Karen and Emily Go Outside: Black Hoodies

Hola! ¿Cómo está usted? Have you entered our Fall Giveaway yet? If not, check out the post right below this one. :)

Today we were going to do swimsuit photos, but then we realized that we still haven't moved over all of those pictures from the laptop. Only some of them. Duh. We are slow. But we do have pictures of Karen and Emily in fall attire. Remember the post about the black and white Doll Closet shirts? Well this is like a 2.0 version of that post.

Karen and Emily are wearing the same jeans and tops, but they have added on two hoodies for the cooler weather we had here at the beginning of last week. Karen is wearing a swirly graphic hoodie handmade by Terri of All Dolled Up Doll Clothing. And Emily is wearing an awesome skull graphic hoodie handmade by Heritage4 of Heritage Doll Fashions.

Here are zee hoodie pictures!

Both Heritage4 and Terri have joined the Liberty Jane Clothing team. Heritage4 is creating patterns, and Terri has become a LJC Premium Partner. As a LJC partner, or Premium Partner (depending on what you want to be)--- you have permission to use the LJC patterns to create doll clothing to sell for a profit. Your profit! Isn't that exciting?!?! We talked about this program a little in some previous comment discussion- but we wanted to bring it to light in a post. Here is the LJC lingo:

"Have you been trying to figure out how to make some extra money?

We are modifying our pattern's commercial use policy to benefit work-from-home seamstresses in an exciting new way. If you've been looking for an opportunity to make some additional income, you might like this...

Become A Partner:

Previously if you wanted to use our patterns for selling, we had a royalty payment required that was cost prohibitive for many people. We are doing away with that completely. From now on, if you want to use Liberty Jane Patterns for selling through your Ebay, Etsy store, or other websites, then we are 100% supportive. And you can keep 100% of the profit. Since our patterns currently have clear language prohibiting you from using them in this way, (and I don't want to edit all my patterns), simply email me if you're interested. We will give you official permission to use our patterns for work-from-home sewing. You'll be an official partner. My email is cinnamon@libertyjaneclothing.com. All we ask for in return is that you let people know that you used a Liberty Jane Pattern in your item description and you clarify that it is not an original Liberty Jane outfit garment.

But wait, there's more...Want to become a Premium Partner?

Become A Premium Partner:

We are setting up a Premium Partners website for $9.99 a month. Benefits will include,

• Selling tips and recommendations, like our 10 tips for branding your business, as well as 'how-to' posts explaining pretty much everything we do. From pricing to photography equipment, and scissors to internet tools. We'll share everything.
• A discussion forum where we will answer any questions you have about our patterns, selling strategies, marketing questions, anything you need help with, we'll do our best to provide support.
• Priority access to patterns. As we move forward we'll begin to give you early bird access to our patterns before we release them on our patterns website. We're still working this out, but it will probably be something like 3 months exclusive use before they are released to everyone else.
• Traffic! we have a huge set of frustrated fans that are waiting to get one of our designs, and we're happy to refer them to you, with a direct link from our site to yours. Again, you can keep 100% of the profits. We are remodeling our www.libertyjaneclothing.com website and the new design will allow us to prominently feature your store, website, or listing. You'll be featured as a "Premium Partner". Additionally, we'll use our social media tools, (like Facebook), to drive traffic to your site.
• A free pattern download every month.

If you're interested, email me back and say, "Yes, I want to partner". As soon as we are ready to launch, (within a week or so), We'll send you further details.

Whether you decide to become a partner or premium partner, our vision is pretty simple... Just like we have partnered with top designers to expand the selection of great patterns, we also want to work with top seamstresses to expand the selection of our designs that are available to shoppers.

Again, if you're interested, just send me an email, cinnamon@libertyjaneclothing.com."

And here is the LJC pattern blog post with info about this program.

And here is a pattern blog post with a list of some of their current partners.

We hope that info helps you peeps out there thinking about selling dolly clothing for profit, or thinking about ways to expand your current offerings. :)

Fall 2010 Doll Giveaway: Enter Here!

Despite this being a sad week for AG fans, there are two rays of hope at the end of the tunnel.

1) Maybe the archival of Felicity and Elizabeth means we will get more new historical dolls, like we got Rebecca after Sam was archived.

And 2) This is the official announcement of the Fall 2010 Doll Giveaway here at The Doll Wardrobe blog. Yay!

One lucky winner will be able to choose one of three dolls--- Kirsten Larson, Just Like You #41 or Ivy Ling! The doll will come brand-new, in-box, with her meet outfit and book, and an extra outfit (which we will discuss more in other posts). (For free!)

So 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. Winners will be drawn out of a hat, i.e. randomly picked. If you win, she will email that address to notify you and ask for your doll choice (from the three pictured in this post), and your shipping address.




There will only be one winner for this giveaway -- she/he gets to choose one of the above dolls to receive. The two left-over dolls will reappear in the Winter 2011 giveaway. :)

We will ship to other countries (including the USA, of course). So if you live in Australia, England, Canada, and so on--- and you win--- we will ship the doll to you for free. No cost to you.

The last day to enter the giveaway will be
Sunday December 5th, 2010 and the winner will be announced
on Monday December 6th, 2010.

We know that is a long time for the giveaway to last, but we need to make sure Liberty Jane has enough time to make our special giveaway outfit for us. We don't want to rush Cinnamon, especially since we have yet to get our butts in gear and send her the jeans she is going to reconstruct for us.

Any questions??? Please feel free to ask. :)

Felicity and Grey Jeans

Random title eh? Yeah, we are in a weird mood today. Like most of our readers, we are sad to see Felicity and Elizabeth go. For the past several years we were kind of wishing their collection had the substance it truly deserved. We hadn't bought a lot of the available things because they just weren't what they "should be." But alas, we are now sucked into the archival frenzy.

We don't like having collecting regrets--- that "could have, should have, would have" feeling when you miss an Ebay auction or a doll's item is retired while you weren't paying attention.

So we saw this:

... and said "Oh the Heck with it, let's just ride this train to Crazy Town." So we ordered these:




Yes, we are total AG suckers. What can we say? We are easily brainwashed by the "Buy Now or Lose Your Chance!" propaganda. :(

All of this new colonial stuff is going to go to our Mary Royall, who is more than happy to receive new prezzies. We kind of feel too depressed to keep Felicity and Elizabeth as colonial characters, reminding us of yet another archival. So we think we'll do something creative with them to make this experience more fun and exciting. We'll let you know what we come up with. ;)

Now onto the grey jeans part of the title: below we have pictures of two pairs of grey jeans we are shipping to Cinnamon of Liberty Jane Clothing to make into dolly skinny jeans. One pair of the dolly pants will be given away with the Fall 2010 Doll Giveaway. So we wanted to know which jeans you guys would prefer to see included with the giveaway. The pictures aren't the best, as we don't have a humanoid model for them, so they are resting on zee chair. But try to imagine these as dolly jeans, heehee.

Pair One?

Or Pair Two?

Let us know in the comments below which pair you'd prefer to have as the dolly skinny jeans offered in the Fall 2010 Doll Giveaway. :)