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Breath of Life Babies? by Lee Middleton Original Dolls are Sold Out to Dealers

Columbus, OH (PRWEB) September 22, 2004

If you are one of thousands of doll collectors trying to find a July 2004 Breath of Life BabyÂ? by Lee Middleton Original Dolls, you might not want to hold your breath. The highly anticipated collection of lifelike dolls is now sold out to dealers. That means, while some dealers may still have July 2004 Breath of Life Babies for sale at their stores, the dolls can no longer be re-ordered from the company. Lee Middleton Original Dolls management is not surprised by the popularity of Breath of Life Babies. The incredibly lifelike dolls were first introduced at Toy Honest 2004 in New York City to rave reviews and dealers didnÂ?t dissipate any time placing their orders.

Â?Nearly half of the collection was sold before the dolls made their first appearance in our July 2004 catalog,Â? said Mark Putinski, Lee Middleton Original Dolls VP of marketing. Â?Some dealers even placed their orders sight unseen.Â?

Putinski stresses that while Breath of Life Babies may be hard for collectors to find, some retailers will have them available right through the celebration time of year.

Â?It may be challenging to find Breath of Life Babies, but we encourage our customers to visit our website at leemiddleton.com to explore our retailer locator information. They may be able to find the dolls through a uncommon retailer.Â?    

One reason why the Breath of Life Babies collection is so well loved is the dollsÂ? brand-new, skin-like vinyl called, New Baby SkinÂ?. This new vinyl gives Breath of Life Babies a soft, dewy texture that isnÂ?t tough or sticky. The Breath of Life Babies also figure realistic rooted hair called Baby FineÂ?. This soft, synthetic hair is rooted by hand and is full in some areas and sparse in other areas, just like a real preemie baby.

Four uncommon styles of Breath of Life Babies are offered in the July 2004 collection. Baby Kathryn features strawberry blonde hair, blue eyes, and a light skin tone. Baby Ellie features brown hair, brown eyes, and a dark skin tone. Baby Nathan features brown hair, closed eyes and a light skin tone. Baby Maries features brown hair, closed eyes, and a medium skin tone. Each doll is sculpted by award-winning artist Reva Schick and retails for $ 140.

While the July 2004 Breath of Life Babies are sold out to dealers, collectors can anticipate the release of more Breath of Life Babies in the January 2005 Lee Middleton Original Dolls catalog.    

Photos are available upon question for.

About Lee Middleton Original Dolls: Established in 1978, Lee Middleton Original Dolls (LMOD) makes amazingly lifelike collectible dolls that are winners of numerous industry awards for quality and point. Well loved shape include Artist Studio Collection�, Breath of Life Babies�, and Newborn Nursery®. Learn more about Lee Middleton Original Dolls at www.leemiddleton.com and www.newbornnursery.com. The parent company of LMOD is The Middleton Doll Company.

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Coloring Pages and Digital Dolls Offer a Creative Approach to Learning



New York, NY (PRWEB) June 20, 2007

The Doll Palace (www.TheDollPalace.com)], a community where young teenage girls can start and dress up digital dolls, has announced a site expansion into new and improved creative and educational tools. The site already offers educators features such as dolls with tales and historical dolls and items for teaching children, to let them piggyback on the growing popularity of digital dolls and dress-up games covered repeatedly in the media. Now, The Doll Palace is donation an improved collection of coloring pages aimed at educators looking for new creative tools for teaching younger students.

“Coloring pages can be an effectual educational tool by appealing to the creative minds of children,” says Alex Syrov, founder of The Doll Palace. “The Doll Palace offers coloring pages in convenient categories, making it simple for educators to find what they need for their classrooms, from celebration coloring pages to uncommon types of animals to help young students envision the subjects they’re learning about, while making education fun.”

The Doll Palace started donation coloring pages in January of 2007, with the latest incarnation of the coloring pages collection being launched in late May. The new version currently contains over one thousand coloring pages targeting teens and children. Site visitors also have the option of uploading their own pen and ink drawings to add to the collection. The drawings will automatically be converted to coloring pages and be made available for download. The coloring pages currently cover a wide variety of theme matter, from well loved cartoon characters to fantasy creatures to everyday people, animals, and items.

About The Doll Palace:

The Doll Palace is an online teen community featuring digital dolls and dress-up games, among other entertaining and educational tools, such as the recently re-launched coloring pages. The Doll Palace is an interactive website for young girls and educators, developed in 1999 and launched in 2000 by Alex Syrov.

For more information about The Doll Palace or the new coloring pages or other educational resources, please visit www.TheDollPalace.com or contact Alex Syrov at 201-988-2034.

Contact:

Alex Syrov

The Doll Palace

Phone: 201-988-2034

Web: www.TheDollPalace.com

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what are some names of dolls that grow in stages from newborn to walking?

Question by florence38martinez: what are some names of dolls that grow in stages from newborn to walking?
I need to know wat is some of the dolls that grow in stages that walk

Best answer:

Answer by Ann
Here is a starter list for you….not all fit your description question for exactly, but all were made to represent growing up in some way:

1998 Toy Biz.Baby Crawl’nWalk.

http://cgi.ebay.com/Collectable-BABY-CRAWL-WALK-DOLL-Toy-Biz-VINTAGE_W0QQitemZ370108315664QQcmdZViewItemQQptZAU_Dolls?hash=item370108315664&_trksid=p3286.c0.m14&_trkparms=72%3A1205%7C66%3A2%7C65%3A12%7C39%3A1%7C240%3A1318

1990 Hasbro Baby Wanna Walk

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1978 Mattel Baby Grows Up

http://cgi.ebay.com/VINTAGE-MATTEL-1978-BABY-GROWS-UP-DOLL-NEW-IN-BOX_W0QQitemZ110310305421QQcmdZViewItemQQptZDolls?hash=item110310305421&_trksid=p3286.c0.m14&_trkparms=72%3A1205%7C66%3A2%7C65%3A12%7C39%3A1%7C240%3A1318

1987 Playmates Baby Grow Up

http://cgi.ebay.com/HTF-VINTAGE-PLAYMATES-1987-BABY-GROWS-UP-DOLL_W0QQitemZ350123841099QQcmdZViewItemQQptZDolls?hash=item350123841099&_trksid=p3286.c0.m14&_trkparms=72%3A1205%7C66%3A2%7C65%3A12%7C39%3A1%7C240%3A1318

Baby Eat ‘N Grow

http://cgi.ebay.com/Baby-Eat-n-Grow-MIB-No-8100_W0QQitemZ350122767759QQcmdZViewItemQQptZDolls?hash=item350122767759&_trksid=p3286.c0.m14&_trkparms=72%3A1205%7C66%3A2%7C65%3A12%7C39%3A1%7C240%3A1318

Like & Grow Suzie

http://cgi.ebay.com/LOVE-AND-GROW-SUZIE-SINGS-TOO-COMES-WITH-ACCESSORIE_W0QQitemZ110310409314QQcmdZViewItemQQptZDolls?hash=item110310409314&_trksid=p3286.c0.m14&_trkparms=72%3A1205%7C66%3A2%7C65%3A12%7C39%3A1%7C240%3A1318

1968 Remco Sally (Growing Sally or Sally Stretch)

http://cgi.ebay.com/Remco-GROWING-Sally-1968-Original-Dress-NICE_W0QQitemZ180305641034QQcmdZViewItemQQptZDolls?hash=item180305641034&_trksid=p3286.c0.m14&_trkparms=72%3A1205%7C66%3A2%7C65%3A12%7C39%3A1%7C240%3A1318

And even though this one doesn’t go from baby to toddler…
Growing Up Skipper from Mattel 1974

http://cgi.ebay.com/Vintage-Growing-Up-Skipper-Doll-Original-Box-1974_W0QQitemZ290274445322QQcmdZViewItemQQptZDolls?hash=item290274445322&_trksid=p3286.c0.m14&_trkparms=72%3A1205%7C66%3A2%7C65%3A12%7C39%3A1%7C240%3A1318

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Could anyone please tell me what the scale means when doing up dolls houses?

Question by MICHELLE S: Could anyone please tell me what the scale means when doing up dolls houses?
I have just bought a wooden dolls house to do up and as i am new to this i am not sure what the scale size is all about…12th and 24th etc.
Could anyone please help?

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Answer by ZACK NEEDS HELP, OR HERE TO HELP
If you are plotting on building a dollhouse for physically or as a gift there are free plot sources available in several scales. You can find free plans on the web, or hold a variety of traditional front or back opening dolls house plans in scales from 1:6 (for make dolls) to 1:24 or G scale.
Make Simple Low-priced Roomboxes

Roomboxes are simple to make and can be made to custom sizes for school projects or displays. Most use book board, Davey board, a dense document fiber board used for book binding, or baltic birch plywood. If you make several boxes the same height, in a depth that will fit on a bookcase, you can build a miniature show room by room.

Make A Simple Roombox from Low-priced Book Board If the bookboard is cut by an adult, this is a honestly simple roombox or show box for a child to assemble. It can be built with or without a ceiling.

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Free Plans and Directions for a Baby Doll House / Bookcase
“Two asymetric doors on the front of a baby house or bookcase, ready for final end and trim.”Photo copyright 2008 Lesley Shepherd, Licensed to About.com Inc.

These free plans for a Baby House Case made from a single five foot square sheet of Baltic Birch Plywood will hold the roomboxes listed above and can be used to make an adaptable piece of furniture for a child or an adult. Fitted with front opening doors cut from the same sheet of plywood, that have dolls house windows and a door, the baby house has the appearance of a dolls house, but has adjustable shelves to allow it to be adapted to hold books or other items as need change.

If you prefer, you can build the case and add fixed shelves and partitions to make a dedicated doll house.
Free Online Plans

* Point Works Free do it physically playscale (make doll scale) dollhouse plans.
* Free Dollhouse Castle Plans and directions from Wayne of the Woods
* Better Homes and Gardens, Dollhouse From a Book case
* Fine scroll saw has some vintage Leisure activities point sheets for dollhouse building patterns which are free to download. You will need to set a scale for these patterns.
* Bunnings Warehouse in Australia has a free How to make a Dollhouse plot in pdf form.
* Mother Earth News has free plans (see the arcade of photos) and directions for building a 1:12 scale farmhouse.

Open Point Doll House Plans

* Open dollhouse point plans suitable for younger children are available from Woodstore

Play scale 1:6 (Make Doll) Scale Doll Houses

* Frank Martin sells Barbie Scale Dollhouse kits, plans and furniture.
* U bild have 11½ inch dollhouse plans and other dollhouse scale plans.
* Joe’s Plans have Play scale dollhouse plans
* Houseworks sell 1:6 (playscale) building components available through many leisure activity shops.
* Leisure activities (UK) sell plans and fittings for make doll houses.

Downloadable 1:12 Scale Dolls House Plans

* Dollhouse Designs have plans in 1:12 scale for several traditional dollhouses which can be downloaded.

Printed 1:12 Scale Doll House Plans

* J.E. Cavender Plans are available from Dollhouse Miniatures.
* The Leisure activities Company in England sell a range of traditional dollhouse and shop plans in 1:12 scale..
* Woodworkers Journal have dollhouse plans .
* Dijon sell traditional English dollhouse plans whichh are also distributed in North America by several companies.
* The Woodcrafter produce dollhouse plans in 1:12 scale.

Printed 1:24 Scale Doll House Plans

* Hobbiessell 1:24 scale dollhouse plans.
* Dijon sell tradition 1:24 scale plans.

G Scale Doll House or Garden Rail Buildings (1:22.5)

* G scale railway building plans are available from Oakridge Leisure activities
* Garden Texture have some building plans as well as materials for building in G scale.
* Precision Harvest have G scale drawings for a number of their buildings as well as plastic finishing materials in scales from 1:12 to 1:84.
* Brewer Railroad Plans have G scale building plans.
* Jig Stones, sell plans and G scale molds for casting stones and parts to construct G scale buildings You can see tips by a railroad modeller who has used them.
* Sidestreet Bannerworks have G scale plans for garden railway buildings.
* Stoneworks sell G scale plans for stone buildings including water mills.

Doll House Plot Books

* Houseworks (available via craft and miniature stores) produce a line of plot books in 1:12 scale (which could easily be downsized to 1:24 scale) Tuxedo Place, Les Shoppes, Townsend Towers and 3 in One, are all books for 1:12 scale houses and shops. You can view

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Reborn Baby Dolls

Reborn Baby Dolls

Recently there is a hot trend in a very unique leisure activity, which is having a Reborn Doll. The term Reborn Doll refers to a vinyl baby doll, that has been customized by a process of repainting and enhancement to resemble a human baby. The process of making a Reborn Doll is referred to as Reborning.

Not everyone understands reborning, the technique of Reborning has evolved over the past five being, as hobbyists and doll artists have refined the painting techniques and added technical enhancements, such as a heartbeat simulator. To the dilettante it’s a world of weird obsession, to the folks that do know, it provides endless hours of irreplaceable pleasure. More recently special Reborn doll kits are available, and mechanical enhancements are seen, such a battery powered breathing mechanism to simulate the breathing movements of a sleeping baby.

That pleasure is derived from beauty, artistry, and uniqueness of each doll, because just like human babies, reborn dolls come in every conceivable shape size and color – nowadays there are Caucasian, Asian, and African American Reborn Dolls.

Reborn dolls are exactly as they sound, they are dolls that have been stripped of their factory finishes and been “reborn” and transformed in to realistic looking babies. A quest for ‘reborn’ in the eBay dolls category yields meticulously refinished dolls made to look sometimes eerily like real babies.

Sometimes in mid July this year, in Australia, frantic police have smashed a dialogue box to rescue a seemingly unconscious baby from a locked vehicle, only to find it was a extremely lifelike doll, which is the reborn doll. Similar incident in the US when the dialogue box of a new Hummer was broken by police trying to rescue a “baby” that turned out to be a doll belonging to the owner’s wife.

From real skin tones and micro-rooted hair, a perfectly weighted body filled with special soft harvest, this is truly a multi-dimensional art..these babies look and feel real. Reborning baby dolls has be converted into a unique art skills and some of the well-known artists in this field excel in this very niche affair. A lot of people also take it as a leisure activity for the doll making as there are many tools available for ones to pursue on the interest.

Their chests rise and fall and you can hear a tiny heartbeat, but these babies for sale over the Internet are not alive. They are not only well loved mainly with collectors, but also with nostalgic grandparents and grieving parents. “Cuddle therapy” is what one reborning Website calls the leisure activity — the dolls’ bodies can be fitted with electronic devices that mimic a heartbeat and breathing.

As the dolls grow more well loved, doll-makers keep count new details to simulate the experience of holding a real baby. There are reborns that seem to breathe, ones that have a faint heartbeat, others that feel warm to the touch, since they come with heating packs. There are dolls modelled with premature babies that are sold with incubators, a breathing apparatus taped to their nostrils. Some makers add a milky, baby-powder scent. Doll-maker Becker washes her reborns repeatedly in baby shampoo so they no longer smell of vinyl but like a freshly bathed infant.

You don’t stop playing with dolls because you grow ancient. You grow ancient because you stop playing with dolls.

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Can anyone tell me the name of a kids books that has life size creepy dolls in it?

Question by scarlett_710: Can anyone tell me the name of a kids books that has life size creepy dolls in it?
I read a book a long time ago when I was in like 5th grade that had a town full of life size dolls, it was a creepy tale but I barely dredge up anything about it. Does this sound traditional to anyone? Thanks!

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Answer by Hidden Identy
The Doll-house?

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haha dredge up the guessing game? These are not dolls, they're tissue document rolls. CUTE! RT @meexiong http://yfrog.com/n5iy2vj – by karrenstar (Karen Ma)

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Shure Best Friends Pocket Dolls Dress-Up

Shure Best Friends Pocket Dolls Dress-Up

  • Includes 2 magnetic wooden dolls, 35 sturdy magnetic clothing pieces, and vinyl carrying bag
  • Perfectly illustrated with hand-painted artwork
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  • Fantastic for travel
  • For ages 3 being and up

Making fun make looks by mixing and matching 35 magnetic dress-up pieces will keep kids happily amused for hours at a time. Set includes two 5″ magnetic wood dolls, clothing and accessories pieces, and handled storage space pouch.

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