Baltimore Times Article on Goldie Wilson

Doll artist and author, Goldie Wilson, is featured in the May 12-18, 2023, issue of The Baltimore Times. The article on page 10 covers Goldie's doll making and includes details about her second book, "This Is Me" Original Black Dolls by Goldie Wilson. Follow this link to download the issue or to read the article online.

Congratulations, Goldie!

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Follow Goldie's Homeless Dolls

Photograph courtesy of Goldie Wilson

Doll artist, Goldie Wilson, who is also a doll collector, has created the Facebook page, "Goldie's Homeless Dolls." The dolls aren't really homeless, but they do need new homes. 

Goldie plans to sell several limited-edition, hard-to-find, discontinued dolls by Robert Tonner, Ellowyne Wilde, Madame Alexander, Paulette Goodreau, Mel Odom, Mattel,  Ashton-Drake/Integrity, and many other doll artists and manufacturers. 

Most of the dolls have only been removed from their boxes to photograph for the event of this sale and some still have the shipping boxes. The dolls will be posted to her Facebook page a few listings at a time daily. So be sure to visit, follow, and share the link to the page with other doll enthusiasts. 

Goldie thanks you in advance and hopes you'll see a doll or two that interests you.

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Daddy's Long Legs Lizabeth

Meet Daddy's Long Legs Lizabeth

After seeing another collector's impressive Daddy's Long Legs collection and realizing I did not own any children from the original 1990s line, I searched eBay and found Lizabeth. I wanted a girl with a happy disposition and Lizabeth fits that description to a T.

Doesn't she have the most infectious smile?

Made in 1994, Lizabeth is a 12-inch doll with a resin head, body, lower arms and hands, and lower legs and feet. She has cloth upper arms and entire upper legs that dangle. Her painted facial features include brown eyes, a smiling mouth with separately molded teeth with some that are missing and some that have just grown in! She wears a green floral print romper with lace-trimmed cranberry fabric at the upper chest area, white molded-on socks, and black molded-on shoes. Lizabeth's sculpted hair is styled in two thick curly pigtails accented by cranberry ribbons. She'll be installed in DeeBeeGee's Virtual Black Doll Museum along with my other Daddy's Long Legs Dolls soon.

Lizabeth's hangtag contains the Daddy's Long Leg's logo, the year she was made, her name, and KVK, Inc.'s contact information.

Lizabeth arrived with her original box, hangtag, certificate of authenticity, a note that indicates she was packed by Holly, and Karen Germany's story card. Karen Germany is the original designer of Daddy's Long Legs dolls, who recently sold all her archived dolls. If you're like me and missed out on some of the 1990s dolls, browse new listings of Daddy's Long Legs dolls on eBay using this link. 

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Maryland Society of Doll Collectors Luncheon Dolls

This is the limited edition box designed by Goldie Wilson for the limited edition dolls created for Maryland Society of Doll Collectors' 2020 Luncheon.

The Maryland Society of Doll Clubs was scheduled to have its annual luncheon on April 25, 2020. Due to COVID-19, the luncheon was initially postponed and later canceled. The luncheon dolls by Goldie Wilson, the associated literature, and favors were mailed out recently. The last of my items arrived this week, having been shipped from two different locations. This is the reveal of the fabulous handcrafted items by the extraordinarily gifted and creative, doll artist, Goldie Wilson.

The theme of the luncheon was Wonderland as in Alice in Wonderland, but this Alice is African American and the limited edition Queen of Hearts is too!

Queen of Hearts

Queen of Hearts was produced in a limited edition of 12 dolls. She arrived in the special box, shown above, that Goldie decorated with handpainted images of Alice, the Mad Hatter, and Tweedledum and Tweedledee who are all African American, too!

This is a close-up of the hand-painted Alice on the Queen's box.

And this is the Queen of Hearts!  She is a 14-inch porcelain doll with a cloth body dressed in a Queen of Hearts theme which includes a jeweled crown and a scepter. The white bodice of her dress has multiple white hearts. The puffed sleeves are made from red and white check fabric. She has a white tulle collar.

The center fabric used for the skirt of her dress has a playing-card theme. The same white fabric used for the bodice was used for the rest of the skirt. Red tulle extends around the sides and back. The skirt has a crinoline lining. 

The Queen of Hearts wears red and pink heart-print pantaloons and black painted-on shoes.

This close-up provides a better look at the facial painting which includes a heart in the center of her lips and heavy red eyeshadow. Her stationary eyes are brown.

This is a better close-up to illustrate the jewels on her shimmering silver crown that was also made by Goldie.

The Queen's scepter is accented with a Queen of Hearts card, of course!

Attached to the inside flap of the Queen's decorative box is none other than the white rabbit, also made by Goldie.

White Rabbit

Here is a close up of White Rabbit still attached to the box flap. He holds keys in his left hand.

Below White Rabbit is written:
"Alice saw a white rabbit hurry by.
Looking at his pocket watch and
Talking to himself. Alice thought
That was very curious indeed a
Talking rabbit with a pocket watch!
So she followed him into a rabbit hole
Beneath a big tree,
And down she [felled], down to the
Center of the world, it seemed."

White Rabbit was released from the box attachment to take this photo and the next three that follow. Here he holds his pocket watch and his keys.

The front of White Rabbit's pocket watch is a clear dome. "I'm late" is written underneath the dome.

The back of his pocket watch reads "Property of W. Rabbit." (Too cute!)

White Rabbit has white looped yarn hair and a white looped yarn tail. He's dressed in a black and white check vest and a black top hat.

Black Alice!

Black Alice's decorated box is shown here with a closeup of the box illustration shown next.

This illustration of Alice was hand-drawn by Goldie.

Alice in Wonderland by Goldie Wilson

Alice in Wonderland arrived separately in her own box (shown above) which was also decorated by Goldie. Like Queen of Hearts, Alice is also a 14-inch porcelain doll with a cloth body. She wears a light blue print dress with a white pinafore, painted-on white tights, and painted-on black shoes.

Alice has a lovely face. Her eyes are also brown and stationary.

She has a beautiful wig that was also handmade by Goldie.

This is a full-length view of Alice from behind.

Did you wonder why there was extra space in the Queen's box? If you guessed it is for Alice, you are correct! The two fit perfectly in the box.

The White Rabbit, Queen of Hearts, and Alice in Wonderland are shown in the decorative box. Both dolls came with felt-bottom doll stands.

As the certificate of authenticity (COA) indicates, Alice is an upgraded version made for this limited edition box. (The other Alice luncheon dolls wear the traditional solid blue Alice in Wonderland-style dress underneath a white pinafore.)

The Extras!

Shown on the top is Alice's 8 x 10 inch framed story with artwork by Goldie Wilson. Next to the framed story is the dolls' COA. On the bottom are the menu that would have been served at the luncheon had it not been canceled and the luncheon souvenir book.

This is a mixture of favors and hostess gifts and includes a black-and-cream-colored zippered pouch (a hostess gift from Chairperson Stacia Pate) an Alice in Wonderland bookmark, a set of five African American Alice in Wonderland (AIW) greeting cards by Diana E. Vining (another hostess gift), an AIW decorated box of candy, an AIW fabric-covered composition book, and black-and-white-trimmed sticky notes (Goldie sent the sticky notes to me; I am not sure if everyone received these; thank you, Goldie!). 

In this photo, is a close-up of one of the assorted AIW-themed greeting cards by Diana E. Vining. (These greeting cards were a gift to me  — thank you, again, Stacia!)

This final photo shows thumbnail images of all the greeting cards that are in this package. The Sending Love and Thank You cards feature the Queen of Hearts. Alice in Wonderland is illustrated on the Get Well Soon, Happy Birthday, and Thinking of You greetings.

Everything is more amazing than the pictures can possibly portray.

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Pinkie and Her Doll by Goldie Wilson

The 2019 WLBDA Club Doll is shown on the right, inspired by the doll with a doll wearing blue on the left.

Since 2004, my online doll club has commissioned a doll artist to make our annual club doll.  Usually, 15 to 20 of the now 86 members purchase the annual doll.  In late 2017, we commissioned doll artist, Goldie Wilson, to make our doll for 2019.

The 17 completed 2019 WLBDA Club Dolls are shown before their journeys to new homes.

Fashioned after the doll shown above dressed in blue, ours is a 16-inch cloth doll with handpainted facial features.  She has her own doll.  Because Goldie referred to her as Pinkie after completion, she was aptly named Pinkie and Her Doll.

Made in a limited edition of 17 dolls, the larger dolls wear a pink and off-white bicycle-print dress with pink pinafore, a pink lace-trimmed bonnet, pink pantaloons; and painted-on, old-fashion-style boots.  Black synthetic hair is styled with curly bangs and multiple looped side braids.  Pinkie has separate fingers which are clasped together to hold her doll.  Sixteen of the smaller dolls wear pink dresses and bicycle-print pantaloons and head bows.

The small doll of the prototype, the one I own, wears a dress made of the bicycle-print fabric, pink pantaloons, and a pink fabric hair bow.  There was an insufficient amount of fabric to make all smaller dolls' dresses using the bicycle print.  The smaller dolls all have looped yarn hair and painted faces.

Additional photos of my doll are shown next:

Pinkie and Her Doll are a lovely pair!

Their faces were, as indicated, hand-painted by the artist.

Pinkie's fingers are very detailed.  They can be unclasped if desired.

Pinkie's stitched knees aid in sitting properly with her legs dangling.  Her painted-on, old-fashion-style boots can be seen better in this photo.

The back of Pinkie's bonnet, dress, and pinafore are illustrated here.

Dolly can be removed from Pinkie's arms.

Dolly's dress style and shoes are illustrated here.

Goldie signed the back of Pinkie's left leg:  WLBDA 2019 Doll by Goldie.

The back of Dolly's left leg is signed:  GW 2019.

All members have expressed great pleasure with their dolls.   Some comments from members include,  I love her!  She's gorgeous!  Pinkie and her doll are adorable! A few members have photographed and shared pictures of their dolls.  With their permission, their photos are shared below:

Bonnie Lewis is the owner of this Pinkie and Her Doll.

Jackie Harpp shared this photo of her precious girl.

Nini's Pinkie and Her Doll are flanked on the left and right, respectively by a 1990 doll by Kathy Samuelson and a doll named Venus made in 2001 by Linda Koch.

Vicky's little lady and her doll sit pretty in this photo.

We are all thrilled that Goldie was able to carve enough time out of her busy dollmaking schedule to make Pinkie and Her Doll for the 17 of us who purchased.

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MCDC 25th Anniversary Doll by Goldie Wilson

Held September 15, 2018, the Motor City Doll Club of Detroit, Michigan celebrated its 25th anniversary with a luncheon, appropriately titled, "Celebration - It's Our Birthday."

MCDC 25th Anniversary Luncheon - Celebration - It's Our Birthday Souvenir Doll by Goldie Wilson

The luncheon souvenir doll is a 14-inch porcelain doll with cloth body by Goldie Wilson, shown above, still in her box, and below in a close-up photo prior to removing from the box.

She has brown inset eyes with upper eyelashes. 

The rest of her facial features are hand painted.  She has black hair with side bangs.  Her jewelry consists of pearl stud earrings and a pearl necklace.

The hair is pulled back into a curly bun.

She is dressed in a full-length white dress with white pantaloons.

The shoes are fired-on pearlized gray slippers.

The front bodice of the dress is embellished with clear, sewn-on beads. A pink sash with decorative ribbon flower in the front and pink bow-tie in the back accent the waist.

Three pearl buttons close the back of the dress.

Full-length view from the back

This lovely doll wears a fascinator made of crinoline with a decorative pink floral ribbon in the center that matches the floral ribbon on the sash of the dress.

Close-up of the fascinator

Made in an edition of 85, a photo greeting card with envelope and a certificate of authenticity were included with the MCDC 2018 Luncheon doll.

At the time of this post, limited quantities of the MCDC 25th Anniversary Doll by Goldie Wilson remain.  If interested in adding one of these dolls to your collection, send and email inquiry to: Motorcitydollclub@yahoo.com

Goldie Wilson with some of her beautiful doll creations is shown in this photo found on Facebook, (photographer unknown).

Goldie Wilson has been making dolls for decades.  Known for making her own molds and for creating several limited edition event dolls annually for her own doll club, Maryland Society of Doll Collectors, and for other doll clubs and organizations, Wilson is a renowned artist in the doll community.  She has been commissioned to make the 2019 club doll for my doll group.

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Addendum, Posted 10/06/2018:

Goldie Wilson follows this blog.  After she read this post, she sent a short, but sweet email, which I captured in the following image. 

My heart smiled.

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