Paula Walton’s doll-making notes
Sources for doll making supplies and materials.
Thank you so much for looking! This doll is now sold. You may custom order her younger sister:) by calling 860-355-5709 or emailing me paula@asweetremembrance.com.
I’ve just finished listing this doll on eBay. She is up for auction with a wardrobe of two dresses, an antique indigo print summer dress and a brown reproduction Civil War era brown cotton print dress for fall and winter. You know how important it is for a girl to have a choice of ensembles 🙂 .
The deadline for getting your friendship quilt blocks in the mail was 7/1. I had meant to post a reminder several days ago, but life got in the way 🙂 So if the same thing happened to you, then you have one last chance to mail in your 3 inch doll size friendship blocks to the exchange.
Just post a comment here to let me know they are on their way and get them mailed by Wednesday 7/6! That gives you a day to recover from the holiday weekend and a day to pack them up and mail them out. See the full exchange rules here. Happy quilting!!!
These are the dolls I have available for sale at the moment. Please feel free to call or email me if you are interested in buying one of them, or if you have any questions or would like to see additional photos. 860-355-5709 paula@asweetremembrance.com Click on any photo to enlarge.
Design Your Own Doll
I have one doll that is ready to be dressed. Here is your chance to pick and choose amongst my antique fabrics to get just the right outfit for the Izannah that you have always wanted! You may select the fabrics, style of dress, chemise, pantalettes and petticoat. Additionally you may choose the color of her second skin and pick between bare feet and painted boots. $1250 complete.
If you love making your own doll clothes, it would be possible to purchase the finished doll without clothing and with a copy of my Izannah Walker Doll Clothes Pattern. Call or email me to inquire if you are interested in this option.
A Fantastic Deal
Here are two wonderful black reproduction Izannah Walker dolls. I enjoyed making these doll immensely, but sadly they have turned out not to be as popular as I had hoped. Apparently there must have been a reason that Izannah Walker made so few black dolls 
These two young ladies are looking for a new home and to speed them on their way I’m offering them to you at half the cost of their sisters. This is a wonderful chance to get a very special doll at a very good price.
You may also commission custom made dolls, call or email to discuss all of your options.
***Thank you to everyone who came to the show last year in 2011!!! I hope you are enjoying your purchases. I’m not doing an online show in 2012 because we are having a wedding in the family instead. ***
The show is open! Hours – Friday, June 24th at 8 p.m. Eastern Time through 10 p.m. Sunday, June 26th.
The show includes dolls, antique bears and toys, vintage and antique cooking items, small handcrafted treasures plus a few surprises for sale on a first come basis. So don’t wait!
The show is posted on my blog, www.paulawalton.com. You will be able to view the show by visiting paulawalton.com from 8 p.m. Eastern Time on June 24th through 10 p.m. Eastern Time June 26th. If you see something you would like to buy, you can either email me at paula@asweetremembrance.com or call me at 860-355-5709, please no phone calls before 9 a.m. or after 10p.m. Eastern Time. I will be accepting checks, money orders and Paypal for payment. You may also place items on lay away. If you would like to pay using Paypal, I will invoice you. If you wish to pay with a credit card, you may do so through Paypal as a guest – you do not have to open a Paypal account.
As always everything, except carousel horses and large pieces of furniture, will include free shipping. If it is possible for you to come pick your purchases up in person, then I will subtract a bit from your total 🙂
I will be posting additional items throughout the weekend, so check back 🙂
Click on these links to go right to the show:
Antique Children’s and Doll’s Furniture
Want to see more??? Visit my main website for more of my work.
Less than two weeks to go until my 1st Online Show. Join me on Friday June 24th, 2011 at 8 p.m. Eastern Time for the opening night of my web only show and sale.
There will be dolls
, antique bears and toys, vintage and antique cooking items, small handcrafted treasures plus a few surprises for sale on a first come basis. So don’t be late!
The show will be posted on my blog, www.paulawalton.com. You will be able to view the show by visiting paulawalton.com from 8 p.m. Eastern Time on June 24th through 10 p.m. Eastern Time June 26th. If you see something you would like to buy, you can either email me at paula@asweetremembrance.com or call me at 860-355-5709, please no phone calls before 9 a.m. or after 10p.m. Eastern Time. I will be accepting checks, money orders and Paypal for payment. You may also place items on lay away. If you would like to pay using Paypal, I will invoice you. If you wish to pay with a credit card, you may do so through Paypal as a guest – you do not have to open a Paypal account.
As always everything, except carousel horses and large pieces of furniture, will include free shipping. If it is possible for you to come pick your purchases up in person, then I will subtract a bit from your total 🙂
Want to make sure that you don’t forget to come to the show??? Sign up for my mailing list and I will send you a reminder
Today I spent the whole morning painting curls. It occurred to me while I was painting that not everyone has had as much experience with long curls as I have 🙂 I think that it is much easier to paint curls if you think of them in terms of real hair. So here is a quick how-to hair styling lesson, with my my personal tips gleaned from a lifetime of ringlets!
As soon as my hair was long enough to brush around my mother’s finger, she started rolling my hair in what she called “long curls”.
After shampooing and brushing out all of the tangles in your hair, section off a small amount of hair and catch it between your two middle fingers, at the point where you wish the curl to begin. Use a soft bristled brush to start brushing the hair around your first two fingers (for tighter curls brush it only around your index finger).
Continue brushing the hair around your fingers until you reach the end of the strand. To hold the curl in place while it dries, slip a long bobby pin in one side of the curl, from the bottom up. If you plan to sleep on the wet curls or do anything very active while your hair dries, use a hair clip that will fasten closed instead of bobby pins.
When your hair is dry, remove the pins and the curls should naturally lengthen and fall into place.
The doll featured in my May ad in Antique Doll Collector sold this morning. She will soon be traveling to her new home in upstate New York.
Sold
April is starting out to be a terrific month. Friday was my son Blair’s birthday. The whole family got together to celebrate for the entire weekend.
Friday also brought some very welcome news, when I learned that I have been chosen for Early American Life’s 2011 Directory of Traditional American Crafts. This makes my 23rd time to be juried into the directory. Thank You EAL! Please look for the Directory issue of the magazine which will be on newsstands on June 21st.
In between all of the partying, I managed to squeeze in a little shopping time. On Saturday I went to a couple of thrift shops with one of my sons and his girlfriend. We found quite a few small treasures. Sunday brought the opening day of the Elephant’s Trunk flea market. I was able to replenish my supply of antique white cotton fabrics and I found a wonderful antique paisley shawl. Now all I have to do is decide if I can possibly restore the shawl, or if it is so far gone that it is fair game for doll clothing! Always a dilemma 🙂
This doll has been sold and will soon be leaving for her new home in upstate NY.
I stayed up late into the night sewing lace onto sheer white cotton because I dearly wanted to finish this doll. I was full of impatience to see what she would look like, once I finally dressed her in all of her frothy layers. It was well worth the effort, since I am very pleased with how she turned out and had sweet dreams of her while I slept.
Since I snapped these photos just before I stumbled up to bed, I had to use a flash. Her paint does not have as shiny a finish as the glare from the flash makes it appear. She looks so much more wonderful in person. Late night, sleep deprived photography is never my best.
The paint on this doll looks very old, you can see areas where the paint has worn through to show the underlying weave of her stockinette head. Her hands look like they have held countless cups of pretend tea, been clutched for comfort by a small owner, and generally loved for years on end.
The dressmaking details of her clothing include French seams to join the panels of her sheer white skirts, two rows of tucks at her dress and sleeve hems, three rows of tucks on the bottom of her pantalettes, and hand stitched lace flounces around the edges of her knee length chemise, pantalettes, and apron. All of the fabrics and laces that I used in making her clothing are antique, and she comes with an antique doll’s petticoat that I have cleaned and restored. I wish that I would have been able to add a few more rows of tucks to her dress, but I just did not have enough fabric.
The doll herself stands 18 inches tall. She has a pressed cloth head, oil painted head, shoulders and limbs, and is filled with organic cotton stuffing. Her body is covered in antique, glazed linen.
Even though it is overcast and rainy again today, I think this young lady needs a ruffled white sunbonnet to keep her shoulders from burning and ward away freckles. I do still have a few bits of fabric and lace left…
You can purchase this sweet girl for $1200, which will include her sunbonnet and free shipping if you live in the US. If you love her just the way she is and feel that you don’t want a bonnet, she would be a bit less. Please call me at 860-355-5709 or email paula@asweetremembrance.com if you are interested in buying her, or would like to ask questions.
Now that I have posted this, I suppose I really will have to break down and do all of the house cleaning that I’ve been putting off while I sewed. Especially since I have someone coming on Saturday for a private tutorial. 🙂 It would be nice if she could walk in the door and not be immediately buried in fabric and tripped up by stray threads! LOL
Doll Town is a new website opening Sunday night February 27th at 7 p.m. Eastern Standard Time. The idea behind the site is for a large group of doll artists to come together in one place and offer their dolls for sale to collectors. The woman behind the site is Jane DesRosier.
Please come join me and a host of wonderful, creative doll makers for the grand opening tomorrow. I have two dolls available for sale on the site. I hope to see you there!
Izannah Walker Journal 