Melissa & Doug Brianna - 12" Doll Sale Price: $11.90
	Melissa & Doug Toys - 12" Doll. The perfect friend for your child! This is the ideal, sweet-smelling, first-born baby doll. Even the youngest mommy will love her sweet face and soft, cuddly body. Real moms will love her wipe-clean arms and legs! Jenna is "pretty in pink" from head to toe, in a removable, smocked onesie and matching cap...

	Little Mommy Play All Day Baby Sale Price: $20.00
	Fisher Price's Little Mommy Play All Day Baby brings imagination to life. This lively doll reacts to a variety of fun, playful positions and movements such as bouncing, flipping, dancing, and flying, with adorable sounds and phrases...

	Melissa & Doug Wooden Family Doll Set Sale Price: $9.97
	Multi-generational, colorfully dressed figures are wire-framed, so they can pose in many ways, and make a great addition to any dollhouse. Inspire young imaginations for hours of pretend play!

	Little Mommy Real Loving Baby Walk & Giggle Doll Sale Price: $43.39
	Get ready for interactive playtime with the Fisher Price Little Mommy Real Loving Baby Walk & Giggle Doll. Designed for children age three and older who enjoy playing "mommy," this life-like doll features a repertoire of more than 60 phrases, songs, and sounds...

	Kids Preferred Baby Kira Doll Sale Price: $11.71
	Meet Kira, she wants to be your baby's first doll! Kira is a super soft doll and is wearing a plush dress and hat in pink with blue, purple and yellow flower embroidery. She makes a great first toy for your little girl and is baby safe with embroidered eyes and mouth...

	Manhattan Toy Stella Doll Sale Price: $21.95

	BABYDOLL Magic DOLL Bottles SET Of Two MILK & Juice girls toy Sale Price: $4.79
	A set of two magic refill baby doll bottles. Includes a 5 inch milk and 4.5 inch tall juice bottle.

	Melissa & Doug Time to Eat Feeding Set Sale Price: $8.99
	Enhance baby doll play with the Melissa and Doug Mine to Love Time to Eat Doll Feeding Set! Little mommies everywhere will love taking care of their favorite baby doll with these adorable pink accessories! Each set includes 2 bottles with disappearing liquid, 1 divided plate, 2 baby food containers with opening lids, 1 fork, and 1 spoon...

	Melissa & Doug Victoria - 14" Ballerina Doll Sale Price: $17.86
	The Melissa and Doug Mine to Love 14in Victoria Ballerina Doll is ready to take center stage! This adorable doll stands tall and features posable arms and legs for every dance move. Victoria is dressed in a removable pink leotard, fluffy tutu, and ballet slippers...

	Madame Alexander, 18" Too Cute In Boots, Favorite Friends Collection Sale Price: $30.88
	A cute match for your cutie! The Too Cute in Boots Doll is wearing a cute black and pink designed dress with a jean jacket pink and white stripped tights and pink cowboy boots. Brush and style her long curly hair to create awesome hairdos...

Not all doll collectors make a conscious decision to become doll collectors at the start of our collection. We may purchase our first collectible doll simply because we found a particular collectible doll simply irresistible. Deep down all of us have our own reasons, most probably subconsciously, for purchasing that first collectible doll. Passion, warmth and excitement will, in all likelihood influence your decision to start a doll collection.

There are some doll collections that bring out the child in us whereas others have an uncanny way of bringing out the mother in us.

We can be the perfect mother to these children who never throw tantrums, never get sick, no dirty clothes to wash and no pajama drill. We can cuddle them if and when we so desire and in busy times we can leave them to sleep peacefully. We can buy new clothes and accessories for them when our budget allows, but if we don't at least they won't mind.

There are as many different collectible dolls as there are doll collectors. Toy dolls that you purchase at the local store are not classified as collectible dolls. They may be extremely cute and have priceless value for the children who play with them, but they will not increase in value, other than sentimental value. At the other extreme there are one-of-a-kind dolls created by world renowned doll artists. The waiting periods for these dolls are understandably extremely long and the purchaser would expect to pay thousands for this piece of artwork. These dolls are obviously beyond the reach of the average doll collector. In the middle of the two are a vast number of collectible dolls, created by renowned doll artists that are available on the market at prices that would be affordable for most budgets, and these are the dolls that are responsible for the growing popularity in doll collecting.

If you are new to the exciting world of doll collecting you will be amazed at the selection of dolls available for doll collectors today. If you have decided to venture into doll collecting then it may be that your biggest stumbling block will be in deciding what particular type or which particular artist/artists dolls you wish to include in your collection. Nowadays with the use of Internet access to the various doll collections is literally only an Internet connection away.

Guidelines for newcomers to the world of doll collecting:-

• Get as much information as you possibly can - from the Internet, bookstores, libraries and specialized magazines.
• Make sure that information you use to base your decision on is factual and knowledgeable.
• Research previous work of any doll artist and their selling platforms before making a final decision.
• Determine whether the dolls are issued with a Certificate of Authenticity.
• Reputable doll galleries will only sell dolls of exceptional quality.

Make sure, above all else, that whatever type of collectible doll you decide upon for your collection that you would welcome the idea of owning not one, but a whole collection of these dolls.