Doll Bytes and Character Assassination by an NPR Hasbeen

What a year so far!  Dolls are indeed where you find them, as my friend Mary Hillier used to say.  A corn dolly one the bread challenge in last Saturday's Great British Baking Show.  She was baked by one of the contestant bakers, who revealed baking the dolls was an old family tradition.  I first read about them in World Book Encyclopedia, 1956 version, then saw a  photo in The Doll by Carl Fox.  w I've baked and kept a few myself, and dough dolls from Peru and elsewhere were very popular during the 70s.  Salt dough recipes are still out there; they are fun, and keep well with  little shellac. 

The auction of Huguette Clark's Dolls also took place these weekend.  I will post updates as I get them.  I bid on a set of BAPS dolls; don't know if I won yet.

Last Man Standing featured a doll collection last Thurs, and Two Broke Girls showed a rerun where Andy Dick was a puppeteer.  There were also a couple of Barbie sized fashion dolls involved.   Neither show was very positive about dolls.  Unfortunately, the creepy doll crap fad continues, and it's touched us at the Museum.

Some former NPR flunkee who writes a crappy blog, allegedly on books, somehow found me.  She's in New York; and is named Corrinne Sigal.  She's never been here, never contacted me, never asked me about the museum, but she did swipe pictures from a story local WVIK radio did on the Museum.   She didn't ask my permission to use those,and cropped them so they would look sinister.

She called us "Very, very scary", and I feel like having her meet one of my very, very scary lawyer friends.  For someone who claims to promote women writers and women's enterprises, she managed to attach this literary woman who is trying to run a small nonprofit.

She claims she is a journalist, but printed a lot of garbage without bothering to check her sources.  Just irresponsible, and she doesn't write that well, either.

I'm a journalist, too, and have worked for several newspapers.  I had a guest column for a year, and wrote online and hard copy, but I may be done giving interviews.  I suppose I should be flattered that this little worm from NYC took notice of us, but I could do without the negativity.  Happy Collecting!  Follow our FB pages Doll Universe, Dr. E's Doll Museum, Antique Doll, American Doll and Toy Museum and Dr. R for more.  We're also Tweeting and post occasionally on Tumblr.  We have a Pinterest Board as well, American Doll and Toy Museum, and boards called Doll Collection, and All About Doll Collecting.

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