The January/February 2017 issue of DOLLS features40 four-color pages. This issue reveals the 2016 Dolls Awards of Excellence Public’s Choice winners! It also includes our annual holiday gift guide, featuring fabulous dolls for the collectors or potential future collectors on your gift list. In addition, you’ll find features about the wondrous creations of doll artist LuLu Tatum, how one dollmaker is putting her skills to a new use this holiday season, and what one venerable doll company is planning to celebrate its upcoming centennial. Plus, we have our usual columns on antique and vintage dolls, a new paper doll, and more!

TABLE OF CONTENTS

8 A Touch of Magic
Enter the wondrous world of LuLuTatum
By Pam North

11 And the Winner Is…
DOLLS readers have selected the Public’s Choice winners in our annual Dolls Awards of Excellence

16 Created for Collectors
Paul Pham reveals his plans for a new year
By Wil Peterson

22 Dolls in Toyland

30 Artists’ Seasonal Creations
By Stephanie Finnegan

31 Get ready for 2017

30 Doll maker puts skills to new use for Christmas donations
By April Norton

34 Uneeda Doll celebrates 100 years in 2017
By Stephanie Finnegan