Update on Dog Naming Contest

January 8, 2016, 8:15 am

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We have three winners and a name - Remi. Three collectors suggested this name: Kim Duquette, Susan in NC and Barbara Anderson.
Thank you to everyone who submitted ideas here, via email and on Facebook. I was surprised at the number of people offering names. Just goes to show you that doll collectors love animals, too. Thank you, thank you, thank you!

We can't wait to get Remi home. It will be a lot of work but a lot of fun, too.

Now I'm on the hunt for little Remettes to use in my doll photos. I just got this one on eBay. Once I take a few good pictures of Remi, I'll have a needle felted replica made and we'll be good to go.

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kukubee for ‘Cute Every Day’ at Leanna Lin’s Wonderland

January 8, 2016, 11:46 am

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OMG, you guys!! Look what kukubee created for Cute Every Day “The Ultimate Cute & Kawaii Art Show”!! I have no words… I’m just going to leave these photos right here. Join us at Leanna Lin’s Wonderland for the opening reception on January 16 (6-9pm)!! Serious inquiries should contact the gallery at orders@leannalinswonderland.com.Filed under: art show […]

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Stronger Sales Suggest Progress at Toys ‘R’ Us

January 8, 2016, 9:00 pm

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Toys “R” Us reported stronger holiday sales despite intense competition from online retailers such as Amazon.com.

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Gotta Love Pictures and My Picture Craft Tutorials, Video's and How-To's Pinterest Board

January 9, 2016, 12:00 am

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If you've been a reader of my Linda's Blog you know that I LOVE creating everything and anything. One of the items I love creating is pictures. Not just photographic pictures, but all sorts of picture decorations and have written about many of the picture decorations I've made. Here's a few of those posts:

A Teenagers Attempt At A Yarn Picture

Quilted Pictures - A Wonderful Concept!

My Pressed Flower Pictures - Now That's A Great Idea!

Ribbon Floral Shadowboxes - Something A Little Different

You Spent How Many Hours On That Cross-Stitch?

315 Hours On Another Cross-Stitch Picture - WOW!

Gather Together Cross Stitch Kit From Mill Hill - Button & Beads

More Christmas Gifts - Arctic Circles Santa Cross-Stitch Kit Nunavut Santa From Mill Hill

Babies In The Pumpkin Patch Penny Rug Baby Picture - New E-Pattern

Needle Felted Winter Snowman & Tree Shadowbox Picture E-Pattern

Needle Felted Flower Garden Shadow Box Tray Picture E-Pattern

How I Made My Needle Felted White and Multi-Colored White/Burgundy Rose Pictures

It's Raining Baby Girls NEW Penny Rug Picture E-Pattern

Alpacas Rock - Alpacas In The Woods With Their Apple Tree Mini Quilt and Embroidery - NEW E-Pattern

Linda’s How-Do-I Series? How To Make Our Alpacas Rock, Babies Splashing In The Rain, It’s Raining Baby Boys, and It’s Raining Baby Girls Custom Fabric Wall Panel Picture New Free E-Book

My New Custom Fabric Panel Pictures

Linda’s How-Do-I Series? How To Make My Flower Panel Fabric Picture - NEW Free E-Book

A Gift and A Tribute To Mom

Circle Me In Dresses Handmade Victorian Penny Rug Pictures, E-Pattern, Print Pattern, and Cut and Sew Decorated Dresses

More Punchneedle Gifts For The Future

A Sunflower Picture From 36 Years Ago

Linda's How-Do-I Series? How To Make Our "Babies In The Pumpkin Patch" Wall Panel Picture

Presents For My Family For Christmas 2009 - Yes, More Shadowboxes!

My Mixed Media Tutu Dress Canvas Pictures Adventure

Something Else I'd Like To Try - Wooden Quilt Pictures

Needlecraft Picture From A Decade Ago - Or So!

Needless to say I love creating all sorts of picture crafts. So, of course, I had to set up a Pinterest board for all the amazing picture crafts I've found. I hope you find my Pinterest board helpful.

I love creating pictures. If you would love to learn how to create pictures perhaps these tutorials, video's and how-to's will be helpful.

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XPERIA X Smart Doll

January 9, 2016, 4:36 am

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Plaza Low Yat is Malaysia's largest IT mall - on the ground floor you will find the official Sony stor...

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New Ghostbusters figures shown off by film's director

January 9, 2016, 6:00 am

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Film director Paul Feig took to his Twitter on Thursday to show off the prototypes of action figures based off the new Ghostbusters film that will premiere in July of this year.

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New Ghostbusters figures shown off by film's director screenshot

First Look at New Ghostbusters Action Figures

January 9, 2016, 10:27 am

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Ghostbusters director Paul Feig has provided the first look at the Ghosbusters action figures for the upcoming film.

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The Strip

January 9, 2016, 9:00 pm

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A weekly comic strip featured in the Sunday Review.

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set database: LEGO 40192 ferrari 250 gto

January 10, 2016, 8:55 am

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set database: LEGO 40192 ferrari 250 gto

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set number: 40192
set name: ferrari 250 gto
theme: racers, ferrari, shell, promotional
year: 2014
pieces: 48
price: us$na
minifig: none

ferrari promotional set.
sold in shell station with purchase of petrol.
come with a ferrari 250 gto car in tiny turbos size.
the car has a pull back action.
great playability.
overall design is good.
collector item.

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First photos of the new articulated Silkstone Barbies are out!

January 10, 2016, 11:21 am

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The new year has begun and with it new fashion dolls are starting to appear. Some of the most anticipated dolls this year will be the articulated Silkstone dolls that were announced late last year. The first images have already appeared from three different sources: an interview in Wall Street Journal of Mary Jordan, stylist for Mattel (to read the interview google the article and read it from there as it is locked if you try to access it directly from the link), the instagram stream of another Barbie stylist and designer, Zlatan Zukanovic. and the official Barbie Collector site with a Robert Best interview. The dolls look really good and if the quality of the vinyl is the same as their non-articulated sisters, the bodies will be a hit for re-boding some of my Mattel dolls, depending on the final price of course.

The image above is from the Barbie Collector interview of Robert Best.

In this photo we can see four different versions of the new Silkstone.

The dolls seem to have two different bust sizes - or is it just an illusion?

Tools of a doll stylist - and the new articulated Silkstone as a red head.

Zukanovic posted this doll in his Instagram feed.

A close up.

And another shot - if I get more than one, I might keep one complete.

Photos courtesy of Wall Street Journal/Emily Berl (first three from top) and Zlatan Zukanovic (last three).

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Movie Figures Now Selling Threezero Action Figures

January 11, 2016, 1:59 am

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Threezero Walter White Action Figure

Threezero has been around for quite a few years, but in recent times they've produced some excellent 1/6 scale action figures and more are in the works. As a result, we're delighted to add them to our range of products sold at Movie Figures.

Threezero's current range of products includes ones from various film and TV titles including Walter White from Breaking Bad, Eddard Stark from Game of Thrones and various Robocop figures from the Robocop remake movie.

Similar to other premium 1/6 scale figure manufacturers like Hot Toys, Threezero offers exceptionally realistic action figures that look just like their movie and tv counterparts. As to be expected, the figures are well articulated and come with a range of accessories allowing the buyer to pose them in a variety of ways.

Threezero Rick Grimes Action Figure

Threezero's Rick Gimes Action Figure

Threezero have a bunch of figures coming up including Rick Grimes from The Walking Dead. The company have perfectly captured Rick's somewhat worn and stressed look from the acclaimed TV series, carefully adding dirt, grime and cuts to create a figure that looks just like the TV counterpart. He comes complete with a great looking faux leather jacket and his trusty Colt python gun and a vicious looking machete.

Threezero's Michelangelo action figure

Threezero's Michelangelo Action Figure

Another great licence that Threezero has acquired is that of the Turtles from the most recent Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles movie. Whilst the movie itself was nothing special, the turtle design was excellent. All four turtles are being made in 1/6 scale and look outstanding. Whilst Michelangelo is a favourite for many, you can of course also get Donatello, Leonardo and Raphael. We expect these to be appear in the UK in April 2016. You can pre-order yours on the links above if you wish.

Threezero The Matrix APU

Threezero's The Matrix APU Action Figure

Particularly exciting with upcoming Threezero figures is the company is making a figure from The Matrix movies. A 1/12 scale APU. Whilst this is undoubtably an impressive looking figure with an insane amount of detail, what excites us at Movie Figures is that perhaps we'll finally see a major 1/6 scale manufacturer produce some high-end figures of the much loved characters of The Matrix such as Neo, Morpheus and Trinity. Whilst there is no news on any of those figures, we remain hopeful, given Threezero seem to have some licence agreement for The Matrix.

Find out more about Threezero here.

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snuggling with the foxes

January 11, 2016, 4:00 am

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Well, our warm winter is finally over. The “cold snap” has arrived, and it’s a doozy. Just in time for the boring, bitter, dark month of January too? So not fair. Sometimes you need a little pampering to get through the hard stuff. And in my Northern clime, winter definitely qualifies as hard stuff. So […]

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Frustration Ball from Remco (1969)

January 11, 2016, 6:30 am

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With advertising that touted its “three-dimensional madness” and innate ability to “drive you up the wall”, Remco’s Frustration Ball is an excellent example of truth in advertising.

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set database: LEGO 40193 ferrari 512 s

January 11, 2016, 8:09 am

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set database: LEGO 40193 ferrari 512 s

image courtesy of uppolek

image courtesy of legosip

set number: 40193
set name: ferrari 512 s
theme: racers, ferrari, shell, promotional
year: 2014
pieces: 51
price: us$na
minifig: none

ferrari promotional set.
sold in shell station with purchase of petrol.
come with a ferrari 512 s car in tiny turbos size.
the car has a pull back action.
great playability.
overall design is good.
collector item.

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Happy New Year and 'so long' old studio!

January 12, 2016, 3:08 am

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a clean studio day back in 2014

A very happy new year to all of you! I am so extremely thankful to everyone who has been so supportive and positive about my cotton monster-ing endevors in 2015, and the 10+ years previously! The shop was pretty much cleaned out by kind folks over the holidays....I feel like the luckiest lady in the land of polyfill! I was fortunate enough to spend the last seven and half years of that monstering in a tiny attic studio in a magical stone mill house built in 1847. I have come to love this house as a family member, so it is with a heavy heart and much procrastination that I have started packing up the studio (and the rest of my life) for a move across town.

New beginnings are extremely exciting, and I'm looking forward to figuring out new ways of organizing and making a new colorful homey-home for the Cotton Monsters, but this ol' room has so many layers, so many memories, and soooo much clothing/fabric that the packing part has been a challenge to say the least. Since moving boxes and tupperware bins are not so pretty, here are a few studio shots from the past few years. The shop will remain quite empty until I have time to set up the new space and get back to sewing in February. If you are interested, please follow along with me on instagram @cottonmonsterjen where I post updates much more frequently then on this old blog!

A very happy 2016 to all, cheers to new beginnings and more crazy eyeballs!

me and the monsters back in 2010

a few years worth of collected drawstrings

my window

chillin' monsters awaiting their eyeballs

view from another dimension

a purple friend

stripey piles

the best cat in the best sun spot

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paper houses

January 12, 2016, 4:00 am

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My girl is in love with origami AND with dollhouses. She’s always trying to make her own out of paper, actually. I guess you’d say this book is a match made in heaven! I may have started bouncing in my seat when I found it? Origami Playhouse is the perfect solution for little girls (and […]

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Hasbro vs. Mattel: Who Will Win the Next Battle in the Toy War?

January 12, 2016, 5:00 am

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GAF View-Master Rear-Screen Projector (1970s)

January 12, 2016, 5:30 am

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GAF View-Master Rear-Screen Projector (1970s)

Rather than forcing your friends to endure an impromptu slideshow from your family road trip to the Grand Canyon, you could instead regale them with selections from your library of standard View-Master picture reels.

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