Crazy Cat Update

Last year when I lost my cousin, I inherited a cat. She was very very very scared of anyone. For awhile I thought we were going to have to give up and take her to the shelter. I didn't want to do that, but thought maybe she would be better off with someone else.

I'm glad we didn't, although she hid from us for TWO MONTHS. Finally she started coming out. Little by little we made friends. She's still not a very friendly cat, she has very limited petting tolerance but will sit for hours on my lap as I discovered one day when I wasn't feeling well and spent my day on the couch. 

One of Judy's friends got Judy a fluffy fleece blanket, and the cat fell in love. So that was one way we tried to coax her out/ Nothing seemed to work. I haven't been too great with cats, I'm more of a dog lover. They are way more predictable, you know where you stand, and you can go on walks.

I never thought a CAT could be leash trained, but she kept trying to escape to outside, and she was declawed in the life before Judy had her, and she's somewhere around 10 to 15 years old and we have lots of fighting cats around here so I wasn't comfortable just letting her out. So we got a harness and leash!! To my absolute surprise she didn't fight it, and we now go on walks. Not like dog walks where the human decides where you're going, but the cat version, where the cat decides. 

If you're old enough, you'll remember a song that goes with this.  

 "Walking my Cat Named Dog" by Norma Tanega. 1966

True story song. Norma moved to a New York apartment where dogs weren't allowed, so she got a cat and named it Dog. 

"Dog is a good old cat

People what you think of that

That's where I'm at..."

Dolls dolls dolls.... Unimax Dolls of All Nations

I need to severely purge my doll collection. I stopped collecting bigger dolls altogether, and am only going to keep a few. Decisions, decisions. 

As I've said a million times, the first two dolls that started my collection of play dolls was two lovely girls that I didn't know anything about. 

They were not wearing costumes, I just loved their size and young girl look and pretty faces. They are still not wearing their costumes, they don't even have any. The dress on the left is an odd dress that was in a thrift shop bag, and the one on the right was made by Susan Israel of JUSTBEME on etsy.

Turns out they were produced by Target in the 1990s, mostly 1995 and 1996. They were made by the Unimax company, that makes many other toys. They are 12 inches tall, just right for little hands 

So I found a couple more in the thrift shop, but most of these came from Ebay or Etsy. Some were really inexpensive, like $4. Some were as much as $20.  I am in the process of drafting some patterns for them. They are nearly the same size as Wellie Wishers and Paola Reina dolls. Except they are only 12 inches tall! So instead of a skinny body, they look like normal people. 

 

 

Anybody have experience with these dolls? The last one I got is Native American. She is the only one I have ever gotten that has a wobbly head! Fine for display, but I think not for play. Anyone made clothes for them? They are really sturdy dolls. Not really poseable, but easy to dress with the clothes from Paola Reina and the Fashion Friends. My current project is clothes for these dolls, my grand daughter has a couple of them, and she will soon be the age that she will enjoy them. 

The one sitting down is one I got with part of a Mexican costume, but she didn't look like the Mexican doll so I got a Mexican doll. So far, she's my favorite, because I have no idea of her "ethnicity" so she represents my beloved country, America, where we are a melting pot of so many cultures!