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                                    I love studio/ workroom shots- as I’m sure most of you know by now.  This quote is by Kathe Krause, amazing dollmaker from the 1900’s out of Germany. I tried to google her but only got sites where you can buy Krause dolls, but I’ve seen the website before. I’m not very good…

                    My friend Tressa, the very talented lady behind Dress Me Up surprised me today by sending me a de-stash box of fabrics. A huge thank you to dear Tressa!  All sorts of lovely things in there, but I especially like these vintage napkins- I can’t…

I had the morning to work today. I wanted to finish up a few orders I had and get myself organized for the next week. I finished up these brother and sister dolls and this other little guy for Izzy. Izzy loves dinosaurs so I went and bought some transfer paper from Staples, got some…

I often get emails from people asking ‘How I do it’. Ack, if you only saw the state of my house..lol.. you’d understand! Truth is I have an amazing team of ladies (and John!) who help me out so much. I truly could not do this without them, I am so incredible grateful to each…

I did a window display last weekend at Birkeland Brothers Wool in Vancouver. It was fun to do especially since I had doll props to work with. My friend Mike (Con’s partner) made a beautiful swing for the dolls using an arbutus branch from a tree in his yard and a super sweet retro table…

First I’ll start off with my new ‘thing’ that I’ve added on to my site. I’ve put up a ‘Custom Doll’ form up on my site for people to order dolls from. I was doing far too much typing asking people what they wanted for their dolls, this way it’s all organized and in one…