If you’re lost you can look and you will find me, time after time. — Cyndi Lauper, 1984 This is my first Crissy Doll. It’s only been about 40 years since I first asked Santa to bring me one. I found her, a Gen-Xer first-born in 1969, (haha!) at Mary’s Flea Market. Although come to […]
Crissy and Velvet Dolls Were Forerunners of American Girl
source Beautiful Crissy Doll Before Samantha Parkington, Felicity Merriman and Mollie McIntyre, late-wave Baby Boomers and first-wave Gen Xers were loving on Crissy and Velvet Dolls. Cricket, Mia, Dina and Tressy, too. I bet there were a lot of these dolls given for Christmas 1969-74! I thought all the dolls in the Crissy family were […]