These are just plain UGLY and overpriced. A horrible Christmas tradition. Share in my misery – Please Subscribe: www.youtube.com If you are interested, here is more info on Annalee: In one way, the tale begins with a young woman’s meticulous dying of felt fabric and freehand painting of doll faces during the Depression. In another, it starts daily in a design room, a short stroll from Lake Winnipesaukee in Meredith, NH. Either way this is a once-upon-a time story of a doll making cottage industry making it big; nationally big. But this story is different because this one is infused with magic; a very special magic which is uniquely Annalee. Annalee and husband Chip Thorndike lived on a New Hampshire chicken farm. The chicken farm failed in the early 1950′s and it was then that Annalee was forced to really get serious about her childhood hobby, doll making with a dash of Yankee influence. So the old chicken coop became a design room, Chip became a salesman, and Annalee a doll maker. She fashioned her creations directly from the activities of her two sons who were always skiing, swimming or otherwise engaged in what children do best. There is no doubt that this is why Annalee picked more then one mischievous, whimsical face for each of her doll creations. Today, the dolls that Annalee’s design associates create reflect not only easier times, but also Annalee’s sense of human nature – and humor. The ideas emerged, she says, from “research and reading.” By the 1980′s the …
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