Halloween Party – Part 2

October 22, 2016October 22, 2016 paulawalton4 Comments

Everyone is here! It’s time to get the party started…

Making Costumes

Isabeau has decided that she should help all of the dolls and party guests make costumes. She got out our collection of Dennison Boogie Books for ideas, along with the crepe paper, Dresden trims and lithographed scrapes…

making costumes

so many choices…

Isabeau wants to be a pumpkin!

That was fun! It’s time to put the craft supplies away. We have so much more to do…

Halloween Greetings

The dolls all want to wish you a very Happy Halloween!

Ladies in White… are they ghostly visitors, tip-toeing among the tombstones? Or are they Count Dracula’s brides??? Eliza Jane, Memory and Ismay are having trouble deciding between themselves… but either way they want to wish you a hauntingly beautiful Halloween!

Ladies in White… are the ghostly visitors, tip-toeing among the tombstones? Or are they Count Dracula’s brides??? Eliza Jane, Memory and Ismay are having trouble deciding between themselves… but either way they want to wish you a haunting beautiful Halloween!

Zanna is usually the mildest most even tempered of dolls, but her devilish side is peeking out tonight as she sends warm Halloween Greetings your way!

Hanna wishes you all over flowing goodie bags and treats galore!

“BOO!” from Izzybelle to you!

Isabeau wishes you spooky, spine tickling chills and thrills this Halloween!

Haunted Halloween Fashions

I have a tiny stash of hoarded antique orange “cheddar” and black mourning fabrics just perfect for celebrating Halloween, but not so “costumey” that they can’t be worn year around. I’ve fashioned some of my favorites into dresses to fit my 18 inch dolls. I have four dresses available for sale, just in time for Halloween!

*Halloween Party – part 1 https://izannahwalker.com/2016/10/22/welcome-the-dolls-halloween-party/

**Halloween Party – part 3 https://izannahwalker.com/2016/10/22/halloween-party-part-3/

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Welcome The Doll’s Halloween Party!

October 22, 2016October 22, 2016 paulawalton6 Comments

Welcome! We are so glad you could come!!! Come in and let us show you around. 🙂

Welcome! As with everything else in my life, my new painting studio is a work in progress. Hopefully next year there will be a colonial flower garden in front of the studio.

Make yourself at home. Feel free to look around! The dolls have been busy decorating all day. 🙂

Isabeau, Eliza Jane, Ismay and Memory are in the kitchen finishing up all the last minute party preparations…

Isabeau, Eliza Jane, Ismay and Memory are in the kitchen doing all the last minute preparations.

Little Izzybelle is watching out of the window to see who is coming next!

Here, let me take your coat. The party will start in just a few minutes. 🙂

*Hallowen Party – part 1 https://izannahwalker.com/2016/10/22/halloween-party-part-2/

**Halloween Party – part 3 https://izannahwalker.com/2016/10/22/halloween-party-part-3/

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Spooky Fun Tonight!

October 22, 2016October 22, 2016 paulawalton2 Comments

halloween-tea — Please come join us at 8:00 p.m. Eastern Time for the doll’s Halloween Party!

We hope you can join us tonight for a bit of Halloween fun & whimsy! 8:00 p.m. Eastern Time – don’t be late!

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Boo!!! You Are Invited to Trick or Treat with Us on Saturday, October 22nd

October 14, 2016 paulawaltonLeave a comment

Next Saturday evening, October 22nd, you may hear knocking… followed by small giggles coming from your pc, laptop, tablet or phone. Don’t be scared! It will just be all of my little Izzies coming to trick-or-treat. ❤ They would very much like it if you would join us here on http://www.izannahwalker.com for their Haunted Halloween Hour at 8:00 p.m. Eastern Time.

One more event you may want to virtually attend is the Early American Folk Art & Trades Marketplace on facebook.

eafat-marketplace — Early American Folk Art & Trades Marketplace on facebook October 15 & 16.

October 15 – October 16

Oct 15 at 10 AM to Oct 16 at 4 PM Eastern Time

I will be selling one of my reproduction Izannah Walker dolls at the Marketplace. 🙂 Click this link to visit the Marketplace.

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Marti’s Anna

September 27, 2016 paulawalton6 Comments

As promised her are photos of Marti’s doll. She’ll be leaving here soon to start her trip home. ❤

A special order doll for Marti, made from my Anna mold.

Marti’s doll loves helping in the garden. She has such a green thumb!

The original Anna is standing on the right side of the photograph. Luckily she is here for a tiny bit of restoration work, so she could pose with her young offspring 🙂

Anna’s slightly chubby body makes her seem more childlike. I love her slight shape varation <3<3

To enlarge any photo and read the captions, just click on the image. The early morning sunlight was bouncing off the walls in my studio, creating a bit of glare on Anna’s paint so it does look slightly shinier in the photos than it does in person. Over time as her paint continues to dry and cure it will become more matte. ❤ Anna is sooooooo excited to be traveling to her new home and her sister Izzybelle. ❤

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Happy 199th Birthday Izannah Walker – Part 6 – Sweet Dreams

September 25, 2016 paulawalton6 Comments

We’ve come to the end of our day. My dolls and I hope you have enjoyed joining in our celebration of Izannah Walker’s birthday. They’ve had a very active day with all of their friends. Now all the dolls are getting sleepy and ready for bed… Isabeau wasn’t quite sure where everyone was going to sleep tonight. Since Cloe was such a big help this morning, she offered to rearrange the beds, so that there was a place for all of the dolls.

Even after Cloe moved all of the beds around, Isabeau still wasn’t sure that there was room for everyone… “maybe we should have gone up to the attic to get Izzybelle’s little old bed” she fretted.

The Annas overheard her and offered to sleep in the kitchen on a pallet… I think I heard them whispering something about a midnight snack…

and now as the sun goes down it is time to kiss all the dolls good night, tell them to sleep tight and dream of tomorrow…

Even More Izannahs…

Just a sneak peek for Marti of her own little Anna. I’ll post more photos of her in the next day or two and then she will be off to her new home…

Upcoming Events

If you live in the Kansas City area, or will be traveling there in the near future The National Museum of Toys and Miniatures will be having an exhibition of Daguerreotypes, Ambrotypes and Tintypes from the collection of Nick Vaccaro opening on October 8th, 2016 and running through March 26th, 2017. Two of the highlights will be a Daguerreotype of a baby holding an Izannah Walker doll and an Ambrotype of a young girl and an Izannah Walker doll. The images will be displayed alongside the museum’s exquisite antique Izannah Walker doll “Miss Mary”.

Halloween is one of my favorite holidays! The dolls and I had such a good time preparing for Izannah’s birthday that we have decided to do a little something special for Halloween too. Please visit us here on www.izannahwalker.com on October 22^nd when the dolls will be trick or treating!

Did you miss parts 1 – 5 of today’s birthday posts? Simply scroll down the page to see what you missed. Remember: You still have until midnight Eastern time to enter for a chance to win one of 18 party favors that I am giving away. See part 2 for details.

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Happy 199th Birthday Izannah Walker – Part 4 – Blow Out the Candles!

September 25, 2016 paulawalton6 Comments

“Hannah, you and Ismay made a wonderful cake! It’s beautiful!” “Just in time, I hear all of our friends arriving.” “Eliza Jane, you and Ismay can go on up to the parlor. I’ll take off my apron and bring the cake up.”

“Happy Birthday to you, Happy Birthday to you, Happy Birthday dear Izannah…”

You may enlarge the photos and see the entire image by clicking on individual photographs in the montage.

The recipe for this year’s cake came from *American Cake* by Anne Byrn.

Ismay, Zola and Hannah made an Appalachian Apple Stack Cake, with moist buttermilk layers and spiced apple filling. The story, which I am very fond of, goes like this; each family invited to a wedding would bring one layer of cake, all of the layers were stacked together to form the wedding cake. I’ve also heard this cake called a prairie wedding cake and have seen reference to each family bringing a different flavored cake layer. ❤

At 7:00 p.m. I have a few new dolls who would like to make your acquaintance. I hope you will be able to come back to meet them and then return one final time today at 10:00 p.m. Eastern time for our bedtime post. 🙂

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Happy 199th Birthday Izannah Walker – Part 3 – A Very Busy Afternoon

September 25, 2016September 25, 2016 paulawalton2 Comments

The kitchen is buzzing with activity, as Eliza Jane, Ismay, Zola and Hannah try to finish all their last minute tasks. “Hurry, hurry our company will be coming soon!” “It’s almost time for the party to start!”

Eliza Jane has offered to iron all the doll’s party dresses. She is by far the best at ironing, she never scorches the fabric!

Hannah has just taken the last layer of cake out of the oven. It smells so good… The entire kitchen is filled with the aromas of cinnamon and spices ❤

Zola is turning the cake layers out of the pans to cool. As soon as they aren’t so warm, Ismay is going to spread sweet, tangy apple butter between the layers, then dust the top of the cake with powdered sugar.

“Eliza Jane can you see the clock?” “What time is it?” Oh my, we have to hurry up!” “We need to get the cake finished and give Izzybelle her bath!” Eliza Jane, you keep ironing. Zola, you can take the cake out to the table in the yard, and Hannah and I will bathe Izzybelle.” (*Ismay can get a bit bossy at times*)

IZZYBELLE GETS A BATH

Being a doll maker’s doll is a lot like being a shoemakers child, you always come last… You may remember how terribly bedraggled Izzybelle was when she arrived on my doorstep a couple of years ago. I finally found just a handful of moments to start cleaning her and making her appropriate replacement arms and legs. Once upon a time Izzybelle was a charming, small example of one of Izannah Walker’s dolls. She was loved, played with and almost used up, then sent to the Martha Chase factory for repairs, so that she could be loved and played with some more. I own several dolls, and have seen and restored a handful of others, that were refurbished by the doll makers working for Martha Chase.

Izzybelle has been in desparate need of atention.

Little by little I slowly cleaned years of dirt, grime and what looked like possible smoke damage away from her head and shoulders.

Poor Izzybelle, someone got quite carried aaway with bright red paint! Her lips and both eyes were lined in red.

Little Izzy is looking better, but there are still some very stubborn bits of paint reamaining from when she was re-painted at the Martha Chase factory…

I love Martha Chase dolls, but I have to admit that as I attempted to remove the stubborn Martha Chase factory re-painting from Izzybelle, I was thinking VERY dark thoughts…

Now you can catch a glimpse of what Izzybelle looked like earlier in her life. I still have more restoration work to do, but now she truly looks like a tiny Izannah Walker doll one again ❤

I have made Izzybelle appropriate restoration arms and legs. I still need to color match them to her newly cleaned paint surface, then stuff and attach them.

"Izzybelle, your bath water is almost ready. Hannah is heating the last kettle full on the stove right now." — “Izzybelle, your bath water is almost ready. Hannah is heating the last kettle full on the stove right now.”

"Izzybelle, time to hop in the tub!" — “Izzybelle, time to hop in the tub!”

"Make sure you scrub behind your ears and between your toes." — “Make sure you scrub behind your ears and between your toes.”

"This bath feels so good! Why didn't you make me take one sooner???" — “This bath feels so good! Why didn’t you make me take one sooner???”

Even Splotches, the barn cat is curious to see what the dolls are doing today. If you are too, please come back around 4:00, 7:00 & 10:00 pm to see the rest of their adventures.

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Happy 199th Birthday Izannah Walker Part 1

September 25, 2016September 25, 2016 paulawalton7 Comments

Zanna and Isabeau have asked Cloe to help them get ready for today’s party. They may have gotten a bit more “help” than they anticipated…

“I think the rug would look nice outside the kitchen.”

“Is the rug nice and flat?”

“What should we do first to get ready for the party?”

“I could help set the table.”

“Here is Izzybelle’s little cup.”

“How many spoons will we need?”

“Hmmm, the parlor looks clean and ready for company…”

“The table is almost ready.”

“We’ll need to heat the iorn so that we can press our party dresses.”

“Here Isabeau, let me help you get more comfy in your chair.”

“Salt, we’ll need salt for dinner.”

Click on any photo to see it enlarged and to read the caption.

Don’t worry! In spite of the sound effects, no dishes were harmed in the making of this video. As Isabeau always says, “there is a reason that babies only get to use the everyday china”! 🙂

Thank you for coming!!! I hope you have enjoyed this glimpse into some of our party preparations. Here is the schedule for today’s celebration events, I will have additional posts at 11:00 am, 1:00 pm, 4:00 pm, 7:00 pm, and 10:00 pm Eastern time. My 7:00 pm post will feature several dolls for sale, because what would an Izannah Walker Birthday Celebration be without at least a few new reproduction dolls for sale? 🙂 The dolls will only be posted here on my blog. If one or more of them tugs at your heart strings and you’d like to purchase her, you may email me at paula@asweetremembrance.com. If more than one person is interested in buying the same doll, the email with the earliest time will get preference. ❤