Monday 27 February 2012

Discover Dolls Brentwood February 2012

I have to admit to feeling more than a little bit rough yesterday... death warmed over is actually a very accurate description but it was really important that  Discovering Dolls & Crafts Magazine as it was the first appearance of the magazine since the change of management. 



This year the Brentwood Show had expanded taking up another room and some extra floorspace besides and there was an even larger turn out of visitors showing that not only is Brentwood a popular venue but that interest in dolls and reborns is continuing to grow.

It was lovely to see a number of Discovering Dolls & Crafts advertisers represented at the Show, with The Cradle appearing for the first time at Brentwood, you can read all about The Cradle in this issue of the magazine! 

Simply Reborn had an entire room to themselves... they needed it, it was a little slice of reborn heaven stepping into that room and they had their new range of Simply Heatset on sale, watch out for a review of these paints coming soon in Discovering Dolls & Crafts. Precious Little Baby Dust had a bigger stand than the previous year and a very impressive display of stock and Daisykaties were displaying a wonderful range of clothing, visitors were spoiled for choice.

For those of you who didn't get the opportunity to come along, don't worry, we took enough photos to make you feel like you were there and to tempt you into coming along for the next show. Enjoy!



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Wednesday 22 February 2012

Issue 29 gets put to bed

After a mammoth... and I mean mammoth effort, the whole team has been fighting through flu, chest infections and several boxes of man sized tissues... what is that with "man sized" I mean are they trying to say women can't blow as hard?  We can... trust me!

Anyway I digress,  Issue 29 of the newly retitled Discover Dolls magazine has gone off to the printers. Having been involved in magazine publishing for a few years I can certify it isn't an easy job pulling together a magazine but taking one over and being ill at the same time really is no picnic.

But still it's ready and is due for delivery on Friday this week, so I will have the magazine available at the Brentwood Doll Show.

So what have we got for you in this issue?   Well we have TWO, yes I said TWO exciting competitions.  The cutest knitting pattern and a gorgeous cloth doll to make, as well as lots of news, reviews and feature articles.




Monday 13 February 2012