Doll Time School

[Jennifer Kovachick]

Doll accessories are not quite like accessories for people, so they need to be cared for in a special way. A little prevention can go a long way towards keeping your doll accessories nice and tidy for years to come!

Since doll accessories can be made of a range of materials, we recommend avoiding commercial cleaners and detergents as those products may damage your product. To clean the surface of any accessory, simply use a damp cloth and warm water.

For smaller messes, try using a clean, damp cloth to gently spot clean the products. First, sponge up as much of the mess as you can and use warm water to gently rub the area. Let the item air-dry and repeat as needed.

Remember, sometimes life gets messy, especially when you're having fun!
Our Generation dolls love going on adventures, and they understand that sometimes even a favorite toy might get dirty during a fun day.

My mother worked at home as a doll dressmaker for a big doll factory in Bogota Colombia . I recall watching her while she was making patterns, sewing dresses and talking to her momentary friends .... "DOLLS".....at the same time.

During school vacations I worked at the production plant for the same doll factory my mother used to work. I wanted to be a real doctor; I had passion for medicine, but at that time it was very expensive to attend and study it at a university, and there was no financial aid available.

These last 20 years of more experience at THE NEW YORK DOLL HOSPITAL; gave me new ideas, knowledge, techniques, materials and some '' tricky treatments for .........tricky sickness". All together have full-filled my personal and professional life.

Toni Sturdivant does not work for, consult, own shares in or receive funding from any company or organisation that would benefit from this article, and has disclosed no relevant affiliations beyond their academic appointment.

But to verify that Black kids were still viewing their Blackness in a negative light the way the Clarks found that they were back in the 1940s, I would have to do so as a researcher. So I set out to get my doctorate in early childhood education and began to look deeper into how children develop racial identities.

With these questions in mind, I placed four racially diverse dolls (white, Latina, Black with lighter skin, and Black with medium skin) in a diverse preschool classroom and observed Black preschool girls as they played for one semester. My work was published in Early Childhood Education, a peer-reviewed journal.

Children are constantly developing their ideas about race, and schools serve as just one context for racial learning. I believe adults who care about the way Black children see themselves should create more empowering learning environments for Black children.

A Janesville legend died a few weeks ago. Ward Wendt was 84 years old. He was born in Janesville and died at a nursing home in nearby Waterville. Ward was a farmer, a florist and a railroad worker. He was an enthusiastic collector. His wife died in 1997, and his obituary revealed he was survived by nieces, great nieces and nephews and great-great nieces and nephews.

This story now frustrates my wife. On one trip she hatched a scheme involving us tearing up the vault and getting to the answer, though she left out tiny details like how we were supposed to get away with the crime. Or perhaps we have ourselves cryogenically frozen so we can return for the unveiling.

Growing up Ward worked with my mother Becky Miller as partners in the florists business doing flowers for weddings and whatever else. He was a very kind man and am greatful to have met the man. I remember helping out with flower arangements for multiple weddings. at such a young age even i could see the love he had for what he did which was very inspirational. He was always someone i looked up to growing up. As for the doll. i remember him taking me up to see it but dont remember anything he said about it if he even did which i doubt. my mother always told me that he told her the story of the doll in the window but she wouldnt tell me. As my mother battled cancer she told a story of the doll from her death bed not knowing if she was blowing smoke i hope to live to see that capsule opened to know. True or not what i know i will never tell. if it is true ur secrets safe Ward. if not thanks alot mom. lol God bless ur soul Ward you definitely deserve it. Say hi to mom for me if ya see her and if what she told was true. Chew her ass. lol

i too grew up in janesville in the 70s, there were rumors of ward burying a time capsule across the street in the park, with an explanation of the doll, dont know if thats anything more than rumor. ward was cool, there was a skatathon i was collecting donations for, my friends dared me to go there, i knocked and went in ,to some of the warmest company i had ever had in that town, only to emmerge 15 minutes later, alive, in one piece, to amazed eyes lurking on the corner of the street

My husband grew up in Sleepy Eye and I grew up in New Ulm and both of us remember that doll. We live in Missouri now and on a trip home we made a point of driving through Janesville so we could show our kids the doll in the window and share the stories we were told when we were young. Thanks for keeping the story alive.

dave pope bought the house he talked about from my parents! i lived the first 8 1/2 years of my life next to ward.he also did the flowers for our wedding. do i know the secret you ask? i have it in my own time capsule!

I remember being a student at Minnesota State University, Mankato (2001-2005), and traveling through Jaynesville on a few occasions with my friend John. He knew about the story and pointed out the house to me. It was creepy. Would like to know what the real story is.

I grew up in Mankato so whenever our girls swim team had a meet in Rochester or other towns south of us, we drove through Janesville. Of course, we all knew the story and screamed our heads off as our rickety school bus drove past. Nice job on this post. You stirred up a lot of nostalgia.

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For a girl who grew up reading about ghosts and serial killers, the Janesville doll-in-the-window house in Janesville was legendary.

Hey Shawn, Brandon and cheri i enjoyed sitting out front and watching cars drive by looking and pointing sometimes even stopping to take pictures Ward use to visit us why i was younger we asked him about the story he always told us its buried in the park to be opened in 2176

I remember Ward Wendt coming to our house he was friends with my grandmother. It was always a little freaky when he would come over because he would drive a hurse and as a child that scared me but he was always friendly and good natured he would work on crafts and flowers with my grandma it was a great friendship for my grandma honored to have known him.

Cabbage Patch Kids are a line of cloth dolls with plastic heads first produced by Coleco Industries in 1982. They were inspired by the Little People soft sculptured dolls sold by Xavier Roberts as collectibles. The brand was renamed 'Cabbage Patch Kids' by Roger L. Schlaifer when he acquired the exclusive worldwide licensing rights in 1982.[1]

The doll brand set every toy industry sales record for three years running, and was one of the most popular lines of children's licensed products in the 1980s[2][3] and has become one of the longest-running doll franchises in the United States. Additional Cabbage Patch products include children's apparel, bedding, infants' wear, record albums and board games.

According to court records,[4] Roberts, a 21-year-old art student at a missionary school in North Georgia, discovered craft artist Martha Nelson's Doll Babies. They came with a birth certificate and adoption papers. With the help of artist Debbie Moorehead,[5] he hand-stitched dolls called "The Little People". Roberts modified the look of Nelson's dolls, birth certificate and adoption papers sufficiently to get a copyright, and told potential customers his Little People were not for sale; however, they could be "adopted" for prices ranging from $60 to $1,000.[2]

The Little People were first sold at arts and crafts shows, then later at Babyland General Hospital, an old medical clinic that Roberts and his friends-turned-employees converted into a toy store, in Cleveland, Georgia.[3]

After changing the dolls' name to Cabbage Patch Kids, Schlaifer contacted all the major doll companies in the country. Most declined, commenting that the look of the Little People was too ugly to sell on the mass-market.[2] Coleco, then famous for its success with electronic toys, were sold on becoming the Master Toy licensee, including an advertising guarantee.

At the peak of their popularity, between 1983 and 1986, the dolls were highly sought-after toys for Christmas.[8][9] Cabbage Patch riots occurred as parents literally fought to obtain the dolls for children. In later years, Coleco introduced variants on the original Cabbage Patch Kids, and derivatives of the original line of dolls continued to be marketed.

When Coleco was producing the dolls for the North American market during the 1980s, they provided technical assistance to other doll manufacturers in Panama, Europe, Australia and Japan who wanted to use their molds.[7]

The Mattel Cabbage Patch dolls were not limited to cloth bodies and included dolls made from vinyl, resulting in a more durable play doll. The Mattel dolls are mostly sized 14" or smaller, and most variants were individualized with a gimmick to enhance their collectibility, e.g. some dolls played on water toys, swam, ate food, or brushed their teeth.[citation needed]

Some Mattel lines include the updated Kids line of basic cloth dolls that came with birth certificates, the OlympiKids that were made to coincide with the 1996 Olympics, and the Cabbage Patch Fairies. In January 1997, Mattel recalled the franchise's Snacktime Kids dolls after numerous complaints that they were chewing on children's hair and fingers.[12][13] Additionally, to celebrate the dolls' 15th anniversary, Mattel created a line of exclusively female dolls with reproduction face molds, dressed in a reproduction dresses reminiscent of the original line and packaged in retro style box. These were 16 inches tall, the same measurement of the first Coleco Cabbage Kids.[citation needed]

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