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Another Refining Moment ...
It's beginning to seem more and more difficult trying to organize my doll collection into something I feel I am controlling. There are several dolls waiting in a holding pattern like the jets at the...
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It's Easy as 1, 2, 3 ... 4, 5
I had thought that this year would be another year of total refinement for my collection. I set out with really good intentions. I wanted to make my collection exactly what I wanted.As we all...
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#6 of 2019 - Resurgence Natalia Fatale
One thing that makes limiting your IT collection difficult is the fact that many dolls from a previous year's lineup don't arrive to collectors until the following year. For me, I consider these dolls...
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#7 of 2019 - Beyond This Planet Violaine Perrin
Vanessa Perrin has definitely suffered an identity crisis. It started in 2011 when Integrity Toys (IT) changed the Vanessa Perrin character’s mold without warning. Vanessa Perrin mold 1.0 has a very...
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The A(E)yes Don't Always Have It - #8 of 2019
One thing you can count on with Integrity Toys (IT) is that they are always experimenting and changing things up. Sometimes the changes are embraced by collectors, but sometimes their dedicated...
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The Awakening Annik Vandale - #9 of 2019
I wasn't sure about this doll. I have owned both previous versions of the Annik Vandale mold and neither were able to find permanent spots in my collection.The Awakening is the last to arrive from the...
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10 ... 11 ... 12 ... 13 - Prices on Older Dolls Are Falling
Integrity Toys is putting a lot of dolls in collectors' hands. Last year alone, there was almost 50,000 dolls produced in 85 versions of Poppy Parker, East 59th Street/Victoire Roux, The Industry,...
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#15 of 2019 - Nirvana Dominique Makeda
"Beware the ides of enablers ..."If you want to save your doll money and stop purchasing new dolls, you have to avoid the two "F's" - Flickr and Facebook. After you've been on these sites for a short...
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#16 and #17 of 2019 - Everything's Coming Up Dominique Makeda
I have noticed that, when refining their own collections, some collectors group all of their dolls by each mold and then choose the ones that need to stay versus the ones they can release back into the...
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#18 and #19 - the Resurrection of Misaki
One of my very favorite dolls in my collection is Honey Harajuku Misaki. She has been in my collection since 2006. Honey has received more play and photo time than any doll I own. Unfortunately, she...
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#20 and #21 of 2019 - Sneaky, Sneaky IT
I pride myself in trying to focus my collecting over the last few years. I only have one line of "tall" dolls in my collection now, Ellowyne Wilde. I managed to adopt out all of my Tonner...
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Merging Traffic Ahead - Victoire Roux / East 59th Street / Monogram - #22,...
Wow! Summer break is almost over for me (I teach elementary school aged gifted children), and I have not met the lofty aspirations I set for my collection. Sadly, as you can see from my lists to the...
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#29 of 2019 - French Kiss Vanessa Perrin
As I've stated numerous times, there are some great perks about being a member of the W Club. One of the best is the exclusive dolls offered to members only. When a collector joins the W Club, they...
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#30 of 2019 (+ #31, #32 and #33) Yeti To Wear Tulabelle True
Surfing the internet looking at doll photos is one of the most financially dangerous things a collector can do, especially when paired with a "dolly drought" like we've had this year. A couple...
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#34 of 2019 Spring Romance Adele Makeda
My "Guidelines for Collecting Dolls" have not been very useful this year. I've not had the time to focus on selling off dolls from my collection. At the beginning of the year I had a health scare....
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#35 of 2019 Love is Blue Poppy Parker - Happy Birthday Celebration
If you were able to attend the Integrity Toys (IT) Fashion Week Convention and are a fan of the (IT) line of Poppy Parker dolls, you were definitely in Poppy Nirvana. I have "casually" collected...
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#36 of 2019 - Vivid Paradise Tatyana Alexandrova - I Love An Underdog
Registration to attend an Integrity Toys (IT) Convention is not cheap. If you paid up front in one payment, it was still $550. For $550, you get access to the Salesroom, Style Lab, Room Sales,...
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#37 of 2019 - NYFW Karolin Stone
Choosing dolls to release from boxes and add to my collection can sometimes be a long process. I have very limited display space, so I sometimes have to sell or rebox a doll for another to join those...
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Best of 2019 - #10
I cannot believe it is that time of year again! I started 2019 with very good intentions, but I definitely lost my way! Somehow I managed to add more dolls to my collection this year than in any...
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Best of 2019 - #9
It would be an understatement to say, "I love what Jessy Ayala does with the NuFace line." My NuFace collection has increased substantially since he joined the design team at Integrity Toys. Although...
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