Bamboletta Blog. Dolls and random musings ..

  • Quick and easy lavender pouch!

    Step 1: Gather all your supplies: fabric – ribbon – dried lavender – sewing machine – thread Step 2: Cut your little pouch out of chosen fabric (size or shape is up to you, I used a piece of cloth from 6″ by 3″) Step 3: Put face sides of fabric together and place your…

  • Crossed a few things off my bucket list ..

    I’ve always wanted to attend a yoga retreat, it’s always seemed like a dreamy thing to do. Last month I felt like I needed a break so I found a retreat close by on Salt Spring Island and booked it. I was a bit intimidated as it’s been years and years since I’ve had any…

  • Staff Pick!!!

    Hello Sweet Friends and Happiest of Fridays!! It’s our weekly feature ‘Staff Pick’ again and our resident cutie-pie, Brandi, has the lucky pick! She chose Blossom, the sweet-faced natural girl with soft spiral wool yarns. Hair styled by: Brandi Clothing by: Thamar Likes: Bacon-wrapped dates Dislikes: Sewing without a thimble Why Brandi chose her: “I…

  • My messy basket

    This is my floss basket. For you who may not know what the heck I’m talking about, floss is the type of string/thread stuff I use to embroider on all the doll faces. I can’t really remember my life without my friend floss – my first recollection with it was at age 8 or so…

  • Funny things I find on my hard drives …

    I have thousands and thousands of doll pictures. I’m fortunate enough that even though I destroyed two MacBooks via tea spillages that the hard drives were recovered. So, when going through the pics I find dolls like this guy. I think he’s 2006? And was for a religious organization of some kind as his black…

  • Staff Pick!

    Hello lovely friends! It’s a busy Friday here in the studio as we’re getting doll parts ready for the sewing mama’s, making noses, building boxes and writing out our ‘Thank you’s’ 🙂 Our sweet Rachel isn’t here on Thursday’s so often misses out on our Staff Pick blog, so we waited a day and she…

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