One Live Oak County woman is making it her mission to spread Holiday cheer this Christmas. 91-year-old Annie Mae Geffert hopes her doll collection will make our younger neighbors smile. Geffert said ...
A woman who has built up a collection of 1,000 porcelain dolls over 20 years shared that her hobby's roots lie in heartbreak. Lynn Emdin, 59, from Vereeniging, South Africa, scours second-hand ...
After his mother passed away, Fritz Peltonen is now in possession of her porcelain doll collection. She made most of these dolls by hand: In total, there are nearly 2,000 of them. Peltonen said he’s ...
To celebrate D Home’s 25th anniversary, we’re revisiting 25 of our favorite stories from the past 25 years in weekly installments, with the help of D Home editors past and present. This week, we’re ...
A trip to a car boot sale in West Cork as a distraction from cigarettes and the impulse purchase of five porcelain dolls proved a fateful day for Schull couple Mary and Billy O’Keeffe Billy O’Keeffe ...
WHAT? SO MANY QUESTIONS, SO START WITH TWO: WHAT IS THE INTERNATIONAL INSTITUTE AND WHAT'S WITH THE DOLL COLLECTION? Originally part of the YWCA when it was established in 1919 in Detroit, today it's ...