Posts tagged with "collecting"



18" Crissy Doll and Agnes Dreary doll, with an American Girl salon chair
15. July 2015
The scale of my dolls, the relative sizes of one doll to another, has surfaced as an issue again as I share my doll photos with Someone I Know. And I find I am facing a kind of doll discrimination.... As I began my doll collecting in earnest again a while back, I was paying a lot of attention to scale. I collected lots of photos and information for reference, measuring my dollies and pouring over photos of dolls that might be a good fit. Since I was starting with a variety of sizes and...

14. July 2015
Choosing dolls for your collection is a personal thing, but we have reasons... Once we identify why we are collecting dolls, or what we love about it, the choices we make can be based on a variety of factors: the age and era of the dolls we collect the designer or company the look of the doll the material the doll is made of the size we want the handle ability the use it will be put to the source the cost And we may ask, how will the doll fit in to the collection? Are we filling a gap? Are we...

20. June 2015
The best advice I have been given is to be sure you love the dolls you pursue, or enjoy the process, or both. Doll lovers all have particular reasons why they gather these little (and not so little) replicas of humans and creatures. For some collectors the value is important. For some it is "vintage", or "modern" that is important. For some it is the dolls by particular doll designers they pursue. For some it is the motivation to express a skill-such as sewing, knitting, repainting, or...