This is just a short notation about some restringing tips that help me. If you are using paracord to restring a doll: a. Thicker is not...

The one draw back to having a custom work of art doll, is that you really can't change it afterwards. This can be incredibly frustrating...

The answer is yes. Low temperature does affect resin and plastics and could cause your doll to crack while traveling in transit, or in...

When dolls are broken, sometimes we don't know where to start and we start searching out missing pieces or components to fix a doll. ...

I've come into contact with several Robert Tonner dolls as part of my doll club and going to various doll shows. Just like any doll...

Surprisingly this comes up a lot especially with doll companies that have gone out of business or have been bought out. So the simple...

Meet Joanie a 2006 series that was originally issued by Madame Alexander but then handed off to Ashton Drake Companies to do a series of...

A fellow doll club member made this chart as a helpful guide to identifying the characteristics of 1960's Barbie details to better...

The Gotz Company is the original factory that worked with Pleasant Company in the 80's to produce the original American Girl Dolls, so...

I like to explore different brands of dolls, especially ones in the 18-19" little girl series just to see what is out there and it seems...

My Twinn dolls are all held together with an internal skeleton or armature structure. The dolls aren’t made any longer and so you can’t...

No one wants to fail. Especially when you are running a small business. Failure is not an option and we often sink our entire mental...

In running a doll hospital, I've definitely gone through quite a lot of repairs and customizations. I thought when I initially started...

Most Madame Alexander dolls can be restrung using the basic method of arm to arm and head to legs with simple paracord, however Cissette...

In changing wigs and eyes on American Girl dolls, the typical method everyone uses is to add boiling water to the head. In fact this...

From time to time I encounter a doll with a warped head or digit. It is unclear how these things happen, but some of the likely...

There are many many used dolls out there, and it's our company mission to rescue as many as we can and get them to a loving home. ...

I am a great fan of the blowdryer method as a go to for many doll customizations and repair as it's easy and quick and requires no clean...

One of the most common questions we get is when something will be restocked. As a designer of our own products restocking is not always...