The year was 2005, and I was selling my little girl’s dresses, my American Girl doll clothes and machine embroidered baby bibs at my local Farmer’s Market. It was grueling from April till November; being outside under a market umbrella and committing every Saturday from 7:00 in the morning until around 12:00 noon, when you […]
What almost kept me from selling my doll clothes… Read More »
A few days ago my blog post featured Isabelle, my sweet 13″ Dianna Effner Little Darling doll wearing a pretty old fashioned dress. I was discussing how I try to make the inside of my dresses look as neat as the outsides. If you missed it, HERE is that post. Jan asked a question about
The back of Isabelle’s dress…. Read More »
I just wanted to mention a few things before I did today’s post. I am so grateful to all my wonderful subscribers and how you have welcomed me to the “blog” world. I sometimes still think I don’t know what I’m doing, but I do love to share pictures and stories so hopefully those two
The making of a Civil War American Girl doll dress…. Read More »
Apparently I like ruffles… at least on my dolls. (I used to like them for myself, for my curtains, on slipcovers, on dust ruffles, on collars, etc… but not so much anymore… except on my girls.) As I was looking over some pictures, I discovered a fair amount of my dolls were sporting them….especially Nyssa,
Ruffles, Ruffles and more Ruffles… Read More »