The day I aged 10 years, but scored a Kenner!

Aug 27, 2006 at 9:17 PM
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Meet my new Kenner sidepart redhead. *SQUEEE*

I can't believe I actually won her today at a local auction. I've been good and didn't want to get my hopes up before the auction because I knew that competition would be stiff for this girl; and boy, was I right! She had a ridiculously low estimate, but that soon went out the window when bidding started. Was quaking inside since I'd never actually attended a live auction before and didn't really know game plans or any such tactics. And of course, it didn't help that I was bidding against people I know in real life; people from the dolly community here in Australia. I sort of feel a little bad that I won her. That, and because I ended up paying a little out of my initial budget too; I'm still thinking about the money, and not that I've finally got a gorgeous Kenner in my dolly family. I've been assured that the feeling's normal though; and will fade eventually. (I think it's already starting to after I took this photo of her!)

She's essentially just a head - the auction had her with a replaced body that completely was out of proportion; that, and she has one part of the replaced body's neck knob ~~AND her right pink eyechip rattling around in her head~~ (eyechip extracted from head!). They've also roughly carved and enlarged the neck hole to accommodate that gross body, and her scalp has evidence of being reglued back a little shoddily. But she's lovely in every other sense of the word. Hair is frizzy, of course, but there's some really good quality strands under the top layers, eyeballs are white (Yay!), eyes pip, very minimal yellowing (although with a bump/scratch near the middle of her forehead), and best of all, she doesn't smell funky!!

I'm still exhausted from today, so other than getting rid of that gross replacement body first thing I got home, I haven't done much else with her. The photo was taken at the Botanic Gardens near my home; I couldn't resist temporarily fitting a EBL body to her head. She's pretty, no? *proud KB mommy moment*

P.S: If any KB gurus can give me tips on how to do a full body transplant, I'd be eternally grateful! And so will Miss Redhead! :D

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She is so pretty! Congratulations! There are kenners at auctions in real life? That's awesome. Good price or not? (not that it matters if you love her which I'm sure you do!)

Price sucked. :D Or maybe cos I'm a tight arse, who will now have to live on bread and butter for the next month or two! But yup, she's trying to help me forget that it's about money and more about the Kenner charm! If I can get her fixed up a little more decently, I'll bring her to the next meet.

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Oh my gosh!!!! CONGRATS!! I can't wait to see more of her pix. price doesn't matter now that you've won her. hahhaa

She'a fantastic Jamie ! i love redheads and you won't even think about the money soon ^_^

You lucky girl!!! Congrats :-)

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How exciting! You have every right to be a proud mommy - she is lovely!

Price? What price?? *lol*
I've continued to fix Redhead (she's STILL not telling me her name!) up a bit more - got her right pink eyechip out of her head, and managed to do a whole body swap! I'll post details in the next proper post. Her hair's getting the conditioning treatment now in the shower recess, so when that's done, I guess I'd have to start sorting out the mess of frizz and do some re-thatching.

Thanks for all the lovely comments! *hugs*