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Vintage / Antique / Tootsie Toy / Metal Dollhouse Furniture / Original Box / Bungalow / 14 pieces
Great vintage find by TheVintageShopkeeper (129.99 USD) http://ift.tt/1GMLMKj
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Tatting & Doilies and Two Crafts I'd Love To Lean How To Master
I just love doilies and always have. In fact I have doilies everywhere throughout my house and love decorating with them. I just wish I could make them. Crochet and tatting, however, have never been my forte. Maybe someday I'll learn and if I do perhaps these tutorials, video's and how-to's will be helpful.
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One craft that I could never master was crochet. If I couldn't master crocheting I can't imagine how I'd ever learn tatting. It just seems way out of my ball park! However, I would love to learn how to tat as the creations always look so beautiful. If I ever do maybe these tutorials, video's and how-to's will help.
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I Signed Up For My Artful Gathering Classes - YIPPEE!
I am so happy. I signed up for my Artful Gathering classes yesterday and couldn't be happier.
I sgned up for 3 classes this year, which might be a bit of an undertaking. I've only taken 2 classes every year for the previous years; one for Session 1 and one for Session 2. This year I have one in Session 1 and two in Session 2. Hope I can handle it.
This will be my 4th year taking online classes at Artful Gathering and I can hardy wait. I have loved each and every class I've taken there as the instructors are fantastic and the classes are always delightful. I've had a blast in each class learning something new and, best of all, making wonderful new friends.
Last year there were so many fabulous classes to choose from it was hard to decide. This year it was nearly impossible to choose. There were just SO MANY wonderful online classes that I wanted to take.
Truth be told, I wanted to take them all, but that is definitiely not possible. So, here's what I chose:
Hally Levesque - Session 1- Bonnets & Bows: A Regency Doll Project
Mary Jane Chadbourne - Session 2 - Tiny Topia & The Magic of Little Things
Session 1 runs from June 6 to July 17 and Session 2 runs from July 16 to August 16, If you'd like to checkout Artful Gathering yourself please CLICK HERE.
If you've always wanted to take an online art and/or craft class you won't be disappointed in any of the Artful Gathering classes.
Hope to see you there.
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set database: LEGO 2234 police chase
set database: LEGO 2234 police chase
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set name: police chase
theme: town, town junior, police
year: 1998
pieces: 127
price: us$na
minifigs: 5
nice town set.
town junior set.
come with a small police station, a police car, a blue car with trailer, a red tricycle and a red car.
minifigs included a policeman minifig, a policewoman minifig and 3 male minifig.
great playability.
overall design is great.
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set number: 2234set name: police chase
theme: town, town junior, police
year: 1998
pieces: 127
price: us$na
minifigs: 5
nice town set.
town junior set.
come with a small police station, a police car, a blue car with trailer, a red tricycle and a red car.
minifigs included a policeman minifig, a policewoman minifig and 3 male minifig.
great playability.
overall design is great.
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Comparison Shot of Masterpieces MP-25 Tracks & MP-26 Road Rage
TAG Hobby has a good clear image of MP Tracks and Road Rage side-by-side! Road Rage, as you can see, has been given markedly less boxy upper arms and thighs and a smaller head... and in fact seems to be a millimeter or two shorter than Tracks overall. The extent to which Hasbro and TakaraTomy can implement variations to a given mold grows more impressive all the time. Keep reading to see!
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Video Review Desolataur Painted Prototype Figure from Play With This Too
Retro Robot Radio recently got a chance to review the painted prototype of the Play With This Too Desolataur action figure. You can see it live here.
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Funko Unleashes Garbage Pail Kids Really Big Mystery Minis
Funko is commemorating 30 years of Garbage Pail Kids with a Really Big Mystery Mini Series for the brand, as well as an Adam Bomb 10-inch Vinyl Figure. Despite the name, the Really Big Mystery Mini Series features 3.75-inch vinyl figures. The line includes Acne Amy, Ghastly Ashley, Leaky Lindsay, and Bony Tony.
Available in [...]
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Toy News Roundup: ‘Star Wars 12-inch’, ‘Ant-Man’, ‘Mortal Kombat X’ and First Look at New TMNT Action Figures
Today is Sunday and it’s time for the 88th edition of the Toy News Roundup. Here we round-up all of the most important toy news of the week from our site, and also link you to any toy news that we...
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Toy News Roundup: ‘Star Wars 12-inch’, ‘Ant-Man’, ‘Mortal Kombat X’ and First Look at New TMNT Action Figures
Today is Sunday and it’s time for the 88th edition of the Toy News Roundup. Here we round-up all of the most important toy news of the week from our site, and also link you to any toy news that we didn’t cover. So let’s see what the big toy news was this week, shall […]
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Win a Halo 4 Master Chief ArtFX Statue from Kotobukiya and Entertainment Earth
It’s been quite some time since Action Figure Fury last did a giveaway, so we thought it was about time for another one. We just recently reviewed the Kotobukiya Master Chief ArtFX statue and...
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Win a Halo 4 Master Chief ArtFX Statue from Kotobukiya and Entertainment Earth
It’s been quite some time since Action Figure Fury last did a giveaway, so we thought it was about time for another one. We just recently reviewed the Kotobukiya Master Chief ArtFX statue and we loved it so much that we want to share it with you. The statue has a SRP of about $134.99 […]
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Hayato Sakamoto Shows Alternate Design Art For Liokaiser
Hayato Sakamoto contributed his talents to issue #39 of More Than Meets The Eye, in the process rolling numerous Japanese-fiction-originated character in to the issue's crowds. Among them was a slightly different looking version of Liokaiser. Today, Sakamoto has posted the original concept art that was used as the model for the comic appearance, which differs from the final appearance of the toy and Victory series model. Click through to give it a look!
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Artist Doll & Teddy Bear Show
Yesterday my husband and I dropped in on the Susan Quinian Doll & Teddy Bear Show which was held at the Clarion Hotel in Philadelphia. I know not to expect fashion dolls when the words "Teddy Bear" are in the title of a show; however, it's been my experience that it's worth looking at many different types of dolls. I enjoy chatting with the artists and seeing their passion and creativity. Like most creatives, they love to tell you everything about their work.
Forgive me if you are a teddy bear lover because I'm not. They're cute and cuddly but I see them as toys in spite of the fact that gifted artists are creating them like no teddy bear I ever had as a child. Yes, they're collectible, blah, blah, blah. So are baseball cards.
Anyway, I present here some of the many photographs I took. I tried to get the artists' names in every case, not always successfully. Click to enlarge any image.
Michael Natoli with his Great Gatsby dolls modeled from polymer clay. The clothes were fashionable and fabulous.
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Adriana Esqueda - multi media dolls. Wonderful textural creatures.
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Lee Feickert's Golliwogs. http://www.dollshopsunited.com/stores/leefeickert/
I had a disturbing experience with this artist. When I saw the Golliwogs at her table I asked, "Aren't these dolls considered racist?" She looked at me as if she didn't understand English. I had to ask FIVE times before she mumbled some incoherent reply which I couldn't decipher. (She did claim to be wearing hearing aids whose batteries died - in perfect English.) When I got home I looked up Golliwog on Wikipedia.
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I can understand collecting dolls such as this one if it's a vintage example for a historical collection. But why would a modern artist continue to produce these images?
Comic relief break. This is the Wolf after it's eaten Red Riding Hood's grandmother. I liked the bed more than the animal. I guess wolves and teddy bears occupy the same strata at these shows.
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Linda Ehrenfried Charm City Originals
Speaking of fairy tales, who do you think showed up in innumerable ways at the show? Yes, Alice.
This one was very memorable as the artist incorporated the entire story into one large representation of Alice. Every character in the story is on or in Alice somewhere. A good part of her torso is an openwork teapot complete with tea party and mad hatter. The rabbit hangs on as well. It was fantastic - and large.
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Tweedledee and his brother, Tweedledum are the heels of her shoes!
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Bing Ruiter: More dolls with personality and pizazz.
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I guess I have to admit it. I did like a few of the bears.
Deborah Canham: This appealed to me because of the little white one's hug.
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Two of the most beautiful dolls there and I don't have the artist's name.
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Saandi McAslan https://mcaslan.bizland.com/
Intricate "Timekeeper Box" with all sorts of odd medical thingies inside including a doll who might be under a spell or dead. I didn't ask.
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Sandi McAslan
Dystopian, post-apocalyptic dolls are not my cup of tea. I love science fiction in books I read - not in my dolls.
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Finally - we'll end on a snotty note.
Are you familiar with Mr. Mucus from the Mucinex commercials?
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I'm pretty sure the artist did not intend this green creation to remind anyone of Mr. Mucus. But it did.
Believe it or not...there are actually mucus plushies. You probably didn't need to know that.
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Oh, the things you can find on the internet.
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Forgive me if you are a teddy bear lover because I'm not. They're cute and cuddly but I see them as toys in spite of the fact that gifted artists are creating them like no teddy bear I ever had as a child. Yes, they're collectible, blah, blah, blah. So are baseball cards.
Anyway, I present here some of the many photographs I took. I tried to get the artists' names in every case, not always successfully. Click to enlarge any image.
Michael Natoli with his Great Gatsby dolls modeled from polymer clay. The clothes were fashionable and fabulous.
Adriana Esqueda - multi media dolls. Wonderful textural creatures.
These dolls had very expressive personalities. Sadly, the artists were too busy talking to each other to even look up at us as we stood at their display.
Mizzippi Dolls by Gabriella DeLawey. https://www.facebook.com/mizzippidolls
Amusing and unusual personalities in these cloth dolls. So much fun to look at.
Lee Feickert's Golliwogs. http://www.dollshopsunited.com/stores/leefeickert/
I had a disturbing experience with this artist. When I saw the Golliwogs at her table I asked, "Aren't these dolls considered racist?" She looked at me as if she didn't understand English. I had to ask FIVE times before she mumbled some incoherent reply which I couldn't decipher. (She did claim to be wearing hearing aids whose batteries died - in perfect English.) When I got home I looked up Golliwog on Wikipedia.
The image of the doll has become the subject of heated debate. While some see the golliwog as a cherished cultural artifact and childhood tradition, others argue that the golliwog is a destructive instance of racism against people of African descent, along with pickaninnies, minstrels, mammy figures, and other caricatures, and it has been described as "the least known of the major anti-Black caricatures in the United States".[1] In recent years, changing political attitudes with regard to race have reduced the popularity and sales of golliwogs as toys. Manufacturers who have used golliwogs as a motif have either withdrawn them as an icon, or changed the name. In particular, the association of the golliwog with the pejorative term "wog" has resulted in use of alternative names such as "golly" and "golly doll".
I can understand collecting dolls such as this one if it's a vintage example for a historical collection. But why would a modern artist continue to produce these images?
Comic relief break. This is the Wolf after it's eaten Red Riding Hood's grandmother. I liked the bed more than the animal. I guess wolves and teddy bears occupy the same strata at these shows.
Linda Ehrenfried Charm City Originals
Speaking of fairy tales, who do you think showed up in innumerable ways at the show? Yes, Alice.
This one was very memorable as the artist incorporated the entire story into one large representation of Alice. Every character in the story is on or in Alice somewhere. A good part of her torso is an openwork teapot complete with tea party and mad hatter. The rabbit hangs on as well. It was fantastic - and large.
Bing Ruiter: More dolls with personality and pizazz.
I guess I have to admit it. I did like a few of the bears.
Deborah Canham: This appealed to me because of the little white one's hug.
Michelle Lamb - oneandonlybears.com
This was my favorite because it was a soft rose color silky furry creature with a pastel floral headband. This artist has many beautiful bears on her website. She also teaches.
Two of the most beautiful dolls there and I don't have the artist's name.
A little scary.
Saandi McAslan https://mcaslan.bizland.com/
Intricate "Timekeeper Box" with all sorts of odd medical thingies inside including a doll who might be under a spell or dead. I didn't ask.
Sandi McAslan
Dystopian, post-apocalyptic dolls are not my cup of tea. I love science fiction in books I read - not in my dolls.
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Are you familiar with Mr. Mucus from the Mucinex commercials?
Believe it or not...there are actually mucus plushies. You probably didn't need to know that.
Oh, the things you can find on the internet.
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Healthy Food Choices at McDonalds with John Cisna #McDonaldsOpenTour
Disclosure: After attending the #McDOpenDoorTour event, I received compensation from McDonald’s in exchange for writing this sponsored post. All opinions are my own. Most of my adult life post-college I’ve struggled with weight. Prior to becoming married, I rode the roller coaster, gaining 30 lbs. and losing it with exercise and Weight Watchers. When I was […]
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Crystal-Jade Vaughan's SAWYER Seen @ Thailand Toy Expo & Launch of www.thebeaverindustries.com
Crystal-Jade Vaughan's SAWYER in 1/6 spotted at Thailand Toy Expo (April 30-May 3). This femme will be released online via Bambalandstore.com on May 7th, so expect further product images from 3A Toys to be revealed soon."Made of ABS, PVC, POM, the fully articulated femme is a companion to Milky Bot, and comes along with accessories: Calcium Fuel Plug-Ins, Calcium Tray float, zipwire escape rags.![]()
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ODDysseys @ Stranger Factory Opes June 5th - featuring new works from Stan Manoukian, Seymour, Maryanna Hoggatt & Andrew Bell
Stranger Factory will present ODDysseys - launching June 5th, featuring new work from Stan Manoukian, Seymour, Maryanna Hoggatt, and Andrew Bell, previews of which are shown here.
According to the press release, Stan Manoukian will be showcasing approximately 15 original sculptures, one large (40" x 30") original drawing, and several smaller drawings, while Australian based Peter Kelk AKA ![]()
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