Rhonda Cantrell —

September 17, 2010

September 2010 – Paper Dolls Have Evolved

Do you remember playing with paper dolls? My sister closest to my age used to play paper dolls with me, and I think cutting them out or punching them out was part of the fun. We tried to get every cut as accurate as possible. We would even cut dresses out of the Sears, Pennys, [...]

August 10, 2010

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August 2010: Sewing For Charity

As much as I love to sew things for gifts to friends and family and sew items to sell for my sewing business, I guess there is no feeling better than sewing for those who are less fortunate. I joined a group of wonderful ladies about 4 years ago: The Lone Star Smockers. This group [...]

July 3, 2010

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More Of Alice In Wonderland – A Fun Theme To Sew

July 2010 – Many of us read Lewis Carroll’s Alice in Wonderland when we were young, or had it read to us. I really barely remember it but just recently bought a book on ebay that has both Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland and Through the Looking Glass. I haven’t read the latter, or if I [...]

June 14, 2010

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My First Time Re-Wigging A Doll

June 2010 I have a doll named Tammi Himstedt from the Annette Himstedt collection of 2003. The Asian dolls have always appealed to me and I love to sew for them using some of my Oriental styled fabrics. I liked her face but I’m not a big fan of the wild looking mohair wig. There [...]

May 1, 2010

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Learning New Stitches…by Hand

I belong to a smocking guild…..The Lone Star Smockers. We were able to get a grant to hire an instructor to come to our area of Texas to teach us how to do several hand stitches that some of us had never tried before. It was 3 days of classes learning new smocking stitches, heirloom [...]

April 5, 2010

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A Lesson Learned About BJDs

While at IDEX I met a “face up” artist. Her name is Leah Lilly. She is a friend of Kim Lasher’s and lives up in that part of the country. I chatted with her at the Pizza Party at Jeanie’s condo during my trip to Orlando. I told her of my SD BJD that I [...]

March 1, 2010

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Dolls I Liked at IDEX

At IDEX I met a doll artist named Dawn Donfronio. She sculpts dolls and then has kits made for reborn artists to paint and add hair and make bodies and attach the limbs and head. She “reborned” 6 of her own kit called “Tiny Sleeper”. This kit is a preemie baby body and sculpt that [...]

February 1, 2010

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Fun Happenings at IDEX

I had lots of fun at IDEX! This was my first trip to IDEX and also to Orlando, so I didn’t know really what to expect. I arrived on Friday, 1/29/10 and took a shuttle bus to the hotel where IDEX was hosted. My friend Jeanie (also from Texas) had already arrived with several others [...]

January 10, 2010

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First Trip to Orlando for IDEX

Here it is the beginning of a New Year and the beginning of a new adventure to me. I have never had a blog before and my husband has been working on this website for me. I am so lucky to have a husband who supports me and encourages me to enjoy my doll collecting. [...]

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