davidd's A DOLL A DAY 2023

[Alliecat]

I'm becoming too predictable.

Haha, well, you do make it look like they do all the work.... 
Cute pic... it's fun seeing them playing with the smaller dolls.

I'd like to have gone more than once to the Aloha Flea Market.  As it was, I recall going out on TheBus and buying an extra bag there to tote all my souvenirs home in!    It would've been fun to watch and talk with the carvers at the swap meet.  Yours are cool.  And it would be a fun tradition to add one a year.
I'm also perplexed as to what happened to Coco Joe's, and why, if it was out of business, I got my Kanaloa in 1995.  Although someone on that forum thinks it was later than in the article, and a quick skim through the first page suggests someone was making copies from molds. 
Kanaloa's sticker says he allows one to endure hardship and misfortune, and promises eternal happiness.  I guess I thought the God of Eternal Hope was a good investment.
...maybe I need to shake him or something...?
That forum looks like quite a rabbit-hole of reading... unfortunately I can't take a longer look yet.