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Greetings! And welcome to our very first foray into the Blogging world. Our 10 year old online group, minidoll LIST has reached a staggering 1300+ members, and we'd like to add a *personal* flavor to the creating and inspirational side of dollmaking with this forum.
If you're like most miniaturists, learning anything new is a stressful experience that has you teetering between the thrill of purchasing a new doll kit and actually making it. AND you can always count on procrastination to stall the process, inventing hundreds of reasons why you can't ACTUALLY start. The kit then becomes one more TODO ... and the stress begins to build in the back of your mind, thinking of all those little naked bodies waiting to be dressed.
So guess what? Its time to get out those little bodies and learn the tricks of the dollmaking trade. In no time flat, you can have a little person fully dressed ... AND we're here to hold your hand along the way. The first step is reading this Blog, and clicking through the sources below to get your inspiration going.
BACKUP Assistance: If you have a naked dolly, and want to create a certain type of outfit at no cost, click around our archive section for hours of free tutorials. If you are a *people* oriented person, and want instant feedback, simply click to our list website for a FREE membership. If you SERIOUSLY want a fix right NOW ... we have a wonderful group of ladies that meet on Thurs & Sun 10am & 7pm (CST) in our minidollPOSSE group. This group is open to everyone and was established to provide newer members with help, advice and learning through free tutorials, games and surprise lectures. The Posse meetings are held in our classroom. This gives you a wonderful opportunity as well to use the room before purchasing a class online.
Talking about the chatroom, our Fall online classes are starting up, with MYRA (a beginner little girl) open for registration right now! She is part one of two classes devoted to showing you the basics of piece cutting materials, laces and trims to create a doll entirely of gluing. After completion of both classes, you will be emailed a very nice certificate from the minidollU.
Student photos of previous classes, can be seen in the student gallery.
If you are more of a lurker, no worries, we have loads of inspiration for you also that doesn't require you to take part until you are comfortable!
For example, one of our best selling CD's (Master CD), is filled with hours and hours of tutorials for only $15 plus shipping! The beauty of this CD, are all the tutorials you can take along on holiday, and no need for internet connection. Just your laptop.
We also provide a wonderful TUTORIAL MEMBERSHIP
each year, which features 6 fantastic tutorials and patterns for only $1.25 each. Each issue is filled with patterns, research, photos and artists.
Looking for a few more wonderful gratis tutorials before jumping in? How about our online ezine - FRILLS & FANCY or archive section from the last 10 years? Some of the links to artists and websites are outdated, however the tutorials contain all kinds of really cool dollmaking tips and secrets. We no longer send out paper patterns, but compiled all the patterns on one CD for these archive tutorials.
WHEW! That should get your thinking caps on for today. Join me again soon as we start in on the basics of getting that doll put together, and
HAPPY CREATING!
DANA
