Betsy McCall by Robert Tonner

We actually have other dolls at American Girl Rescue besides American Girl dolls. Most of the other dolls are by Robert Tonner. We have an 8" Betsy McCall, Dru & Charlie Bucket all part of the Tiny Betsy Collection; Flutterby Izzy & Hamish from the Amelia Thimble collection; Autumn Days Trixie & Ann Estelle from the Patsy collection; and lastly, DeeDee Basic Brunette and Tyler Wentworth that were gifts from the Tonner Dolls 25th Anniversary Convention in 2016.

(We also had here at AGR in the Tonner collection but have since gone on to other homes: Gale, Peeta & Katness from the Hunger Games collection. And Wigged-Out Prudence, Essential Ellowyne 3 & Wigged-Out Lizette from the Wilde Imagination Ellowyne Wilde collection.)

Getting all of that out of the way just to introduce to you the newest doll to arrive here! This 1996 14" Betsy McCall designed by Robert Tonner arrived this week at our house nude and in pieces. Learning how to restring this type of doll was a must. Then after I located original McCall patterns for the Robert Tonner Betsy McCall, I made our new Betsy a dress.

Hello and welcome to this new girl!

Her pretty brown eyes have turned orange with age, so I purchased a replacement set of eyes from an eBay seller in Spain and proceeded to learn something else new about this doll: How to replace her eyes! 

The Dolls' Room is ready!

It took several months to get the Dolls' Houses put back together and all of the dolls and their things back out of storage and into their new room at the new house, but here they are!!

 The Dolls' House takes up one side of their new room. 

Many of the mini-dolls live on top of the Dolls' House.

Kaya and her things, as well as Kendall and the 

Bitty Babies are situated on the next wall of the Dolls' Room.

The built in closet in the Dolls' Room was just the right size to hold 

their wardrobes as well as many other pieces.

The Dolls' Treehouse is on the next wall of the Dolls' Room.

And finally as we complete the 360 in the Dolls' Room we have the mini-doll houses.

It's so great to finally have all of the girls & boys out and about in their new room at AmericanGirlRescue!!