YOBB Doll Hospital
YOBB Doll Hospital
Dressed to impress! Maryanne Oldenburg Creative Friends Doll with a new wig, makeup, eyes, and handmade clothing.
This American Girl doll has been sponsored to an essential worker in the community! TYVM!
Captivating! 23" Effanbee doll with restored wig with new eyes and eyelashes, fits newborn and My Twinn doll clothes!
Double your fun! Refurbished Tonka Color Change dolls into cute 1950s inspired baby dolls ready for a new home!
Little Miss Muffet Madame Alexander refurbished and ready for play!
1959-1961 35" Ideal Patti Playpal doll has a new life after her longer stay here at the doll hospital!
Snuggle perfect! Effanbee vinyl doll with new eyes, makeup, full wig, and handmade clothes and accessories.
Completely refurbished OOAK 23" My Twinn doll fashioned after Wednesday Addams ready for a new home!
A very pretty Patti Playpal ready to go home!
It's easy to show gratitude to someone who has a favorite character! Here is Jessica Rabbit and her hubby as a gift to someone special!
Early 20th Century Heubach #275 Mold Bisque Doll repaired and ready for more playtime!
We repair dolls at a low cost but with lots of love. And we do freckles. Lots and lots of freckles.
A perfect set of babes in strawberries! Reborn twins with new wigs, eyes, makeup, and handmade clothes & accessories.
Reburbished 23" My Twinn dolls with new eyes, makeup, handmade outfits, wigs, and all smiles!
Broken arm? No problem! My Life As doll ready with her reattached arm, fresh makeup, cute outfit and new hairstyle!
Reconstructed this little Porcelain Cowboy reborn! Ready to go home :)
Cuddlebun Magic Skin doll with new eyes, makeup, hair, and handmade outfit. WOW!
Baby Tubsy fully restored and ready for play. (Retired from the tub).
New everything for this lovely Raggedy Ann that has so much more love to give!
Gorgeous 1940s 23" Magic Skin doll fully restored! BTW, We're WOMEN VETERAN OPERATED!
Adorable Berenguer Doll, repaired with a set of new reborn eyes, half-cap wig, and handmade clothes.
Sam H.
May 14, 2023
Last year my wife and I were cleaning house. I found an old cookie tin in the trash and pulled it out for recycling. Inside the tin was the saddest old Raggedy Ann doll. Not sure if my wife meant to throw the doll away, I figured that I would get it fixed up a little and surprise her. I let our daughter in on my plan, she would take the doll if her mom did not want it. There was no place in the Twin Cities that wanted my business, so I expanded my search and found Ye Olde Black Beade Doll Hospital. I called and spoke to the owner, Marchelle, and tried to explain what I wanted done, basically fix the hair. I recall being quoted $20, which I thought was very, almost too reasonable. Looking at the labor involved, I thought that she must not have understood what I wanted, so I sent her the doll with a little extra cash and a note asking her to make the repairs, keep what extra she found fair, and give the rest, if any, to a local charity. What we got back was/is a masterpiece, along with a 'treasure' to go with the doll. She also had some funds left over and was able to make contributions to local underprivileged kids. My wife could not believe that the doll we got back was her old childhood companion, and she keeps the doll in a special place above her desk. Hopefully, someday the doll can be passed to our daughter, and then to her future daughter. I purposely left some of the details a little vague for privacy. To summarize, the workmanship exceeded my wildest expectations, and the cost was very fair. Truly a very memorable, once-in-a-lifetime transaction.
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