At the age of five Dianna got her first doll for Christmas. Playing with her, changing her clothes, brushing her hair and putting her to sleep, she slowly started to absorb the culture of the dolls' world. But only in 1971, Dianna began to seriously get involved in making dolls, first she made them for girls in the orphanage where she worked.

This hobby absorbed and fascinated her so much that she realized that dolls are her life purpose and began to learn all the nuances of technology of manufacturing dolls, the art of doll design, the skills of a sculptor, a potter, a tailor and a fashion designer. In 1990, together with her assistant Geri Uribe, she opened a doll shop in the city of Jamestown, Missouri. Since then a new stage of life has began for Dianna and Geri, the production of dolls became a business.

Dianna Effner's dolls stand out of hundreds of creations of other artists with an amazing humanity, tenderness and kindness in their eyes, touching silhouettes, accuracy in the details of clothes and jewelry. And, most importantly, when a Diana's doll puts her head on your shoulder and leans down to your ear, you can hear her voice quite clearly: "Make Love Not War," says the doll...

A good doll is like a member of the family, she accompanies you through your whole life, you love her, care about her, baby her, worry about her. If you played a lot with dolls in your childhood you will not be a bad mother, you won't leave your child in a maternity clinic, you will never betray. It is necessary that our children play with dolls, each girl must have not a dozen of dolls, but one or two dolls, but loved ones.

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