FDQ Holiday Special

This is a repost of FDQ's Holiday Special offer.

CLICK HERE: HAPPY DOLLIDAYS! We are having a holiday special!

Welcome to Fashion Doll Quarterly! We hope you are enjoying the holiday season. We decided it's time to give out some special gifts to our wonderful customers this season, so if you purchase anything on our site during the month of December, you may win a doll or outfit from our studio!

Over the years, we have accumulated wonderful dolls from every manufacturer in the business- from Barbie to Vita and everything in between. And so, every day at 5pm (EST) we will randomly pull an order from the day's listings. That lucky person will win a free doll or outfit!

You never know what it may be- a vintage repro Barbie, a Fashion Royalty girl, JamieShow, Tonner, Volks, Dollheart. Anything is possible. It's a great way for us to celebrate the holiday season (and to clean out our photo studio for the new year).

Start your shopping with TONNER: Two Decades of Fashion & Design (below). It's a wonderful gift for the Tonner collector, and it makes a great club gift or stocking stuffer, too! We ship internationally and we are offering a group bulk rate for the holidays, so be sure to order now- you may wind up with something extra in your stocking this year!

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Barbie Loves Glitter GLAM VAC & Doll

Mattel has me on their mailing list and insisted that I check out their sale (again.) These are the items that caught my eye:

If you saw a doll named Glam and Vac, what would you imagine? I just had to see the glamorous Barbie that also vacuumed. I thought, hmm...now this is real life. Mattel is getting with the program. WRONG.
The vac is a tool you get in the package to clean up your messy glitter after you glue it to Barbie's outfit.

Girls can glitterize Barbie doll's outfits and accessories! Just choose a sticker and apply it to the surface of the item you want to decorate. Pick a glitter color (pink or purple) and use the scoop tool to pour glitter over the sticker. Then press the gem button on the Glitter Glam Vac to clean up the excess glitter and store it in the gem top. So glitter-rific and fun!

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So let's say you don't want the all that loose and dreaded glitter in your home but you must have a Barbie Loves Glitter Hair Doll. It comes with "fabulous glitter mascara to color Barbie doll's hair." I envision a creative child also coloring the family dog's fur.  I don't think the VAC would work on that.

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But the weirdest item of all is the Barbie Doll'd Up Nails Digital Nail Printer.  It doesn't work with a Mac system so I'm safe.

Here is the description of what it does:
"There's so much stylin' fun at your fingertips with this digital nail printer! Now, both girls and their moms can get creative with their manicures. Simply select from 1,000+ adorable nail designs, choose the color, size the image to fit the nail, and print. Voila... your own custom manicure, at home! You can even upload your own photos to print and wear on nails for the most unique manicure of all."

I'm guessing you have to stick your fingers in one at a time. And it's reduced to $149.99. If you buy it on sale you pay only $119.99. 

I can think of all sorts of unique uses for this toy.

Freddy Tan's Monster High Doll Repaints

We have a case here of a master repainter making a silk purses out of a sows' ears. Forgive me for calling MH dolls sows' ears but they are cheaply made, fragile dolls. However,  in the hands of Tan, they become jewel-like, precious creations.

Here are a few of his amazing OOAKs. Below you will find a link to his flickr photostream. It's highly recommended viewing!

http://www.flickr.com/photos/tanchuanchuan/