DOLLS Magazine January/February 2025
The January/February 2025 issue of DOLLS reveals the winners of the 2024 Dolls Awards of Excellence Public’s Choice awards.
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The January/February 2025 issue of DOLLS reveals the winners of the 2024 Dolls Awards of Excellence Public’s Choice awards.
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Q: I have a cute composition Madame Alexander doll tagged “McGuffey Ana.” Do you know the significance of the name McGuffey Ana?
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Sometimes, meaningful objects from childhood have a way of carrying forward their influence into adulthood.
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I saw these adorable Madame Alexander composition dolls at a recent doll show in New England and could not resist the pair.
Read MoreIf success is measured, at least in part, by professional achievements, accolades, and longevity, Gregg Ortiz easily meets the criteria.
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Gina Griffith has a question and answer session with DOLLS magazine about her unique sculpted characters.
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The November/December 2024 issue of DOLLS is 48 full-color pages and includes a special feature on Lifetime Achievement Award recipient Gregg Ortiz, along with articles covering a variety of other dollmakers.
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After two decades of designing paper dolls, Kwei-lin Lum threw out conventional rules and began to challenge the boundaries.
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In the ever-revolving, here-today-gone-tomorrow world of doll releases, Nuria Torras has cracked the code for both longevity and sustained relevance.
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Collectors took time out of their busy schedules to snap some photos of their dolls wearing fashionable outfits this summer. Check out what they captured!
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This pattern was created for Connie Lowe’s 16-inch Meili and Stella dolls, although dolls with similar measurements can also wear the completed outfit.
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I work for the North Carolina Museum of Dolls, Toys & Miniatures, and to our nonprofit museum, World Doll Day is a big deal.
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Jackie Hay answers a series of questions and shows readers some of the characters she has created from polymer clay and mixed media.
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The picture in the April 2017 (Page 42) issue of DOLLS caught my attention. Attached are pictures of two dolls that I have in my collection.
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Q: This tiny 4.5-inch doll was in my grandmother’s handkerchief box. I would like to know something about it and its value.
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Alicante, a province in Spain, has been known as Toy Valley since the 1800s. The area is particularly known for producing dolls — one of the oldest toys in history
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The October 2024 issue of DOLLS is 48 full-color pages and includes a special feature covering the 15th anniversary of Integrity Toys’ Poppy Parker, as well as articles about a variety of other dollmakers and Halloween-themed dolls.
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Little did Walt Disney know when he bought the rights to J.M. Barrie’s “Peter Pan” in 1939 that it would become a huge animated hit for Disney Studios.
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I am thinking of buying a doll marked “143,” which the owner said was made by J.D. Kestner. I like the face.
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No one could ever deny that Ruth and Elliot Handler, the married couple that headed Mattel Inc.s, were marketing and creative geniuses.
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