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Little Darlings · 17. August 2018

Wait! Tomi Janes Arrived!

Our Dolltown girls received a special parcel, from Tomi Jane! Tomi Jane, doll dressmaker extraordinaire, decided to disperse her Little Darling dresses, and our Little Darlings the beneficiaries of two of them...

17. April 2017

Tomi Jane One Offs...

The girls are at the river in their pretty Tomi Janes. I overheard snippets of conversations... I wonder what Tomi would think if she heard them? We do our best to be good. As good as the dresses are! But things get away on us a little here... Lula, it's "Where are the eggs, please? Who suggested climbing trees anyway? This is a dress up event! And Xennia, I don't think one is allowed to nap in a Tomi Jane.... Xennia?

12. April 2017

Our New Tomi Jane Dress...

A story of a new dress from Tomi Jane, a favorite dressmaker in Dolltown... It has been tucked away in tissue for months! It's Easter week! But the Little Darlings are still at the river and aren't ready to fancy up. They have a very special picnic to enjoy yet! But I have their dresses laid out for them for when they return from their river outing. And we are going to have fun because over the year, when I cash in my sparkly water cans, I hunt for basic separates for our active Dolltown...

13. July 2016

Dolltown Awards Day is Done!

Everybody is clearing out! The Ellowynes are gone, and the Tonner guys with them. Phoebe is doing her best to get Gabby to clean up the trophies that are left. Birdy has come to tell Zoey and Pearl they have to change out of their Tomi Jane dresses, because it is Ice Cream time!

28. April 2016

Tomi Jane Bid on eBay

Tomi Jane's beautiful dress, on her own Little Darling... Earlier this year, I was thrilled to get two sets of Tomi's Colorways dresses at what I thought were very reasonable costs. I wasn't in the market for more. But when I saw this dress of perfection on eBay, and saw its starting bid, I couldn't resist going for it! In the end I didn't win.... Which means maybe I can get a few sandals for my girls this year. But is this going to happen every time a Tomi Jane dress becomes available for the...

09. March 2016

Little Darling Twinzy Spring Dresses!

Success! Doll dressmaker extraordinaire, Tomi Jane, had several dresses in her eBay shop, tomijanesews, for a short time. I JUMPED at the chance to acquire two matching sets for our Little Darlings here in Dolltown... Yay!

27. July 2015

Ode to Tomi Jane, doll dressmaker extraordinaire

My Ode to Tomi Jane... ...who designs and sews clothes for dolls, and especially Dianna Effner Little Darlings. Tomi Jane's dresses are on my Wish List. Looking on Flickr, I can see photo after photo of Tomi Jane's exquisite clothes for our Little Darlings. When I need a break, I have fun deciding which dress I would choose for Chantal, Ana Stevie, Pearl.... It's a game I would play with my sister when we were young, "Which would you choose...". Perhaps we had the Sears catalogue open on our...

16. July 2015

Clothes, clothes, clothes...doll clothes, I mean

Darling Lil" Bee is a shop on eBay and Etsy selling adorable sundresses, like this one, for 13" Dianna Effner's Little Darlings... Just a few months after I decided I could live in a caftan and a shawl for the rest of my life, after a lifetime of fascination with clothes, shoes, and fashion generally, I dropped into the world of doll fashions. Opening my childhood trunk of Barbie and other doll clothes reignited the admiration I have for the dressmakers to the dolls. My mom herself knitted and...

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Ana's Aphabet Book

Here's our super cute book! Available on Amazon! It has several Dolltown characters, all helping kids to learn the basic sounds of English. A is for Ana...