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Barbie Color and Style Doll $33.99 Now girls can be real hair artists with the Barbie Color and Style Doll! This item provides girls with a fun, unique and aspirational way to add color to Barbie doll’s hair: spray-on color. While Barbie doll is seated in the salon chair, girls can drape her super-long hair over the stand to prepare for coloring. Using the stencils, girls can spray color on Barbie doll’s hair to create cool designs, or they can freehand styles of their own. Comes with everything needed to design lots of looks for Barbie, including doll, hair stand, stencils, 3 bottles of color, comb, hair clips and rubber bands. Some assembly required. Ages 5 and up.

Personalized Dazzling Doll House $250 What A Doll House This posh doll house is sure to keep your active child occupied for hours It has a hinged roof that lifts up to reveal 3 spacious floors with 3 rooms each How modern Each inner wall can be removed at any time to turn around paint wallpaper and decorate Sorry Moms this feature only comes with dollhouses Child-Safe Free Personalization – special on this item

Barbie Palm Beach Caftan Doll $74.99 Winter blues are never welcome in Palm Beach. This Barbie is from Mattel’s Gold Label Collection. Doll features a cool caftan, bold earrings, sandals, and more. Welcome her into your collection! Winter blues are never welcome in Palm Beach, but the perfect outfit for sharing warm greetings, cold drinks, and tall tales? A cool caftan, sparkling with sequins and worn with bold earrings! Designed exclusively for the Silkstone Barbie Doll body and the adult collector, this item includes a Barbie Doll, caftan, earrings, sandals, doll stand, and certificate of authenticity. Welcome her into your collection! Limited edition of 5,800 pieces worldwide. Doll stands about 11 1/2-inches tall.

Barbie Palm Beach Coral Doll $149.99 Head to Palm Beach with Barbie! This doll is part of the elite Gold Label Collection. Made with adult collectors in mind. Includes accessories and a certificate of authenticity. She’s the ultimate in beauty, sophistication, and Palm Beach social style! Barbie is ready for an elegant evening out, wearing a stunning gown designed with cascading coral branches delicately accented with vibrant beads, and beautiful matching earrings. Fashion designed exclusively for the Silkstone Barbie Doll body, this item includes a Barbie Doll, gown, earrings, shoes, doll stand, and certificate of authenticity. She’s perfect for the adult collector. Order yours today! Doll stands about 11 1/2-inches tall. Limited edition of 5,600 pieces.

Barbie Nikki Color and Design Doll $33.99 Now girls can be real hair artists with the Barbie Nikki Color and Design Doll! This item provides girls with a fun, unique and aspirational way to add color to Nikki doll’s hair: spray-on color. While Nikki doll is seated in the salon chair, girls can drape her super-long hair over the stand to prepare for coloring. Using the stencils, girls can spray color on Nikki doll’s hair to create cool designs, or they can freehand styles of their own. Comes with everything needed to design lots of looks for Nikki, including doll, hair stand, stencils, 3 bottles of color, comb, hair clips and rubber bands. Some assembly required. Ages 5 and up.

Fred M Cup Measuring Matroyshkas, Set of 6 Dry Measuring Cups $7.80 These Russian Doll Measuring Cups are exactly what you need to doll up your kitchen with some old country charm! Why use boring, washed-up utensils when you can have these adorable stacking measuring cups? Designed to nest inside each other like traditional matryoshkas, these white measuring cups are a must-have for any stylish kitchen. Our charming set comes with 3 matryoshkas — the tops measure…

Mr. Coffee Electric Coffee Grinder with Chamber Maid Cleaning System $29.99 The Mr. Coffee coffee grinder makes personalizing 4-12 cups of coffee easy. You can choose your grind setting from fine to course and the removable grinding chamber and wide opening lid create less mess and allow for easy pouring. The exclusive Chamber Maid(tm) Cleaning System cleans grounds from chamber walls leaving no messy residue and less coffee waste….

M-Cups Red Measuring Matryoshkas $7.94 Matryoshkas made to measure! Designed by Carl Mitsch This set of 6 dry-measure cups nests neatly just like traditional Russian matryoshkas. They accurately measure 1/4, 1/3, 1/2, 2/3, 3/4 and 1 full cup. They’re useful, easy to store, and quite charming so why not doll up your kitchen with a little Russian folklore? They’re built from heavy-duty, food-safe, long-life engineering plastics. Outside …

First Alert LT1 Premium Lead Test Kit $7.99 This complete test kit can be used to easily check for poisonous lead on any surface including: toys, dishes, paint, dust, mini-blinds, food cans, plumbing, water, and other items. The kit can be used in your house to test up to four separate surfaces for lead content and provides immediate results. 1) Wipe the toy clean 2) Dip the enclosed cotton swab into the solution provided 3) Rub i…

Where To Start With Your Doll Collection   by Shannon Rae Treasure

Next to stamp collecting, doll collecting is one hobby that keeps most Americans busy. Some doll collectors may have just started their hobby out of a single piece that was given to them and everything just bloomed from it. However, there are those who cannot really decide what type of dolls to collect. Acquiring dolls without purpose and sense makes the collection disorganized and may just end up like a pile of old newspapers left to dust in a corner.
If you are one of those who like old and vintage items, then this where You Can start. The easiest way to start a doll collection is to know if you would like newer items or if you prefer the classic charm of antique pieces. The next thing you may just have to consider though when it comes to collecting vintage and antique items is that this may be more costly than buying newer collectibles. Nevertheless, there is more value and collecting antique pieces since it is rare and most are made of high quality materials such as porcelain and bisque.
After careful consideration between new and old pieces, your next objective is to choose the genre that you want to acquire. The doll genres that are commonly part of most doll collectors' vault are artist dolls, cloth dolls, wooden dolls, baby dolls, fashion dolls, miniature dolls, 70's dolls, ethnic dolls, ball jointed dolls, and many others. Dolls vary in make and in the way they are assembled. The materials used may not just be the only thing you will have to consider. Even the way it is jointed or connected matters since doll manufacturers of the early 20th century have already made and patented their own method of handcrafting.
If choosing a genre is not your cup of tea, then you can expand your horizon and perhaps make collecting easier by acquiring dolls by manufacturer. This is easier for most as most manufacturers have a list of doll series they have created in the past. The variety of dolls that one can acquire using this method can also make the collection more entertaining due to the sets or series created by these doll makers.
These are just a few steps of starting a doll collection and acquiring each doll for your collection need not be stressful. So if you are ready to start one, then you may choose the modern Our Generation Dolls or perhaps the classic ones from Madame Alexander. Whichever your choice may be, always be sure to keep them well in showcases or storage boxes.

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If you would like to get started in collecting dolls, or introduce a loved one to the tradition of doll collecting it might be a good idea to start with dolls that interest them and are of relatively low cost. Our Generation Dolls are great for younger girls while Monster High Dolls might be better aimed at pre-teen and teenage young ladies.

16 Fabriche Santa Claus Painting Doll House Christmas Tabletop Decoration $109.99 From the Fabriche Collection Item #W10135 Hand-crafted and comes beautifully gift boxed Features Santa as an artist meticulously painting a doll house Dimension(s): 16 H Material(s): resin/glass Please note: tree shown in background is not included

1955 In Theatre $14.14 Purchase includes free access to book updates online and a free trial membership in the publisher's book club where you can select from more than a million books without charge. Chapters: 1955 Musicals, 1955 Plays, the Matchmaker, Cat on a Hot Tin Roof, Saturday Night, Damn Yankees, Will Success Spoil Rock Hunter?, a View From the Bridge, the Seven Year Itch, Summer of the Seventeenth Doll, No Time for Sergeants, Pipe Dream, Plain and Fancy, Bus Stop, 9th Tony Awards, Ankles Aweigh, a Memory of Two Mondays, the Diary of Anne Frank, Silk Stockings, the Desperate Hours, Jack, or the Submission, Auto Da Compadecida, the New Tenant, the Honeys. Excerpt: 9th Tony Awards The 9th Annual Tony Awards , presented by the American Theatre Wing , took place at the Plaza Hotel Grand Ballroom on March 27, 1955. It was broadcast on radio by the National Broadcasting Company . The presenter was Helen Hayes and music was composed and presented by Meyer Davis and his Orchestra.Winners Production Performance item Distinguished Supporting or Featured Musical Actress [topsep=0pt, partopsep=0pt, itemsep=0pt,pa...