I'm like so many, first heard of Candi thru the mag. ad when Mikelman was designing them & Lizzie was selling them...I still have an old email of hers verifying a doll I bought from her in Oct. of '97. There were lots of 'bad' things connected to trying to get a Candi doll then. people lost money & it was either Lizzie's fault or Helena H'.s , we never could figure who was the culprit here. Then there was the Paul D. / H. Hamilton feud where each was blaming the other for the same thing. . Then Helena signs up with another company & that was the Bullwinkle dolls which never materialized & something happened to the Betty Page dolls. It's a near miricle that any of us stick with it & lasted thru it...but did so because of the love of the Candi dolls, but she definetly has a checkered past. Pat H. in Al.