Saturday, November 26, 2011

AG Stuff We Found at BJ's!

We are currently traveling the globe for the holidays for half of November. On our adventures we stopped in at a BJ's -- which carries some AG merchandise: pet packages, boxed book sets with mini dolls, craft books, and the AG magazine. 

We purchased the Cecile mini doll with the 6-book set, Honey's pet package, and the current AG magazine. As you can see in the pics, the pet and book package was $14.99, the doll and book set was $34.99, and I think the magazine was like $2 less than the cover price (but we can't find our receipt right now). They had a lot of different mini doll book sets -- including Samantha. The pets are mostly limited to the Ginger the Cat and Honey from what we saw. They might have Sugar and Coconut as well, but none of the bigger animals like Pepper or Toasty were there (not sure they'd fit in the package).

Warning: Loads of pics ahead...
Pic of the pet package and boxed doll and book set...


Pics of the pet package...









Pics of the book set...




Pics of the doll and doggie...




Pics of the AG magazine and the things it came with...







Hope this was informative for everyone and that y'all had a good Thanksgiving!!!

Thanks for visiting us today. :-)

Wednesday, November 16, 2011

Maple in the Woods

Here is our biggest accomplishment for the month of November!!! Yeah. We've done a lot of other things for the blog -- but not all of them are actually ready to be posted. So we are happy we finally uploaded, sorted, edited, imported, and compiled these photos into an iMovie for Youtube.

And Maple is very proud of her modeling efforts for this "Maple in the Woods" photo shoot. She insisted that she get another round of outdoor photo shoots -- we said she could have one day. So she went for a ride in the car, was carried in the backpack for awhile, and then walked in the woods for the photo shoot.

With these photos we experimented a lot with lighting and photo editing (such as brightness, saturation, and color balance), so you can see how versatile even just one camera can be (our Canon Rebel).

Maple's signature green coat is from Lemieux Doll Boutique, her jeans are from Liberty Jane, and she stole her boots from Lira (Lanie) per usual.

We hope you enjoy this musical photo shoot!!!



Here are some photos outside of the Youtube video; sometimes they look better outside of the vid (which seems to make them more orange than they really are sometimes, haha).










Thanks for visiting us today!

Monday, November 14, 2011

Nov/Dec Giveaways!!!
Enter Here Today!!!

Hola! Now we are starting up our November/December 25th Anniversary Giveaways which feature three possible prizes! Woot!


Here are some starter pics:


Your possible prizes are as follows:

1) Green tee shirt and light tan corduroy pants from Cutie Pie and Me

2) Black patterned coat from Mom Awake's Winter's Edge

3) Red historical dress from Katherine's Creations (Etsy shop kgabor19)

Who wants to win something in this giveaway????

You???

Well then enter today peoples!!!

We will run these three giveaways until Thursday, December 15th. 

And we will announce the winners on Friday, December 16th, 2011.


Now here are the important details: You must be 18 years old or older to enter this giveaway. If you are younger than that please have someone 18 years old or older, like a parent or guardian, enter herself/himself. One entry per person please, but you can have other family members enter as well.

To enter, please write your full name and your email address as a comment to this post. It will not be published and only Penny will be able to see it. Three winners will be drawn out of a hat, i.e. randomly picked. Only entries with a full name and an email address will be put into the hat. If you win, Penny will email that address to notify you and ask for your shipping address.



And be sure to state in your comment which item(s) you are interested in winning.


Any questions?? Feel free to ask!

More pics below!







Slideshow!!!






Enter these giveaways today!!!

Thursday, November 10, 2011

Kanani's Surfboard Quilt Set

Today we stick our tongue out at Photobucket because it is being very difficult to use. But hopefully we can still manage to post something.

We wanted to show you one of our own Quietude Quilts sets -- a quilt set with surfboards on it that we bought for Kanani that came with two pillows, just like the Christmas set we are giving away. We love these quilt sets -- they are made very well and out of wonderful, bold fabrics.

Haven't heard about our giveaway yet? Check this out: http://thedollwardrobe.blogspot.com/2011/11/quietude-quilt-giveaway.html



Kanani is posing beside her bed wearing a new outfit from Forever 18 Inches -- an outfit we have highlighted on our Facebook wall, but no one was buying. So we decided to get it ourselves. ;-)


We will do another post with more pics of Kanani in her new outfit. For now please enjoy these photos of our surfboard quilt set!



Slideshow!




Check out the Quietude Quilts Etsy Shop today for your 15% off!
Use coupon code QQANDDW15 when checking out!
Valid for everything except the beds.
Code expires Dec 7th!




Wednesday, November 9, 2011

Quietude Quilt Giveaway!!!

Hola everyone! Here is our first giveaway of November/December 2011 -- we have more on the way!

This is a special giveaway brought to you by Quietude Quilts. The giveaway package includes a Christmas quilt and two pillows for your doll's bed - Yay for penguins! And Yay for penguins dressed as reindeers!


We ask that you "Like" Quietude Quilts on Facebook before you enter this giveaway so they know how successful (or unsuccessful, haha) this was for their marketing: www.facebook.com/QuietudeQuilts.

Also, Quietude Quilts was extra nice and is offering a 15% off coupon for all of our readers for the length of this giveaway. Just use coupon code QQANDDW15 when checking out on Etsy. That will work on everything in their shop except for the beds.



We will run this giveaway until Wednesday, December 7th. 

And we will announce the winner on Thursday, December 8th, 2011.


Now here are the important details: You must be 18 years old or older to enter this giveaway. If you are younger than that please have someone 18 years old or older, like a parent or guardian, enter herself/himself. One entry per person please, but you can have other family members enter as well.

To enter, please write your full name and your email address as a comment to this post. It will not be published and only Penny will be able to see it. A winner will be drawn out of a hat, i.e. randomly picked. Only entries with a full name and an email address will be put into the hat. If you win, Penny will email that address to notify you and ask for your shipping address.

Any questions?? Feel free to ask!

More pics for your perusal!



Reverse side of quilt is white...


Penguin pillowcase is removable...



Slideshow!



Photos of bed and quilt set with Maple for scale.... she is wearing a Cutie Pie and Me tee and pants set that will be included in our next clothing giveaways which will start soon. Oooo the suspense!!!!


Slideshow!




Enter this quilt giveaway today peoples! 

And be sure to check out the Quietude Quilts Etsy shop with the 15% off coupon listed above for your holiday shopping before December 7th!!!

Tuesday, November 8, 2011

We're Back! And Our First Interview with Liberty Jane Clothing's Cinnamon Miles

We're back from our vacation! And we brought a cold with us! Le sigh. We are a bit worn out and tired because of our cold, but we will try and press on and do as much as we can this week.

First off, we have a lot in the works -- giveaways, trip reports, cute posts, new things we've ordered, and more -- so keep your eyes peeled!

Second, we got the idea to do interviews from Karen's Mom of Three Blog (giving credit where credit is due, heehee) -- and we asked Cinnamon Miles of Liberty Jane Clothing if she wanted to participate. We've come up with a plan to do a series of interviews with her so you guys can learn more about her company, her products, and the various projects she is involved with. Hope you are all excited!

If you have a question for Cinnamon, please feel free to comment on this post and I might just ask her your question!

Here we go everybody!

1) When you started Liberty Jane Clothing, did you ever think it would be where it is today?

I'd have to say, probably not. I didn’t even realize there was such a big market for custom doll clothes until we started to get into it. But my husband Jason would definitely say "Yes!", or that we’re not as far along as he thinks we could be. I love to design and create, but I'm not the visionary, he is. For that reason we make a great team. The design and presentation is an integral part of LJC, but there are so many other things that need to be woven into it to make something like this successful.


2) Where do you see LJC heading in the future?

We’re incredibly excited about our short-term opportunities. We’re growing so quickly, it’s getting harder and harder to keep up with everything related to the business. We know that we need to hire employees to grow, So over the last month or so we’ve been on a mission to seek advice from fashion industry insiders on how best to grow.

We’ve had the good fortune of meeting with Jaeil Lee the Professor of Fashion Industry at Seattle Pacific University and a former Abercrombie & Fitch Designer. We’ve also met with veteran people from Levi Strauss, Eddie Bauer, and Nordstrom’s. This has been an incredibly humbling experience where we get to brainstorm with these truly remarkable experts on how to grow a clothing brand. We’ve asked them for their advice and listened to their perspective. They’ve been incredibly gracious to us, and helped us clarify our opportunities. We’ve come up with a simple plan that we are super excited about.



3) What did the Fashion Industry Insiders Tell You that you didn’t expect?

We were surprised at how well they resonated with what we were doing. Maybe we have an inferiority complex or something, but when you think of meeting with a senior designer from Eddie Bauer, or the founder of a mega brand, you sort of expect them to not appreciate the 18-inch doll design work, but we didn’t get any of that – they were incredibly ‘into it’. That surprised us. It was really fun. They immediately saw the power of our brand, even if it is tiny compared to the scope and scale that they are accustomed to. Beyond that, they mainly re-assured us that we were on the right track in many ways. Their advice, besides from specific next steps, was that we just needed to keep taking one step at a time.


4) What are the next steps you’re planning?

We see a huge opportunity to continue to grow the pattern business, and we’re going to take several specific actions to help boost that part of our work. You might notice we don’t publish too many of our own designs these days, because we’re just too busy, but we’re going to work hard to ramp up that part of our work. Designing & publishing our own work more. That’s a clear short-term goal. That will also mean that we will likely move to a system where we have new Limited Edition designs for sale via EBay throughout the year, rather than just during a Spring & Fall launch. The Spring/Fall Launch model generates a lot of stress & pressure, which we want to move away from a bit.


5) What stage are you at for the Fall Line? How many different outfits will you offer on Ebay?

With the 2011 Fall line, we are continuing with The International Collection. There are four outfits one for each location - Tokyo, Euro, Malibu, and Outback. This set of outfits has been challenging and fun at the same time. As our company has grown and we provide the LJ patterns to our partners, it is becoming more and more of a challenge for me to think up new ideas! But it is great to have that push to do something new and different. I'm really proud of this new collection of outfits.


6) You started offering BIN Fall outfits on your website. There are two currently available. Will you offer more BINs this year? Or just these two?

We plan to offer more of these types of “not-limited edition” outfits. We’re calling them "unlimited" outfits. They will be available on our website and through our EBay store. These outfits will be a bit simpler in design than my LE outfits, but be the high quality and construction that LJ is known for.


7) What inspires your recent clothing designs? Specific outfits from clothing companies? Specific trends? Specific celebrities?

I find inspiration everywhere! I'm snapping pictures on my phone everywhere I go, from the high-end shops to places like Target. My girls laugh when I see something and say "Oh! I have to make something just like that for the AG Dolls" then I take a quick pic, and look at the inside of the garment to see how it's put together. One of my favorite magazines is Vogue Bambini, it's the Italian Vogue for kids. It's pretty hard to find, but it's filled with amazing print ads and so much inspiration!


--- Thanks for reading our first interview peoples! Stay tuned for more interviews with Cinnamon -- and again if you have a question to ask her, feel free to comment with it on this post! ---

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