i find myself looking over the denver doll emporium website, just to see if anything new has come out, and lo and behold i stumble on something that’s extremely rare: a ball- jointed doll company called goodreau…based here in the states. so i’m digging around, pulling off some web research, stumbling into this and that. dollpeddlar.com has them for sale and they are quite reasonbly priced. then i step into deviant art and there she is ‘GoodreauDolls’…sheesh, shows how long its been since i paid attention to the freaking web site/community i post 99% of my art on.

Paulette Goodreau and her sister Annette are the force behind Goodreau Dolls (tho it seems like mainly Paulette on the creative end of things) and the dolls are quite interesting…a couple of them are downright startlingly gorgeous in their own special way and i (of course) can’t wait to get my hands on a couple of them. Aside from her line of bjd’s, Paulette also creates these really adorably off kilter plush dollies called NoNo and a plastic doll line called Snappy dolls.

my heart belongs to the large ball jointed doll though…. heaven knows, fresh blood is always a really great thing in the realm of ball jointed dollies and seeing someone creating these kinds of dolls stateside is pretty damn cool. mind you, the dolls are apparently being fabricated in china, but as ms. goodreau herself stated they are “made with love in china” in a nice factory without the whole sweatshop vibe. which, according to ms. goodreau, bjd’s being fabricated in china is actually quite common…ya learn something new every day.

so doll fanatics out there, pull yourselves together and check out http://www.goodreaudoll.com and ,as i stated above, she’s also a member of deviantart.com too.

note: article initially appeared in my old blog: violletsweb

images in collage layout above: paulette goodreau