To celebrate July 4th today we went out to lunch as a family and then decided to go to the historic district in our town to just wander around. There were lots of street vendors and a festival getting ready to start. We stopped in a few antique stores and then decided it was too hot to walk much more. And then I just had to go into one more store!
Now we have lived in this town for almost 16 years and there is a store in the historic district that I have known existed and never explored… until today! Oh my!! I have been missing out. The Rocking Horse Gallery was full of beautiful dolls and bears from some of the most well known brands like Madame Alexander to individual artists that created dolls just for Rocking Horse.
The only camera I had with me was my iPhone and the lighting was not great, but you can get the idea – shelves and shelves of beautiful Madame Alexander dolls.
Including some of my personal favorites – the Alex dolls and the 21″ Cissy dolls.
The dolls on the second shelf are from the Madame Alexander Tudor and Borgias collection – their outfits are AMAZING!
Rocking Horse also has an entire room full of play dolls from brands like Corolle and Madame Alexander. If you have never held a Corolle doll you really are missing out. They all have the most amazing vanilla scent to them that lasts for YEARS. The girls on the top shelf are from the Les Cheries line and I am extremely in love with the little one wearing the ruffled dress!
The Miss Corolle dolls remind me of the Bitty Twins and are about the same size. In this part of the store there were loads of Gund stuffed animals, too.
How cute is this little Corolle baby doll in her stroller? I just wanted to pick her up and give her a good squeeze!
Look who we spotted – it is our favorite Dance With Me Angelina!!
Rocking Horse even has some Sonja Hartmann Kidz n Cats dolls – this is Jakob, Tara and Marieka. I just think Tara is as cute as can be!
The Rocking Horse Gallery does not have a website, but they are located at 803 Caroline Street in Fredericksburg, Virginia. If you are ever in the area, it is definitely worth a visit!
Firstie! (I think)
The Jakob doll looks just like a Jakob I know! I doubt he’d be much interested in a twin doll tho, lol.
Secondie, the dolls are adorable!
nice cute i send in my photo for the 4 th of july thing sorry if this is late
This looks like a great place to visit!
cool store!
It looks very cool! What doll is in the 6th picture she looks very cute. Could you post a link to her? Thanks! Sorry for being a pain!
Wish we had something like that in my town
aglover – she is Chouquette Blonde – you can find her on Amazon – http://amzn.to/Pg6cRW
Wow! Those are some of my favourite dolls!
i have a correlle and she is so cute! i always wanted a red haired one. i just have to go there. i dont think im to faraway. so ill just have tyo ask. where else besides amazon can u finnd corrolle?
and also im visiting where u can drive to park somewhere and go walk and explore town! i must check antique shops…….. and get icecream ! But maybe today or tomorrow……………………………………..
Chloe – Corolle dolls can be found in lots of specialty toy stores.
Wow. I don’t live anywhere close enough to that store, but wow. I wish I did!!
Here where I live you can not even find a shop that only has dolls! You are so lucky!