My New Doll

I'm awaiting a new doll! She is a petite ai from Custom House. I collect patterns for doll clothes and cloth dolls. I love the Ann Estelle, Bitty Bethany sizes.
A friend and I have been looking for a perfect doll in this size range. This is because of our fascination with "Fruits", (Japanese street dressing). "Fruits" is magazine and also the title of several books. There have been a few tries in USA style dolls. I think the Fruits look needs an Asian doll. Petite ai is closest to date. Always looking for new dolls! annie

Middle of Summer

Hi, I hate to say it but it felt like August early this am.. I'm happy that I can be running at 5:15 and almost miss the sunrise right in my eyes. It isn't in my face by the time I turn to go home.

This has been an uneventful Summer so far. We have been invited to Martha's Vineyard and I hope that works out. I'm a huge Susan Branch fan and have dreamed of visiting the Vineyard for years. (Our neighbors had a Summer place there when I was a kid ... imagine!).

There are two exciting books due out this Autumn. One by Kelly Rae Roberts. (see her blog ... http://kellyraeroberts.blogspot.com/). The other by Ray Slater. Cloth Art Dolls. This book is about the British doll scene ... should be out in a little over a month.

hugs, annie

A Few Cloth Doll Notes and Stuff

Hi, Where have I been? I have fallen in love with Bleuette and have been doing my best to invigorate the doll economy. I have added two Bleuettes and have two more on order. Also a same size Heidi Plusczok. And I am taking the Bleuette in Cloth class with Judi Ward.

I adore any dolls with lots of patterns and books.

Also I was reading about a friend's Little Soul Dolls and remembered this promotional video that is here someplace here on a VCR tape ... oh the joy of U-Tube!

http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=6923267854936425165&q=little+souls&total=10332&start=0&num=10&so=0&type=search&plindex=1

And While googling I looked up Shelly Thorntons web site. She has designed an excellent ball joint for a cloth body.

My yard and garden is still littered with debris from tree work and exterior work we had done last Fall. When I went running at 6:00 am today everything was covered with frost so it is just as well the garden is still put to bed. ( And yay! I can play dolls).

I'm looking for seeds for a viola hybrid, angel terra cotta or maybe angel wing terra cotta. Any help much appreciated. hugs, annie

Making Vintage Style Dolls

Hi, I added this book when VCD was having the Alabama Rag Baby challenge. This is a real dream book, so much pleasure to browse through, and has me imagining dolls to make and vintage fabric to hunt for. The various dolls are all cloth dolls many of us would love to own but most of us would find very expensive.

It is almost 50 here today (North of Boston). Perhaps Spring will get here before we are all exhausted from trying to bail out our cellars and basements. I want to get to a greenhouse and get a Shamrock plant (Oxalis). I long for green leaves. hugs all around, annie

Good Morning

Hi, I have a NEW book coming from Kinokuniya. It is the Nina Doll and Wardrobe Book. I 'm looking foward to making Nina! I also have the Una-na book ... all those cute doll clothes.

It sure is nice to have books and fabric to look forward to during these last rainy cold days of Winter. (The Red Sox are playing games down in Florida so we will get to Spring sooner than it seems on these cold mornings). I'm looking forwards to the new Friends and Flowers, Mary Engelbreit fabric collection. I wonder if I should splurge on a FQ bundle since I just bought Moda Urban Indigo FQ's. That was a BIG indulgence. This morning I heard gas may go up to 4.00 a gallon this Spring! The first day of Spring is March 20th! This will cut into the book and fabric purchases. But that is not now! Hugs, annie

PS, I just want to add that it wasn't me whose fabric was being auctioned off! They won't have my auction for awhile lol!

Also ...and how could I not have said... I LOVE Japanese doll making books!!!

Hi!

Hi, Welcome to my blog. Recently, (in a weak moment), I bought this Hello Kitty sewing machine. I have a 3/4 size Janome, a 3/4 size Singer 221 (great , looks like a Featherweight), I actually have a few machines ... quite a few...

Things I love; (my family and my friends goes w/o saying). Things I love include dolls, cats, sewing machines, flowers, fabric ... lets be honest I'm insane about fabric. I was at an auction once and overheard someone say, "she must have been insane ... she had all these pieces of fabric and not big enough to make herself a dress"... so... I'm suppose to do a 12 step fabric thing? Only if the meetings are next to a Joanns! hugs, annie