The Adventure Begins

I collected Barbies until I was 18 and kept them in pristine condition – then gave them away to my cousins (knock on the head).

It wasn't until a visit to New York's FAO Schwartz, three years ago, that I met fashion dolls face to face again. Until then I wasn't even aware that there was an alternative universe made up of fashion dolls other than Barbies. It was Tonner's Ellowynes which most captured my heart and my wallet. Shoppers' guilt made me return the Ellowyne to her shelf on that day, but on the airplane ride back home I was heartbroken, and obsessed!

A month later, she made her way home to me, all the way from far off Ebay to the exotic land of Israel. A true pioneer doll – for me thinks there are no other collectors of Ellowynes or any other fashion dolls other than Barbie in the holyland. I would love to be proven wrong.

Meet "Dark Days" Ellowyne, known around here as Katherine or Kate for short.

And her naming is a whole other story.

Till next we meet,

Shalom from Israel.