DON'T MISS:
There are MANY amazing web sites now...here are a few of my favorites, PLUS some search engines for the entire web (Don't miss my Search Engine Links, and my Doll Site Links, too!!)
DOLLS:
 | The Doll Attic: Great selection of vintage Barbie dolls, at good prices. Barbie gossip, too! |
| The Rosalie Whyel Museum of Doll Art: The best doll museum in the western United States has an excellent site--you can even shop in the museum shop online! |
| Thru Children's Eyes: Great shop for Gene dolls! Tell Christie I sent you! |
| The Doll Shoppe: Great shop for Barbie collectibles and Madame Alexander! Tell Ruth and Harold I sent you! |
| UFDC: Learn about the United Federation of Doll Clubs. Membership includes the incredible quarterly Doll New, and the chance to attend national and regional conventions. This year's national convention is August 9-14 in New Orleans, where I will be teaching a "Dolls and The Internet" seminar! |
| Theriault's: All I can say about their auctions, books, and auction catalogs is...wow! Antique and pre-1970 dolls. |
| DollShow: LOTS of links to other doll sites, but HOW do I turn off that incessant Cheers Theme Song?? |
| Holly's Dolly Page: In one place, you can see lovely, individually sewn outfits and cusomized dolls--the Gene section, especially, is exceptional! |
| K & J's Small Treasures: Absolutely beautiful authenticaly reproduced antique doll carriages; nice site, too! |
| Grin And Bear It: Another unique product--lovely, hand carved wood dolls! You can see the dolls on the second page of the site. |
| Flossy's Dolls: A very comprehensive site; just about everything is going on here; buy/sell, chat, events, you name it! Site has other areas for other types of collectibles as well. |
SEWING
| Quiltropolis: Sign up for mailing lists on quilting, sewing, and machine embroidery. |
| Viking: This is an essential site for owners of embroidery machines (especially if you own a Viking!). |
| Jazzerstitches: Tons of FREE designs for embroidery machines!! Also, great info on digitizing! |
| AnnTheGran's Design Exchange: More amazing designs for embroidery machinge FREE! |
| Amazing Designs: Many designs available for almost all brands of embroidery machines--reasonably priced. You can change the size of the designs with the "Smartsizer," which recalculates the number of stitches. |
| Common Threads: Beautiful site on all the fiber arts with small area for doll classes & products. |
BUTTONS
| Button Bytes Light: THE button site; a constantly changing buttons magazine; everything from articles to collector profiles to ugly buttons of the month! |
| Button Images: You will find all the button collecting items you will need here--collectors cards, wire, sleeves--you name it. Nice bibligoraphy, too. |
| The Button Kingdom: This site is beautiful, and it beautifiully showcases the best in collectible buttons. |
DOLLMAKING
| Seeley's: Find out where you can learn porcelain dollmaking; both reproductions and modern. Excellent paints and products. |
| Mimi's Dollmaking Paradise: Larage dollmaking site; mostly about cloth and resin doll making, and lots about Mimi! |
RECIPES
| Campbell's Soup: Well, you need to have some quick recipes if you are going to spend so much time making and collecting dolls! This is a great recipe site, by the way--you can input what ingredients you have in your kitchen, and they will tell you what you can cook with it!! |
| Epicurious: More receipes, albeit a little fancier than Campbell's page, and they ALSO let you input various ingredients available, then tell you what you can cook! Over 7,500 receipes from Gourmet Magazine and Bon Apetit. |
| Recipe-a-day.com: Join their FREE mailing list, and you get a recipe-a-day mailed right to your e-mail address!! And, they are delicious recipes, too! |
LINKS TO LINKS, WEB RESOURCES & SEARCHES
| LinkMaster: Don't just link--be entertained while you are doing it! This search site is WILD--you get music, and you get intense graphics, too!! This is QUITE the site for all sorts of odd links! Oh, and when you are done there, hit the link to come back HERE! |
| Jumplink: Kinda bored, and just wanted to SURF in the purest sense/ Well, then check out Jumplink--a kinda search engine, kind of endless link to all sorts of pages! |
| ArtToday: For 17.50 a year, have access to 600,000 cliparts, photos, and animations! many of the old-fashioned illustrations used for this website are from this service! |
| Scrub The Web: This USED to be my favorite search engine, but I got tired of all the xxx sites they seem to attract. Still good graphically, and well organized; see actuall search engine below to try it out. |
| Google.com: My NEW favorite search engine; the best! |
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