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What Type Of Porcelain Dolls To Collect

By Shannon Rae Treasure · 12 years ago

Doll collectors will find that porcelain dolls are mostly of high value and are available with a wide variety of themes. The themes can be fairytales, cartoons, the wild wild west, European classic pieces, or ...

The Vintage Collection – Arranbee Dolls Of The Past

By Shannon Rae Treasure · 12 years ago

One of the well known doll manufacturers in the US was the Arranbee Doll Company (a.k.a R & B). The company brought several high quality dolls mad of composition, vinyl, rubber, hard plastic, and bisque. ...

The Fluffy Plush Uglydoll Characters

By Shannon Rae Treasure · 12 years ago

From the creative tandem of David Horvath and Sun-Min Kim, the Uglydoll started to be just an orange drawing sent by David to Sun-Min while she was in Korea. It was the year 2001 when ...

The Art Of West Java’s Wayang Golek Dolls

By Shannon Rae Treasure · 12 years ago

The Wayang Golek dolls are traditional Indonesian wooden doll puppets that are jointed with rods for puppet shadow theatre. The word "wayang" is derived from the Indonesian word that means shadow or ghost. It has ...

Collecting Exquisitely Realistic Doll Creations

By Shannon Rae Treasure · 12 years ago

Several doll manufacturers have ventured into producing dolls that have lifelike features. Each of them had showcased an array of exquisite quality creations that are carefully handcrafted and painted. Yet these dolls are not primarily ...

Hiking The Yellow Mountain Trail

By Shannon Rae Treasure · 12 years ago

This light trail alone can only take a3.6-mile hike, however you may combine this with Mill Shoals Trail through an access point at the Cooper Creek Trail which makes it a 6-mile hike. It starts ...

Hiking The Wagon Train Trail

By Shannon Rae Treasure · 12 years ago

This easy trail takes 7 miles to complete wherein you can start at the Brasstown Bald Access Trail’s parking lot to Young Harris’ women’s dormitory named Rollins Hall. There are no trail blazes that guide ...

Hiking The Vickery Creek Trail Complex

By Shannon Rae Treasure · 12 years ago

This trail complex encompasses the north knoll of the Chattahoochee River which is east of South Atlanta St. Highway 9. The trail’s length runs 6.5 miles on this section of the Chattahoochee National Recreation Area. ...

Hiking The Tumbling Waters Trail

By Shannon Rae Treasure · 12 years ago

This short loop trail will only take 1.7 miles to hike as it makes an ascent to the Tumbling Waters crossing over a creek and into the Carters Lake area. To get here from Ellijay, ...

Hiking The Tearbritches Trail

By Shannon Rae Treasure · 12 years ago

The Tearbritches Trail is a 3.4 mile hike which is actually part of an 87-mile trail system of the Cohutta Wilderness which stretches a total of 36,977 acres of land area. The Cohutta Wilderness consists ...

Hiking The Tallulah Gorge Loop Trail

By Shannon Rae Treasure · 12 years ago

This 2.5 mile loop trail is also known as the North Rim Trail and the South Rim Trail wherein a section of the trail meets up with a suspension bridge that comments it to the ...

The Hiking Trail For The Sweetwater White

By Shannon Rae Treasure · 12 years ago

The whole length of this trail is 3 miles and this historic trail is also known as the Sweetwater Creek White Non-game Wildlife Trail. The area features nearby campgrounds and water fall cascades and rapids. ...

The Hiking Trail For The Sweetwater Red

By Shannon Rae Treasure · 12 years ago

The whole trail only takes 1 mile to complete and this trail is also officially known as the Sweetwater Historic Trail. The pathway to this trail follows the Sweetwater Creek to one of the historic ...

The Hiking Trail For Sweetwater Blue

By Shannon Rae Treasure · 12 years ago

The Sweetwater Blue Non-game Wildlife Trail is an easy 2 mile trail to hike. The pathway on this trail passes historic roads, valleys, and forests as it proceeds to briefly join the Sweetwater Red Trail ...

Hiking The Stone Mountain Mountaintop Trail

By Shannon Rae Treasure · 12 years ago

This historic trail takes 2.4 miles to complete and this mountain was called by the American Indians as the Lone Mountain while the settles call it Rock Fort Mountain. In 1560, the Spanish explorers also ...

Hiking The Stone Mountain Loop Trail

By Shannon Rae Treasure · 12 years ago

The Mountain Loop Trails is an easy 5.5 mile trail which has a side trail feature at the Antebellum Plantation. This white blazed trail is also known as the Stone Mountain National Recreation Trail or ...

Hiking The Stanley Gap Trail

By Shannon Rae Treasure · 12 years ago

Twenty years ago, this trail was previously known as the Rich Mountain Trail until it was renamed and then the trail was also shortened. The trail shares the same path as with the Benton MacKaye ...

Hiking The Springer Mountain

By Shannon Rae Treasure · 12 years ago

The Springer Mountain is one of the loop hike trails that are rocky with less forest surrounding it due to the nature of its soil and the difficulty for this trail is rated moderate. This ...

Hiking The Minnehaha Falls In Rabun County

By Shannon Rae Treasure · 12 years ago

The Minnehaha Falls is located in the Rabun County Georgia which is a 60-foot high falls that is nestled in a wide steep cove clustered with rhododendrons. It is one of the most accessible waterfalls ...

The Hike To Mill Shoals Trail

By Shannon Rae Treasure · 12 years ago

The trail is an easy hike with fairly manageable switchbacks and is located at the Eastern Blue Ridge to Cooper Creek Recreation Area. Expect to see forests and a stream along the way. The whole ...