Russian Doll..

[anonymousbrainsnatcher]

Any ideas where I can buy a good quality (already painted) Russian Doll set? John Lewis only have "paint your own" or Christmas themed ones, and I want a classic set for DD (5).

Thanks.

[MentalFloss]

These are lovely I think, we bought a Christmas set a few years ago from here but they have lots of others.

Our ones are of really good quality.

[purplehat]

Paperchase had some in last year-they were lovely and very good quality though not expensive.

Otherwise these sites have some:

www.yellowmoon.org.uk/product.asp?pf_id=D450&src=froogle

www.mulberrybush.co.uk/toy-store/detail-russian-dolls.aspx

www.russiandolls.co.uk/

[brimfull]

god I LOVE russian dolls
we have battered one it's been played with so much

[anonymousbrainsnatcher]

Beautiful, thank you so much. Exactly what I am after....

DD saw some at a friend's house the other day and just lusted after them.. I had forgotten how lovely they were.

[brimfull]

awww I want this one but at price

[dichotomy]

wilkos have a cheap & tacky set here


something different have them as well, it's a wholesale site but there's no minimum order
You do have to register though(for business name I just used my ebay name)

something different

[anonymousbrainsnatcher]

Thanks dichotomy. The wilkos ones unfortunatley are ceramic, which will last about a minute with my clumsy oaf darling DD! But thanks anyway, all these tips are great.

[plymgary]

Oooh, thanks for recommending my site mentalfloss. :)

Glad you like the dolls we sent.

[MentalFloss]

Can I just say I love your website?

I love being able to buy gifts for people which aren't the usual mass produced crap!

[anonymousbrainsnatcher]

I'm going to be on your website tomorrow, whilst I have DD suitably distracted and not looking at what I am doing!!!

plymgary I will placing an order shortly. I looked today, but loved so many of them, that I couldn't decide so need another visit....

[anonymousbrainsnatcher]

Mine arrived - it is BEAUTIFUL from handcrafteduk.com.


My DD will be thrilled, thank you so much!

Recommend.. and was delivered quickly as well..

[plymgary]

Thanks for all the positive feedback. Happy to hear you liked the dolls.

I'll make this my last post in this bit of the forum as it might look like i'm 'touting'!! :)

[Frrrrightattendant]

Does anyone know if the Russian Shop is still open in Holborn? We got ours there when I was a kid...really special trip to get it, and we were allowed to choose each individual doll

[plymgary]

this?

[Frrrrightattendant]

Oh, sadly not - I don't think so, anyway - the one we went to only sold gifts and toys. It was about 25-30 years ago

But thankyou for trying!

Your website is lovely - we had a six piece classic set, I now only have the huge Babushka (about 8/9 inches tall) and a couple of her babies!

They all had names

Babushka

Miata

Vasilisa (of course!)

Fnoushka

Tatiana

and Malinka

[plymgary]

Wow, can you actually remember those names from your childhood?! That's impressive! :)

[Frrrrightattendant]

I'm a bit obsessive

[saffy85]

Have you tried ebay? There was loads on there when I looked. DD aged 3 loves russian dolls so I was looking for christmas but her aunty brought her a massive one back from Russia, the exact same one as ggirl linked. Hope she didn't spend that much on it though!

[Frrrrightattendant]

thankyou! Will try it x