Month: July 2009

  • Doll Buns!

    I’ve been promising this tutorial for months now! I was going to have this as a section on my website which would mean that I’d have to ‘code’ it. Ugh. I have notes on how to do this but I’m really not into figuring it out right now. If you’ve been following me on Facebook,…

  • stitch by stitch

    While visiting my parents last weekend I was absolutely floored to receive this amazing gift from my aunt (zia in Italian) Maria. Maria is, as you can see, an incredible cross stitch-er and took an incredible amount of time to complete this. Look at that tree and grass – it’s all stitched on! My 2…

  • Thursday Finds and Ramblings..

    I’m going to have to move my ‘Thursday Finds’ to another day. Thursday nights are a busy night over here, this is the night John and I usually prep the weeks dolls. Stuffing, cutting and tying – lol, all night long. Luckily for us we are in the Alps segment of the Tour de France.…

  • Antenna Buns

    This is a little tutorial on how to put your dolls hair into antenna buns – or Bjork buns for us mid 90’s gals. It’s basically the same way you would do the bigger buns – that tutorial will be coming up next. I took some pics of doing those buns for a tutorial, but…

  • and the winner is….

    Tiffany Stone is our winner of little man Leif!! Congrats to you Tiffany! What a sweet little guy! My younger son would love to share some summer (and fall and winter and spring) adventures with Leif! Seeing as I’m a firm believer in ‘ giving back to move ahead’ I’ll have another giveaway up by…

  • planning, planning, planning..

    The past few days have seen me and John planning our holiday doll ‘schedule’. I didn’t have the store to plan for last year and I want to make sure that it’s kept well stocked during the crazy time. Anyhow, it may be early September that we’ll stop accepting custom orders for the holidays –…