The Sneaks Family

It's always a wild and crazy scene at the "Sneaks Family" house with four young boys running around so you can imagine how excited they are by the release of their e-patterns and birthday party products. They can't sit down.

"Stealin Base Devin Sneaks"is a master at stealin base. You might think he's just on 1st base and then the next thing you know he's on 2ND and then 3RD. He's there in a split second and slammin into the base before the opposing team knows it. They don't get much faster at stealin base than "Stealing Base Devin Sneaks!"

"Stealin Base Devin Sneaks" is an 8" cloth and sneaker boy doll from The Sneaker Series.  He has a cloth head with an embroidered face. His face is outline embroidered and he has huge brown, black and white satin stitched embroidered eyes. His eyelids are satin stitched with cream embroidery floss. His nose is back stitched embroidered as are his mouth, eyelashes and eyebrows.   His cheeks are blushed pink.   He has thick, straight brown yarn hair under his red cap.

He likes to wear his sneakers facing forward and his head facing forward so he can get a jump start on stealin the base. And, of course, he always carried his favorite bat with him.

"Slammin Ryan Sneaks" just loves to hit it out of the park. He's trying for MVP of his little league team and practices batting constantly. He's so into slammin the ball out of the park that he's often heard saying "It's a home run! Way to go Slammin Ryan!" in his sleep.

"Slammin Ryan Sneaks" is a 9" cloth and sneaker boy doll from The Sneaker Series. He has a cloth head with an embroidered face. His face is outline embroidered and he has huge brown, black and white satin stitched embroidered eyes. His eyelids are satin stitched with cream embroidery floss. His nose is back stitched embroidered as are his mouth, eyelashes and eyebrows.   His cheeks are blushed pink.   He has thick, straight brown yarn hair under his red cap.

He likes to wear his sneakers facing forward so he can slamm the ball whenever he gets a chance. And, of course, he always carried his favorite bat with him.

"Nicholas Fast Ball Sneaks" just loves to hit it out of the park, too. Only he specializes in slammin the fast balls. He's always practicing at the batting cages with the machine on the fastest setting and has such a good eye for timing the hit that he can look away and still hit the fastest ball thrown at him. They don't get any faster than Nicholas. He's slammin fast!

"Nicholas Fast Ball Sneaks" is a 9" cloth and sneaker boy doll from The Sneaker Series. He has a cloth head with an embroidered face. His face is outline embroidered and he has huge blue, black and white satin stitched embroidered eyes. His eyelids are satin stitched with cream embroidery floss. His nose is back stitched embroidered as are his eyelashes and eyebrows. His cheeks are blushed pink.
His smiling mouth is outline embroidered and is stain stitched with pink embroidery floss. He has thick, straight brown yarn hair under is blue cap.

He likes to wear his sneakers facing forward and his head facing forward in order to see that fast ball coming straight at him. And, of course, he always carried his favorite bat with him.

"Home Run Brian Sneaks" only wants to get a home run. And, he doesn't really care how he goes about doing that. Stealing base, bunting, hitting it out of the park. It doesn't matter if it's him or his teammate who gets him to home base just as long as he gets there. He just loves the thrill of running over home plate.

"Home Run Brian Sneaks" is an 8" cloth and sneaker boy doll from The Sneaker Series.  He has a cloth head with an embroidered face. His face is outline embroidered and he has huge blue, black and white satin stitched embroidered eyes. His eyelids are satin stitched with cream embroidery floss. His nose is back stitched embroidered as are his mouth, eyelashes and eyebrows.   His cheeks are blushed pink. He has curly blond yarn hair under his blue cap.

He likes to wear his sneakers facing forward and his head facing forward in order to hit that ball out of the park for a "home run." And, of course, he always carried his favorite bat with him.

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Meet "Egg Muffs" Series Of Dolls

The "Egg Muff's" are a fun loving group of dolls that love to sneak around and maybe, every once in awhile, drop in unexpectedly. Toni E. Hawk and her brother, Tom A. Hawk, are the most fun loving of the group. You might find them peeking around a corner, peeking over the windowsill, peeking through a keyhole in a door, or sneaking into your room. You just never know. Sometimes you might just catch a glimpse of their eyes and hair as they try to sneak a peek. If you listen carefully, you might even hear them laughing, even chuckling away. Sometimes you might even catch them doing a little jig. You just never know what they may do. They love to laugh. They love to have fun. But, most of all they love to play hide and peek! No, not hide and seek! Hide and peek!

Toni E. Hawk and Tom A. Hawk are twins. She might seem shy and well-mannered, but she is anything but. She is highly intelligent and loves a good joke. She isn't afraid of taking on her twin brother, Tom A. Hawk, or his best friend, Spike A Peek. In fact, Toni E. Hawk actually comes up with the best thought out practical jokes around which makes her just a little bit intimidating to the other member's of the Egg Muff Series. However, when everyone gets to laughing at Toni E. Hawk's latest gag everyone soon forgets how intimidated they are by her intelligence.

Tom A. Hawk is anything but shy and well-mannered. He, too, is highly intelligent and loves a good joke and isn't afraid of taking on his twin sister, Toni E. Hawk, or his best friend, Spike A Peek. Unlike his sister, however, his intelligence isn't intimidating at all. In fact, Tom A Hawk does an exceptional job of hiding his intelligence while showcasing his wit, his charm, and his good looks. The girls just can't resist a charming, good looking, bit of a devil in him type of guy with a tomahawk hairdo.

Spike A Peek is actually the most rambunctious of the Egg Muffs and, generally, the least level headed. He always lets the fun get the better of him and finds that, more often then not, he's in the "Muff House" (the Egg Muff Series version of a doghouse) being "muffed!" This is also known as a "time-out!" Spike A Peek doesn't use his "time-out" and being "muffed" wisely. He uses it as an opportunity to think up his next prank. The one he's going to play on Tom A. Hawk.

Nancy Dew Drop is actually the most well behaved of the Egg Muffs and, generally, the most level headed. Sometimes, even Nancy lets the fun get the better of her and you might just hear her giggling in the background. Just listen for a sweet "tee-hee-hee" and that will be Nancy Dew Drop.

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Fun With Puzzles and Noodles

Two of the products I created for my "It's Raining Doll Parties Products Gallery" included three jigsaw puzzles with graphics that I had designed of the Hawk Family. One of the puzzles had the Hawk family children graphics on hearts, one had their square fabric images on it, and one had the Hawk Family graphics with the words "It's Raining Doll Parties" on it.

The jigsaw puzzles come in two sizes: 8" by 10" puzzle in gift box and 10" by 14" puzzle with 252 pieces. The pieces are made of sturdy cardboard and mounted on chipboard and are printed in vivid colors with easy wipe clean surfaces. I decided to try two of the 10" by 14" size puzzles and ordered two of them.

When they arrived I was anxious to try them as I LOVE puzzles of all sorts and have since I was a child. Give me a puzzle to put together, a crossword puzzle to solve, Rubik's cube, three dimensional puzzle of the Empire State Building, etc. and I will work on it until I've finished it or solved it. I spent hours one weekend when I was a teenager solving the Rubik's cube. I worked on it and worked on it and worked on it until I solved it. Sounds a little obsessive compulsive doesn't it?

When I was a child I also adored spending hours on end putting jigsaw puzzles together. My mother did too and we spent many hours over the years sitting side by side doing our jigsaw puzzles. I was thrilled when the Monet impressionist paintings jigsaw puzzles first came out as they were harder to do. I was so in love with puzzles I even glued and mounted some of them on cardboard to hang on the walls in my room. I can't remember what the puzzles were - probably images of movie stars like Robert Goulet or Doris Day or the early rock bands like Herman's Hermits, Dave Clark Five, etc. Who knows. I'm definitely dating myself here.

In any event I've never outgrown my LOVE of puzzles. Kind of like my LOVE of dolls -something else I've never outgrown a love for. I could go on and on but need to get back to the story.

So, I was anxious to try my new puzzles but decided to wait until this weekend as I knew my grandson 'Noodles" was visiting this weekend and thought it would be fun to put them together with him. Noodles and I always have a wonderful time and a lot of fun when he visits. We do a lot of shopping and eating, shopping and eating, shopping and eating, and shopping with more eating. Come on now --- with all that shopping one does get hungry. At least that's what I tell myself after stopping for cookies.

When we got home from all that shopping and eating I asked Noodles if he wanted to help me put the puzzles together as I needed to make sure the products would work for my 'It's Raining Doll Parties."  Yeah, sure Nana - make sure the products work???  Fess up - you just want to do the puzzles.

He said, "sure" but warned me that he had never done a jigsaw puzzle before which surprised me at first. I thought for sure he would finish his before I even got my out of the box. Then, when I thought about it I realized he's from the Millennial generation where their scrolling phones are attached to their fingers shortly after birth and they have X-Boxes or Wii's in the corner of their cribs. The Millennial generation wouldn't be familiar with such an old school dinosaur toy as a jigsaw puzzle. So, I shouldn't have been surprised.

Since he had never done a jigsaw puzzle before I explained to him that I liked to build my puzzles from the outside in. Start with the straight pieces and built to the inside. Everyone has their own method - that's the one I've always used. So we set to sorting the puzzle pieces and finding the edges.

To my surprise the puzzles were a little harder than I had thought. We didn't have enough time to finish ours before we went out to eat. Come one now with all that puzzle work I got hungry.....

We ended up finishing our puzzles the following morning. I actually finished mine before Noodles did. YIPPEE for Nana. He didn't know it but I had secretly given him the harder of the two. Bad Nana! Bad Nana!

Hey, come on now...... He can run circles around me when it comes to our phones. I won't even mention the video games he's been able to trounce me on since he was born. At two he was on the last level of the Mario video game before I had even figured out how to use the joystick. So, I cheated a little this weekend. In all fairness Nana has to win at something - don't she?

Fun with puzzles and Noodles this weekend. I LOVED it.