Would you have a dolly Clearance Sale?

I've lived in my lovely new flat for a whole month now and yet I am still unpacking boxes from my house sitting stint over the summer and slowly clearing out my old room at my Mother's house. I'm kind of "getting there" with most of the rooms but my work room has become a bit of a dumping ground sadly.

Today I found a big whicker hamper that I want to use for my towels, and was pretty surprised by what I found inside. A collection of lots of older dolls that I have made down the years and either they never sold or I just never listed them in the shop, wanting to hang on. A few I know I will still keep - but the others...? Is it acceptable to have a dolly clearance sale?

I hesitate to use the term "Art Doll" because I seriously don't think that my early faltering steps along that road can count, and beside I prefer to think of my cloth dolls as just that: Rag dolls. Why get all pretentious about it? I agree with the marvelously bonkers Grayson Perry, who recently said that a lot of what passes for ART these days is only made to seem worthy by the fact that it is hanging in a gallery. I guess ETSY performs a similar function for really quite basic craft items, gives them a gloss they maybe do no merit? Contentious, I know but perhaps the truth.

I haven't actually made a doll yet that I think would be worthy of the title art doll to be honest. I'm not being falsely modest or fishing for compliments here either. The dolls I have made are fun, some much better crafted than others and I only use the term "art doll" at all because it will help me be found in listings and because it sets a certain type of doll aimed at adult collectors apart from those aimed at children. It's a very useful term in that sense.

Anyway, new flat, new outlook. I want to wipe the slate clean and start to make different dolls. who knows, maybe next year I will actually manage to grope my way toward something I myself will consider art? Who knows indeed!

Meanwhile, I am going to put some of the old dears in my etsy shop at lowered prices until Christmas anyway. Oh and every non paper doll sale gets a free mystery gift until Christmas too. I sadly can't include them with the Paper dolls as they ship in flat envelopes and there would be no room!