Wikio - Doll Making

Craft Boom Interview with Alicia Paulson (CRAFT Magazine)

Thu, 05 Jun 2008 15:39:05 GMT

As part of her Crafting Heros series, Lisa of Craft Boom interviews Alicia Paulson of Posey gets Cozy , one of our crafting idols. Pictured above are Alicia's country girl clothespin doll making kits. [ Read this article ] [ Comment on this article ]

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Osmond Blasts Cyrus' Siring Skills (E! Online)

Thu, 08 May 2008 15:37:00 GMT

Pot, meet kettle. Marie Osmond, that doll-making savior of Middle America, has uncharacteristically lashed out at Billy Ray Cyrus' parenting skills in the wake of daughter Miley's...

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Jason Wu, The Chef (Flypaper - Stuck on Style)

Tue, 15 Apr 2008 14:22:16 GMT

In the world of fashion we rarely get a non-scripted peek into the inner world of our fashion icons. FWD catches up with Jason Wu to discuss his favorite key lime receipe, his doll making fetish and designing with Manolo Blahnik. [Image courtesy of Fashion Week Daily]

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Gawking at Harlem’s Grandeur (UPTOWNflavor)

Tue, 08 Apr 2008 23:21:15 GMT

Gray Line New York Sightseeing has added a new connecting Harlem tour to its long-standing Uptown, hop on and off, double decker bus sightseeing Tour Loop. The Uptown Loop, expanded April 1 to include the Madame Alexander Doll Gallery, with 85 years of doll-making history and the nearby Dinosaur Bar-B-Que Restaurant for a taste of [...]

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Cornstarch Clay Worry Dolls - 1 (Hankering for Yarn)

Tue, 01 Apr 2008 18:05:07 GMT

I’ve been posting about making Worry Dolls, as I believe that they can be an excellent antidote to worry. So, they are comfort dolls and healing dolls! I’ve posted the links for the Spool knitted Worry Dolls. All through the pictures of the Spool knitted Worry Doll making, there has been a teeny cornstarch clay dolly...

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Guy & dolls: North Salt Lake man is one of the doll-making industry's brightest stars (Deseret Morning News)

Fri, 28 Mar 2008 07:51:10 GMT

His dolls are made of polymer clay with cloth body and fabric clothes. But he sometimes includes more than just the doll. A vignette with Mark Twain sitting in his home office is now in the Enchanted Mansion Museum in Baton Rouge, La. A vignette with Abraham Lincoln talking with a freed slave boy holding an American flag was done for Sen. Orrin Hatch, R-Utah, and now sits in the...

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Jackie Ormes biographer interviewed by Ann Arbor News (The Daily Cartoonist)

Wed, 27 Feb 2008 13:38:32 GMT

A while back I told you about a new book about Jackie Ormes, one of the first African-American female editorial cartoonists from the 1930s to the 1950s. The biography's author, Nancy Goldstein, was interviewed by the Ann Arbor News about Jackie’s career and history in doll making, cartooning, fashion design. Q. Jackie Ormes had an [...]

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Doll*Shoppe : Primitive Dolls & Collectibles (Blog Catalog Blog Directory)

Mon, 25 Feb 2008 01:11:03 GMT

Welcome to my world of Primitive and patriotic doll making. *** Visit often and see what I am making next.

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a current doll I'm making .... (My Art Soul Wings)

Fri, 01 Feb 2008 19:36:44 GMT

Here is another one of my current projects I have been working on. It's a doll, whenever I make a doll, I always have to make it two faced. I guess in my mind it's got two sides so a...

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Mexico Festival of Toys Interactive Family Workshop (Authentic Art DC)

Sat, 22 Dec 2007 18:26:00 GMT

The Art Museum of the Americas Organization of American States Mexico: Festival of Toys Saturday, December 22, 2-4 pm Interactive Family Workshop Pinatas! Doll making! Hands-on activities! Mexico: Festival of Toys We are pleased to present interactive workshops for children every Wednesday and Saturday, from 2 to 4 pm (and by appointment), through March 16th, 2008. Presented by The Art Museum...

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I've been doing more doll making! (Today in Faerie School)

Mon, 01 Oct 2007 22:48:00 GMT

Somehow, once I get the doll making bug, I cannot shake it. I just start making dolls like a mad woman ;-) I also was out at a fair this weekend vending, so I have a bit of inventory. My friend with whom I was vending told me about etsy , an online venue for crafters. Everything there is hand-made. Sounds just like my stuff! And the listing price is waaaay lower than ebay--just...

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one in ten (Wee Wonderfuls)

Sun, 29 Jul 2007 01:33:33 GMT

Amazingly I've been able to squeeze in some doll making lately. I've got the craft room set up with the baby amusements (bouncy chair, activity mat, swing, etc) and enough projects for Oscar that we can all hang out together...

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Doll WIP (Mariyarn)

Wed, 04 Jul 2007 20:46:24 GMT

I´ve been working some more on the Art dolls, yes, dolls plural…..seems I have a hidden dollmaker inside…….In my cloth doll making group a woman have made a hobbitlike pattern, here he is without embellishments: And the doll from the previous post is well on her way, I was thinking of some kind of tiara for [...]

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Patti Medaris Culea (Mariyarn)

Sat, 30 Jun 2007 22:03:49 GMT

I´ve been a member of a cloth doll making group for a while now, and has been inspired by their efforts in dollmaking. Patti M. Culea is a very talented doll maker with her own style, which can be seen on her website . I was fortunate enough that one liberary in Denmark hd one copy [...]

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