Cleaning vintage doll shoes
Sunday and Monday were doll project days at my house. I have a whole list of things that I fixed and that I will blog about in the coming days, so be sure to check back! One of the things I did yesterday was to clean a pair of vintage doll shoes, the vinyl or plastic Mary Jane types that fit Ginny-sized dolls. They were seriously the filthiest pair of doll shoes I have ever seen, but they were one of my Ginger doll's originals, so I wanted to try to salvage them. They had a lot of play soil on them, as well as some kind of glue or varnish that had made shiny discolored spots: I started out using a little of my favorite doll cleaner , but even that stuff — as good as it is — wouldn't cut through the glue or varnish that was on the shoes. I happened to be soaking some doll clothes at the time, so I decided "Why not?" and threw the doll shoes in with a dress. They soaked overnight in Biz (I'll blog about my clothes washing method another time). When I rinsed them off