Hi friends, Thanksgiving day is quite special. Check this article out for suggestion and my thoughts.. what do you all think?

What is it about puppets, clowns and dolls that can strike fear into many adults?

Was the comparison playful or racist? As a human mother I don’t like it.

Haunting art is on the Internet, art with stories of hauntings, art with eyes that follow you when you cross the room and spooky morphing portraits. Custom made spooky or Halloween house portraits are also available online.

This article is not supporting the title but instead phys-co analysing those who purchase real life dolls to find love.

The 1960s were dominated by manufacturers’ desperate attempts to decrypt or improve on the seemingly undefeatable Barbie formula, including the British Sindy, who was the most successful of these rival dolls.

Ruth Handler, the central figure in Barbie’s design, claimed that she based the idea for Barbie on what she saw in the doll-play practices of children. Apparently, much of this interaction was overlooked by others—probably because of the dominance of baby dolls on the toy market.

Soon after the war, dolls became part of the plastic revolution. By 1950 plastic—first hard plastics and later softer plastics such as vinyl—was the preferred material for commercial dolls.

The predominant doll formats around 1900 were German bisque dolls, with cheaper dolls of glazed porcelain, wood and papier-mâché. Bisque, matte glazed porcelain, was particularly prized for its ability to subtly capture the texture and toning of human skin.

A memory of the excitements of childhood Christmases during the 50’s.