The Doll Blog

March is my favorite month of the year. It’s my birthday month, Spring, (which more importantly, here in the North Country, means that Winter is almost over. And we get 10 to 12 feet of snow - we’re really, really, really ready for winter to be over!)
And of course, its Hinamatsuri, The Japanese Dolls [...]

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As promised, the story of how a doll saved our business.
Back in 2002, the dot.com crash had hurt our ability to give as generously to charity as we liked, and we were looking for a new ’stream of income’ from which to rebuild our charity gifting. So Addie and I started our first eCommerce stores, [...]

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Hi friends;
I have a pretty serious request for all my readers today. I am going to ask, no BEG! - you all to go to this link and sign this petition. The US government, in it’s attempts to increase toy safety, ( a good thing ) has written rules that require testing of all toys [...]

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I’ve commented before on the Barbie vs. Bratz case, and followed it with interest, but even I was surprised with the severity of the final judgement:
MGA must immediately stop making Bratz dolls
MGA must pull all Bratz Dolls off the shelves and out of the stores.
MGA must pay the retailers for the unsold dolls AND pay [...]

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It is so easy to offend… and yes I am talking dolls. For instance, two little words, nude, and Barbie. Ten little letters in the English language. Yet put them together — Nude Barbie — and whole treatises could be written about feminism, pornography, nudity, little girls self image…. it goes on and on. And [...]

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If you are a customer of ours you are probably aware of the fact that we donate 10% of our profits to children’s charity. It is but one way for us to harness the community of doll lovers to do Tzedakah (Hebrew for charity)
Here is another way….
The Pink Artist Project: is a group of artists [...]

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So, what kind of a Doll Collector are you?
In all our years of being in the ‘Doll’ business, I’ve come across so many wonderful people with so many unique collections. I can’t even begin to define what a ‘doll collection’ should look like! Some people collect Barbies, some Jumeau’s. Some collect anything ’30’s”, some [...]

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I have a fondness for Steampunk dolls.  
The problem is, that too many people hear a phrase… think they know what it means, and declare themselves part of the movement. And that’s exactly what’s happening on the SteamPunk Doll front.
Sorry, my friends, but SteamPunk is well defined, (it is over twenty years old now), and you [...]

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