The Doll Blog

Hey! I make my living selling baby dolls, so as far as I’m concerned it doesn’t get any better than this! The ‘baby doll’ is being added to The Strong National Museum of Play’s “National Toy Hall of Fame! From the press release: Cradle it, feed it, take it for a stroll. The Baby Doll, [...]

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Arguably the largest doll manufacturer in the world, Mattel is also feeling the pain of the current economic hard times. The parent company of Barbie and Fisher-Price, American Girl Dolls, and a major stake holder in Corolle, is cutting staff. 1000 in a round announced 11/6, and then another 260 from it’s Intellivision video game [...]

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Well the results are in! And The Cabbage Patch Doll auction went — Palin Beats Obama! The Cabbage Patch Presidential and Vice-Presidential Doll Auction Results were: Cabbage Patch Kids Vice President Candidate Sarah Palin Doll Giving Works Item 100% of the proceeds go to Marine Toys for Tots 113 Bids Sold $19,000.00 Cabbage Patch Kids [...]

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This is about as unique a concept as we’ve ever seen… Starting Thursday, 10/30 at 9 am EST,. you can bid on a unique collection of one of the most beloved. toys in history – Cabbage Patch Kids®. 2008 marks the 25th anniversary of the Cabbage Patch Kids® and, to celebrate, you can bid to [...]

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First off, I want to apologize for the delay since my last postings, I hadn’t realized how time consuming blogging can be, and my first priority is our internet doll stores, and getting them ready for Christmas. (which for the last five years has started around Columbus Day) Once the holiday season starts, we’ve learned [...]

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Are you a true doll lover? So much so that your significant other is complaining about how much “money you waste on dolls?” Well here’s some good news for you: it’s only pennies! How do we know? Well first, The NPD Group Inc, released a report on the Global Toy Industry this week, and the [...]

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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 [...]

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We got this email the other day: “You guys are life savers. My daughter had a cloth doll that was left in a rental car. She has cried for 4 days. Continue with the business of doll making. Your dolls are so darling. I am certain that she will cherish this new one forever.” We [...]

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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), [...]

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