Merry Christmas!

Merry Christmas and Happy 2011 to all our friends. We thank you for following The Museum, and for following us on Twitter. We hope to have Articles filed soon, and we have several speaking engagements pending for 2011. For those who love shopping for your collectibles, I recommend Killer Stuff and Hollywood Stuff, both by Sharon Fiffer! Also, of course, Mary Randolph Carter's American Junk Books. Check your local thrift shops for bargains; Discover Shops are marking their holiday offerings, including many doll and bear decorations, at 75% off. Target and Michaels are good sources, and Sears already has 3 plus foot tall Mini and Mickey Mouse, Charley Brown and Whinny the Pooh plush figures at 60% off. They also had A Christmas Story villages and Victorian ornaments done up in plaid that featured little girls and dolls. Penney's has marked theirs at 75%, but I regret to say I've not been there yet.


I like to wait for the 90% off sales to begin in a couple of weeks; they certainly are a way to beat the winter doldrums!

We've added several books from Anne Rice's legendary library to our collection; one doll book was written by a friend of mine, Mr. R. Lane Herron. It is serendipitous that it should show up in Ms. Rice's library. She also had many good books and Blue books on collecting and making and restoring dolls. I also was able to buy books she had underlined, and marked with postits, something I do, that show that she used them in her research for her work. Sometimes It is a small, wonderful world.