Dollte Porte

Yosuke Oba of JP USA sent me information about the new Dollte-Porte series. It's a complete line-up of the full-sized dolls in the Pullip family plus a tie-in to human clothing. (I hope the clothing comes in many sizes.) The release date is June - perhaps we will get some tie-in advertising at PUDDLE!


P-034 Pullip Dollte-Porte Henri

D-127 DAL Dollte-Porte Charlemagne

T-219 Taeyang Dollte-Porte Alfred

B-314 Byul Dollte-Porte Leroy

I-906 Isul Dollte-Porte Vesselle

"’Doll is an existing person.’’ If you are a doll user, no matter how small or big, uou must have dreamt once or twice that a ‘’Doll is an existing person’’ inside your doll-loving heart. Unlike personification, like ‘’Sister’’, ‘’Daughter’’, ‘’A woman that you admire’’, or ‘’A replica of yourself’’, this is a dream that wonders ‘’If it was only real person’’. Then if you could project yourself or someone in your life, then a part of your dream will come true….’’Dollte-Porte’’ is a project that will fulfill such a dream. Specifically, MANGO PARK, PULLIP’s designer, designed and produced outfits in your size that was originally developed for dolls. The doll apparel brand ‘’Dollte-Porte’’ is a human-size apparel brand.

- Doll Apparel Brand that has developed goods in human size for the first time in the Doll Industry.

- A model that will appeal to true doll fans.

*More detail for human size apparel brand information will announce shortly."

It's a new year, and PUDDLE 2011 is only six months away (June 11, 2011). Now is the time to resolve to attend! Just a reminder that there is a PUDDLE forum where you can look for rides, riders, and roommates:
http://puddle.forumotion.com/index.htm

Also a reminder that there are a number of contests at PUDDLE - start planning now so you can enter! Entries for the online photo/art contest can be submitted to me anytime. The photo/art contest deadline is April 1. (The other contests will take place at PUDDLE.) Anyone can enter the photo/art contest, even if you are not attending the event.

Full contest details can be found here:
http://www.puddlestyle.com/contests.html

Also, if you want to make items to put in the gift bags or to be used as contest or raffle prizes, now is a good time to get started. If you'd like to make your hotel reservations, find details here:
http://www.puddlestyle.com/location.html

If you have questions about anything, please let me know, and happy new year!

PUDDLE charitable opportunity

Most of us occasionally buy a fashion or other doll for her outfit. We strip her and are left with a doll we don't need and have trouble selling because she's not worth too much.

I've been keeping such dolls in a box for the last few years. This year, I made arrangements with the local public housing authority to go to two of their after school programs with my box of naked dolls and another box of felt and other fabric scraps. Each girl who came to the program chose a doll and then we made clothing for the next hour. It was a ton of fun for me and the girls. I gave away 30 dolls and could easily have given away another 10. (More girls showed up than had been invited, but it worked out okay because older girls helped younger girls with the outfits and didn't take dolls themselves.)

I would love to do this again next year, but I am all out of naked dolls. If you have some of those naked dolls around and would like to find them good homes, please consider bringing them to PUDDLE and giving them to me. I promise that they will be put to good use. They do not have to be Barbies. Most of mine were Barbie or similar fashion dolls, but I also had some small porcelain dolls, Dollar Store Bratz clones, little Cabbage Patch kids, and others. Boys are less popular - the four I had were the last four dolls to get taken - but I'll take them too if that's what you have. Oh, and if you have any spare shoes, I'd love those too (since it is hard to make shoes out of felt!).

Questions, please let me know, and thanks for considering donating your naked dolls to a good cause!

Just wanted to say thank you to McKenna, Staria, Kira Kira, WellerMade, and Asashi! McKenna donated a Pullip body; Staria, part of an obitsu; Kira Kira a doll, body, and chips; WellerMade, a head and obitsu body; and Asashi an assortment of bait heads, bodies, and eye mechs.

And also a big thanks to those who are donating their customization skills! Requiem, blair, Kisa, DayDreamerDolly, and myufish are all working on customs for PUDDLE.

If anyone else has bodies, body parts, heads, or eye mechs to donate, please let me know! (We especially need a boy body for a Namu head donated by Asashi.)

The website has a terrific new banner for 2011 from Stephanie Mansell. Thanks, Stephanie!

A big thank you to WellerMade for sending me a copy of the Winter 2010 FDQ with its PUDDLE coverage!

FDQ Winter issue

I haven't seen the inside yet, but as you can see from the covers (there are two alternate ones) of the next Fashion Doll Quarterly (FDQ), there is PUDDLE 2010 coverage inside!