Category: Studio stuff

  • 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…

  • Bamboletta Business…

    If you are looking for this month’s ‘Giveaway Doll’ – she’s right here. Good luck! I’m starting their training early! I’ve been making dolls for a while – it’s been over 7 years now – but it’s only been the past few weeks that I’ve had to think of what I do as a business.…

  • 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…

  • About Half Way Through… I made some great progress yesterday. John was off work and took care of Ben yesterday for long periods of time. I’ll get the same today, the boys are headed to the trains for the afternoon. I got 4 bodies assembled, 1 complete and I’m starting the large Babies hair. I’m…

  • I’ve always wanted to document how my dolls progress. What a better way then with a blog! So this is 2 days worth of work. It’s quite a bit this time because I’ve done NO housework in 2 days and we haven’t gone out much due to the gloomy rain. I’m making 3 babies and…

  • I can’t believe it’s been over a month! Spring is defintely here in Cobble Hill. John, Ben and I have been working hard in the garden – planting beds, putting in a veggie patch and endlessly mowing the lawn. John and I were talking today about how absolutely content we feel out here. Our only…