More Lunar New Year fun! I made a purchase… When the Rainbow High dolls first dropped, I wasn’t impressed. I prefer my dolls to look natural, so all the gawdy hair colors were an instant turn off for me. I didn’t think I’d ever own one. Then this beautiful lady dropped, and I grabbed her. She is gorgeous! I love all things Asian, and this doll is right up my alley! Lily Cheng is a special edition RH doll made just for the Year of the Tiger. Her clothes and accessories are incredible, and so full of detail! I must resist the urge to steal those bracelets for my Barbie! She has large Chinese character earrings, tiger bracelets, two outfits plus a jacket, adorable hair pins, and a fan that actually folds up! Her skirt has a tiger embroidered into it, and there are lots of buckles, beads, and other details. Her fingernails are painted and she has real eyelashes. Overall, I’m very pleased and impressed! I don’t know if I’ll get more RH dolls, but if they make more Asian ones, I’m all over it!!! Lily is a great addition to my collection!
The box is gorgeous!
Lily has real eyelashes!
These bracelets are incredible! I love the little tigers!
The tassel on the fan is an intricate Asian-style knot. Awesome detail!
Two hair pins in her adorable hair buns:
These shoes are out of this world! High heels tied up with gold rope and beads, too cool!
Gorgeous details on her skirt:
Second outfit, plus the fan actually folds up!
A second pair of cute shoes that tie with red ribbon:
Amazing gold detail on the bottom of the dress:
Also included is a jacket with embroidered details and real buckles (closes in the back with velcro):
In the right light, you can see an embroidered tiger on her skirt:
The Evening News, Harrisburg, Pennsylvania, October 10, 1945
Oh my God, I have a family story about this I’ve been hearing my whole life.
This is Tressie:
Tressie is my great-great grandmother. She was born in 1894 and by the 1940s was a grandmother (to my grandmother!). So by the time she had the experience I’m about to report, she was very much a whole adult. Here she is in 1948 and 1950, as close as I had to the date of this paper publish date.
One day around the time period these photos were taken, she returned from a big trip to a state fair/gardening show event that she’d been to a state or two away from her younger family. She was excited to tell my grandmother about this Amazing Brand New Thing she had tried at the fair.
“PIZZ-UH!” she announced.
My grandmother reports that as a teen or pre-teen a the time, she was well aware of pizza and how it was pronounced, but her grandmother’s excited baffled report stuck with her, and she started jokingly pronouncing it ‘pizz-uh’, especially when she had her own kids and grandkids.
My brother and I grew up jokingly scolding our grandmother that it was 'Pizz-uh Hut’ because of the brand new experience of a woman we never got to meet who was born nearly a century before us.
I love that Tressie still ended up part of my life in this tiny funny way and that her experience helps remind me of the way and amount that things change. This was such a great thing to see to smile about her.
I probably won’t bother making many more than this, because I can’t imagine there are that many of us who would like a button. But still a button for my favorite pair of card game boys 💙💜
My step dad was like “This is my favorite one of your buttons. The colors are so pleasant to look at. All the other ones are so bright and this one is so calm.”
Thank you for appreciating my big gay button I appreciate you
