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Nightmare at the Museum; © 2025, T. P. Hazard
Taken for Sasha's Lab's We're Here! Toys in the Attic challenge, but did not submit
The Toys: 1960s Plastic Dinosaurs (Parasaurolophus, Iguanodon, and Trachodon) and 1950s lead/tin Royal Guards
Lighting: One Candle about one foot away (or 1 foot-candle)
Shot with Fuji X Weekly’s Kodachrome 64 film simulation recipe; SOOC
After seeing a blazing hot Ravi Coltrane set at The Blue Note night club in NYC, I came across this down the street from the entrance. Somewhat shocking without knowing where it came from.
"Jazz Is Dead" is an LA record label that celebrates imperfection...something that is very appealing to me.
Taken with a Lomo Sprocket Rocket onto Rollei IR 400 Infrared film expired in 2017.
Saturday night cruising in Paprihaven, at the King of Cars dealership. The King of Cars himself, Thomas Rudy Jordache readies Fast Falconetti and Jingling Julie Prescott for their current sale.*
TR Jordache: "We got too many Chevys. Get em out of here."
Julie: "How close can we get to invoice?"
TR: "I want out the door at least 10 over."
Falconetti: "Hey, boss, the reason we got so many Bel Airs is they ain't movin. Classic muscle, people are asking for Mopar right now. I mean, these Chevys'll come back in demand and-"
TR: "I have a car dealership, not a storage lot where I stock long term inventory. Get. These. Chevys. Out."
Falconetti: "But no lower than 10. Phew. Okay, boss."
Julie: "Can we offer incentives? Free repaint, repairs, etc?"
TR: "I don't want long term relationships unless I'm making money. So, sure, work with one-off incentives."
Julie casts a quick glance at Falconetti but the man is carefully looking at nothing. TR is putting a tough sell in front of them, but she and Falconetti are the highest paid car salespeople in Paprihaven and it's time again to show why that is.
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A year of the shows and performers of the Bijou Planks Theater.
Hot Wheels
57 Chevy Bel Air
* First seen in BP 2022 Day 169!
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[OTHER FACES] Juju Shape (Genus Morphtoon) @SO KAWAI SUNDAYS
.:RiotzInk:. Celestial Ethnos Tattoo {BOM/Evox}
Stealthic - Mirage Hair
Sequin Top by LAP @LEVEL EVENT
Gleam Shorts by Plastic @Mainstore
A shot of the lego buildings under my loft-bed in my cramped room where I do so many different tasks during one day…
peace And Noise!
/ MushroomBrain an ancient dust collector
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Kaya
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GENUS MORPHtoon - Head Preset - Basic - Female
[OTHER FACES] Mimi Skin
Exile - Tandy Hair
Romantic Set by Plastic
Have been meaning to visit this museum for ages - and the 80th anniversary of VE seemed a good prompt.
This model of a spitfire was made of plastic bottle tops by local artist Kieran Poole
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#SmileonSaturday #BlueforYou-ME2025
A few months ago, in a very happy providence, the thrift store had just put out a large collection of Madame Alexander dolls. And it was a true collection.
We're of course familiar with Madame Alexander and similar doll lines but they're not really in our collecting zone, as broad as our collecting zone is.
However what sold us on this collection was that this was a loved collection. Key is that the original sales receipts had been kept for some of the dolls. Also the boxes, the packing tissue, the little protective plastic bags. All of that is usually evidence of a collector who likes to keep every detail. CM still has his card backs of his Star Wars figures from '78 because he loved every aspect of the experience with those particular toys.
We didn't get all of the dolls. We were the first to really start digging through them, opening each box, checking the contents, looking them up online. Others were quickly attracted and polite enough to not push in on us, but were asking about the dolls. So, we decided not to get all of them as others there clearly wanted some too.
They were well priced. I think the small dolls were $6 and the large dolls were $8. While none of these are super expensive on the doll market, they're all worth well more than that.
Some of the dolls needed to be restrung and, not knowing how to do that, we left those. Going by what we looked up online while standing there, restringing a Madame Alexander doll seems to be a very simple process.
We left other dolls as well, even though we purchased sixteen. It was a very large collection. Again, all the dolls were so well taken care of. All the shoes were present.
We love the old boxes as well, those square cardboard, no gloss, that just bring back all sorts of images of the department stores of the time. Also, unhappily, note that some of the boxes have a little white area on the top. Thanks a bunch, thrift store, for putting adhesive stickers right on top of these delicate, thin, old cardboard lids! 😡
For the sales receipts we've blotted out the name, address, credit card info (They were purchased in 1983-84 and those manual slide credit card machines captured the whole number.), etc. But, in looking at the sales receipts, another thing we loved was that is was a couple and sometimes the wife was purchasing, and other times the husband. How wonderful that the husband either shared in the enjoyment or, more likely, supported her. 😊
Another interesting note, as you can see most of these were purchased at Pizitz in 1983-84, and Pizitz disappeared just a couple of years later. The department store chain was big in Alabama with many locations when it was purchased by McRae's. McRae's continued for about 20 more years until it was purchased by Belk. When I first moved to the U.S. I shopped McRae's a lot and I remember when it became Belk. I still go there sometimes. 😊
The other customers seemed happy with the dolls they were looking at so I think everyone came out well with the collection. If no other interested customers had been there, we probably would have purchased everything, but it's good that this well loved collection now has multiple new homes.
The key find in all of this and of course our absolute favorite is the Alice. We were over the moon when we saw that one! 😊
A few months ago, in a very happy providence, the thrift store had just put out a large collection of Madame Alexander dolls. And it was a true collection.
We're of course familiar with Madame Alexander and similar doll lines but they're not really in our collecting zone, as broad as our collecting zone is.
However what sold us on this collection was that this was a loved collection. Key is that the original sales receipts had been kept for some of the dolls. Also the boxes, the packing tissue, the little protective plastic bags. All of that is usually evidence of a collector who likes to keep every detail. CM still has his card backs of his Star Wars figures from '78 because he loved every aspect of the experience with those particular toys.
We didn't get all of the dolls. We were the first to really start digging through them, opening each box, checking the contents, looking them up online. Others were quickly attracted and polite enough to not push in on us, but were asking about the dolls. So, we decided not to get all of them as others there clearly wanted some too.
They were well priced. I think the small dolls were $6 and the large dolls were $8. While none of these are super expensive on the doll market, they're all worth well more than that.
Some of the dolls needed to be restrung and, not knowing how to do that, we left those. Going by what we looked up online while standing there, restringing a Madame Alexander doll seems to be a very simple process.
We left other dolls as well, even though we purchased sixteen. It was a very large collection. Again, all the dolls were so well taken care of. All the shoes were present.
We love the old boxes as well, those square cardboard, no gloss, that just bring back all sorts of images of the department stores of the time. Also, unhappily, note that some of the boxes have a little white area on the top. Thanks a bunch, thrift store, for putting adhesive stickers right on top of these delicate, thin, old cardboard lids! 😡
For the sales receipts we've blotted out the name, address, credit card info (They were purchased in 1983-84 and those manual slide credit card machines captured the whole number.), etc. But, in looking at the sales receipts, another thing we loved was that is was a couple and sometimes the wife was purchasing, and other times the husband. How wonderful that the husband either shared in the enjoyment or, more likely, supported her. 😊
Another interesting note, as you can see most of these were purchased at Pizitz in 1983-84, and Pizitz disappeared just a couple of years later. The department store chain was big in Alabama with many locations when it was purchased by McRae's. McRae's continued for about 20 more years until it was purchased by Belk. When I first moved to the U.S. I shopped McRae's a lot and I remember when it became Belk. I still go there sometimes. 😊
The other customers seemed happy with the dolls they were looking at so I think everyone came out well with the collection. If no other interested customers had been there, we probably would have purchased everything, but it's good that this well loved collection now has multiple new homes.
The key find in all of this and of course our absolute favorite is the Alice. We were over the moon when we saw that one! 😊
A few months ago, in a very happy providence, the thrift store had just put out a large collection of Madame Alexander dolls. And it was a true collection.
We're of course familiar with Madame Alexander and similar doll lines but they're not really in our collecting zone, as broad as our collecting zone is.
However what sold us on this collection was that this was a loved collection. Key is that the original sales receipts had been kept for some of the dolls. Also the boxes, the packing tissue, the little protective plastic bags. All of that is usually evidence of a collector who likes to keep every detail. CM still has his card backs of his Star Wars figures from '78 because he loved every aspect of the experience with those particular toys.
We didn't get all of the dolls. We were the first to really start digging through them, opening each box, checking the contents, looking them up online. Others were quickly attracted and polite enough to not push in on us, but were asking about the dolls. So, we decided not to get all of them as others there clearly wanted some too.
They were well priced. I think the small dolls were $6 and the large dolls were $8. While none of these are super expensive on the doll market, they're all worth well more than that.
Some of the dolls needed to be restrung and, not knowing how to do that, we left those. Going by what we looked up online while standing there, restringing a Madame Alexander doll seems to be a very simple process.
We left other dolls as well, even though we purchased sixteen. It was a very large collection. Again, all the dolls were so well taken care of. All the shoes were present.
We love the old boxes as well, those square cardboard, no gloss, that just bring back all sorts of images of the department stores of the time. Also, unhappily, note that some of the boxes have a little white area on the top. Thanks a bunch, thrift store, for putting adhesive stickers right on top of these delicate, thin, old cardboard lids! 😡
For the sales receipts we've blotted out the name, address, credit card info (They were purchased in 1983-84 and those manual slide credit card machines captured the whole number.), etc. But, in looking at the sales receipts, another thing we loved was that is was a couple and sometimes the wife was purchasing, and other times the husband. How wonderful that the husband either shared in the enjoyment or, more likely, supported her. 😊
Another interesting note, as you can see most of these were purchased at Pizitz in 1983-84, and Pizitz disappeared just a couple of years later. The department store chain was big in Alabama with many locations when it was purchased by McRae's. McRae's continued for about 20 more years until it was purchased by Belk. When I first moved to the U.S. I shopped McRae's a lot and I remember when it became Belk. I still go there sometimes. 😊
The other customers seemed happy with the dolls they were looking at so I think everyone came out well with the collection. If no other interested customers had been there, we probably would have purchased everything, but it's good that this well loved collection now has multiple new homes.
The key find in all of this and of course our absolute favorite is the Alice. We were over the moon when we saw that one! 😊
A few months ago, in a very happy providence, the thrift store had just put out a large collection of Madame Alexander dolls. And it was a true collection.
We're of course familiar with Madame Alexander and similar doll lines but they're not really in our collecting zone, as broad as our collecting zone is.
However what sold us on this collection was that this was a loved collection. Key is that the original sales receipts had been kept for some of the dolls. Also the boxes, the packing tissue, the little protective plastic bags. All of that is usually evidence of a collector who likes to keep every detail. CM still has his card backs of his Star Wars figures from '78 because he loved every aspect of the experience with those particular toys.
We didn't get all of the dolls. We were the first to really start digging through them, opening each box, checking the contents, looking them up online. Others were quickly attracted and polite enough to not push in on us, but were asking about the dolls. So, we decided not to get all of them as others there clearly wanted some too.
They were well priced. I think the small dolls were $6 and the large dolls were $8. While none of these are super expensive on the doll market, they're all worth well more than that.
Some of the dolls needed to be restrung and, not knowing how to do that, we left those. Going by what we looked up online while standing there, restringing a Madame Alexander doll seems to be a very simple process.
We left other dolls as well, even though we purchased sixteen. It was a very large collection. Again, all the dolls were so well taken care of. All the shoes were present.
We love the old boxes as well, those square cardboard, no gloss, that just bring back all sorts of images of the department stores of the time. Also, unhappily, note that some of the boxes have a little white area on the top. Thanks a bunch, thrift store, for putting adhesive stickers right on top of these delicate, thin, old cardboard lids! 😡
For the sales receipts we've blotted out the name, address, credit card info (They were purchased in 1983-84 and those manual slide credit card machines captured the whole number.), etc. But, in looking at the sales receipts, another thing we loved was that is was a couple and sometimes the wife was purchasing, and other times the husband. How wonderful that the husband either shared in the enjoyment or, more likely, supported her. 😊
Another interesting note, as you can see most of these were purchased at Pizitz in 1983-84, and Pizitz disappeared just a couple of years later. The department store chain was big in Alabama with many locations when it was purchased by McRae's. McRae's continued for about 20 more years until it was purchased by Belk. When I first moved to the U.S. I shopped McRae's a lot and I remember when it became Belk. I still go there sometimes. 😊
The other customers seemed happy with the dolls they were looking at so I think everyone came out well with the collection. If no other interested customers had been there, we probably would have purchased everything, but it's good that this well loved collection now has multiple new homes.
The key find in all of this and of course our absolute favorite is the Alice. We were over the moon when we saw that one! 😊
A few months ago, in a very happy providence, the thrift store had just put out a large collection of Madame Alexander dolls. And it was a true collection.
We're of course familiar with Madame Alexander and similar doll lines but they're not really in our collecting zone, as broad as our collecting zone is.
However what sold us on this collection was that this was a loved collection. Key is that the original sales receipts had been kept for some of the dolls. Also the boxes, the packing tissue, the little protective plastic bags. All of that is usually evidence of a collector who likes to keep every detail. CM still has his card backs of his Star Wars figures from '78 because he loved every aspect of the experience with those particular toys.
We didn't get all of the dolls. We were the first to really start digging through them, opening each box, checking the contents, looking them up online. Others were quickly attracted and polite enough to not push in on us, but were asking about the dolls. So, we decided not to get all of them as others there clearly wanted some too.
They were well priced. I think the small dolls were $6 and the large dolls were $8. While none of these are super expensive on the doll market, they're all worth well more than that.
Some of the dolls needed to be restrung and, not knowing how to do that, we left those. Going by what we looked up online while standing there, restringing a Madame Alexander doll seems to be a very simple process.
We left other dolls as well, even though we purchased sixteen. It was a very large collection. Again, all the dolls were so well taken care of. All the shoes were present.
We love the old boxes as well, those square cardboard, no gloss, that just bring back all sorts of images of the department stores of the time. Also, unhappily, note that some of the boxes have a little white area on the top. Thanks a bunch, thrift store, for putting adhesive stickers right on top of these delicate, thin, old cardboard lids! 😡
For the sales receipts we've blotted out the name, address, credit card info (They were purchased in 1983-84 and those manual slide credit card machines captured the whole number.), etc. But, in looking at the sales receipts, another thing we loved was that is was a couple and sometimes the wife was purchasing, and other times the husband. How wonderful that the husband either shared in the enjoyment or, more likely, supported her. 😊
Another interesting note, as you can see most of these were purchased at Pizitz in 1983-84, and Pizitz disappeared just a couple of years later. The department store chain was big in Alabama with many locations when it was purchased by McRae's. McRae's continued for about 20 more years until it was purchased by Belk. When I first moved to the U.S. I shopped McRae's a lot and I remember when it became Belk. I still go there sometimes. 😊
The other customers seemed happy with the dolls they were looking at so I think everyone came out well with the collection. If no other interested customers had been there, we probably would have purchased everything, but it's good that this well loved collection now has multiple new homes.
The key find in all of this and of course our absolute favorite is the Alice. We were over the moon when we saw that one! 😊
A few months ago, in a very happy providence, the thrift store had just put out a large collection of Madame Alexander dolls. And it was a true collection.
We're of course familiar with Madame Alexander and similar doll lines but they're not really in our collecting zone, as broad as our collecting zone is.
However what sold us on this collection was that this was a loved collection. Key is that the original sales receipts had been kept for some of the dolls. Also the boxes, the packing tissue, the little protective plastic bags. All of that is usually evidence of a collector who likes to keep every detail. CM still has his card backs of his Star Wars figures from '78 because he loved every aspect of the experience with those particular toys.
We didn't get all of the dolls. We were the first to really start digging through them, opening each box, checking the contents, looking them up online. Others were quickly attracted and polite enough to not push in on us, but were asking about the dolls. So, we decided not to get all of them as others there clearly wanted some too.
They were well priced. I think the small dolls were $6 and the large dolls were $8. While none of these are super expensive on the doll market, they're all worth well more than that.
Some of the dolls needed to be restrung and, not knowing how to do that, we left those. Going by what we looked up online while standing there, restringing a Madame Alexander doll seems to be a very simple process.
We left other dolls as well, even though we purchased sixteen. It was a very large collection. Again, all the dolls were so well taken care of. All the shoes were present.
We love the old boxes as well, those square cardboard, no gloss, that just bring back all sorts of images of the department stores of the time. Also, unhappily, note that some of the boxes have a little white area on the top. Thanks a bunch, thrift store, for putting adhesive stickers right on top of these delicate, thin, old cardboard lids! 😡
For the sales receipts we've blotted out the name, address, credit card info (They were purchased in 1983-84 and those manual slide credit card machines captured the whole number.), etc. But, in looking at the sales receipts, another thing we loved was that is was a couple and sometimes the wife was purchasing, and other times the husband. How wonderful that the husband either shared in the enjoyment or, more likely, supported her. 😊
Another interesting note, as you can see most of these were purchased at Pizitz in 1983-84, and Pizitz disappeared just a couple of years later. The department store chain was big in Alabama with many locations when it was purchased by McRae's. McRae's continued for about 20 more years until it was purchased by Belk. When I first moved to the U.S. I shopped McRae's a lot and I remember when it became Belk. I still go there sometimes. 😊
The other customers seemed happy with the dolls they were looking at so I think everyone came out well with the collection. If no other interested customers had been there, we probably would have purchased everything, but it's good that this well loved collection now has multiple new homes.
The key find in all of this and of course our absolute favorite is the Alice. We were over the moon when we saw that one! 😊
A few months ago, in a very happy providence, the thrift store had just put out a large collection of Madame Alexander dolls. And it was a true collection.
We're of course familiar with Madame Alexander and similar doll lines but they're not really in our collecting zone, as broad as our collecting zone is.
However what sold us on this collection was that this was a loved collection. Key is that the original sales receipts had been kept for some of the dolls. Also the boxes, the packing tissue, the little protective plastic bags. All of that is usually evidence of a collector who likes to keep every detail. CM still has his card backs of his Star Wars figures from '78 because he loved every aspect of the experience with those particular toys.
We didn't get all of the dolls. We were the first to really start digging through them, opening each box, checking the contents, looking them up online. Others were quickly attracted and polite enough to not push in on us, but were asking about the dolls. So, we decided not to get all of them as others there clearly wanted some too.
They were well priced. I think the small dolls were $6 and the large dolls were $8. While none of these are super expensive on the doll market, they're all worth well more than that.
Some of the dolls needed to be restrung and, not knowing how to do that, we left those. Going by what we looked up online while standing there, restringing a Madame Alexander doll seems to be a very simple process.
We left other dolls as well, even though we purchased sixteen. It was a very large collection. Again, all the dolls were so well taken care of. All the shoes were present.
We love the old boxes as well, those square cardboard, no gloss, that just bring back all sorts of images of the department stores of the time. Also, unhappily, note that some of the boxes have a little white area on the top. Thanks a bunch, thrift store, for putting adhesive stickers right on top of these delicate, thin, old cardboard lids! 😡
For the sales receipts we've blotted out the name, address, credit card info (They were purchased in 1983-84 and those manual slide credit card machines captured the whole number.), etc. But, in looking at the sales receipts, another thing we loved was that is was a couple and sometimes the wife was purchasing, and other times the husband. How wonderful that the husband either shared in the enjoyment or, more likely, supported her. 😊
Another interesting note, as you can see most of these were purchased at Pizitz in 1983-84, and Pizitz disappeared just a couple of years later. The department store chain was big in Alabama with many locations when it was purchased by McRae's. McRae's continued for about 20 more years until it was purchased by Belk. When I first moved to the U.S. I shopped McRae's a lot and I remember when it became Belk. I still go there sometimes. 😊
The other customers seemed happy with the dolls they were looking at so I think everyone came out well with the collection. If no other interested customers had been there, we probably would have purchased everything, but it's good that this well loved collection now has multiple new homes.
The key find in all of this and of course our absolute favorite is the Alice. We were over the moon when we saw that one! 😊
