Doll Stories
Dear Doll Friends,

Welcome to our page of doll stories. We would like fellow doll lovers to submit their favorite, original doll stories.

  • How did you start collecting?
  • How did you find your favorite doll?
  • Did a special person introduce you to dolls?
  • Did you meet a special friend through doll collecting?

Your story can be about any subject related to dolls. The Doll Stories page will be updated periodically, as we receive stories from our fellow collectors.

DOLL STORY COMPETITION
 Please submit your original stories for consideration in our monthly story competition. Starting January 2010, monthly winners will have their story published on our web site, and will receive a gift from Sowatzka’s Dolls with a retail value of $65. The gift is a Little Mother doll by artist Stephanie Sowatzka.

    We will also pick a doll story winner for the year and they will receive a custom made doll from Sowatzka’s. For 2010 the award is a 10-inch reproduction Koatsy-all Bisque by doll artist Stephanie Sowatzka. This doll has a retail value of $175.
Little Mother
 

THE DOLL STORY WINNER FOR 2009 IS

“The Magician” by Joan Kenny. Joan,
please contact us and make arrangements to receive your prize. Congratulations for winning, and everyone thanks you for sharing your wonderful doll story.

 		 Koatsy-all Bisque
 

Monthly winners will be announced throughout the year and the annual award for 2010 will be picked from this year’s monthly winners and announced January 2011. (Please note that all stories submitted to the doll story competition become property of Sowatzka’s Dolls and may be published by Sowatzka’s.)

We hope to hear from you soon so we can further share our common love for dolls.

Thank you, Gary and Louise

Our Most Recent Stories

“Oh, You Beautiful Doll”
 by Millie Farthing

 Ever since I was a tiny little girl, I have loved babies and dolls.

I received my favorite doll for Christmas the year I was five. To me, she looked like a real baby and when you turned her over she cried, “Mama, Mama, ” and when you laid her down her eyes would close. I named her Susan Marie.  ... more		  

 


Grandmothers and Memories
 by Marjorie Dwyer

 In 1935 my grandmother gave me my Shirley Temple doll. Not only that, she gave me the little steamer trunk filled with doll clothes she had made--a tiny flower print dress, a yellow dress with pleats and matching panties with a pocket (I wore matching panties with my own dresses) and to top it off, a red wool crepe coat with six brass buttons and a matching hat with a little ermine tail in the ribbon band.  ... more		  

 

Christmas Dreams Do Come True
 by Carol

 I knew that I could do nothing to repair the hurt that these people had caused the young child (long ago) but as I was interested in vintage dolls, and I began looking for a Baby Secret to see what she looked like? To my delight, I found one  ... more		  

 

 

 

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