Today, Sunday 19th February 2012, at 6pm GMT the winners of the first ‘Annual DollObservers.com Fashion Doll Awards’ or ‘DOFDAs’ were announced. Eager fashion doll lovers and community members were treated to live announcements via online chat and tweets (#DOFDAs). Each nominee was chosen by the DollObservers members and winners were selected by public vote.

Winners in several categories included superdoll_collectables…

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The latest Integrity Toys W Club exclusive for 2012 has just been announced and for the first time in the history of the W Club she is also a European Exclusive. Integrity have partnered with LaureBelle Couture, a dealer from France in oerder to bring Fashion Royalty doll Giselle, who is a certified ‘Glam Addict’! And judging from the prototype pics of the raven haired beauty, she most certainly is too! It is great to…

It is with great pleasure that I can announce that our first DollObservers.com Superstar Member of 2012 is the beautiful,  talented and generous of spirit, Ada. Ada has been with us since the very early days of DollObservers and has always inspired and advised other members of the site.

Ada also has…

Integrity Toys have unveiled an unprecedented number of dolls and doll lines at this weekends IDEX show. Amongst the usual Fashion Royalty, Poppy Parker and Nu Fantasy dolls was the brand new FR:16 line of 16″ fashion dolls. The 1/4 scale doll fraternity, as well as enthusiastic Integrity Toys fans, have long anticipated the unveiling of the FR:16 line which is IT’s latest attempt…

DollObservers.com, the social networking site for fashion doll lovers, is delighted to announce the launch of its first annual Fashion Doll Awards. The winners will be announced on 19th February 2012. The awards will coincide and mark the second anniversary of the site’s inception.

The Awards will focus solely on the fashion doll world and there will be 10…

Barbie is beautiful, of that I think most of us can agree. The dolls that are modeled in either her image or just to be dolls follow suit in the beautiful category as I imagine no one would want to buy an "ugly doll".

Quite frankly even the Monster High dolls are on the beautiful side. So, I began to wonder where my niche was. It's not that I don't love dolls right along with the rest of you, however, All of these dolls are already made. In my minds eye there is no imagination as to…

Tonner Dolls launched a brand new website which is sure to whet fans appetites prior to the upcoming revamp of the main Tonnerdolls.com website. And what a bundle of fun it is too, even whilst still in beta!

The crux of the site is good old fashioned voting for your favourite Tonner Doll photo out of the two presented to…

According to Toy News, fashion doll Barbie is the US’ most imported Christmas gift, according to a survey comissioned by Bloomberg Businessweek.

An analysis of the ‘States 75…

The December fashion doll Theme And Photo Contest gets festive

The social networking site for Fashion Doll Lovers, DollObservers.com, is pleased to announce another theme of…

You should! Why? Because for my local doll club's annual party we visited the home of one of our members. Her name is Julie and she has an outstanding collection of jaw dropping 1/6 scale dioramas.

Here is a preview:

I am taking 3 blogs (2 of which are completed) to go over the pictures I took. Even more exciting news...she invited…

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Barbie^®, the world’s most popular fashion doll and Stardoll^®, the globally renowned online…

Although this is a diversion from my usual Fashion Doll related posts I think that this doll will be of interest to many of you. Especially those of you who have young children. Her name is Matilda and she is the brainchild of a British designer in response to the lack of, to her mind, educational and suitable dolls for her daughter.

She is very much in the same vein as…

The Dynamite Girls by Integrity Toys are going all Urban for their Fall line of dolls. These crazy gals seem to have added a new boy to the group, Curt, along the way too. Mighty fine they look too with a retro 70′s, Taxi Driver vibe. Jasper’s look, especially, seems to…

Regular visitors to my blog will know that I am a huge fan of articulation in my dolls and like to keep a keen eye out on any developments in this field. To this end I had my sights on JAMIEshow dolls, available through the fantastic Angelic Dreamz, for sometime. However until recently I was not as taken with the face-ups as much as I was with their amazing physiques.

That changed when I came upon their St Tropez range of…

As an artistic exercise to help "flesh out" my characters, I decided to ask each of my dolls the questions from James Lipton's questionnaire that he asks at the end of every episode of Inside The Actor's Studio. As I found out, that questionnaire is a condensed version of Marcel Proust's. So I made my own questionnaire, based upon Proust's.

Here it is, along with all of my doll's answers. Go to My albums: School Pictures to see photos of each doll.

1What is your…

Hi everybody!!! These are my last dioramas, two main bedrooms and a surprise, a laundry room which I love. Now that I've finished my project, I'm going to take some time to plan what it's going to be my next project. I've been thinking about making a small apartment or a loft or even a shop... Who knows!!! I hope you like my last dioramas, thank you very much for watching and commenting. And, if you like it, you can look for more info and pictures in my blog and in my Etsy shop. See you…

Barbie and Frank Sinatra: two American icons, one classic look.

Inspired by one of the world’s greatest and most iconic performers of all time, Sinatra Barbie® is the definition of class and sophistication as she takes center stage in Fall 2011.

Beloved not only for his melodic voice, Frank Sinatra did things “his way”…