New Blog to round up online doll news


In need of employment, I offered to create and edit a sub-blog at a crafting site. However they felt the interest in dolls was limited. But the idea of posting a daily bulletin highlighting the web doings of doll artists, collectors, and vendors still sounds interesting to me. So I am doing it myself. Please help my income by clicking through on ads there if they look interesting.

My new blog is called Dolls:Crafting and Collecting and is at www.allthingsdoll.blogspot.com.

If you have a site that you would like me to visit and possibly feature, please let me know by commenting, here or there.

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