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The handmade dolls you'll want to sleep with yourself
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The handmade dolls you'll want to sleep with yourself

By Cool Mom Team
1 min read
For the most part, I don't spontaneously exclaim awwwww and get all teary when I get a new baby toy for review, but that's totally what happened when I peeled open the sweet little canvas bag to reveal the plush baby doll from Bumblebird.

Designer Heather Renz makes soft, fleecey, huggable, loveable little creatures with the most adorable hand-embroidered faces. They're the toys you kind of hope your baby will fall in love with so that the doll ends up in every photo. As opposed to, you know, Elmo. -Liz

Congratulations to Brooke E, winner of that adorable plush baby doll from Bumblebird!

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