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Growing Up Proud
I had to squeeze my grocery dollars until the eagles grinned this week, but I was determined to redeem at least two of my Fashion Madness dolls from the layaway shelf in my closet. Members of the Rock...
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Fashion Madness
Somehow I haven't been able to warm up to the So In Style dolls. They feel like a Jim Crow addendum to the Barbie empire. They are made by Arco toys rather than the regular manufacturers in the...
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Righteous Rastas!
Back in the day when Integrity Toys' Janay dolls were available at retail outlets, I held up the checkout line at Walmart while clerks searched all over for Tariq's price. His chiseled cheekbones and...
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Fashion Madness: Picture Perfect
Yla Eason, founder of Olmec Toys pioneered ethnic fashion doll lines with the 1988 release of Naomi (Black Doll Collecting: Moments in Black Doll History). Thus, I thought it would be appropriate to...
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Fashion Madness: Orange Blossom
In 2009, after the inauguration of Barack Obama, the first African American president, Mattel introduced the So In Style line of dolls designed by Stacey McBride Irby. Like the new president, this...
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Santa's Elves
“Clear door 24, clear door 24! You have a red light. Red light. Clear door 24, you have a red light!”Brotherman heaved the bicycle he had been wrestling with into the narrow space on top of the wall...
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Angelitos Negros
The Dazzling Dames doll club held a holiday social this past Sunday and Angela Ferguson encouraged members to bring a hand-crafted doll ornament for exchange:Not one that would fill in the space in the...
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I Am Now Officially Speechless
Doll ornaments were just a part of the creative work that the Dazzling Dames shared at the holiday party last Sunday. Members also brought dolls and other projects to the Red Hen Fabrics shop in...
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I Was a Teenaged Franken-doll
When I was growing up Barbie had black friends like Christie, Julia, and Francie but none of them had younger sisters so I was thrilled to find this black Skipper and her big sister in the early 90s....
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Happy New Year 2013!
Although I have said some harsh things about Mattel's distribution and marketing strategy for the So In Style dolls, I like the face mold. Thanks to a sale at Family Dollar that knocked 50% off every...
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Sweater Girls
Thanks to the generosity of Ms. Leo, Heidi has a warm sweater to wear on her ski vacation.Heidi and Bianca hope to spend a few days on the slopes before the semester starts up again.I'm usually not...
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Bratzillas Wardrobe Malfunction
It looks like MGA has committed to continue with the taller Bratzilla's bodies. Yesterday I spotted the new Magic Night Out girls in Target. I like the fact that these dolls have feet but...
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Dawn
Since MGA Entertainment introduced the Bratz dolls in 2001, the "girls with a passion for fashion" have given Barbie a stiff run for the money. Mattel and MGA spent over 5 years in court each arguing...
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Kiddles 1
Ms. Leo recently catalogued many of the infant and toddler-sized dolls that add joy to our 1:6 scale doll families so I am chiming in to show that before there were Kellys, there were Kiddles.Mattel...
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Thanks to PANKS
I mostly prefer 1:6 scale dolls but last week Debbie Garret shared an informative post about the Family Corners dolls on her Black Doll Collecting blog and I had to admire the beautiful pieces of 1:12...
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Kiddles 2
In my childhood doll world the Marx cowboy, Johnny West married Barbie's redheaded British friend, Stacey and they had a passel of redheaded children. Virginia (alias Trikey Triddle Kiddle) was the...
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Phat as Duckbutter
Having survived a root canal earlier in the week, yesterday I dropped into Walmart to do some retail therapy and struck gold -- the new, articulated SIS dolls dressed in Baby Phat fashions were on the...
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Midnight Magic
After pestering me for some new clothes for over a year, Nefera de Nile was thrilled to discover that she can wear Bratzillas outfits.Meanwhile the packaging included artwork that looked like it would...
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Dazzling Dames
Red Hen Fabrics in Marietta, GA offers an enticing selection of quilting fabrics. Since many of the Dazzling Dames are accomplished quilters as well as doll artists, whenever the members gather there...
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Animal Magnestism
The articulated SIS dolls decked in Baby Phat fashions have vanished from my local Walmart and Target stores, but this week a new wave of SIS dolls hit the shelves.Target priced them at $8.99 -- still...
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