Posts tagged vintage lingerie
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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Going to Miss Fisher Con 2018 - my favorite moments

It's been almost two months since I attended the 2nd annual Miss Fisher Convention.  If you don't know about Miss Fisher, she is the main character in a series of books by author, Kerry Greenwood.  The books inspired an Australian TV Series called Miss Fisher's Murder Mysteries. A quite liberated lady detective, Miss Fisher, lives in 1929 Melborne, Australia.  The Convention, celebrated everything "Miss Fisher".  If you haven't seen it, you should.  Fantastic show and books and her snappy dressing (ie. beautiful costume design) inspired me to create a whole wardrobe and rope my friends into coming along for the ride.

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