January 21-22, 2005
Here are our pictures from IDEX. The first are the pictures from the Friday night Doll Maker and Friends get together. This was my first time to get to meet any of the Marie Doll Friends. So I really enjoyed this.
Next are the pictures from the brunch and doll signing on Saturday. The brunch pictures look dark because there was a slide show running the whole time and there was never a light put on Marie. It wasn't hard to see Marie, but it didn't make for good pictures.
As always, Marie was truly gracious. It is always fun when getting to spend time with Marie Osmond. This was the first time I have gotten to see her husband Brian.
Marie spent allot of time with us while we got our dolls signed. I am sure we held up the line for at least five minutes. Mitch told Marie about how he bought the Angel doll right after Katie's death and we talked about adoption. She had so much praise and much needed encouragement for us, as we have just adopted a 13 year old girl. She recommended we get/read a book "Reviving Ophelia".
After the signing, we walked around the convention center and looked at all the other dolls. There weren't very many people there, unlike the last show we attended in Atlanta which was a Collector's show in 2000.
I got one new doll this weekend, the original Baby Annette, who is going to look terrific with my Christmas Baby Annette. It was late, but we went through the line a second time, with my new doll. We were the end of the line and last ones to get a doll signed. With many thanks to Sue from Me My Dolls and I shop. She was schmoozed me into the line. And the lady that works for Marie, that was gracious enough to let me get into line.
I even think my husband, Mitch actually enjoyed himself.
Can't wait to do this again.
From Mitch:
All I can say is this was my birthday weekend, I must really love her to spend it looking at dolls :) We seemed to spend allot of time standing in lines. The people were nice, the food was good. Naomi really had a great time. Marie was absolutely wonderful. She was so nice and spent allot of time with everyone. Made you feel like family. Now, I don't know what I am going to do with these dolls I got this weekend?
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