Category Archives: Effner Dolls

The Past Seven (or so) Days

I’ve been hogging the limelight with new ensembles all week long, so here are some casual shots from the week that you might enjoy looking at.

As you can see, I am still in a pink mood. Aren’t all of these pink rose prints lovely? A couple are new and three of them were used last year, but I still have LOTS more to make more dresses with. I like laying them out in a little collection for a few days.

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The peach pink rose print pictured above is being made into a dress to go with this cardigan for Patience.

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After my last couple of embroidery projects I was left with quite a mess. It’s all cleaned up now, but I’ve begun a new mess. 😳

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Here is Lucy’s dress in progress. You are looking at the wrong side that’s why it is looking so washed out. It is a lilac-y pink rose print. Here is Lucy wearing the dress. One of the mohair sweaters that I knit in January will be embroidered to go with this dress.

I needed a little bit of cheering up on this dreary Monday morning; Lucy did the trick.

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Lucy borrowed the carrot red mohair wig from Penny and wears it quite well too. I’m not sure who wears it better. Below is a picture of Penny during our photo shoot for “Pretty in Purples”.

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Bye for now! Have a great week!

“Pretty in Pastels” for Gina

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I decided to dress Gina in my next pink pastel ensemble, Lucy had the honors wearing pink the last time.

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The day I took the picture of this sweater was a beautifully sunny day and provided the most perfect backdrop of color.

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I think this is the tiniest print I have ever seen. I bought it in all four color ways. This is my favorite and the first one that I’ve used so far.

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For more information on Gina’s “Pretty in Pastels” ensemble, please visit my “Shop What’s New” page at cindyricedesigns.com.

Does Pink Make You Happy?

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While trying to come up with a name for this next ensemble, I kept on thinking how happy all of this pink made me feel; hence, the name was born. Does pink make you happy too?

There are some strong opinions out there about pink. It seems that you either love it or hate it. When my daughter was in grade school I spent about 6 years as a volunteer art teacher for the first graders. I heard many stories from the little ones about how their moms either loved pink or hated it. If their moms hated pink, not a speck of pink could be used for their project. It made me smile to hear such strong convictions about the color pink coming from these little ones.

I love pink! I especially love pink for our dolls, and I love to wear pink in all shades. I think I have more pink fabric than any other color.

Here is my Little Darling, Lucy, modeling “Pink Happiness”. I hope you feel happy too, looking at my smiley faced Lucy in her new pink ensemble.

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