Last night I was checking my local Freecycle page and saw a post for collector dolls. She mentioned having several and asked for people who are interested to write to her asking for a specific country and a short description of why you are asking for these collector dolls.

I have never heard of these dolls before, but I wrote her on the off chance she may have Ukraine or Russia since I am Ukrainian and my husband is Russian and we love to collect items from our cultures to fill our home with.

She wrote back letting me know that she had the Russian doll as well as the Polish doll, but they never released a Ukrainian doll to her knowledge, sadly. I was happy to be able to get both of those though!

Tanya from Russia & Sophie from Poland:

They each come with their little certificate of Authenticity that has a story about them inside. I really love that. They remind me of American Girl Dolls, but super fragile.

I think that I look like Tanya if I had more vintage traditional wear – which is something I would love to acquire over time. I could put just continue to build my layers over this dress since it’s base is white.

I also grabbed a doll for our friend/Ukrainian’s teacher’s daughter who is Ukrainian-Japanese. I thought that would be special for her, although the dress is a little torn on one side, but maybe her mom knows how to mend.

I can definitely see why people collect these. It was hard not to get ones just because they were cute. However, my number one rule about living free is to never take more than I need. I thought they were cute, but there may be someone else out there looking for exactly those ones and I am sending all of the magical dust out into the universe in hopes that they end up in exactly the home for who they belong, who will appreciate the cultural aspect of the doll they find and cherish it like I will with the ones I brought home.

Have you found any cool treasures lately?