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2/27/09

Barbie Doll Houses

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Whatever your reason for wanting to buy a , the most important of finding the right house for you is research.

There are many reasons that you feel that you would want a doll house, this means what you want from your dolls house also varies!

That said, maybe you are looking to buy a dolls house for yourself. There are a huge range of Barbie doll houses you can choose from. Don't forget that these dolls houses quite often become family heirlooms and could be passed down to many generations.

There are a massive number of that you can get for Barbie doll houses. As with your own home, the décor of the Barbie house is just as important. You can easily choose your color scheme and lay out of your choice Barbie doll house. Quite often your Barbie doll house becomes a massive part of you. Whether you want the dolls house for yourself, or whether you want the Barbie dolls house for yourself choose what you want inside the house can be really fun.barbie doll house
Barbie doll houses also come in a huge range of sizes, some can be almost 6ft in height with very elegant, big rooms where as others are slightly smaller with perhaps more homely rooms, as long as you do your research right there is a dolls house out there to suit everyone! Technorati : Del.icio.us : Zooomr : Flickr :

2/25/09

Booties for Reborn Baby Dolls

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Reborn are exceptionally life-like. They resemble real in many aspects. The manufacturing of such dolls is time consuming. Apart from these attributes, the reborn baby dolls need clothes and shoes as a . Hand-made to machine one's and crocheted booties all are available to enhance the beauty of the reborn baby doll's delicate toes.

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The booties need care just as real baby's shoes. Soft leather booties in soft colors matching the cloths of the reborn baby doll are very popular with the foster mummies. Some booties have different lights installed in them which look really good when the baby doll is moved. One can find multi colored booties also. Hand crocheted booties also come in different colors. Popular websites for reborn baby doll booties are eBay and Amazon among others. In almost all cases, when one gets a reborn baby doll, clothes along with at least one pair of booties are provided. Foster mummies while buying more clothes can get matching booties to make the baby doll even more striking. The pedicured feet of the dolls contain granules which gives the foster mummy the same feeling as touching a human baby's feet. And to put them in beautifully booties adds to the pleasure of owning a reborn baby doll.

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2/23/09

Satisfying your Daughter’s Desire for a Wonderful Barbie House

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One of the ultimate dreams which any little girl who owns a is that of having her very own . In a Barbie house the little girl can display her talents in color coordination, interior design, creative imagination and just plain have fun.

To help little girls have more fun the Barbie range of dolls houses can be found in varying styles. You will have flat briefcase style carry along Barbie house. When this house is opened you will see an extravagant feminine bed, wardrobe and in a small separate section a mini bathroom complete with fittings. This allows little girls to play with two parts of Barbie's life.

This caravan has moving wheels so that Barbie can travel "places". This dream Barbie house is a two story house. In some instances this Barbie house will be fully furnished. As with all of the Mattel products the Barbie house is manufactured to a high standard. This Barbie house comes in various different looks. You will find that this Barbie dream house is more expensive than your average Barbie dolls or other accessories. For this reason you should plan on buying this Barbie house only if you are prepared to look for one that will satisfy your daughter's desire for a wonderful Barbie doll dream house. barbie doll

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2/21/09

The Most Well Known Persona of Barbie to Girls is as a Fashion Barbie Doll

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This has truly set some incredible standards for many girls doll toys. There are very few other dolls who have the vast variety of , accessories, shoes, cars, pets, and careers that Barbie seems to have. The most well known persona of Barbie to girls is as a fashion .

There are many stores that sell Barbie dolls which have been clothed in beautiful outfits. These many outfits reflect in part the various activities that Mattel desires Barbie to portray.

While most of us are familiar with the clothes of fashion Barbie we seldom give though to how these clothes can be made so they replicate clothes from the various eras. To make the world of fashion Barbie even more complete there are lots of Barbie clothes sets which are sold separately. In each of these fashion Barbie clothing sets the clothes are made to be casual or formal. As with the many Barbie items you will find both the expensive Barbie accessories and you can choose the middle of the range to inexpensive items to dress your fashion Barbie up. fashion dolls

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2/19/09

If you Can Crochet, you Can Make Barbie Doll Clothes

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Most people who have made doilies, motifs, edgings or insertions at some time. The wonderful thing about crochet is that you can easily change the size by using smaller thread or a smaller hook. Beading adds a wonderful look to . Any motif can be filled in or very lacy; simply place the lacy motif over a piece of fabric lining and tack the corners.

Barbie's dimensions are: Bust: 6" Waist: 3 3/4" Hips: 5"

Crochet any square motif. You will want it an inch wider than Barbie's shoulders. Crochet a beading row and run small ribbon through the beading. Tie around Barbie's shoulders.

Each skirt will have either elastic thread around the top to make a full skirt or sew up the back to 1" from the top and put ribbon beading around the top. Also remember to leave enough elastic to tie. Crochet several small motifs and join (this can be made in different colours for a patchwork look).

Crochet one large motif for the bottom of the apron and a smaller motif for the apron bib. Crochet beading on the top of each motif and join the two motifs. Run ribbon through the beading for ties.

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To make an easy top: Use your favourite insertion pattern. A Slinky Dress or Top from Elastic Thread:

Using elastic thread (gold metallic is the fashion right now), crochet a square in sc 5 3/4" wide and choose your length (waist, mini, knee or full length). This dress will be sleeveless and slide onto Barbie. Run ribbon through beading. Technorati : Del.icio.us : Zooomr : Flickr :

2/17/09

Fashion Dolls – a Child's Dream Fulfilled Online

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Online games are essentially still the same old up game-- this time, on the web. So yes, its still a make-believe game, with an extra rich range of outfits to choose from. The dress up games also carry a sizeable array of themes to suit the player's moods.

Young ladies and teens can pick up a flashy and detail or two while playing these games, since among the characters you'll be working to create an outfit for are famous anime celebrities, real stars, fantasy makeovers, just to name a few. An example activity that we can mention here is the Doll Maker series. Indeed the player will be something like a short-of-reality doll factory owner.

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Now, lets have a little detour regarding how popular have come to battle one another in the toys stores worldwide, and are now still battling in the Web today. Everybody kept talking about the leggy dolls with doe eyes, high-end makeup, plus chic urban clothing. Things were drastically altered when the Bratz dolls made their debut from Southern California. Some dress up games also come with sound effects, which are sure to drive away the boredom blues of any player. There are those thinking that dress up games are nothing more than that, but perhaps they haven't seen the creativity aspect of these online games. Did you know that aside from dress-up, there are also a few more uses for the images of a doll from a dress-up game? If you are in the mood for a little dress up game fun yourself, just surf the web highway for cool dress up games.

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2/15/09

Boy's Day Festival in Japan

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are shown in Girl's Day and Boy's Day festivals in Japan, and cherished over the generations. Boy's Day dolls can consist of anything from a healthy-looking Sumi wrestler to a samurai warrior or his armor.

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The big fish is daddy, next size down is mother, the next smallest is elder son or daughter. In the countryside, on a rope across a river, the fish banners represent the villagers. Beside the obvious link with festivals, collecting dolls has a much deeper psychological basis. It is believed that ancient Japanese samurai warriors tied cloth mascot underneath their clothing before going into a particularly ferocious fight.

Further north in Istanbul, touring the museum on Topkapi grounds above the Bosphorus, you come across the statue of Sappho and the same sense of recognition hits you. This woman lived. And loved, and wrote amazing poetry.

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2/13/09

Plastic fantastic: Japan's doll industry booming

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The ceremony is called "," or a funeral, and commemorates sending the unit to the factory for dismantling.

"She was glowing with love from her owner," says Yoshio Nakamura, 63, one of several employees of doll manufacturer Orient Industry who attended the event. Nakamura's intense affection is characteristic of doll lovers in Japan (often called "dollars" but preferring the term ""), whose ranks are at least 20,000 strong and growing. Even as sex dolls draw criticism and disappear from Tokyo's backstreets, benign sellers running the gamut from collectible to huggable, from love dolls to porcelain pieces, are doing brisk business as the image of dolls and their users steadily improves with positive media exposure.

According to Takatsuki Yasushi's "From Dutch Wives to Love Dolls," a rudimentary "azumagata ningyo" appeared in Ryugoku's Yotsumeya in 1626 and fast became part of the establishment.

A string of movies in the 1960s and manga in the '70s, including Reiji Matsumoto's "Sex Droid, Ishinomori Shotaro's Sexadoll" and Osamu Tezuka's "Yakeppachi no Maria," cemented dolls in the popular consciousness.

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2/11/09

Doll House Kits – Explaining the Difference

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With many different companies offering beautiful dollhouse designs, it is easy to let a visual interpretation of a dollhouse kit make your mind up for you. You start with a large sheet of thin plywood, usually approx 1/8-1/4" thick. Die Cut houses traditionally offer more elaborate design options and intricate trims. The most popular die cut Dollhouse Company in North America today is and Corona Concepts doll houses.

Cabinet Grade Plywood Doll house Kits - 3/8" plywood is usually used in these kits. Assembly includes small nails as well as glue. These houses are much sturdier for play use, and usually simpler in their design than the die cut houses. Real Good Toys in Vermont is the largest and most respected doll house maker of plywood houses in North America today.

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Milled MDF - Similar to solid plywood houses milled MDF (medium density fibreboard) an engineered wood product formed by breaking down softwood into wood fibres, combining with wax and resin, and formed into panels by applying temperature and pressure. The "siding" of a dollhouse can be milled directly onto the outside walls of MDF kits, creating a realistic exterior finish when painted. Dura-Craft controlled the MDF doll house market for many years, and their demise has left a hole in the dollhouse market. Real Good is now offering many of their dollhouse kits with a choice of smooth plywood finish or MDF, depending on the choice of the consumer.

Consider all of this information when choosing a type of dollhouse kit to purchase and avoid disappointment in your finished product.

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2/9/09

A Doll's House Unmasked

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Henrik Ibsen's A opens with a playful atmosphere between Torvald and his wife . Torvald manipulates Nora and treats her like a . The apparent joy and good-humored environment present at the Torvald's household is just a way to hide the secrets and differences between the couple. In A Doll's House, when Nora lies about eating macaroons, it can be considered as an example of an ostensibly humorous episode emphasized by a much more serious purpose. It is funny how Torvald asks Nora in a childish manner if she has gone against his will by eating macaroons: "(wagging his finger at her) Hasn't Miss Sweet Tooth been braking rules in town today?" Nora hides the truth by answering that she has not had any macaroons that day. Nora lies about the macaroons twice, first to Torvald and then to Dr. Rank. Rank and Mrs. Linde appear to be involved in a deep conversation about society when Nora breaks up into laughter at the thought of Torvald's power at the bank. "What do I care about tiresome society?" replies Nora. Nora feels the need to lie about eating the macaroons because she feels guilty. The macaroons symbolize Nora's deceptions, which reach the point of committing forbidden acts. Nora fakes her attitude towards her husband in order hide all their faults. Eating the macaroons appears to be an inconsequential action with no importance, but for Nora it is important that Torvald does not find out she has been eating them. doll house

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2/7/09

Dolls' house decorated

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The , complete with its miniature and , is one lot in a two-day auction of the private collection of antique dealer Roger Warner, whose shop in Burford, Oxfordshire, attracted an impressive list of visitors and customers including Queen Mary, Princess Margaret, Walt Disney, Peter Ustinov, Bruce Chatwin and the Mitford sisters during its 50 years of service between 1936 and 1986.

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The Christie's auction, which also features a piece of lace torn from a church altar by Oliver Cromwell and a desk chair used by William Wordsworth, has attracted 150,000 visitors to the online catalogue - the highest ever for a sale.

Andrew Waters, Christie's' director of private collections and country house sales, said: "I am not aware of any other recorded item that has been decorated by Charlotte Bronte, which gives this piece a unique and charming personal connection with such an iconic figure."

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2/5/09

Famous Doll Houses From Around the World

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can range from a simple one-room cottage to a great multi-levelled castle of intricate design. Queen Mary's Doll House - Most enthusiasts see this magnificent dollhouse as the marker to which all other doll houses are measured. The house is currently on display at Windsor Castle, open to the public.

Colleen Moore's Fairy - This castle was the brainchild of famous 1920's Hollywood actress Colleen Moore. From Drawing Room with its gold chandelier encrusted with emeralds and pearls to the Weeping Willow in the Magic Garden that sheds real tears into a pool, Queen Mary's Doll House alone rivals the castle's detail. The Fairy Castle is located at the Museum of Science and Industry in Chicago.

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Tara's Palace - Tara's Palace was built in 1980 as homage to Titania's Palace, a popular dollhouse in the 1920's. It was designed after three of Ireland's 18th century mansions: Castletown House, Leinster House, and Carton. This modern day palace is on display at Malahide Castle in Dublin, Ireland.

Thorne Miniature Rooms - This last dollhouse isn't so much of a dollhouse as it is a series of ninety-nine wonderfully detailed miniature rooms. Most of them can be found in the Art Institute of Chicago, twenty more at the Phoenix Art Museum, another nine at the Knoxville Museum of Art, and one a piece at the Indianapolis Children's Museum and the Kaye Miniature Museum in Los Angeles.

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2/2/09

A Doll's House

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A opens as Nora Helmer is telling Helene, the maid, to hide the tree from the children. Nora, who is treated as a silly, childish woman by her husband, Torvald, is the protagonist of the play. Her friend Christine Linde, recently widowed and short of money, has heard about Torvald's recent promotion at the bank and comes to ask Nora for help in persuading Torvald to give her (Christine) a job. Nora promises to ask Torvald to give Christine a position as secretary. Nora confides to Christine that she once secretly borrowed money to save Torvald's life when he was very ill, but she has not told him in order to protect his pride. At the same time, Nora finds herself the victim of blackmail. Krogstad threatens to reveal this information unless she convinces her husband to keep him employed. Nora tries but fails.

After being fired by Torvald, Krogstad approaches Nora, declaring he no longer cares about the remaining balance of her loan but will preserve the bond to blackmail Torvald into keeping him employed. Krogstad informs Nora that he has written a letter detailing her crime and puts it in Torvald's mailbox, which is locked.

Nora tells Christine of her predicament. Torvald tries to check his mail before he and Nora go to a New Year's party, but Nora distracts him by showing him the dance she has been rehearsing for the party. Krogstad is moved and offers to take back his letter to Torvald. However, Christine decides that Torvald should know the truth for the sake of his and Nora's marriage.

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Torvald goes to read his letters and Nora prepares to take her life. Before she has the opportunity, Torvald intercepts her, confronting her with Krogstad's letter. A maid enters, delivering a letter to Nora. Krogstad has returned the incriminating papers, saying that he regrets his actions. Torvald is jubilant, telling Nora he is saved as he burns the papers. Torvald's love is highly conditional. Torvald insists she must fulfill her duty as a wife and mother, but Nora believes she also has duties to herself. From Torvald's reaction to Krogstad's letters, Nora sees that she and Torvald are strangers to each other. The play ends with Nora leaving, while Torvald hopefully ponders the possibility of "the greatest miracle of all."

By closing the door, Nora leaves Torvald and that life behind forever. If Nora leaves it open, it leaves the possibility of her going back.

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