Cora

Cora was my 2018 Christmas present. I wished for her for a long time, she is so lovely in her beautiful dress. 

I am also impressed by her rooted curly hair! When I was a girl most of our dolls had short curly hair, so touching her hair was like coming back to the old days. 

She changed for the Christmas celebration. :)

Cora is trying on a new yellow dress. It is a vintage dress by Jerri Lee. It fits her very nicely. Isn't she is cute in this picture?
Ignore the background, my other dolls haven't changed for summer yet. :) Usually I would not use the picture, but I love her expression in this one! 

 

Also she was gifted a toy, a very cute giraffe made by Boyd's Bears. I always look for something special for each doll. 

I have a small collection of Boyd's Bears, but I did not know that the company made mini toy ornaments. A few years ago I liked and bought a small monkey toy from eBay. There wasn't a tag with it, so I did not know who made it. I gifted it to Anthony, my first Gregor doll.

This year I was looking for a toy giraffe and saw the same monkey toy but with a tag now. It appeared to be Boyd's Bears too. It is very interesting how sometimes information is gathered piece by piece from somewhere.  

The toys are very cute and nicely done.

They are jointed and small, around 3.5'' tall. 

Anthony with his toys.

Even before I purchased Cora, I was always very captivated by her dress. It has such a lovely combination of colors! 

In May, everything was blooming outside, so I took Cora to Van Cortlandt park with me. It was a lovely morning and I took many pictures with different flowers.  

The field was full of blooming dandelions. 

Pink flowers just like on the dress!

She found a tree with a heart. :)

So many violets!

My girls together!