DOLLS--WEEK OF JUNE 10, 1999

NEWS

DOLL ARTISAN GUILD YEAR 2000 CONVENTION:   The Doll Artisan Guild just announced that the year 2000 International Convention will be held June 28 to July 2, 2000 in Orlando, Florida.  This bi-annual convention includes dollmakers from all over the world.  Lectures, sales room, workshops, banquet, awards, and dollmaking competitions.  For more informamtion, contact seeleys@aol.com.

UPCOMING DOLL EVENTS

Joe and marl Fashion Doll Show, Cleveland, Ohio June 26
Featuring Barbie, Gene, etc; both Vintage Barbie and new.    Westlake holiday Inn, 10am to 3pm

Theriault's Duet Auction--Portland Oregon; Crowne Plaza Lake Oswego, June 12-13
This is the third of the  1999 "Duet" Auctions (see review above).   Previews 9am each day; auctions start 11am.

Barbie--Look Who's 40!  Exhibit,   June 1 to November 1, Denver, Colorado
At the Denver Museum of Miniatures, Dolls and Toys, 1880 Gaylord Street

D.A.G. Oneonta New York Doll Show and Festival,  July 15-17
Yearly convention of the Doll Artisan Guild

DOLL EVENT REVIEWS:  Have you recently attended a doll show, class, auction, or other doll event?  Have your report or review of the event appear in "Dolls This Week!." Just e-mail your report to me at collectdolls.guide@about.com; you will be credited for the report, you will have my undying gratitude (since I can't attend them all!), and your web site link (if you have one) will appear as well.

MAGAZINE REPORT

MILLERS FASHION DOLL:  July issue.    Tyler Wentworth, and Somers and Field; the new fashion dolls; also well-researched articles on vintage PAK Barbie items and Sindy in the 1960s from England.

DOLL ARTISAN: July issue.  Includes articles on increasing the value of your reproduction dolls, how to make Bebe Gourmand, and how to make the JDK 221 Googly

ANTIQUE DOLL COLLECTOR:  July issue.   An excellent article on English poured waxes, plus part 3 of the Huret series; also an article about an original-owner Bluette from Australia.

NOTE FROM YOUR GUIDE

My apologies for the shorter than usual Dolls This Week--I just moved my family and business from Los Angeles to rural Northern California.  If anyone has information on impoving slow rural internet access, please e-mail me!

Previous Weeks in Dolls:  Theriault Duet Auction; Loss of ODACA Artist Kathryn Williams Klunsman; Review of Anaheim Dollmaking Show