Carol Finwall's children sometimes got a little creeped out by the room where she kept supplies for her hobby and home business: They would see disembodied heads, arms and hands and jars full of shiny ...

Pamela Townsend clutched the little doll with tight curls and a white gown and whispered, “This is my Christmas present to me.” But there was no need to keep it hush. The handful of women standing ...