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age 60 sales a week this year.
Joann has always been interested in arts, crafts, and decorating, and Frank has always had a passion for carpentry. Bringing their talents together, they have crafted a business.
Life-like dolls
Frank gets up early each day and crafts the dolls’ wooden frames.
The frame Frank constructs is what makes the dolls so lifelike since their faces are obscured by hats, hair, and scarves.
He also makes the bicycles the Berta Babies ride, and even potty chairs.
Taylor, their five-year-old daughter, used to pose for Frank so that he could study skeletal posturing, which he would try to duplicate with a wooden frame.
The doll’s posture is so lifelike that remarkable stories have come back to Joann and Frank.
Once, a cable installer was
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