DOLL SHOW PRODUCTIONS

The "DOLLICIOUS " Doll Show and Sale began with two friends on a mission.  Michael Wolk-Laniewski and Sharon Napier's wanted to produce a doll show that we would like to go to, as a customer, and   to sell at, as a dealer.  Having been both customers and dealers, we know what we liked and didn't like.  We used what we liked to make our show the best and biggest doll show in Michigan.

MICHAEL WOLK-LANIEWSKI

     Honest, intelligent, trustworthy, creative,  hard working, dependable, sensitive and kind are just some of the adjectives that describe Michael Wolk-Laniewski.  He is the epitome of a "Gentleman".  He is highly respected in the doll world for his experience and knowledge of dolls and doll collecting. 

     Beginning with his own childhood doll, (whose hair he restyled untill she was nearly bald). he began to collect dolls while in the service in the  late '60's.  By the '70's, he began to sort through and sell some of the duplicate dolls he had collected.  Reading and studing about dolls, he soon became the go-to-guy when his club members and friends had questions about their dolls. 

     As a member of many doll clubs and a dealer for over 30 years,  Michael  has met and befriended hundreds of doll collectors from around the world.  He is a member of the United Federation of Doll Clubs, Inc., Dolls and Friends Doll Club of Royal Oak Michigan and the Doll Doctors.  He has been the President of many doll clubs.  He has given many lectures on a variety of doll topics, including bonnett dolls, china heads, wooden, celluloid, cloth, specific cloth like Beecher and Alabama baby dolls, German dolls, and paper mache, are just a sampling of his interests. 

     Avid collector is an understatement.  His collection is extensive and eclectic . 

     Michael excites collectors and friends with his enthusiasm. He has been a doll appraiser at  both doll shows and appraisal fairs.  He has been involved in running doll sales rooms at many doll conferences and shows.   Through all of his collecting he has also worked full time as a hairdresser.    He currently works at Fringe Salon in West Bloomfield, Michigan 

SHARON NAPIER

     Wife, mother, homemaker ,dollmaker, doll artist, doll parts manufacturer, and show promoter. 

     Who would have thought 40 years ago that a young woman's life could change so much. 

The doll world has been a blessing and salvation.  Three sons and a daughter left little time for pursuits outside of the home.   Doll making and teaching reproduction doll making were an outlet for Sharon's creative efforts.

     Collecting antique dolls was an extention of the doll making business.  You can't reproduce an antique doll if you have never seen one.

      With encouragement from doll club members,  Sharon sent an origional doll for the Battle Creek  UFDC regional Conference. The doll was accepted.  500 dolls later,  "Sojourner Truth" was a Hit! 

     After years of making dolls for special luncheons, holiday parties and  conventions,  Sharon purchased a doll parts business, which sends doll parts to every corner of the globe.

     Sharon's husband Jan has taken more than a casual interest in her doll endeavors.  He accompanies her to doll shows, does her computer set ups, does detective work on the dolls she collects, and supports her crazy habits.  He has his own collection of Peter Pan  so he understands her addiction. 

     Sharon repairs antique dolls,  sews doll clothes, makes replacement doll parts, does doll appraisals has been a board member of many clubs for the past 30 years and will never win a reward for a spotless house.  Life is so much more than clean floors!  Her motto is "Have doll show, will travel"!