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 Ice Cream Giveaway!

How is it Wednesday already? It was just Sunday.... sigh. The summer is going by fast. Too fast.

So we did our "Calling All Shopkeepers and Readers" post and Dolly Delights almost instantly sent us three doll ice cream sundaes to do a special "Midsummer" Giveaway for two weeks. Woot! Thank you for giving away these sundaes via our blog Dolly Delights!

Here is the link to their Ebay shop: http://shop.ebay.com/*dollydelights*/m.html?_trksid=p4340.l2562

Items currently available include: milkshakes, donut holes, Goldfish crackers, chocolates, cakes, Rice Krispies treats, snow cones, pasta dinners, and more! All for your doll!

Now here are the important details for this giveaway: 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.

You will enter this giveaway here, at this post. 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.

The giveaway will start today, July 13th and run until Thursday, July 28th. 

The winner of the three sundaes will be announced Friday, July 29th.

Any questions? Feel free to ask!

Here is an intro pic of the sundaes....

Sun Ji at Kanani's Shave Ice Stand showing off the sundaes....

Sun Ji's slideshow: Her blue tank top and purse come from Maiden Flight Clothing. Her shrug was made by Cutie Pie and Me. And her shorts are from L'Atelier de Sitara. Her shoes are AG. We wanted to include her in this post because (as we learned through AG Playthings) MyAG #4 is now discontinued and no longer available. So Sun Ji is a bit sad about that. She was excited to be a model for us today though.

Video with close-ups of sundaes...

Reminder: Tomorrow is the last day to vote in Activity Three of the Doll Photo Contest!

Melody Valerie's Delphine

Hola! Today we have Felicity modeling "Delphine" from the Spring 2011 Melody Valerie Couture Line. It's an impressive two-piece ensemble that we have put into its own video. MVC does great work!

Read more about "Delphine" directly from MVC here.

Also, we wanted to pair this dress with the Hobo Purse from Maiden Flight Clothing, which you also see in the video -- it matches perfectly with the dress!

MVC is planning a 2011 Summer Line perhaps at the end of June. And Maiden Flight offers items occasionally in their Etsy shop, both for AGs and Karito Kids. See the bottom of this post for pics of items currently available from MF.

Hope you like our pic and video of "Delphine!"

Items currently in the Maiden Flight/Brambleberry Cottage Shop...

Thanks for coming by today --

Hope your holiday weekend is going awesomely!

Gia in Several Ensembles

Us again! Here is Gia in a lot of stuff since we finally processed a bunch of pictures....

First here she is in the AG Berry Hoodie that we will give away in 2011 (that we bought on Cyber Monday)...

Second here she is in a purple dress from Etsy seller ArdentlyAdmire (it is based on a Heritage Doll Fashions pattern marketed by Liberty Jane Patterns).... it is a dress for AG dolls, but for KKs it works better as a tunic top. So we put the dress with the Maiden Flight KK jeans and a belt from Liberty Jane to create a unique look...

FYI- Ardently Admire has already sold 16 of these dresses in purple, blue, green and red--- they are very popular!

Next we have a really cute red plaid shirt from Ebay seller larf2009 with the KK jeans... made for AG dolls, but over the Maiden Flight black tank top it looks pretty good...

And finally the plaid shirt with its matching skirt from larf2009... we love this set on AGs and on KKs--- plus we got it for less than $12.00 !!!....

More posts to come right around the corner....

Maiden Flight Karito Kids Outfit

Hola! Been an interesting day. Worked on packaging up the prize, but missed the boat to UPS for today. Mark it down on the to-do list for Monday. Sigh. But at least we have some fun stuff to show you despite us being slow with our chores. ;-)

If you didn't already know, Liberty Jane and Maiden Flight have teamed up to create and market patterns for Karito Kids. Which you can view and purchase by going here: http://www.libertyjanepatterns.com/. The KK trendy tee pattern is free if you sign up for the Maiden Flight newsletter. Here are the cover-art pics of three of the currently available patterns.

So lucky for us Maiden Flight decided to sell some of the clothing you see on the covers: the long-sleeve plaid shirt, black tank top, and slim-fit jeans. They showed up in their Etsy shop BrambleberryCottage. And we snatched them right up since we wanted to start showing you Karito Kids here. :-)

Here is Gia in her complete Maiden Flight outfit posing with our holiday polar bear, Mr. Snuggles, from Target. He is helping us make our posts a little festive. Haha.

And then we have a slideshow of Gia showing off different aspects of the outfit. We also received a cool peace sign necklace with the duds, as you can see...

It was nice to get Gia this holiday season as a "little" gift to ourselves. A happy end to the year. Especially since Decembers are usually just spent wondering what the Girl of the Year will look like come January. What types of gifts are you excited to get or have already gotten this holiday season???

p.s. Look forward to Gia in more posts right around the corner, including our experiments in seeing what she looks like in AG-sized clothing! ;-)

Oh and p.p.s. It seems that Karito Kids World Collection 1.0 dolls might be easier to get out of their packages than World Collection 2.0 dolls, FYI.