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Twelve Years Ago This Week
The lovely Matoka by Annette Himstedt represents a girl from Somalia.On July 18, 2017, I received an email from an image hosting service that contained a link to photos taken and stored at their site...
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Baby DeiDei Clonette x6
The six colorful dolls shown above are Clonette dolls or baby DeiDei (day-day) dolls. These were purchased following customer service communication with Tree House Kid and Craft to inquire if...
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She'll Have to Reschedule
Circa 1940s 28-inch hard plastic Rita Walker by Paris Doll Corporation; when the doll's legs are moved in a walking motion, her head turns from side to side. She remains one of my top-favorite hard...
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American Girl Addy's First Annual Hair Show
My second Addy is shown in the eBay seller's photo as she was when she arrived several years ago, very well loved with hair that was quite tangled and in need of conditioning and restyling. I gave her...
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Music Dolls by Lorna Paris
Music Dolls, a.k.a. Music Box Dolls by Lorna ParisI saw the photo of the above trio of 8-inch Lorna Paris music dolls after a former doll group member purchased them from Lorna at the 2007 Philadelphia...
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Lottie Dolls: Sammi, Branksea Lottie, and Mia
Lottie dolls, L-R: Sammi, Branksea Festival Lottie, and MiaLottie fashions: Raspberry Ripple and Flower PowerBack in June, blog reader, Cynthia, informed me about the soon-to-be-released, deep...
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Preordered Classic Cool Ken
Preordered Classic Cool Ken arrived in mid-July.This past June when Classic Cool Ken became available as a preorder from the ShopMattel website, I ordered one along with Boho Glam (the latter doll has...
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Festival of Black Dolls Show and Sale
Little Ruby is a 12-inch porcelain doll-tribute to Ruby Bridges. The text in the above image reads: But there was a school for white childreneven closer to my house than the school for black...
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Some of My Favorite Vintage Black Barbies
Live-Action Christie, Talking Brad and Super Star Christie are among my favorite vintage Black Barbie family of dolls."Top Favorite Dolls" was the July photo-sharing theme in my Facebook doll group....
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More Vintage Black Barbies and Other Shelved Dolls
Three-shelf bookcase contains boxed vintage Barbies and other fashion dollsBecause I could not access SuperStar Christie for my previous post, the need to take a quick inventory of my boxed, shelved...
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History Channel's Collectors Cafe
Casting Producer, Cate Burzynski, for the History Channel's newest talk show, Collectors Cafe, which is scheduled to air this spring, reached out to me regarding the possibility of having my collection...
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The Marvelous World of Shani and Her Friends
This image is on the back of the box of each original doll in the Shani collection. Dolls included Shani (center doll), Asha (far left), and Nichelle, (box date 1991).Designed by Kitty Black Perkins,...
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More Classic Cool
Classic Cool's new hairlineStill toying with Classic Cool Ken, I have again updated his look to add a hairline, stud earrings, a new shirt and shoes.The hairline was inspired by a google search for...
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2017 WLBDA Club Dolls by Sue Sizemore
A variety of cloth dolls by Sue SizemoreIn April of this year, cloth doll artist, Sue Sizemore, was commissioned by my doll group to create our 2017 club dolls. Annually, we either buy an identical...
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This 6-minute, 21-second video by Urban Street News, circa 1990/1991, covers the roll out of Mattel's Shani Collection. In addition to creating this post for the video, it is now embedded in my...
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6th Annual Detroit Doll Show Announcement
Announcement from Sandra Epps of Sandy's Land regarding the 6th Annual Detroit Doll Show:"We are OVER the TOP Excited to announce that the Phenomenal Ms. Stacey McBride-Irby will be joining us for...
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BéBé Bain Discovers Other Bathing Babies
2017 UFDC Convention Souvenir Journal, Une Journée de la Poupée is a beautiful 238-page, hard cover book with gilded pages.In September 2016, I received an email from the editor of this year’s UFDC...
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Book-Featured Bratz Dolls on eBay
After receiving several email inquiries regarding regarding the possibility of my selling the Bratz dolls featured in my third book, The Doll Blogs When Dolls Speak I Listen, and with years' long plans...
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From One Arm to Three
27-inch one-armed transitional mama doll and her replacement armsFirst seen here in a post about mama dolls (dolls with voice boxes that make the ma-ma sound when the they are tilted or otherwise...
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Guest Post by Brains and Beauty Dolls
Malia is an 18-inch talking doll by Brains and Beauty DollsNiya Dorsey, the creator of Brains and Beauty Dolls contacted me about her new line of 18-inch dolls. I invited her to share the inspiration...
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