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My Childhood Doll Collection - From my Attic onto New Homes
My Childhood Doll Collection - From my Attic onto New Homes

I’ve been on a decluttering kick due to a recent course I’m taking. It’s supposed to be an emotional and also a mindset decluttering, but I find it much easier to declutter stuff. So I started in the attic.

Our attic is filled with so much stuff - from old suitcases (we had 6 for 3 people and I got rid of two) to artwork, to bins and bins of Emma’s artwork and classwork from the last 17 years, as well. There were several bins of christmas ornaments and I decluttered at least one box of those. And among the boxes and boxes of stuff, was a box full of my childhood dolls. The box has been up in the attic for at least 10 years I think, or more, after my mom, gave my dolls back to me after having stored them for eons, herself. Emma had no real interest in the dolls so up in the attic they went.

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cleaning upJennifer SerrThe Sewing Roomdolls, doll collection, making dolls, sewing dolls, porcelain dolls, bisque doll, yarn dolls, alaska dolls, nostalgia
The Frannie Adventure Doll - Designing a Rag Doll
The Frannie Adventure Doll - Designing a Rag Doll

Over the last few months I’ve been hard at work developing a pattern for a Rag Doll. “Why a Rag Doll?” you might ask. Well the truth is that I’ve always loved dolls. I loved my barbies, I loved my china dolls, and I loved hand made rag dolls as well. When I was 8 years old, My Grandma Fran gave me her Bisque Baby Doll that she got when she was 8. I still have that doll. It’s a little worse for wear and needs some attention but I still have it.

I also loved making dolls and made quite a few as a child. It always gave me pleasure and I was infinitely fascinated by the process.

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Dolls, costume design, Historic Fashion, Lingerie, self careJennifer SerrThe Sewing Roomdoll making, doll art, doll clothing, doll-art, sewing dolls, cothing for dolls, 1920s, 1920's fashion, 1920s underwear, vintage style, vintage lingerie, doll pattern, the frannie adventure doll, frannie doll, pixie faire, pixie faire designer, miss fisher style, miss fisher inspired, miss fisher murder mysteries, 1920s style doll
Sewing Elegant Rag Dolls - with Ann Wood Handmade
Sewing Elegant Rag Dolls - with Ann Wood Handmade

Recently, my good friend JoAnne took at trip to Los Angeles to take an art class.  What a renegade idea!  If she could do it, then so could I!  The opportunity arose, to do just that, when I got an email from Ann Wood Handmade back in January or February, announcing a class she would be teaching in Los Angeles, in March.  I jumped at the chance, because...

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