Dolls brings you information and feature articles from the doll worlds most renowned professionals http://www.dollsmagazine.com Tue, 10 Nov 2009 20:14:27 +0100 FeedCreator 1.7.3 http://www.dollsmagazine.com/images/M_images/joomla_rss.png http://www.dollsmagazine.com Dolls brings you information and feature articles from the doll worlds most renowned professionals http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/dollsmagazine/~3/N_FXyCnxcrQ/index.php Living Dead Dolls are not your mother’s collectible dolls.  However, they just might be your kind that is if you are into the dolly dark side of collecting. These horror movie inspired dolls are designed in America and have been manufactured by Mezco Toys since 2000. Fri, 30 Oct 2009 16:54:18 +0100 http://www.dollsmagazine.com/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=346&Itemid=101 http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/dollsmagazine/~3/DtCrtro_RFY/index.php April 1, 1941-Sept. 22, 2009The founder of DOLLS magazine, Robert Campbell Rowe, died on Sept. 22, 2009, at his home in Paradise Valley, Ariz., after a brief illness. Journalist, publisher, entrepreneur, man of ideas and connoisseur of the fine things of life, Rowe built a mini-empire of magazines and books that brought an unprecedented level of professionalism to the coverage of popular hobbies for collectors: plates and figurines; miniatures; dolls and teddy bears. Fri, 23 Oct 2009 15:41:54 +0100 http://www.dollsmagazine.com/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=343&Itemid=90 http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/dollsmagazine/~3/8MuclO7wdJ0/index.php We bring you ... the winners of this year's contest. Mon, 19 Oct 2009 22:15:56 +0100 http://www.dollsmagazine.com/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=342&Itemid=90 http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/dollsmagazine/~3/0ZlpOwgkrvA/index.php On Oct. 13, 2009, Charisma Brands announced the acquisition of Adora Doll founded by David Lin and Frank Ren. Wed, 14 Oct 2009 13:42:47 +0100 http://www.dollsmagazine.com/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=339&Itemid=90 http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/dollsmagazine/~3/jtDHG86lN7o/index.php Grand Rapids is gearing up for ArtPrize, an unprecedented competition that will award nearly one-half million dollars to prize winners, including $250,000 to the artist who receives the most public votes. ArtPrize, which will run from Sept. 23 through Oct. 10 in Grand Rapids, Mich., will have no formal jury, curator or judge. The public will decide who wins the prizes by voting, using mobile devices and the Web. More than 1,200 artists have entered the competition, including doll artist Nancy Tassin from Grand Haven, Mich., who will be showing her work at Fountain Street Church.  Tue, 15 Sep 2009 17:35:17 +0100 http://www.dollsmagazine.com/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=318&Itemid=90 http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/dollsmagazine/~3/X9Uzxb86hgU/index.php Doll industry stalwart John McBride (1951-2009) has passed on from pancreatic cancer. In lieu of flowers, the family asks to honor McBride’s memory by donating to the Memorial Fund in his name at the Pancreatic Cancer Awareness Networ (http://www.pancan.org)k (http://www.pancan.org). Tue, 15 Sep 2009 16:55:33 +0100 http://www.dollsmagazine.com/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=317&Itemid=90 http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/dollsmagazine/~3/ZjOZQm0APLI/index.php DOLLS introduces seven new bloggers who post weekly here (dolls-blogs.html). From a doll artist, to doll journalists, a show promotor and collectors, they represent many voices in the doll industry. Read on to learn about their doll backgrounds. In the Spotlight ... Paulette Goodreau Paulette Goodreau is the designer for Goodreau Doll LLC: a company owned and operated by the Goodreau family. She has been sculpting and designing dolls and their costumes for the last four years. She has BFA in art, drawing and painting, from Long Beach State in California. She is also an author and Illustrator. Mon, 03 Aug 2009 15:02:03 +0100 http://www.dollsmagazine.com/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=283&Itemid=90 http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/dollsmagazine/~3/K-BVJ8NaBLI/index.php The setting is New York City in the early 1960s, and a whole new world has opened up to a bubbly Midwestern teenager fresh off the farm. Wide-eyed and dazzled by her new environ, Poppy Parker begins her life in the glamorous world of fashion as a newly discovered model. Under the sophisticated veneer, the svelte Poppy is at heart a naïve small-town darling navigating her way up Fifth Avenue and making a living smiling for the camera in the city that never sleeps. Sat, 01 Aug 2009 00:00:00 +0100 http://www.dollsmagazine.com/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=221&Itemid=90 http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/dollsmagazine/~3/lXUCDVMPmFA/index.php I will no longer be posting to this location. To read my latest posts, click the "Voices of the Industry" banner directly above at the top of the page. Here seven other brand-new DOLLS bloggers and I will regularly post our latest insights on the doll industry. Thu, 30 Jul 2009 13:33:51 +0100 http://www.dollsmagazine.com/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=277&Itemid= http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/dollsmagazine/~3/Zyjl6_JbKTg/index.php I love dolls. Don’t get me wrong, but today I had an experience that suggests to me that perhaps I’m not cut out for doll play like I was as a child. I had to change a doll’s full outfit for a photo shoot, and it was a painstaking and, at times, emotionally traumatizing process. Taking off tights, shoes, jacket, skirt, shirt, underwear, tie and wig wasn’t too bad but then I had to change feet, and here’s where the emotional part comes in. Thu, 30 Jul 2009 13:24:24 +0100 http://www.dollsmagazine.com/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=276&Itemid=