Taswegian1957

Fashion Doll Friday: Hamilton Designs African American Candi


This week’s Friday Girl Candi by Hamilton Design Systems. She is a rerun but as she hasn’t been a Friday Girl for a few years I decided to take some new photos of her this week.

Advertisement

Published by Taswegian1957

I was born in England in 1957 and lived there until our family came to Australia in 1966. I grew up in Adelaide, South Australia, where I met and married my husband, David. We came together over a mutual love of trains. Both of us worked for the railways for many years, his job was with Australian National Railways, while I spent 12 years working for the STA, later TransAdelaide the Adelaide city transit system. After leaving that job I worked in hospitality until 2008. We moved to Tasmania in 2002 to live in the beautiful Huon Valley. In 2015 David became ill and passed away in October of that year. I currently co-write two blogs on WordPress.com with my sister Naomi. Our doll blog "Dolls, Dolls, Dolls", and "Our Other Blog" which is about everything else but with a focus on photographs and places in Tasmania. In November 2019 I began a new life in the house that Naomi and I intend to make our retirement home at Sisters Beach in Tasmania's northwest. Currently we have five pets between us. Naomi's two dogs Toby and Teddy and cats, Tigerwoods and Panther and my cat Polly. My dog Cindy passed away aged 16 in April 2022.

10 comments

  2. She’s very pretty and looks great in that dress, the colour really suits her. I remember her being pictured on your other blog about making your own dolls clothes. I don’t have a Candi in my collection but looking at the prices on EBay they are beyond my price range (unless one turns up in an Op shop!)

    Liked by 1 person

    Reply

    • They were still relatively cheap and the exchange rate and postage were better when I got her. If I was starting to collect now I would not be able to buy as many dolls as I did when I began collecting.

      Like

      Reply

  3. I think I got mine in a lot, otherwise she would have been more, but your AA gal is a grail doll for me. I Keep looking for her, but might have to save up. I even might have a knitted dress to put her in. I can’t recall what did you name her?

    Like

    Reply

Leave a Reply

Fill in your details below or click an icon to log in:

Gravatar
WordPress.com Logo

You are commenting using your WordPress.com account. ( Log Out /  Change )

Twitter picture

You are commenting using your Twitter account. ( Log Out /  Change )

Facebook photo

You are commenting using your Facebook account. ( Log Out /  Change )

Cancel

Connecting to %s

This site uses Akismet to reduce spam. Learn how your comment data is processed.