Integrity Candi and Janay and Storied Photos

I'm thinking about the best background for my next Janay and Candi photos. Rather than just photograph the dolls, I want to pull in the stories that I have for them. Note: some dolls, I have have no story background other than what the manufacturer provides. Other dolls and action figures have what I think of as East Philly characters and storylines. Most of my Janays and two Alysas, one Jade, one Jordan, one Alejandro, one Tariq, and one Giselle have stories. My Candis - exception is the More is More Candi - have story backgrounds, too. I'd like to work their stories into the photographs.

(Aside, I have just found the perfect figure for the oldest brother, Pierre. He's a Power Team Gunner, and he resembles the Janays and Tariq.)

Having stories for the dolls and action figures provides more fun for this collector anyway. Guess that means that I do still "play with" my dolls and action figures. Well, I confess - I like to have fun.

New GessHu100 Story on Webshots

Fans of the Paramus Chronicles, Michael aka GessHu100 has a new photostory, Meeting Mr. Right - Chapter 0ne online in Webshots. So far, the story has had 614 hits. It's standard Paramus quality with the additional bonus of viewer feedback requested regarding voting out characters.

Please note: Meeting Mr. Right is an adult story.

Uploaded Webhots Photo Folders - Candi & G.I. Joe

Today, I uploaded photos to my Webshots Candi folder and a few more photos to my Webshots G.I. Joe folder. You can find my Webshots folders here.

I have also added some photos to my Flickr account; those photographs will show in the Slideshow at the bottom of this page.

Integrity Janay and Friends Online at Weaver's Site

A collector called Weaver has a website with many Janay and friends dolls from 1999-2001. You would click on the "Alysa Jade Janay" button on the website:

Integrity playline

Neat.

Top 100 Doll Web Sites

Regular readers may notice (hint, hint) that there's a link at the bottom of this blog called "Top Doll Sites." Top Doll Sites is a web page showing the top 100 doll related websites as determined by online readers who click on the Top Doll Sites link on the owner's web page. You submit your blog and its stats to them; then you add their banner to your web page. It's free, and I've found some interesting doll-related web pages there.

So, I've submitted "A Philly Collector of Playscale Dolls" to the Top Doll Sites web page. If you have a blog on that website, let me know and we can exchange clicks.

Top Doll Sites

Mystery Series Set in Doll Collecting Community

Yesterday, I finished Deb Baker's Dolled Up for Murder mystery novel. It was a fun and educational story with an engaging heroine. The fun part was reading about doll collecting in a mystery novel. The educational part was learning that some people fear dolls (?!) and that that particular phobia is called pediophobia. Now I find that amazing that someone could be uncomfortable in a roomful of dolls and action figures. Then again, pediophobia, also means fear of children. Now that I can understand. Whoa ... I'm joking, of course. Everyone knows the parents are the really scary ones ...

I will not spoil the mystery, but I will let you know that Dolled Up for Murder is the FIRST of a mystery series set in Arizona and with a doll collecting background. There are three other books listed on the author's website. The fourth one seems specially enticing for me - the fictional doll collectors open a doll museum. Sigh. How many fictional accounts are there about opening a doll museum?

Webshots Photo Updates (Candi and Smartees Folders)

I've updated the Smartees and the Candi folders in my Webshots account. Click this link. I added photos of the boxes for Destiny and Nicole and the Taylor doll under Smartees. I added photos of Holiday Toast Candi and On the Go Candi under Candi.