AN ESCAPEE ! AND SHE'S STILL SULKING!

Well I am on an, if it's not screwed down, it's gone.. sort of mood ! with regard to my many clothes and dolls etc.

So amongst the ones listed for sale were my two Pongratz girls. Since they's arrived they'd been left in a cupboard and not really given any attention.

The first newer girl sold very quickly and the second older doll just had one watcher.

Here she is ! I think the lady I bought her from said she was from the 70's ,either way , she has a definite character to her face.

A face that will appeal to some but not others. Because she was the second girl I bought she landed up being put in the cupboard at the back and so was very much out of sight!

The first newer girl was gone and off to her new owner, so I was thinking, the more I looked at her that if she did not sell , I would keep her, her little sulky face , creeping back under my defenses.

Then this morning , she had three watchers!! Three.... watching...... lots watch but never buy..... .. so safe... not that I was not wanting a sale.......then a request for more photo's!....... these of her body! ......Shamed to say that the last time I looked at her body, was when she arrived a couple of years back!

So out comes the camera and off ,almost, comes the dress!

I realised just how dusty /dirty she was.

Her underwear was in need of a good wash as was her dress ,which felt very dusty.

Her back view.

you can see where the daylight has darkened her face and where her hair covers it's still pale wood.

So there she was having been totally stripped of her dignity ! However what it did ....do is make me realise that I am not ready to part with her, she so needed some TLC  ! to rid her of the last forty years of grime from sitting on a shelf. and only I could do this for her!!

So I listed the new photo's then removed her from sale! Hildegarde  for that's her name ,had her clothes removed and washed. Her clothes are her original ones, so the dress is wool and I hand washed it but although lots of dirt came out, also a couple of holes appeared.

I also gave her face a wash and ran a damp flannel over the rest of her body which helped remove some of the surface dirt, here she is after her wash, I think she looks much brighter.

I think she needs a new knitted dress in maybe a pale blue to go with her eyes! So I am trying to find a pattern for her dress so I can knit one and have also contacted a person on the German Ebay who does make dresses for these dolls.
 These Pongratz dolls are usually  dressed in either Linen or wool, so I will also have a go at making her a sewn dress. I put this sweater dress up to her to see a lighter colour against her

She still looks sulky but a much cleaner sulky! I wish I could wash her hair but it's mohair , so I'm leaving well alone, even that looks lighter now!!

Her clothes are drying in the Gazebo where I set up a little line out of the rain but still where the wind and sun, when out ,could reach them. Cannot believe how cream and clean it now is!

So finally she's safe ! She just needs some clothes and a seat to sit in and a place where she can see the comings and goings and dish out her wisdom! Whether wanted or not!

I have to say It's also made me want , sometime in the distance future, one of the all wooden dolls.

These all wooden one's are lovely but pricey like an Np girl ! but not quite! Maybe more a pricey single fringe in perfect condition.

I just LOVE these two !

This dress is similar to Hildegarde's

Here's one in a linen dress with wool cardigan.

Well those all wooden one's are dream but Hildegarde is  here and staying and will need some new clothes.... yet more things to add to the to do list!


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