Having Santa for a Dad…

Mar 2, 2008

Really has its perks! I am so excited I can hardly con­tain myself. When I was one month shy of turn­ing 6 years old I received the best doll ever for Christ­mas!!! Her name was Sketchy. I loved this doll so much. I remem­ber play­ing with her and being so excited about the pic­tures she and I cre­ated. Mom and I can­not fig­ure out what hap­pened to her as Mom is not the type to give away a prized pos­ses­sion so we fig­ure she must have got­ten mis­placed dur­ing a move. Over the years I have searched for her on eBay hop­ing to find one in good con­di­tion. Some­times I would get lucky and find a nice look­ing Sketchy doll but no easel. Or I would find one but she was in very poor con­di­tion. She looked loved but not loved by me.

Well a few weeks ago I did another search and BAM there is a Sketchy Doll still in the orig­i­nal box. I told Dad a.k.a Santa I could not believe I found her and he bid on her. We missed out on that one BUT I did another search the very same day and BAM there is ANOTHER Sketchy Doll listed in even bet­ter con­di­tion. I could not believe it and was think­ing what are the odds of this hap­pen­ing? So, Dad bid on her and just a few min­utes ago I became the proud owner once again of Sketchy!

I can­not believe I will have this doll. I plan on putting her up in my scrap­room to look at every­day. She brings back some of my fond­est child­hood mem­o­ries. I plan on cre­at­ing a mini album of my jour­ney with Sketchy. It took 39 years to com­plete this jour­ney but it was so worth the wait.

Below are some pho­tos of me get­ting ready to open my Sketchy Doll on Christ­mas Eve and hold­ing my Sketchy Doll Christ­mas Day. Yep it was 1970… the clothes and decor crack me up.

Getting ready to open up my Sketchy Doll My brother and I Christmas Day
“Notice my brother Richard wear­ing his cow­boy attire and his Dal­las Cow­boys foot­ball helmet.”

My new Sketchy Doll
This is on the way to my house.


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  1. angismith
    March 3, 2008

    Lisa,
    What year were you born?! We have the same taste in movies and now your doll could be any of mine. But my favorite was baby Wendy who was one of the first to look like a real baby. She came with a crib and net­ting to go over the crib. I saved her (how could I not — she knew every secret I ever had) to give to my daugh­ter one day. Then what did I do? Only had one child and you guessed it — he’s all boy. So I am hop­ing for a grand­daugh­ter some­day in the future.

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  2. Jane Hasty
    March 3, 2008

    Lisa-how AWESOME! I love this story! TFS, Jane

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  3. AndreaWiebe
    March 3, 2008

    Yeah!!! What happy news :)
    and I did my seven randoms!!!

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  4. Maureen Rado
    March 3, 2008

    Thats great you were able to get ahold of another doll. May you have won­der­ful times with her as well

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  5. Aunt Brenda
    March 3, 2008

    Gosh, Lisa… I remem­ber that pur­ple dress so well. And, Richie in the “dress up” brings back mem­o­ries of you, Richie, Davey and Lynda get­ting into our dress up box and hav­ing a grand time. I’m sure I have some great pho­tos, but not of Sketchy.

    I should put Santa on the trail of a doll I’ve been look­ing for that Aunt Linda loved… and, can you believe it, Gram gave away! Another trauma in Aunt Linda’s life!
    Love you bunches.

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  6. Lori
    March 4, 2008

    I’m so glad you found Sketchy! How fun that even back then the artis­tic was a dri­ving force in your life. I had a home­made hippo that rot­ted away, I searched and searched for the pat­tern in vin­tage places, finally one day I found a dirty hippo on top of a huge pile in a thrift store lol, when I told the clerk my story she gave it to me (it was so gross I think they were going to pitch it) I painstak­ingly took it apart (while wear­ing gloves lol) and used it to make a pat­tern :) now both of my chil­dren have Hip­pos. Love to browse your site.

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