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Cloth Doll Designs: April 2012
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Monday, April 30, 2012. Thursday's Child has far to go, or why we make dolls. Thursday's Child, a Fragrant Freaky Fairy. Monday's child is fair of face. Tuesday's child is full of grace,. Wednesday's child is full of woe,. Thursday's child has far to go,. Friday's child is loving and giving,. Saturday's child works hard for a living,. But the child who is born on the Sabbath Day. Is bonny and blithe and good and gay. Posted by Susan Zimmerman-Orozco. Links to this post. Monday, April 9, 2012. Possibly th...
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Cloth Doll Designs: March 2015
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Sunday, March 1, 2015. Or, Proof that Nothing Simple is Ever Easy. Download the pattern and instructions at clothdolldesigns.com. A few months ago a relative brought me this charming soft folk doll from Ecuador. I'm a sucker for folk dolls. You only have to go to my Cloth Doll Designs Face Book. Page to see the colorful array of Mexican folk dolls on the cover photo. 7" Ecuadorian Folk Doll. First thing, though, was to create a pattern that worked! Stuffing the head and body. Tie off the head. Other thin...
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Cloth Doll Designs: January 2015
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Thursday, January 22, 2015. Dear Etsy: Bite Me. Or Reflecting on Good Customer Service, and Then There's Etsy. Here's your assignment for today. Go to Etsy and search for Cloth Doll Designs. Did you easily find my shop? Nahdidn't think so. This is what I get. What Etsy search finds. What the search us SUPPOSED to find. Another fun idea is to search for a cloth doll by me, you know, those things I make and sell? Nope Although you CAN find any number of sketchy dolls like this. Nice, but not amazing. Their...
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Cloth Doll Designs: February 2015
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Sunday, February 8, 2015. Retail Therapy for Cloth Dollmakers. Or, Thank you, I'll take it all. The aspiring doll maker took a lovely trip to the Big Apple this week to see Les Miserables. The Met Museum, and spend some time - never enough - in the Garment District drooling over fabric. My charmingly innocent, i.e., non-crafting, Sister-in-law insisted on calling my attention to every color and texture of fabric she saw, considerably testing my fabric addict's. Craving to move on and see MORE, NOW! Final...
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Cloth Doll Designs: December 2014
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Saturday, December 20, 2014. Retirement Course Correction, Part II. Or, Today is the first day of the rest of your life, don't screw it up. Reader alert - What follows is a shameless self-indulgent rambling about making the most of the next 20 years, rants about the state of public education, and why Virginia Wolf was so right when she wrote A Room of One's Own. It is only nominally about doll making, except for the happy ending! Sorry I just had to get this off my chest.). She got me back to walking the...
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Cloth Doll Designs: May 2013
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Sunday, May 26, 2013. Cloth Doll Designs Is Going to the Dogs. Or What a Dog Wants vs. What a Dog Needs. Bubulubu or the Ugly Jute Thingy? Cloth Doll Designs is going to the dogs! Itzli, our Uber-German Shepherd puppy, needs a new chew toy that combines the comfort and teethe-ability of his plush green (former) monkey with the Schutzhund-recommended bite strength of this jute tug/toy (which disintegrated in 24 hours). So, coming soon, Itzli-approved cute, yet tough bite toys for big dogs. Meh Not too exc...
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Cloth Doll Designs: March 2013
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Monday, March 25, 2013. That other thing you have to do besides die. Or, Cloth Doll Designs finally faces up to Uncle Sam and his local state cousins. Complying with Cloth Doll Designs' income and sales tax obligations (or rather, procrastinating and NOT complying) had me so anxious that I stopped sewing for most of January through March. Most people are just unhappy about paying taxes. I was paralyzed. Enter the tax angel in the form of SCORE representative, Janice Nelson Apple:. Over coffee at Panera.
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Cloth Doll Designs: May 2012
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Sunday, May 27, 2012. How to Reach Out and Touch Cloth Dolls. Or Why I Love My FB Page Friends. And let me know what you think! Beyond the whole corn baby fiasco, it's time to get to work on more creative and fun themes like Day of the Dead. My very first listing on Etsy was a Day of the Dead doll that sold after only 36 hours - proof that you can't go wrong when you follow your passion. Day of the Dead calavera. Rock on, Big Bubba. Posted by Susan Zimmerman-Orozco. Links to this post. Day of the Dead.
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Cloth Doll Designs: February 2013
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Monday, February 4, 2013. Trying to love the questions themselves, or. There are just not enough hours in the day. Original fat leg on the right, adjusted pattern, and thinner version on the left. A pair of lace covered gams waiting for shoes. Gams with Super Sculpey heels, but no actual shoes! Day of the Dead skeleton dolls were the first things to come to mind, and after that an endless possibility of animals and flowers and accessories in a riot of colors, shapes and configurations. CRAZY! Which, iron...
