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The only problem with a blog is that I’m never sure if I’m wasting your time and mine, or if some of the information posted is really useful. If I was talking to each of you face to face, I’d be able to tell if we were on the same page, but as things are, [...]
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Have you seen the announcement from Doll Crafter stating that the October 2010 issue will be the last one? I guess I’m not too surprised after that pitifully small last issue, but I do admit that I’m extremely disappointed. It seems to me that the magazine’s decline started when it began to broaden its scope [...]
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I’m sorry I didn’t get The July Doll Show and Events Calendar posted, but am up in the mountains with grandkids panning for gold, etc. So don’t give up on me! We made a trip into the nearest town to use McDonalds Wi-Fi to try to catch up a bit. It’s frustrating not having cell [...]
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There’s a lot of chat on the doll boards about New York Doll Products, and the doll community seems to be concerned about the speed and reliability of this new company as far as being able to fill their orders in a timely fashion. People are hesitating to place orders, preferring to wait and see [...]
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A short time ago I shared the value of having an up-to-date Doll Book with you, and referred mostly to modern doll molds, but many of you have antique reproduction doll molds, and know that they offer even more of a challenge, both in locating pictures for your Doll Book, and in working out a [...]
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Not much of a surprise since there didn’t seem to be anything new added for a very long time, and the only activity we’ve seen has been sales to unload stock, but Doll Artworks finally called it a day and sold out to Bountiful Baby, which it seems concentrated on Reborns up to now. Bountiful [...]
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I cannot stress enough how important it is to keep a Doll Book and/or a complete list of your doll molds! Those of you who teach doll making probably have an up-to-date Doll Book showing all the pictures of the dolls that your molds produce so you can show them to students to help them [...]
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Over the last several months, while working on a whiter white for Antique Reproductions, we were able to tweak our Ultra Chic formula to improve its qualities. Although we are still working on the best white for Antique Reproductions, Ultra Chic now has the following wonderful qualities you asked for. You wanted it to be [...]
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Tony Tanner of The Porcelain Place announced that he has reformulated Ultra Chic porcelain mostly in response to a change in certain types of Kaolin supply. The new formula contains four Kaolins instead of the three used before, although the type is a bit different, and the result is a product that is still clear [...]
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By Rebecca Hisle and Lynda Alexander The Bay Area Doll Club of Texas presented its fourth annual Spring into Summer Doll Festival 2010 and D.A.G. Qualified Competition at the Hobby Airport Marriott Hotel, March 25-27, 2010. The Festival featured international vendors, make-and-takes in the salesroom, workshops, lectures, and the competition exhibit. The lectures for the [...]
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