July 2011 AG Catalog

Well we put up a poll in the side menu to see how many of you got the most recent catalog. And about 1/3 of you didn't get it or haven't gotten it yet. So we thought we'd just put up a couple slideshows so you can see most of the pages. We always thought it would be nice if AG would make a catalog archive online. That way you could see them all since they were first mailed back in ol' 1986 to today.

The pics aren't the best because we didn't use flash (to avoid shiny spots on the pages). But we tried. Hopefully for those of you who haven't seen it, it is entertaining. We'll try to do this for the next new catalog too which will probably show us Cecile and Marie-Grace.

About 10 pages in each slideshow, if you hover over the images you will find the backward, pause, and forward buttons to control what you are looking at.

123 Release! And Various Reminders

The new 123 Mulberry Street Line was released today - a special black and white limited edition series. It's a really fun collection - see pics below of the new stuff and then more of everything currently available in the 123 Mulberry Street Etsy shop....




Also on the topic of 123 Mulberry Street -- we thought we should remind y'all that Sunday July 24th is the last day to enter our June/July giveaways for a chance to win one of the prizes seen below. The first outfit is by 123 Mulberry Street and the dress is from Jessica's Historically Designed shop.

Enter before Sunday if you want to win! Go here: http://thedollwardrobe.blogspot.com/2011/06/junejuly-giveaways-start-today-enter.html

We also have our Ice Cream Sundae Giveaway happening right now. Go here to learn more: http://thedollwardrobe.blogspot.com/2011/07/special-ice-cream-giveaway.html You could win these three delicious treats for your dolls!

And of course, last but not least, Activity Four of the Doll Photo Contest is currently in progress and the due date for your picture or video is August 1st, 12 days from now. A lot of time, hopefully enough for everyone to get something in if you wanted to participate. :-D

Go here to learn more about this part of the contest: http://thedollwardrobe.blogspot.com/2011/07/activity-three-winner-announced.html

Doll Jewelry, Part Three: Key and Ship's Wheel Necklaces

Hola! Sorry for the delayed post. Yet another doll jewelry post that has been in the works for days.

We start with Stella showing off the silver key necklace that we made in the last doll jewelry post. Stella is wearing the Liberty Jane "Tokyo Libby: Blossom" outfit from the Fall 2010 Line. It is our favorite LJ outfit ever made. Such a unique style and we love the colors.

So the next necklace we made was with the ship's wheel charm. The nice thing about the key and the wheel charms is that they can really be used for historical jewelry as well. 

Warning: Lots of photos ahead, and again - we are just amateurs at this, haha. We wanted to put the charm on the wire and glass bead chain pictured below.

As you can see the necklace comes complete already so to make it doll-size we have to open the chain and divide it in half. It helps to have those delicate pliers and some tweezers on hand to unwind this type of wire and open it.

Now that we have a long strand we can measure it against the key necklace to make a proper length.

We added a silver link from our long shiny chain supply onto the magnetic clasp to connect it to the chain. Then added it to the chain by closing the link and closing the wire around it.

Then we did that to the other side and voila, the chain is complete.

Luckily when we divided the chain in half we had the proper length for two necklaces, so we can make the ship's wheel one and something else down the road.

We got the idea of this necklace from one we got from Liberty Jane, pictured below with ours in progress. And we also included a pic of the clasps on each so you can see how she makes hers.

And then we added on the ship's wheel charm to finish our work.

Stay tuned for the next doll jewelry post to see pics of Jocelyn wearing the necklace. We will also be de-constructing a keychain to use its parts for dolly necklaces. Aren't our experiments exciting? Haha.

Thanks for reading this long post! 

We hope you are enjoying these doll jewelry tutorials!