Name: 2010 WLBD Club Doll, Thandy
Made by and When: Berdine Creedy, 2009
Material: Vinyl, mohair, glass eyes
Marks: Berdine Creedy’s signature is incised in the head.
Height: 10 inches
Hair, Eyes, Mouth: The brown wavy mohair wig with bangs has two top pigtails adorned with white ribbons. The brown glass eyes are inset with applied upper eyelashes and painted lower eyelashes. The closed mouth has rose colored lips and an outlined upper lip.
Clothes: Wears a purple dress with white and purple daisies at the bodice with a light purple and white floral print apron attached, white panties, and white sandals with a purple and white flower at the toe
Other: Using one of the artist’s existing dolls (Lali), Berdine Creedy customized 15 identical dolls for the WLBD Doll Group at Yahoo according to group members’ specifications. Thandy has a certificate of authenticity signed by the artist. A booklet detailing the doll’s creation, written by the group’s moderator (now curator of DeeBeeGee’s Virtual Black Doll Museum), accompanied each doll.
Berdine Creedy emigrated to the United States from South Africa and became an American citizen in 2004. She named this doll Thandy (pronounced Tundy after a South African girl she met at Disney’s Animal Kingdom Park in Orlando, Florida. Thandy is short for Thandiwe, which means “beloved” or “loved one.”
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