Watching Life on Mars (BritBox US) about a detective who ends up in 1973 after an accident. Great show featuring great music throughout! S2.E4 starts with Lay Down by The Strawbs, then some Santana, Bowie, and T.Rex, and ending with Alone Again (Naturally) by Gilbert O'Sullivan. Highly recommend!

🎵🎶"I guess I have to face the fact as real
I think I feel my back up against the wall
I'm gonna spend another Fall In Philadelphia"🎶🎵
-Daryl Hall & John Oates

Hobbies are healthy for mind and body. I had some old sea glass earrings with tarnished silverish findings and redid them using antique brass findings and rhinestone cup chain. First time I did this and now I know I can fix or change up other old pieces.
#jewelry
#crafts
#hobbies

Better late than ...
#dolls
#dollstakeastand
#andor

Here are some friends for your deer 😁

The dolls are talking about some recent news, ummmm ...

"... they don’t need to have 30 dolls, they can have three ..."
#Blythe
#dolls
#tariffs

"We'll always have April," Ruby thinks wistfully, as she enjoys a beautiful Spring day in the tree with the pretty pink blossoms.
#dolls
#trees

Two dolls, one wearing a white dress and the other wearing a pink dress. 🌸
#dolls

Blythe dolls posing with some doll parts sourced from China. It's unlikely that they would ever be manufactured in the US. /4
#Blythe
#tariffs

Since doll collecting by adults is rather niche, there probably isn't enough demand in the US for manufacturing to gear up. A US-based manufacturer would need to consider tariffs, in addition to labor costs, if wanting to sell outside of the US. /3
#Blythe
#tariffs

Whether any of that manufacturing comes back to the US is a question. Even the original 1972 Kenner Blythe doll was mfd in Hong Kong for Kenner Products, a toy company located in Cincinnati, Ohio, US. /2
#Blythe
#tariffs

"Tariffs, you say?" The dolls are talking about the effects of tariffs on the doll parts supply chain. Most, if not all, of their parts, including eye mechanisms, scalps, wigs, screws, etc., come from China. /1
#Blythe
#tariffs

Will tariffs make me "miss my fancy French cologne" (Joni Mitchell)?
#Blythe
#fragrance
#tariffs

One of my Blythe dolls mirroring my own feelings about the times we are living in.
#dolls
#Blythe

Crazy times so I thought I would post a few of my dolls for some lightness. Here is a Nancy Ann Storybook doll found at a flea market.
#dolls
#fleamarket

I was 17 when I first heard My Favorite Things by the Coltrane quartet and I had an epiphany! Upon hearing it, I became a lifetime lover of jazz and that song, in particular, with its hypnotic piano repetition, is still a favorite to this day.