Many faces of Mary ~ Help me decide!!!

[Evelien]

I say black ^^

[richila]

The biggest problem is that Mary is beautiful in all of them. I like the style of the wavy pink, but the color I liked best was the blonde with reddish undertones. It seems the perfect combination of light and dark with just enough reddish tone to make her glow. She needs a richness of color that the blonde and pink don't have, but the darker tones seem to make her look too pale.

[cirquemom]

AAARRRGGHHH!!!
Everyone has really great things to say, but I can't seem to find a consensus!
Have also put this on my facebook page (Lastochka and Mary theDoll) and different people like different looks.
WHAT TO DO!!
I have to make a decision because I'm starting on a new book with her as the subject, and for continuity I need one look.
But thanks for all of your input!

[zirconmermaid]

I vote for that first Wine wig. It's the style of it and I agree about the color. Also, I think Mary looks good with that style of bangs. You can put it up in braids, or an updo too!

[darkfairykara]

I think the wine color suits her best. but she looks good in a lot of them. I don't see a reason to tie her down to one wig...but if your going to I say the wine.

[magkelly]

You can get them on Ebay in the religious collectible section, on Ruby Lane, or on Etsy but be prepared to pay a nice sum for them if they're not the simple more modern ones. There are blue enamels out there from 50's and later that aren't nearly as expensive, but they tend to be bigger while the little antique French ones are about the size of a dime. They're much more ornate. The enamel work is just gorgeous. That type of enamel work on silver religious medals was done mostly from the late 1800's through the 1940's and the French ones were the best I think. They look like this. This is actually quite a simple one. Probably 1920's. Looks Art Deco. They come with all sorts of enameled flowers and such sometimes. I'll try to find my little box of them and take a pic of some of them so you can really see. I have much more intricate ones that this.

http://www.etsy.com/listing/102305042/a ... a_includes[]=materials&ga_search_query=antique+blue+enamel+religious+medals&ga_search_type=all&ga_view_type=gallery

Actually they've gone up since I looked last if that's not an inflated price on that one. I have about 50 of them at the moment. I bought a nice lot from a woman here a few years ago at an Estate sale. I also bought a huge lot of art deco holy cards from her, some antique rosaries. I tried to tell her she was sitting on a little goldmine with that stuff but she didn't want to hear it. I bought it all with intent to sell. I have a few I'm keeping for sentimental reasons but not those. I've been planning a little store for this stuff for a long time. My late aunt used to also collect it in a big way. The medals I am keeping are hers. I inherited a lot of her stuff when she died and she used to tell me a lot about it. She was a font of information on it all actually.

Dolls too. Some of my dolls were hers actually. I got them when she died too. Nobody in my family had a clue as to what that stuff was worth so they just handed it off to me as per her request. Nobody even quibbled about any of it when she died even though it was worth a nice sum her collections. But she always made sure I knew. When I was growing up my parents they just thought she was the world's greatest pack rat and that it was all "junk" all her various collections. Little did they know, laugh. She collected dolls, religious stuff, old clothes and hats, costume jewelry but she had a good eye. Most of it has real worth in today's collectibles market.

I have a website/blog that I am working on where I mean to display my photography, talk about and sell stuff like this. I'm also looking into a store online on Etsy or Amazon. I don't really want to mess with Ebay or Ruby Lane. Too expensive. I like Etsy I think but what I really want is my own store site with my own shopping cart et all. FYI, they don't say sterling on them usually but they mostly are. Occasionally you'll see them with a maker's mark but that's rare.

[cirquemom]

Thanks for that, MagKelly. YOur aunt sounds like such a fun person, I would have LOVED to have gone through her stuff! I love vintage doll clothes and usually if one of my dolls is wearing something I didn't make, it is a vintage item.

[BlackDragoon]

I'm really digging the wine color, it really helps bring out her features. The paler colored wigs kind of wash out her face I think.

[Nelly19]

first off...you have A LOT of wigs but the wine color is awesome on her!

[magkelly]

Wigs and shoes you can never have too many of them when it comes to dolls! I envy her collection actually. She has some nice ones there. I wish I could afford a lot of those colors for my girls and boys in real wigs. Liv wigs are as close as I can get to that. If I ever won the lotto I think I'd buy Monique and Facets out. I can't afford to even shop there right now but I do so love looking....