And, of course, shell out for dolls and products in the gift shop.
What values do we convey by turning our homes into warehouses for dolls?
According to former Mattel designer Carter Bryant, messing with Barbie had become so taboo at the company that he took his idea for dolls with big heads and dressed in hip-hop clothes to competitor MGA in 2000--where they became Barbie's first true rival, Bratz.
She customizes her dolls, removing their hair and "rerooting" them with mohair or Saran (polyvinylidene chloride), the filament used for Barbie dolls.
It works for fad dolls that become the subject of buying frenzies.
She made me a little--out of a shoe box she'd make a little room, almost like a stage set with little windows and illustrate little books for my dolls, and was generous beyond belief to me.
But for much of this century they were essentially a preparation for serious adult roles: baby dolls and toy kitchens for girls, erector sets, toy trucks and train sets for boys.
Dolls account for fully 16.8% of toy sales in Spain, compared with 9.7% in Britain and just 7.9% in Germany.
Under his counsel, John Rzeznik, the singer for the Goo Goo Dolls, overcame a bad bout of writer's block during the making of the band's second album.
But for Garrett, access to dolls can only achieve so much in terms of promoting a positive self image.
To prepare her for it, Lesia made paper dolls of all the main characters, and together they acted out the story and listened to the music.
The dolls have been around for over 25 years (originally sold by mail order) but now, as a subsidiary of Mattel, you can have the whole American Girl experience by walking into any number of mall stores in the country.
And I don't know why I do, except perhaps for what we'd named the dolls - toenail and fingernail.
Dolls are a big seller for Mattel, which also sells Disney Princess products.
Guys and Dolls, set the stage for a vacation that's sure to win rave reviews as you and Your Fair Lady take in more than 3, 000 slot machines and 135 table games, 20 on-site restaurants, 20 shops, 14 nightlife options, and the only IMAX movie theater in town, right in the hotel.
And while fixated interests are common in both sexes on the autism spectrum, girls tend to focus on topics such as on ponies, princesses, dolls or drawings -- common passions for non-autistic girls, too.
You make dolls in a toy shop, and you shop for sofas, and, you, I don't know what you do.
Inside the clubs, Van Morrison, The Goo Goo Dolls and James Brown are among the performers booked for New Year's Eve shows.
She wouldn't let her daughters play with Barbie dolls, which may explain why Nina bought Barbies for her own sons, who weren't actually all that interested.
The man who penned the scripts for the bawdy Russ Meyer exploitation flicks "Beyond the Valley of the Dolls" and "Beneath the Valley of the Ultra-Vixens" could no doubt have gone slur-for-slur with them.
Since the character first appeared in 2005, there have been at least 46 "Fancy Nancy" books from publisher HarperCollins, with over 20 million in print, spawning a number of popular dolls and toys, and becoming a must-have birthday party theme for all the fanciest little girls.
That gave Okoya food for thought and after some initial research, he decided to launch the Queens of Africa black dolls, each one representing different tribes in the continent.
Mattel claimed that Bryant, who freelanced for MGA, violated an employment agreement by helping the rival toy company develop its line of Bratz dolls while still employed by Mattel.
More recently it has held seasons for the Almeida Theatre, the Peter Hall Company and put on award-winning productions of Ibsen plays The Dolls House and Hedda Gabler.
The dolls are still hand-sewn, and the first store we were in had other handmade toys going for several hundred dollars.
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