Hi there! I'm back again...

     I'm finding more things. I have to make a list which I will put up with pictures by the end of October. I have a couple of caches left to find--the largest of all, the clothes the ladies are screaming for. I did find one lovely, NRFB outfit for Gene and/or other of the ladies called  Cosmopolitan. 
   
     As you can see, it's a delightful blue-gray taffeta strapless full-skirted cocktail dress with a silver sparkly lacey bolero, jewelry, purse, and beautiful black leather heels. I know there are many, many other outfits too. Just have to find them all. I found an outfit for Trent, Major E. Laine, but I have a Tonner guy, Brenda Starr's Mystery Man, that I'm planning to keep and I think he will look smashing in uniform so I will have to keep the flyboy outfit for him--unless of course someone wants it really, really, really badly.

     I know it's nearly two months late but I have the horse, the Blanket and Bouquet of Roses, as well as the trophy, and the racing silks from the Louisville convention (2002) Gene located now. I have an extra horse w/saddle, bridle and blanket (No. 8) but no more. I do have a little western saddle from the Texas convention (2006?) that could be substituted, should you want a western mustang rather than a race horse for your girls--or boys--to ride. 

     Someone has suggested that I put a basic price below which I cannot go to give people a starting place for any offers. I will give that some heavy thought. If I am way off in any price I come up with, please make a counter offer, if you want the item. I'll try to check with eBay to see what things are going for and start with that.

     If anyone would like to contact me, harned at gmail dot com, with suggestions, I would appreciate it. I have already sold some things from that location so don't be afraid to contact me there! I'm also under my name, Shirley Harned, at Studio Commissary so you can contact me there as well. I should have a lot more stuff ready to go now that I've pulled everything out of storage. 

     There isn't going to be much time spent trying to sell these things. If they don't go pretty quickly, off they will go to my local SPCA Thriftstore! I have to have my sewing room back, and now my living room is "under water" too, so if you do want something, even if you don't see it, please contact me and ask, I really need to get this stuff out of here!

     Okay, enough for now... Back to slaving in the doll mines!

Here We Go...

Sound the Trumpets!!

Tah Rah Tah TAH!!!

     The Long-Awaited (partial) List: 
     Contact—on Studio Commissary, Urban Vita, and HLAYG or right here in the comments section.
     Terms—Unless otherwise specified, all items are best offer (seller's discretion) plus shipping (USPS whenever possible and at priority flat rate, otherwise UPS or buyer's choice), prepaid by PayPal or special arrangement with seller. 
     Except for this introductory group, which will stay up until June 30, ALL OFFERINGS WILL BE AVAILABLE FOR ONE WEEK FROM THE DAY THEY APPEAR. After that, they go away to the local thrift store here in my town. 

     Okay, y'all, make me an offer I can't refuse!

1. "Daily Threads": Gene Marshall Dressed Doll Gift Set, IT, Stardust 2010 Convention Exclusive, separate matching outfit included—box opened to look at (pictures as soon as I get my camera going!) caveat: Gene is bald and as yet, I have not found the wig (blondish) which was gifted to us separately (I think—if anyone knows for sure, please lmk). If you purchase the set, I will send with it a guarantee to send the wig when (and if?) I find it—I'm pretty sure I will!

2. Gene's Hat Stand/Set of Two, AD—2 sets available, NRFB. 

3. Gene Dress Form, AD—2 available, original box.

4. Gene (nonjointed legs/arms) nude Destiny—2, one with pinned in hair ornament removed, great for replacing with another doll's body, hair-do or repainting practice, and/or to make into a dressform, $2.50 + flat rate priority smallest possible box shipping.

5. Gene "Everything's Coming Up Roses"(original color) dressed doll—mint in box; if no offers, will debox, undress and sell doll and outfit separately.

6. Hatbox Gene: Beautiful blonde Gene in a lovely pink silk chiffon gown and lilac silk shantung evening coat with matching accessories, and in addition, three discs with mix and match wardrobe pieces—will ship the whole hatbox with contents, or without the hatbox, everything detached  and carefully packed in tissue in a smaller (i.e., cheaper!) box! See the post of Monday, May 18, 2015, for pictures.

7. Dallas Convention "Lone Star Soirée" Gene (picture in post here), black poodle cut hairdo, beautiful white satin dress with red lining with matching  wrap—NRFB (mint)! Selling elsewhere for $125!

8. Set of Brian Bulkley drawings of Gene in her outfits—ask which ones, one of which is the Dallas Convention picture linked above, best offer for the set or individually for $5 ea. (list of the ones I have to be announced later—when I figure out all the names of the outfits!)

9. Stardust:Gene Marshall Dressed Doll, Stardust 2010 Convention Exclusive (#220 of 440)—NRFB, in addition to the dress, which is black net gathered over a salmon-ish pink under gown, three-button elbow length black gloves, elegant evening purse, pointy toe iridescent black heels, and a gorgeous "diamond" necklace with matching drop earrings. Also enclosed, is a copy of the final chapter of Gene's "autobiography"! This doll is VERY beautiful with luxiuriant blond locks flowing to her shoulders! 

     I don't put prices on things. I want people to make their best offer. In case of a tie, the earliest of the identical offers will be accepted.

     Well, there you have it, friends of mine! A start on the oceans of boxes and boxes and more boxes of the beautiful ladies and their stuff! Don't wait too long to make a bid. I'm going to be moving these ladies and their stuff in and out in pretty quick rotation. If they don't go to you, they go to a local charity. I'm clearing the decks for action and don't want to drag it out!

     You can always write to me or to other visitors here on the blog's comment section. Sometimes I visit Studio Commissary, Urban Vita, or Here's Looking At You Gene. 
    Best bet would be to contact me at harned at gmail dot com. 
     I'm looking forward to hearing from you soon!

       

Okay, I've got it going...

I've got my mind made up at last. I know what I'm going to do about getting my dolls and their accoutrements out of my hands and into yours! I'll start listing all I dig up out of the many boxes in the storeroom as the stuff comes to light. I then will entertain offers. Just send me a list of what you want and how much you want to pay for it noting whether what you offer does or does not include shipping and what sort of shipping you want. I will take the best offer or the best story of why you want a particular doll or outfit—depending on my mood. 

My example: I want "Unsung Melody" Madra Lord because it was the first of the Gene Marshall family of dolls that I got. My husband gave it to me because I am a retired opera singer and that doll was Madra playing an opera singer who had lost her voice. I could relate to that doll. I hadn't lost my voice but I had quit "big" singing to marry him. So she is NOT for sale!

So maybe you just want a particular doll and/or outfit because you love it, or you need it to complete or fill a spot in your collection or because you have decided to use a matched set for bookends...whatever!

I want the space these dolls and their stuff are occupying. I need the space, more accurately. But they are not just stuff. They have meaning because of their beauty, the people I've met in interacting with the dolls, the wonderful doll weekends spent at the conventions, the people I've met there, the people I know as names and personalities on the doll lists, and finally just because life is grim in so many ways all over the world and has been for so much of the seventy-seven years I've been on the planet. It's a place we can go to bask in the beauty and fantasy of these little perfect women who are pampered and have "lives" free of the care and worry of real life. They can be alter egos. They can be a three dimensional escape into an on-going fantasy life impossible to us out here slogging through the sweat and frustration and sorrow and labor of reality.

Enough with the philosophy! I will list starting next post, what I have uncovered. So far what is available and ready is the hatbox. I already have an offer for the doll and the box. If you want the whole thing, speak now (make an offer) or forever hold your peace! I would rather get rid of the whole thing and have told that to the person who wants only the doll and the hatbox. The only thing that supercedes her offer would be an acceptable offer on the whole thing. 

I will be posting this "essay" on the doll lists as well as here so no one will mistake my purpose or plan. 

To reiterate slightly what I have been saying all along: I have this bunch of Genes et alia because I have long wanted to make mini-copies of my concert performance gowns—the ones I actually wore to sing with the Seattle Symphony and various other orchestras primarily out here on the West Coast but also in places like Osaka, Anchorage, Panama and Pittsburgh! I also have my Valkyrie costume from the first Wagner Ring Cycle in Seattle. 

So what does that mean? It means that I am going to chop up these dresses (which I made in the first place) and the Valkyrie costume (which I didn't!) to make copies for the American Model Goth girl (finally finding a doll who was big enough for the required amount of detail) so I can rid myself of the human-sized dresses etc. that take up space but are currently of no use to me except as memories. I will have a LOT of material left over from each outfit so I thought I might make Gene- and Vita-sized copies as well out of the left over yardage and while I was at it, copies of the patterns for same. I, of course, would do that in order to share all that stuff with y'all—should you be interested.

I said earlier that many of my dolls had not been deboxed. However, after searching the internet and looking at eBay for a while  I've decided that most people are more interested in playing with their dolls than just having them around to look at or as an investment. Therefore, I am going to offer the clothes and dolls separately. We mostly play with these dolls anyway, don't we?

So. Off to the boxes and boxes and boxes that have all these things in them. By the end of the weekend I should have a good number of them listed. I will try for photos. I have gotten a new "chip" for my camera. Now all I need is a space in my doll room cleared for a "studio"!

See you again SOON!!!