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Boudoir Dolls: Restore and Repurpose Dolls

My Mother bought me a fancy bed doll when I was a young lady. I was somewhere between being a kid and being a teenager. She hoped having the doll to decorate my bed would get me into the habit of making my bed each morning so the doll could sit on it with her lovely dress, fancy hair and angelic little face. But, before we bought the doll my Mother explained that it was not a doll to play with. Instead she was just to be put on the bed or the shelf for display. She told me that once I took the doll’s hair down or took her dress off it would not be the same. She was right. I found out by doing it.

It would be nice if the bed doll gets another chance to be fashionable. For one thing, it’s a chance to repurpose some of the old dolls in thrift stores. I always see shelves of them, most half dressed or missing all their clothes. Someone needs to come along and take care of those girls.

Also, if you get into the design and creating of the dresses you can become a doll fashionista. Look at old fashioned dresses, gowns from TV and movies and bring in new modern themes to create custom gowns designed by you.

I’ve seen these dolls called boudoir dolls too, a more romantic name than bed dolls.

This doll comes from Grammas Junk on Etsy .

Vintage bed doll from Nimbles Nook on Etsy .

Pinterest: The Boudoir Doll

Pinterest: Boudoir Dolls

Pinterest: Free Crochet Bed Doll Patterns and Accessories

Pinterest: Boudoir Babes

Pinterest: Flapper, Smoker Boudoir Dolls and Others

Flickr: Vintage Half Dolls and Boudoir Dolls

Epatterns Central: Bed Doll Patterns

The Dollie Boudoir – History of her.

About.com: Doll Collecting: Boudoir Dolls

Boudoir Doll Salon

Jazz Age Club: The Boudoir Doll Craze

The Wayback Times: Meet the Boudoir Dolls

Frau Wulf’s Boudoir Doll Blog (No longer being updated).

INTP Personality

INTP personality .

This post may have been copied from another source before being posted to HubPages. I don’t know. I did notice some pretty silly typos, so whoever posted it never proofread it.

NTP is the rarest personality type in the 16 personality types in the Myers Briggs Personality Type Indicator. The Myers Briggs Personality Type Indicator is used to make the theory of psychological types described by C G Jung understandable and actually useful in an average person’s life. The whole point of the theory is that much seemingly random variation in the behavior is actually quite orderly and very consistent, being due to basic differences in the ways individuals prefer to use their perception and their own personal judgment.

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An Avalanche

Some people collect belly button lint and dust bunnies. Maybe that’s enough adventure and discovery for some people. I like to collect other things. Actually, I don’t collect belly button lint at all and the dust bunnies seem to collect me, on their own.

I began collecting postcards when I wrote to other young people around the world. I still have almost all of those. Later I asked family to send me postcards when they went anywhere. My Dad traveled on business now and then too so I had some from places that weren’t just vacation spots. My Dad collected stamps and he would sometimes take my letters and confiscate the stamps. Now and then he did this before I had even read the letter.

At some point I began with the idea of collecting coins. I had offers to send me all sorts of things, whatever would fit into an envelop and go through the mail. I think I still have some of those too. But, my siblings liked them too. They just didn’t understand that the money wasn’t very spendable over here in Canada. Of course, they didn’t let that bother them. Later I began collecting old Canadian coins and I do still pick up a set now and then. I have the set of never used coins from the year I was born, 1964. I was pretty impressed with those cause that was the year they changed the picture of the Queen on the back. She got older the year I was born.

I also like china posy bowls. I began keeping those when I got one from my Aunt Sally. I can’t remember now if she gave it to me or if I was given it in some other way. Anyway, that was how that got started. I have five of them now.

My family would say I collect books. They complain about how many books I have quite often and for any reason what so ever. Usually this comes up when connected with moving, yet again.

I collect addresses too. If that’s a real collection. I’ve lost count of how many addresses I’ve had. There’s a reason I called my BackWash column Bewitching Vagabond.

I try not to collect other things but things seem to creep up on me and become collected. Other people think I will like something and then give these things to me. I always feel obligated to keep them, these treasures. Most of the time I like them, but sometimes I feel like I’m being buried alive under a lot of really nice stuff.

Do you feel obligated to keep things people have given you? Especially something someone has made or if it’s something they truly treasure themselves and really feel you would too.

Something to Look Forward To

What are you looking forward to blowing money on? For me it’s these bone china posy bowls. I check once in a while to see how they are looking and being priced on Ebay.ca. They are still fairly cheap. Cheap enough that it costs more or as much to ship them as it does to buy them. Kind of puts me off from using Ebay. Anyway, these are one thing I am looking forward to buying more of once I’m moved, employed and have money to spend on extra luxury type things.

What luxury item do you like to collect?