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Materials Monday: UV Blocking window film
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Materials Monday: Ribbon!
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PS Pattern Checklist!
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She's making a list, checking it twice...No, wait, wrong season ;) Back when I set up the web store, a concern some customers had was that they'd lose track of where they bought stuff and accidentally get doubles. Honestly? It's the kind of thing I see myself doing, so it's a legit concern and I tried to figure out a solution. Here's what I came up with: Pattern Checklists! But hey, if you're going to make a tool, might as well give it multiple uses! Here's the .PDF file for the PS size (which includes 125% patterns like DC Super...
Dollfie Dream Pretty & the new "Teen 1/3" size
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Volks has recently released a new doll size, the "Dollfie Dream Pretty" It was supposed to be somewhere between The Dollfie Dream Sister & Mini Dollfie Dream in size, but that was all the real sizing info that was available. Was it going to be a shrunken DDS? An enlarged MDD? Something else entirely? Well I managed to grab one on their web store before it sold out and did some extensive comparisons and measuring! Here she is compared to the next size up/down (DDS/MDD) She looks about half way between both, by size as well as uh, 'maturity'. I...
Fabric Row in Philadelphia
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As a bit of a reward for getting the new website running and getting through the Thanksgiving shopping frenzy, I took a road trip to Fabric Row in Philadelphia! The idea of a bunch of independent fabric stores all in one place is very novel to me. I first encountered it in Manhattan, which made sense because of the Fashion District. Where I grew up (Massachusetts) there were a bunch of independent fabric stores, but they were widely distributed like any other store--one every 4-5 towns. Not nearly as many as there used to be, with chain craft stores stocking...