Want to join a group that fits your particular theme of doll collecting? There are numerous focus groups that do just that - Shirley Temple, Terri Lee, Barbie, cloth dolls, Raggedy Ann, Hitty, Sandra Sue, Dionne Quintuplets, chat rooms, doll costumers and more. Doll Collectors tend to specialize and like to network with others who share similar interests. You can find a group that you like to make your hobby more enjoyable. Here are a few special groups you many find interesting. Don't forget those Internet Hot Spots and Denise Patten at About.com like http:/www.auntiedot.com
Did you get all your Happy
Meal dolls? Just one of the fun things that MA has been up to!
Mel Odom created the fabulous Gene - a fashion doll with a history - a great concept and a great doll!
Helen Rostmoff, a fashion enthusiast
Mary Hoyer Doll Company has a 14" vinyl
collectible doll and also additional wardrobe outfits. Always great!
Mary Hoyer Doll Company
PO box 1508
Lancaster, PA 17603
Phone: (707) 393-4121
Check out Tyler, Betsy McCall, Kitty and Ann Estelle and all the other goodies! Sure quality and super collectibles.
Talented doll maker has a fab site and wonderful dolls!
Organizations
Association of Collecting Clubs
Sign your club up with a large group of collectors with many different interests, not only dolls, such as coins, jewelry, antiques and much more.
Doll News is the Quarterly publication of
UFDC, United Federation of Doll Clubs. UFDC
welcomes all doll collectors. For more
information about jointing a club or becoming a member-at-large (MAL), check their web
site: http://www.ufdc.org
Effanbee has restarted the limited edition collector club idea with their introduction of 18 inch "Margaret" a new vinyl copy of American Child Doll created by Dewees Cochran. She wears a one-of-a-kind outfit designed just for her by Robert Tonner. The prototype was seen at the UFDC annual convention at the Travel Doll Luncheon hosted by the San Joaquin Valley Doll Club of Fresno, CA. You can enroll in this club by sending your name and address to Effanbee Doll Club, 19 Lexington Ave., E. Brunswick, NJ, 08816 or call 1-800-226-3647. The $35.00 dues include a membership pin, book and small Wee Patsy.
Sandra Sue
Richwood Toy's 8-inch hard plastic Sandra Sue is a collectible charmer. Find out more about her from this avid collector's web site, http://www.geocities.com/Heartland/Plains/7145/
Hitty is a literary character from "Hitty, Her First Hundred Years," a 1929 Newberry Award winning account by Rachel Field, of a wooden doll she found in an antique shop. Hitty's perilous adventures make this an ongoing children's classic. For information on the Hitty Newsletter, write Virginia Heyerdahl, 1704 Bellview Ave., Cheverly, MD, 20785-3006. vahhitty@aol.com
Raggedy Ann fans will enjoy "Rags" a newsletter devoted to the
doll. To
subscribe: Rags Newsletter, Barbara Barth, Editor, PO Box 823, Atlanta, GA 30301,
quarterly, $16.00 per
year.
AMERICAN GIRL
BARBIE
Barbie Bazaar
5617 Sixth Avenue
Kenosha WI 53140
(414)658-1004
The Big Red Toybox -
toys, actions figures, dolls and more!
Everything you wanted to know about Fashion Dolls you can find it here - enjoy!
CELEBRITY DOLLS
This web site is fun to visit - but particularly if you like celebrity dolls and he has
Dorothy of the Wizard of OZ in abundance.
Judy Garland
Kathryn Grayson
Sonja Henie
CABBAGE PATCH
Still love your Cabbage Patch -
check
out this Mattel and Related
Sites for cabbie collectors . Second Chance Orphanage
CHATTY CATHY
Chatty Cathy Collectors Club has a
site for those of you who loved Mattel's pull string talking doll.
Deluxe Reading's Penny Brite - email: rcfisher@voicenet.com
DollSearcher combines all the essential elements to support a thriving, fun and enthusiastic doll Community in a single site - constantly updated and maintained doll-related web links; lively, moderated discussion forums; chat rooms; on-site instant messaging; regularly updated surveys; classified ads for sales, wants and trades; and a varied gallery of doll pictures, art and favorite funnies.
GENE DOLLS
Can't resist the glamour new Gene, try
Gene Forum
Gene
Collectors Ring
Tom Courtney has more fashion stuff
IDEAL DOLLS
Judith Izen , author of
"Ideal Dolls" and "Vogue Dolls" has a home page. Find out about the Ideal Doll and Toy Collectors Club
JADE - JAPANESE
AMERICAN DOLL ENTHUSIASTS
Nuts about those oriental dolls? Team up with this group.
MISS COTY
Try Kathy Reed's site for info on Miss Coty
MISCELLANEOUS DOLL SITES
Doll Collecting by April
Millican is a top notch site - you will love it.
Kathie's Dolls
- full of dolls, links and news
The
Paper Doll Fair - for paper doll lovers by Carol Fairchild
MUSEUMS
Rosalie Whyel's Museum of Doll
Art - Voted the world's best doll museum:
SASHA Dolls
Sasha Doll Collectors Club at Sasha Doll Haven
Try this website that features dolls and knitting for Sasha
Another Sasha site.
SHIRLEY TEMPLE
http://members.aol.com/Tiny1975/ShirleyTemple.html
Shirley Temple listmail
email NSMMaster@POBoxes.COM
and type subscribe sht
Sindy
Remember Sindy, here's a link!
STRAWBERRY SHORTCAKE
Strawberry Bonkers Want
to go bonkers with more of those Strawberry Shortcake collectors? Jennifer Bowles
publishes the Strawberryland Gazette and has this very nifty website.
SUPPLIES
Need to clean those vinyl and hard plastic dolls? Check out the products at the Twin Pines site.
Need some Doll Accessories: email Best Dressed Doll or write Best Dressed Doll, PO Box 12689, Salem, OR, 97309; 1-800-255-2313. Catalog, $3.00.
Yue Sai Kan the new Chinese fashion doll
CHAT ROOMS Doll Chat - a
friendly group of doll collectors email Dollchat-request@nbi.com and say
"subcribe" American Girl, Magic Attic and other 18" play dolls Chat
Room email