A Doll's life

the best cure for sickness

2009-03-25T22:22:25Z

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can I come up too?

2009-03-18T04:50:54Z

zzzzzzzz

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what man? I am trying to sleeeeep

2009-03-18T04:48:27Z

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Gloria steinham speaking to us at facebook

2009-03-11T18:07:18Z

Gloria steinham

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new pants!

2009-02-24T18:54:59Z

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time for some street fighter 4

2009-02-22T17:30:45Z

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all ready for Morris day!

2009-02-15T03:35:13Z

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dapper dog

2009-02-14T03:41:41Z

be my valentine?

valentines bow tie

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New dresses in stock!

2009-02-12T20:43:18Z

I just listed a BUNCH of new Bettie Page and Stop Staring dresses over in my ebay shop! Head on over and take a look. :)

vintage dress

2009-02-04T19:51:31Z

retro sewing patterns

vintage lace dress

retro sewing patterns

gorgeous vintage dress

vintage fashion illustration

retro dress

retro sewing patterns

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You gotta have charm

2009-02-02T20:23:14Z

Friday night we took a little trip to our local used Bookstore to spend some store credit. I always find great things there and this but Friday night I found something amazing! I think I may have even jumped up and down a little when I found it.

There they were, in all their mauve pink glory. A full set of 4 volumes of the Nancy Taylor Course. I'd read about this course and had looked for a set for awhile and then given up when I always came up empty handed.

Back in the 50's and 60's there were numerous Self Development courses for women. Dorothy Carnegie (wife of Dale of "How to win friends & influence people" fame) had a very popular one. Nancy Taylor had another very popular one. What was great about Nancy's course was it was part of the Nancy Taylor SCHOOL which set up in about 300 cities in the US. Nancy offered Secretarial courses and a "charm and finishing course." It was a great source of pride for the Nancy Taylor School to boast that their graduates were well versed in proper make-up, hair, and fashion. Employers were very excited to have ladies that understood how to have "the right look".

The volumes that I found are for the Charm and Finishing course and I couldn't be more excited. There are charts for you to track your progress through the various "reducing" exercises. I was tickeled to see that the previous owner of my volumes had dutifuly noted her present and "ideal" measurements in blue fountain pen. Although she kept up with notating her weight measurements over the next few months, I'm saddened to say that she neglected to keep up with her ankle, waist, and neck measurements. Tsk Tsk.

I've just started reading (and attempting to complete) Volume one and I intend to share my progress with you and even some of the lessons, if you're interested. Although, I don't think I'll be notating my measurements here for you. ;-)

Until I can get some great pictures from my own set of books, you should check out this great set on Flickr.

Along the way we'll learn all sorts of great things about Hair & Makeup, choosing the right Hat and clothing, improving our speaking voice, how to be a charming conversationalist, and doing everything with poise and grace.

Check out these great images from a Charm School in the 40's that I found via Life on Google.

dollbite @ 2009-01-27T14:53:00

2009-01-27T22:53:30Z

I have some great great deals on Stop Staring dresses just in time for Valentines! They are going fast so be sure to head on over to my ebay store to grab one. If you love retro dresses and lingerie you should definitely bookmark my store because over the next couple of weeks I'll be adding more Stop Staring dresses, Bettie Page Clothing dresses and gorgeous retro lingerie and foundation garments!

Click on the logo below to check out my store.

first order leaving the Dolly Dahl store!

2009-01-27T03:03:49Z

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order packing station

2009-01-27T03:03:30Z

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eeek Jason got me

2009-01-18T04:56:43Z

eeek Jason got me

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facebook at da mooovies

2009-01-18T04:56:27Z

facebook at da mooovies

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Jason got him

2009-01-18T04:56:12Z

Jason got him

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visuals being tested

2009-01-16T03:44:10Z

visuals being tested

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instruments of choice

2009-01-16T03:31:14Z

instruments of choice

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getting ready for the show

2009-01-16T02:29:37Z

getting ready for the show

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Check out my ebay store

2009-01-11T04:51:10Z

I just posted a few great vintage lovelies over in my ebay store. Also up for grabs is an amazing leopard print Stop Staring dress! I'll be adding more over the next few days so be sure to bookmark my store. Head over and snap up some great deals!

http://stores.ebay.com/PinupDollyDahl

I'm going to have some great BRAND NEW Stop Staring and Bettie Page Clothing dresses listed very soon!

Livejournal dying?

2009-01-06T18:23:43Z

I think we're all going to be without Livejournal soon. They just laid off 20 of the 28 employees with no severance. All engineers and product managers are gone leaving online Finance and a couple of Ops people. Sounds like we should look forward to shitty performance and maybe even downtime. This makes me sad.

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2009-01-04T04:32:29Z

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smurfette makeup

2009-01-01T02:48:07Z

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smurfette face

2009-01-01T02:47:54Z