Pat Hawkins, how do you display your dolls? I have a large doll room. ( it was once 2 small bedrooms & the prev. owners made it into 1 large room )It is lined with doll shelves, mostly opened but a few cabinets have doors on them & in those cab. are the older dolls, which are the most expensive & hard to replace & these dolls are just lined up side by side. The cab. with doors helps keep dust off the dolls & little assess. from falling out & my grandkids & others , hands off them. On the open shelves I have 'rooms' with doll furniture or a dept. store setup or an office or a school room display. I cram as many dolls as poss. into the display but sometimes that's as little as 3 dolls as it would ruin the idea. ( my grand kids get a kick out of rearrangeing these ) I take Xmas ornaments that look like tea sets for instance or there's 3 of them that would pass for ornate chandeliers & they are hung from the ceilings of the more 'fancy' rooms . I'm always on the look out for ornaments or key chains with minis on them. I make stuff out of trash if it resembles, say a bucket or a frame or gives me some idea to make something with it. I have fun with my dolls & make them work or play & not just stand there static. I can't redo hair or makeup, or make outfits ..my thing is scenes. I take as many dolls out of the box as poss. but for seasonal dolls , such as Xmas, I keep the boxes, as they are usually pretty & replace the doll into it to help store it for next Xmas or whenever. Certain special empty boxes I keep & place in large trash bags that I store up in the attic which is just a hole in the ceiling & hard to get to. Occasionally , I don't take a doll out of the box for whatever reason. These dolls in boxes are stored on top each other behind the door into the doll room. All you have to do is closed the door to see them. Some dolls such as Neptunes Daughter Barbie are displayed in individual cases ontop of the shelves. I try to keep all dolls in this room as my husband complains ( we have a friend who has dolls all over every inch of her house & in every room ...he's afraid I'll get to that) But in the living room , there's one sq. table about 30 by 30 that holds my seasonal displays. Right now it is a n Easter one, which was made into a springtime look after EAster. It's all grassy, flowery looking with fairy -like dolls on it ( & a Barbie sized unicorn I couldn't resist at the last doll show I attended) . My husband gets a kick out of these as I try to use some taste & my effort shows, I think , & the grand kids like them, so that makes it alright. Down the middle of the doll room is a series of low setting shelves & a desk & on the shelves is one of those large Barbie doll houses which gets changed about, usually by the grands ( the kids learn quickly what they can touch, but they'll never understand why some dolls must remain in their box ) I have some Star Trek stuff & a few cars & train that the grand sons like, otherwise they'll not that interested in the room but my grand daugter is amazed with it & finds something she's never seen before , tho it's always been there. My sons & DIL think I I've gone overboard & worry what they'll do with all this stuff should I drop dead suddenly ( hey, they're practical, what can I say ) I'm am inspiration to them not to get carried away with their collecting as I have hundreds of dolls. Lots of the people I know , feel this way, so I'm careful to whom I show the room ...I'm tired of those incredulous looks that say 'she's nuts". I belong to a doll club & have a few friends who collect , but other then those choosen ones....it really seldom gets seen by anyone but me. Right now it's a mess because of our redoing the closets & shrouded with sheets to protect dolls from the drywall dust. My husband collects tools ,which are seldom used, out in the garage & expensive metal airlplane models & lots of bookcases full of books , which ARE read, in his office...so he only has to say something once about my dolls & I'd be all over him like white on rice about ALL the stuff he collects well now, I got a lot off my chest didn't I ? Pat H.