Month: May 2013
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Staff Pick!
Good morning friends! It’s a beautiful Friday morning here in Bamboletta-land! We’re 75% done our move into the expanded studio space and we can’t wait to share some photos with all of you! It’s Staff Pick again and this week our sweet Nicole has the lucky pick and she chose Aurora! The gorgeous dark tan…
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Studio Tip: Ankles
I have been sewing Bamboletta Dolls for about four years and now I have the pleasure of helping Christina train new sewers. So much thought, care and loving detail goes into each doll. Doll making has been a part of humankind for a very long time and at Bamboletta we are so proud to be carrying…
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Staff Pick!!
Hello Friends! It’s been another incredible week here at Bamboletta HQ! The sun has finally decided to show its face again and we’re getting the new space ready for our move in the next couple of weeks (there’s saws and power drills going at this very moment…exciting!!!). This week our beautiful Sarah got the lucky…
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Little Visitors
Since the weather has warmed up, all sorts of little visitors have come out to play on our property. Dragonflies, hummingbirds, bumblebees and frogs. Not too long ago after arriving home from work, my daughter Emily announced that a bird had flown into her room. So with soft reassuring whispers we carefully cupped it in…
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Shauna’s Favorite Cover Songs
Here in Canada our national public radio station, the CBC, is a favourite of mine. Every morning around 8:30am the show presents a feature called Under the Covers, where they play a song that might be familiar and then they play a popular artist covering that song. People Facebook, email or Tweet their requests. I…
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Home Life – Building
The fact that I have a love for everything that has to do with fabric (almost everything) is a given, but that is not the only material I enjoy working with. A while back, my fingers were itching to make something from some leftover pieces of wood in our little shed and this is the…