Doll Jewelry, Part Six: Cascade Necklaces!

Hola! And sup! Today we return to our doll jewelry project. This is our sixth post about this topic, as you can see from the title. If you want to see our other posts on the subject, scroll down the right sidebar menu and find the label "Doll Jewelry" -- it will bring you where you want to go. Those posts give you more of an idea of our step-by-step process and our supplies/tools if you are curious.

Our project today is creating three "cascade" necklaces for Kaya. We didn't really know what else to call them, but we figure "cascade" is clear enough -- maybe "tiered" would work as well. Essentially what we did is connect three chains of varying length to one magnetic closure.

Warning: Long post. Lots of pictures!

For our first experiment with this technique we used purple, dark grey, and shiny silver chain lengths -- you can see the necklace on our stand in the pics below...

Here are pics of it laid-out flat....

Kaya modeling it for us while wearing Liberty Jane's Salina dress 

from the Spring 2011 line....

Next we wanted to try something much more colorful, so we laid out the various types of chains that we have to pick which three colors to put together....

We chose red, blue, and green for second necklace. This time we made each chain just slightly longer than the previous one, so they would be nested, each chain side by side. See the pic below....

Kaya modeled it with a Maiden Flight Clothing ruched blue tank top...

Here is our process to create this type of necklace: Take one magnetic closure and a standard silver link. Connect that link to the closure, and then connect your three chains (or more, or less, whatevs number you want on there) directly to that silver link.

Then you can measure the chains against each other by laying them out on a flat surface. You can add and remove links according to what length you want each chain to be. To create this colored necklace the chains were relatively close in length, one was just a little bit longer than the previous one.

Then we added a silver link to the other side of the magnetic closure and connected the three chains to that, finishing the necklace.

You can also twist this type of necklace to create a multi-color chain choker. All you do is open up the magnetic closure to put it on your doll, twist the necklace until it looks the way you want it to look, and put it on your doll. Kaya models this look for you below...

We wanted our third cascade necklace to be longer, so you can see how easy it is to create different looks just by adjusting the lengths of the chains. We used the dark grey, shiny silver, and black chains. Once again we connected the three ends to one silver link connected to the magnetic closure. Then we adjusted the length of the chains by adding on links as we saw fit. You can hold up the necklace to your doll to see if it is how you want it to look as you work.

For this necklace we made each chain about an inch longer than the previous one......

And here are shots of Kaya wearing it with a LJ shirt....

Let us know if you have any questions about how to make these types of necklaces!

Feel free to comment below!

We hope you enjoyed this post-- Stay tuned for more doll jewelry posts.  In the future, we will talk about adjusting a couple Forever21 necklaces we bought to fit dolls, and we will show you (most) of our collection of doll jewelry to give y'all ideas for your own projects. :-)

Thanks for visiting The Doll Wardrobe today!

Special Delivery! AG Store Exclusives!

We interrupt our previously scheduled programming to bring you some pictures of the new AG store exclusives--- a special delivery from AGPNY that we just received! These new store exclusives were released last Thursday.

We have a whole bunch of pictures, so we'll just do one slideshow a day for a five days, as we don't want to overwhelm one post with five slideshows. ;) The last slideshow will be of a store exclusive that isn't brand-new--- but we hadn't gotten it yet. Then we will return to the tricked out Sweet Melody outfit.

Today we start off with the knit set and star logo jeans being modeled by Kaya. As you can see below, the knit set is pink and red, with embroidered white stars. You get a beret, scarf and mittens. The new jeans are a deep blue, feature an embroidered red star on the pocket, and fit pretty well. Though Liberty Jane jeans are (in our opinion) far better because the fabric isn't as thin--- Liberty Jane jeans feel like real jeans instead of just doll clothing. Still the new AG store exclusive jeans look pretty cute on Kaya!

Enjoy the pics and come back in about 24 hours
for the next AG store exclusive reveal!

More Liberty Jane Denim Combos

Before we get to the rest of this post, some quick news: there's a new Liberty Jane Clothing outfit from the 2010 Spring Line available in an Ebay auction! It is called "Boomerang" and it is pretty cool. See the LJC collage below....

We love, love, love everything about this outfit!
It is the first installment of "Outback Libby" design.
Auction ends April 4th, 2010.

Today's Liberty Jane Monday features Lira and Kaya wearing two pieces of custom-made denim clothing. Yay! Lira is wearing the tee shirt from "Code Red," with a LJC blue tank top, and a blue denim skirt. Kaya is wearing a new silky purple LJC jacket with the sheer tank top from "Picture Day" over a black tank, paired with blue denim jeans. They look pretty chic in their fancy duds!

Enjoy the pics!

Well so far we have seen three of the new LJC spring outfits...I wonder what other outfits will be available???.... So exciting to think about what is around the corner!

p.s. The winners of the 2010 LJC ValenSpring Contest have been announced here... click the linky! Congratulations winners! And a thanks from us to everyone who entered--- we always have such fun watching your videos on Youtube and Facebook during these contests. :D We wish we had even half of your design talents and creativity!!!

Lanie's Nightshirt

We haven't been very good about posting these past couple weeks. Sorry! Too much stuff to do and too little time to do it in. ;P

Today we have Kaya modeling Lanie's blue nightshirt from AG, and posing with Lanie's bunny and the Mini Kaya Doll we purchased at AGPNY all the way back in January. It is an adorable nightshirt and we love the color, plus it was a good way to show you how awesome Kaya looks in modern clothing. The "Live in Harmony" applique is a little weird, and we probably would have been more happy with just the dragonfly on there. But we got used to it.

What's up with Lanie's clothing being sprinkled with these random phrases? It's kinda bizarre, right??? Heehee.

Enjoy the pics!

p.s. The fuzzy green slippers are truly fantastic by the way!

Kaya Comes to Badger's Wood!

An AG gift card came our way last week and an order from AG mysteriously arrived on our doorstep today... ;)

Who was inside? Well, Kaya of course! (As you can tell from the post title, heehee.) She has been on our "Wish List" for awhile now and we actually have a lot of her collection squirreled away in anticipation of her arrival. She is going to be a historical doll and a Time Traveler so she can wear all sorts of different clothing. We had a difficult time rationalizing another dolly purchase this month after four new dolls already this year..... but the person who sent us the gift card thinks Kaya is pretty awesome, so we thought this was the best way to spend it. :D

So here are the pictures of her arrival, in-box and out-of-box, with her wolf-dog Tatlo! Her right-side braid was kind of askew and loose on that side, but she still looks so cute!

Welcome Kaya and Tatlo!