A Warm Thank You From Pattycake Doll Company

As a result of my previous post about the dolls featured on Iyanla Fix My Life, I received an unexpected "thank you email" from Pattycake Doll Company (the source of the 34 dolls used on the show).  That email is shared in its entirety below:

Dear Debbie;

Thank you so much for posting links to our store from your latest blog post. we appreciate the shout out!

As bloggers ourselves, (thedollblog.com), we know how difficult it is to always have to come up with new posts, so we are passing along some follow up information about this story that may be enough to create another post for you:

As you might have noticed when looking at our site, we give 10% of our store's profits to charities that help children. So we tend to think along those lines anyway.

So when Harpo productions was talking to us about their initial order, and we found out this was to be a one-shot deal for them, we asked them what they  were going to do with the dolls afterwards. As they hadn't yet thought about it, we suggested a donation to a local children's hospital or women's shelter, or if needed, TIF (The Toy Industry Foundation) as TIF will sometimes arrange a pick up. (and those were four big boxes!)

TIF got the dolls, and subsequently they ended up at a "toys for children of our military" givaway at Langley Air Force base.

Here's TIF's tweet thanking us and Team Harpo! (Hopefully it will show up in this email.) https://twitter.com/ToyIndustryFndn/status/512684524971368448/photo/1

 

(Screen captured tweet from email)

A great story all around!

PS: Harpo Productions in Chicago did a complete duplicate of the Atlanta order for a follow-up story several months after, but we know nothing more than that.

Your friends;

 

Peter and Adrienne Laudin

The Pattycake Doll Company

www.PattycakeDoll.com  

America's Specialty Doll Store

Black, Asian, Hispanic, Biracial and Multicultural Dolls

Dolls for Boys, Learn-to-Dress Dolls, Musical & Animated Dolls

And the softest, cutest, most adorable plush dolls in the world!

www.MyAdoptedChild.com

Adoption Certificates, Stationery and Gifts

www.SleepySoft.com

Helping Children to Sleep

 

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Pretty cool, right?  You just never know who will find you and read what you have written about them on the Internet. 

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Dolls Featured on Recent Episodes of Iyanla Fix My Life

If you have watched this season of Iyanla Fix My Life (IFML), which airs on Saturday evenings on OWN (the Oprah Winfrey Network), you have probably seen the 34 dolls used to represent a man's 34 children fathered by 17 different women (shown in the above Youtube video.)

Someone asked if I knew the source of the dolls.  I knew they were dolls made in Spain and thought of a United Kingdom doll source I have used in the past that carries similar dolls, Nubidollz.com.   Then I recalled the various multicultural dolls offered through the Patty Cake Doll Company and there they were complete with a proud acknowledgement by the company that they supplied the dolls to OWN.

So if you too wondered about the source of the 34 dolls with ethnically correct facial features seen on IFML, wonder no more. 

Four of  the dolls can be seen at the following links:

James
Jazlyn
Little Sanjay
Little Shanti

To view all categories of dolls offered by The Patty Cake Doll Company, visit their home page.


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