| Madeleine has a real doggie at home but when she comes to The Wharf Shop she loves to play with the Sleeping and Breathing Pets. A battery keeps these little friends constantly breathing, a comforting presence that doesn't need 5 am walks or vet visits. They come with a carrying case, bedding, brush and "adoption papers" $34.95
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| Germaine has been blessed with 12 granchildren so she's had to play Diggity Dog almost 1 million times but still thinks it's fun! The battery op. dog barks how many spaces you can move, pick up a bone with your magnetic dog's nose, if the color matches you get to keep it. Collect 3 bones and get back to your dog house to win. Silly fun which reinforces color and counting skills. For ages 3 on up/2-4 players. Batteries included. $20.95
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A game we discovered at Toy Fair by Canadian educators have become Gwen's favorite. Metamorpho is checkers with pom pom catapillars and ladybugs. When they get kinged, they turn into butterflies and adult bugs. On the back is tictactoe. Magnetic and packed in a clear handled case great for travel!
$20.95 ages 3 on up
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Nada's 2 favorite games are Set and MightyMind. We've been recommending MightyMind for over 20 years. Set, a mensa award winner, is a card game of visual perception, so the youngest players may even beat the more learned.
NOTE: Nada is wearing our famous NO WHINING button
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Gwen loves the musical dolls. Their clothes are so detailed and the heads turn while they are playing. Their faces are like Joan Walsh Anglund kids( books that she and her sister, Natasha, read while growing up). Gwen is holding Rapunzel, a favorite with her flowing braid. There are also mermaids, Dorothy from The Wizard of Oz, an Irish Lass, and several other rotating styles. The communion dolls are a hit in the spring. $22.00
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Dede is our Breyer Horse specialist. She has ridden horses all her life and even had her own Breyers, as a child.
Her twin daughters never got the horse riding bug. (Is that a good or a bad thing?)
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Katie is holding the 2007 Bee Keeper Wendy doll by Madame Alexander ( $79.95). Katherine's other job is running the farmers market and this reminds her of the honey seller and bee keeper, Mary. Also new, is My New Friend Hello Kitty doll ($79.95) in the box to her right.
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Before she left for college, Luisa was our resident Hello Kitty enthusiast! She biked to work with a Hello Kitty shaped water bottle and we counted on her to keep our display organized!
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| Karin has first hand experience with the Alex craft kits. Among her many jobs she babysits a 5 year old and had a great time knotting a fleecey rug with her young friend! Alex also made a scarf kit for the coming cool weather season!
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Seasonal employee, Kat was a Playmobil kid so it's fun for her to sell it now! She is holding the horse trailer, a perennial favorite with horse lovers and one of the 2008 skateboarder sets.
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Past employee, Karen has a Papo 2 headed dragon in her hand. Karen helps to order the Papo figures and gets really excited when a new one arrives, whether it's a knight or an ogre!
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Former co-worker Kris likes the puppets.
(The pink ballerina matches her vest!).
There are princesses, kings, and animals.
They run from $9.50 on up.
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