takeo:  Oh my is right Susie.  It's almost as if he was made for you.  

MUUUUUUUUUUUUUUWAAAAAAAAAAAAAAH and  good night!

Thanks TRDN for re-body-ing my clone Joe (Coe) for Susie!  This was another of my Christmas gifts!

Happy February everybody!

Brag

The Christmas season is long over, the decorations are put away, mostly (do out door lights count?) and the busy busy weekends have come to a grinding halt.  I love this time of year.  I get to sit back and enjoy the lovely gifts I received!  TheRealDollNerd (TRDN) really hooked me up this year :)  I have to do a little bragging and show off my haul lol.    

Above are my Violet Waters and OOAK Trent Osborn of the Gene Marshall world of dolls.  The little kids are my OOAK Mary and Mowgli from Kisch.  TRND gave these to me for my birthday, my birthday is soon after Christmas.


Around November, for whatever reason I was jonezin (for my international readers jonezin means obsessed to have) for a Gene doll.  Of course my one (ha! one of many) OCD trait that I carry is that my dolls always need to be paired, so I wanted a Trent as well.  Something about seeing matched pairs gladdens my heart.  It confirms my belief that every pot has a lid, every ying has a yang, every Lavern has a Shirley.  TRDN really outdid himself this year.  If you know Trent, you know he always has moulded hair (except for convention workshop dolls).  TRDN  took the time to sand his hair off and flock him!  Okay, I said one OCD trait, here is number two.  All my dolls must have real hair.  Flocking does indeed count.  Mary and Mowgli are also OOAK as their original hair has been removed and replaced.  Aren't they stunning? I"ll post their original pictures here.

These two cuties are Tiny Betsy Mccall, "Once Upon a Time."  TRDN knew if I got a Gene, I'd want to have a Betsy to be her little pal.  TRDN found this set and knew it was the one for me.  I believe these were slated to go with a Gene and Trent pair but as I was found admiring Violet Waters, I got her and the Kischs soon followed!  Don't worry though, they're not orphans... I took care of that with some Christmas money, more on that later though.

My last picture here shows a few gifts.  The rolling rack of dresses was gifted to me because TRDN and I somehow got sucked into watching the Miss Universe Pageant a few months ago.  I may have mentioned to him that I'd do a post with my gals in a pageant.  TRDN scoured ebay for these gowns, five matching sequence covered awesome-ness!  I can't wait until pageant season to do this post.  Wait till you see them on the girls.    I think Perk Colette is considering the gold one pageant director Lucas has chosen for her.  To pull all of this together I added my Fashion Royalty chairs (also a gift from TRDN), a beautiful miniature oriental rug ( a gift from a past year) and some bits and bobs.


-enjoy!

Sinter

So Santa went to the doctor for his millenial physical.  UH OH, hypertensive, pre-diabetic, high LDL, low HDL, and we wont' even mention the triglycerides.... ugh...  So Santa and the Mrs go on a diet, make a lot of healty changes and get a new PR guy.  This year, he comes out as the new and improved Santa, re-branded as SINTER.  A new jolly fellow for the new jolly age.  Ain't that just sexy! -enjoy

 Sinter reviews the naughty and nice list.

 Slim fit jacket and fedora, the man about the office look.

 Isis Claus gets her man ready for the big night. 

Isis loves Christmas Eve.  The one night she gets some "me" time!

Sinter on his motor cycle "Sleigh-er."  Ever hear of horse power?  This machine boast 8 reindeer under the hood.  Isis makes sure he wears his helmet.  Safety first!

...AND TO ALL A GOOD NIGHT!  MERRY CHRISTMAS FROM SUPERCOOLDOLLHOUSE!

thanks to all the members, I hope to give you more in 2012.

-Mark

Petra Noir

If you poke around the interwebs you can find some very interesting things.  For instance, many cultures out there have Santa AAAAND Santa's antithesis.  A character who travels with Santa and punishes the naugty children.  This link here will tell you of a few.  I've always been a fan of balance, ying and yang.  Light and dark, good and evil, sunshine and rain, Midge and Francie etc.  So here I present Petra Noir,  a play on the name Black Peter, one of Santa's unloving companions.  It's just two photos, but it's enough.  All the little Kellys and Skippers of the doll world better "watch out."  -Enjoy

 Petra Noir and her assistant Krampoint.0 review the naughty list that the nice man forwarded her.  Krampoint.0 reads the handwritten list and Petra cross checks the digital data base she keeps.  Evolved from her predecessors, Petra neither whips the naughts or even eats them for Christmas dinner.  She just hacks into their new e-toys and crashes them.  She also delivers a traditional lump of coal for good measure.

E.L.F.

Happy Festivus!  The uber PC, slightly naughty term used to celebrate all the winter holidays!  "Gearing" up for the big night is a certain someone's E.L.F. or Electronic Labor Force!  

-Enjoy

Scanner on the left scans and inventories the incoming goods from the many retailers  that  the 'man' sources from across the globe!  Gone are the days of meat elves complaining about long work hours, and insurance claims.  Toys are ordered online now, sent to the North Pole and distributed among the nice children of the world.  Spanner on the right is in charge of logging each outgoing present and makes sure each deserving child is on  the "list."

 Que-cee does that quality control.  This E.L.F.  makes sure no toys are broken as they leave the north pole.  Que-cee also makes sure that outgoing goods meet the North Pole's health and safety standards for toys.  The highest standards globally!

Dragger is in charge of off loading the freight containers that arrive daily.  Bagger is in charge of getting each gift that has been secured for delivery to the correct loading area for delivery.  It's very important to get the correct gift to the correct magical bag.  They are interchangeable and versatile, able to switch jobs as the incoming and outgoing activity varies from one time of the year to another.

Some things are still done by the 'man' though.  He manually looks over the naughty or nice list, and informs his E.L.F. crew as to the status of each child.