Category: Music & Videos

  • Christy’s Song of the Day

    I like to turn up the music at home and dance like nobody’s watching on most days. I’ve been listening to this song over and over this week. Enjoy! Christy

  • Body Language Ted Talk

    Body language affects how others see us, but it may also change how we see ourselves. Social psychologist Amy Cuddy shows how “power posing” — standing in a posture of confidence, even when we don’t feel confident — can affect testosterone and cortisol levels in the brain, and might even have an impact on our…

  • Friday Snapshots

    I’m sort of loving the short videos right now! In case you didn’t know, we have a channel over on YouTube with a bunch of bits and pieces on it, like this video made yesterday…. We’ve also got a bunch of tutorials and little dolly videos we’ve made over the past couple of years. Is…

  • Bamboletta Cleaning Tips! By Alicia Verdier

    A while back I asked our long time customer and friend Alicia to write this post. Alicia is quite the stain removal wizz and our ‘go to’ gal when we get frantic emails from customers about something happening to their doll! Thank you so much Alicia for this! xo I cannot count the number of…

  • How I Started Making Dolls – A History of Bamboletta

    This is Lillian – she is my first ever doll and sits on the windowsill in our workshop. See – I don’t think this stuff is interesting but I do get asked about how I got started making dolls quite a bit so I thought I’d write down how this all started. I know I’ve…

  • How to ‘Do’ Freckles

    The freckles are a great hit. The thing with the freckles is that they can eventually be ‘loved’ off – but that’s why I’m creating this post – so you can ‘love’ them right back on – easy peasy! So, what you need is either a watercolor pencil in a brown color or a light…