and here for some inspiration…

Japanese Dolls on the Western Toyshelf is an amazing site with tons of reference pictures. I love these dolls.

Dollmasters has a beautiful catalog, full of large, color pictures of some wonderful dolls and toys. It is always a treat when one shows up in the mail. You can also see it on-line but it is not quite the same. This is a picture of a doll by the German artist, Peter Wolf.

They have some Gail Wilson dolls and animals and one of them-

made me think of Loobylu’s A Month of Softies challenge… which I am thinking about doing- way in the back of my mind. This is such a busy month already…