Hello, Strawberry Fans!

Hello out there!

 I feel like most of my life, in some capacity, I've spent my time waiting for Strawberry.

 What do I mean by that? It's simple, really. Since I've been a young child, I've been waiting till the next time I could see Strawberry Shortcake. Whether it was the cartoon on Saturday morning, or going on a trip to the local K-mart and spending the whole visit in the Strawberry Shortcake section, or as an adult waiting for the next licensee to to share what's "coming soon", I've been waiting for Strawberry.

In those times between Strawberry sitings, I tend to fill my dolly needs with other collections, and that, I hope will be part of this blog, as well.

I must admit, I've never ever been a morning person. So, try as I might, even as a 7 year old, I rarely awoke early enough to watch the Saturday morning cartoon in the 1980's.  As an adult, I do find the voices hard to take, but I so thoroughly enjoy the animation. Someday, I will watch one straight through!

As a child, I was completely in love with the entire line of Strawberry Shortcake and at times barely more than noticed the other dolls in the aisle. BUT, they were expensive dolls and ones my mother was not overly fond of at the time. So, alas, I had no strawberry dolls of my own. I would play with friends dolls and dream about them and stare at them in the Sears catalog till those pages were soft and limp.

My first SSC dolls of my own were in 1993 when Kmart again was my Strawberry hero. I was away at college and found the 1991 series on clearance! My heart went pitter patter! I had a very limited budget and so each week I'd go back to Kmart and get another of the dolls, until I had them all. It was a euphoric experience each and every time!

Then, some years later, this odd new thing came around, called ebay! What was the first thing I searched for? I don't remember! BUT one day it finally occurred to me to type "Strawberry Shortcake" into the ebay search engine and in that moment I hit the return button and thousands of auctions were at my finger tips, I fell down the rabbit hole. I knew it. And I was happy!

I hope you'll continue on with me as I discuss all things dolly, while I'm waiting for Strawberry!