Doll Whispers

Hi! My name is Marianne it's been so long since I last posted on here that I feel I should reintroduce myself. My sincere apologizes for being gone so long some things happened in my life and I lost the focus of why I started this blog in the first place and now I have gotten that focus back since I have opened up a doll store on eBay called Doll Whispers.

The doll above is a Madame Alexander Sweet Tears Doll that my Great Grandmother allowed me to play with when I was a child and when I got older after much begging she allowed me to take her home. I am 43 years old now and have been a doll lover and collector my whole life. Dolls have and will always be a part of my life so I decided to open an online eBay doll and toy shop called Doll Whispers it's funny because at the time that started this blog I had no intention of using the name for a store I was just trying to show off dresses that I was making to fellow doll lovers. Right now I have dolls and toys on there but the toys are about to be moved to a second eBay store called Apple Dandies so that my Doll Whispers store will sell only dolls and doll related items like patterns or doll books. I have been selling on eBay now for almost 2 years and have over 900 positive feedback scores.

Sorry my Sweet Tears is not for sale but I will be posting previews of dolls coming up in my store like this Vintage Porcelain Alice in Wonderland doll.

Alice was found while thrift store shopping, yes I have a weakness for finding pitiful looking dolls and making them or at least trying to make them beautiful again. I have cleaned her porcelain body and gently hand washed her dress and pinafore. Her hair has been brushed and I will be making her a new black velvet hair ribbon since she is missing her original one. She has also been given a new metal stand since she was found without one.

Will post more about her once she's ready to go.

Thanks for visiting my blog and I hope you'll come back soon!

 Have a Dandy Dolly Day!

http://stores.ebay.com/dollwhispers

Another Doll Contest!

The Morrissey Doll pattern company that I usually buy all my doll patterns from recently hosted another doll dress contest! This time it was for Tiny Betsy McCall and they made a new sailor pattern for her that was used for the contest. The deadline ended on March 31 and I only had time to make one dress. The winner gets a new Tiny Betsy McCall doll called 'Everything Nice' limited to 1000 and she retails for about $60. I'm keeping my fingers crossed that I will win. :) Winners wouldn't be announced until April 15th so 8 more days to go! I'm hoping that they will post the pictures of what everyone made soon as I am dying of curiousity! Anyway, I'm really happy with how it turned out and wanted to share. I've named my new creation Betsy Loves Cookies! One of the best parts about this contest is even if I don't win I still got a new doll because I ordered her just for the contest. :) Win Win!

I brought this fabric back from Japan with me and it had been sitting waiting (about 4 years now) for the perfect inspiration to use it. I love Japanese fabrics! They have such adorable prints and the perfect print size too!

The tiny heart buttons on the front and the cookie cutter looking embelishments both came out of a package of buttons that I had picked up at Michael's a couple of weeks ago. I didn't buy them for the contest but I thought that they worked out perfectly once I started getting ideas.

I sewed tiny pink seed beads evenly spaced in between each cookie cutter and the cookie cutters where sewn on using silver thread.

I love challenging myself and this contest definataly fit the bill! For one I've never made a dress this tiny before so just getting used to working with such small pieces was the first challenge. The second was deciding on the color scheme and what to embelish with. I kept changing my mind and then changing it back. I also got a lot of ideas for future dresses so I'll have plenty to keep my busy for a while. One of my ideas involves felting so I'll have to learn how to do that first. New craft! And another involves punch needle which I also need to learn how to do. New craft! I keep adding to my ever expanding list of new crafts I need to learn! Needless to say it may be a little while before I actually have time to getting around to doing all this. But with my husband's deployment coming up right around the corner it may not be THAT long.

Whew! Well Betsy and I are exhausted after all that hard work! Time for bed!

More to come soon (I hope).

What to do when you have no money to buy dolls.

Why you just sit right down and make some of course!

Introducing Trixie Pixie!

Trixie was made using Peggytoes Pillow Pixie pattern which is available on Etsy. ;)

Next up we have Raspberry Fluff!

Raspberry Fluff was made using a Dumplin Designs Lollipop Lane doll pattern. Eventually I plan on making all 24 dolls. There are 12 Lollipop Lane patterns and 12 Cupcake Corner patterns. I have all the patterns just need more heads and hands. :)

Dining Room Redo!

Ok so this is what I look at everynight while I do dishes. Boring!!! I had just found a couple of things that we had bought in Japan but had nowhere to put them so I thought hey I could redo the dining room with all this stuff!

Now! Ta da! And I didn't spend a dime to do this because this was all stuff that we already had. I actually have spent a little bit of money since I did this though. I bought a Betta fish and a lucky bamboo plant. Oh plus I redid some pot holders to match the Asian theme.

Updates!

Ok well I didn't get a new doll. :( But I did get a new table. Kinda.

It's actually a pool table that I bought for my Hubby for his birthday! :)

(Sorry for all the clutter in the background. But you get to see one of our 3 guinea pigs!)

One thing that I did get though is new Dolly Dolly magazine. I've been collecting them since we were in Japan and I managed to find all of the back issues while we were there and got up to issue 14 before we left so I just got issue #15. Yay!!!

Pining away for a new doll!

Well we got our income tax money and so now I've been wanting to order a new doll. But which one to choose. Our income tax money is mostly gone on bills and tires and such but I think I should at least get just one before it's all gone.

Which one to choose though since they are all so great!

First there's Delilah Noir Dark and Difiant!

I absolutely love her outfit and her pink and black hair!

$125.00 on Ebay

Next up we have Ellowyn Wilde Moody Blues

Just love her black curly ringlets and her expression. I've been wanting to get an Ellowyne doll even longer than a Delilah Noir doll.

$129.00

And my third choice is an Ellowyne Wilde basic doll.

I love her hair and since she's a basic doll I could put to use a couple of patterns that I have for her out of my doll magazine collection. Plus the price is great at only $74.00.

Oh the agony! How can I choose just one!

Happy Groundhogs Day!

Well I haven't been getting very much sewing done lately but I did just finish up this little guy for Groundhogs day. This is the second crochet along that I have done and I must say I'm much happier with the way this one turned out than the last one. :)