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Hi, and welcome to Cheryl and Mom’s Collectible Dolls! Mom always loved dolls, even though she didn’t have many as a little girl. When I was born, she was just 19 years old, and she loved buying me dolls. She bought me dolls through the year, and bought one for me every Christmas. In the pictures below here you can see my beautiful mother holding me at one week old, and in the next one I’m “feeding” my first doll that Santa Claus brought me for Christmas at 14 months old. That’s how my love of dolls began.
Mom bought me some great dolls when I was young, including an original “Patty Play Pal” and an original “Pebbles Flintstone.” As I got older, she bought me an original “Barbie” among many, many other dolls. Unfortunately, when my parents divorced when I was 15, all my dolls didn’t get to come with me. But Mom just started buying them for me again every Christmas until she collapsed on our living room floor on July 29, 2020.
The paramedics revived her that day and the doctors at the hospital found that she had a three-inch tear in her stomach and had sepsis all through her body. At 87 years old and as bad as she was, they told my brother Eric and me that they didn’t think she’d make it through the surgery she needed to save her life. But because Mom had just told me days before that she wanted to live, we authorized the surgery and she came through it like the fighter she was! Unfortunately, she had trouble getting off the ventilator and still needed it to breathe, so she was moved to a subacute skilled nursing facility to try to wean her off the ventilator. For the next thirteen months I drove 28 miles each way to visit every day, rain or shine, inside and even outside talking to her through her window with cell phones because of the Covid restrictions.
To keep me from going completely crazy and to have something to do when I couldn’t be with her, Eric suggested I try to make a business out of my love of dolls. I found an original Patty Play Pal on eBay and bid on her – not expecting to get it – but I did. When I got the doll, I took her with me to see Mom. Mom remembered that Patty Play Pal had been my favorite doll as a kid, and Mom smiled and kept looking at and touching the doll. I started looking at online doll auctions and online estate sales and was able to start building an inventory and putting them up for sale on eBay and Facebook. Each time I bought a new doll to sell, I’d take it in to show Mom and we’d discuss how to price it. The first time we sold a doll – less than 24 hours after I put it up on eBay - I couldn’t wait to tell Mom and I wouldn’t tell anyone else until I got there to tell her, and it made her happy. Even during our last visit, Mom and I discussed the pricing of the dolls. I thought that maybe we were pricing them too high since we hadn’t sold one in almost two weeks, and she said no! She said not to lower any of the prices and that all our dolls were worth what we had priced them. She was very adamant and animated about it!
I decided to name our business Cheryl and Mom’s Collectible Dolls to honor Mom, and this business and website are dedicated to her. Even though we lost Mom on August 29, 2021, I know she is still with me in this business and her principles and love for dolls will always be with me. Every doll we sell is worth the price we ask, because Mom would have it no other way. Thank you for helping me honor my beloved Mom!
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