This year's salesroom unfortunately had fewer vendors than previous years. Two retailers, Bearzabout and Denver Doll Emporium, were notable in their absence. Fortunately (or unfortunately for my pocketbook) I still managed to find lots of stuff to buy.
Dale Rae's sales tables offered lots of shoes and stockings, for BJDs and many other dolls. Her website, for those not able to attend MDC, is www.dalerae.com.
Summer and Nancy of Strawberry Circle had lots of adorable outfits and separates made primarily for the 14" Betsy McCall. I bought a couple for my 14" Kish girls and possibly some MSDs to wear. They will be offering outfits for BJDs in the future, hooray! Their website is www.strawberrycircle.com. Unfortunately their cute outfits aren't yet shown on their website, but dolls for sale are.
Susan Langellier had cute outfits for the Kish girls and Ellowyne among others. Her website is www.suzipsews.com. Email her for information on available outfits or ask her to create a custom outfit for your doll. Her fashions are very nicely made.
I left some of my money with Cindy of Wee-Designs. She had outfits for the Kish girls, Ellowyne, and other 10" vinyl dolls that caught my eye. Her email is: cindyweedesigns@sbcglobal.net.
I managed to resist Patricia Seaton's lovely repaints, but will probably have her do some custom work for me in the future. Her website is: www.eleganttouchrepaints.com.
Michele Hardy offered repainted BJDs and lots of colorful BJD outfits, a couple of which came home with me. Her Dollpage address is: http://www.thedollpage.com/marketplace/store.php?login=mhardy.
Of course I also checked out the new Ellowyne and Evangeline goodies at Wilde Imagination. My new Ello is now on her way to have her painted eyes replaced with glass eyes by Jim Ash. He does beautiful work installing glass eyes on all sorts of vinyl dolls. His email address, should you be interested, is ImJimDandy <at> aol.com. He redid my vinyl Evangeline a few weeks ago and she now has a new outlook on life, so to speak. Pun intended.
Kathy, I've really been enjoying your updates on the doll scene. Of course, I still miss your store as a bought my first BJDs (and a number of subsequent ones) from you. I'd love to see your Ellowune when she's done & am a bit surprised that you're also into the 14" Kish girls. They're the only vinyls I've bought since I started on BJDs but I've always loved Kish & have collected her work since 1987 so it was only a matter of time until I gave into these girls.
They inheirited all my MSD clothes when I sold that size & also fit Faith & Friends, Teen Trends, Friends 2B Made, some Hopscotch Hill & weirdly enough, Tonner Matt clothes if you hem the pants & long sleeves. Oh &, of course, Betsy McCall & some Robin Woods/Pittsburgh Originals things as well as the MSD size Goodreau clothes & a few of the loose Ellowyne clothes. You should see my Shea in the Red, White & Very Blue outfit!. I just bought a ton of Dollmore MSD clothes for them which fit perfectly except for one pair of pants that need a little tuck in the back. Oh, I also found a number of vintage clothes I had that they can wear. They've accumulated quite the wardrobe & I haven't even started sewing for them.
Anyway, I'm babbling. Just thank you for still staying in touch with the doll community.