Saturday Bath--Getting Ready to Sell

Buying  things at garage sales to resell always means cleaning and inspecting.  Most of the things I list are glass and usually  I have a pan full of dishes to wash after coming in with  a "haul" on Saturday morning.  This Saturday  the weather wasn't right for garage sales and it is still a bit early in the season, so I put my laundry on early and decided to freshen up some of my cloth dolls. You might say it was the Proverbial Saturday Night Bath (except it was Saturday morning)  They have gotten dusty and could just stand freshening up before going to a new home.  Mr. and Mrs. Duck were sort of like Snuffy Smith in the funny papers.  I had to strip them naked to wash their clothes.  Paul said they were streaking.

Streaking Ducks!

I did learn that their whole legs and not just the feet are orange felt

Mr. and Mrs. Duck in their nice clean clothes.
You can buy them here

Mr. Duck with his straw hat

I  also surface cleaned the Millennium Bear per the instructions on the tag. This carried me back to my childhood and surface cleaning a much played with little yellow stuffed dog named (what else?) Fido who lived in the toy box at my grandma's house.  We periodically scrubbed Fido's fur with a soapy cloth, let him dry, and then brushed him out.  This little white bear cleaned up so nice by this method. 

Millennium Bear

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