Welcome to the home of the premier Internet Doll Club!
Doll Street has something for everyone! There is so much going on for today’s doll maker – whether you create with cloth, clay, or mixed media. We have classes, swaps, and challenges, but best of all we offer friendship.
There’s lots to see and do here on the Street!
Simple leather boot tutorial
I’m pretty excited to offer a new tutorial over at the Back Alley. It’s from one of our favorite teachers and artists, Dawn Schiller and it’s to make this boot. You can take this boot from simple to complex with the addition of cuffs, straps, and all sorts of embellishments. How great is this?
Another thing that can go from simple to complex are wings. We are currently offering Judy Skeel’s Fanciful Fairy Wings class again. Judy teaches how to make the wings with all sorts of materials and she offers all sorts of patterns to base them on. You can read about the class here.
Open call for teaching proposals
Thought I’d pass this info on for anyone who is interested. ADAA is a new doll conference that just finished up it’s first event this past weekend. I heard it was a great conference with super teachers. Amy Nelson is the coordinator and she has announced an open call for teaching proposals for the next All Dolls Are Art conference. It will be held in Austin, TX, July 26-29, 2012. If you are interested in submitting a proposal to teach, please contact ADAA for the application. The deadline to submit is September 16th. I think it’s great that we have so many conferences to choose from now!
What happened to Doll Street?
Dry/Welt Felting class with Linda Misa
The website looks different, doesn’t it? We’ve moved to a Word Press format, same great content, just a different platform. I am hoping that this format will let me keep you entertained and up to date on things going on with Doll Street and the doll world in general.
Imagine collage class with Linda Misa
I have been slacking on keeping the art galleries updated due to the complexity of the software I had bought – the galleries here should be easier to maintain so look for new pictures more often. I know that seeing what others do is not only uplifting but can give you that spark that we so often need to push us in a new direction or just get out of a funk.
If you are looking for something new and different I just put up two of Linda Misa’s classes. The first one is The Owl and the Pussycat, which is a wet/dry felting class, and then for something totally different, her Imagine collage class. If you’ve never tried mixed media collage, this is a great starting place. Linda takes you through layering paper and paint one step at a time. I made one of these and display it proudly in my house!