Doll Craft – Doll Shoe Holder

I am loving that my friend Lisa Marie at Emily Rose Doll Clothes keeps finding these great doll crafts and sharing them with everyone. This one is way too cute!

Using a cereal box, Craft Foam Sheets and some glue you can easily make this cute shoe storage and display piece. Use your favorite colors, add a decorative touch and make as many as you need. Way cute. Go to Making Friends for the complete instructions.

Cute Craft – Boots for your 18″ Doll

My friend Lisa-Marie of Emily Rose Doll Clothes found the instructions for making boots for your dolls at Fimby. These are so cute, I just had to share them with you, too!!

Visit the Fimby site for a complete list of materials, step by step instructions and scroll to the bottom of the instructions to download the pattern.

Have fun!

American Girl Craft Supplies and Kits from Michaels

American Girl has teamed up with EKSuccess Brands and Michaels crafts to launch a cute new line of craft supplies and project ideas for girls – www.americangirlcrafts.com. The projects range from bracelets and mini purses and the products include doll stickers – like Chrissa, iron-ons and craft kits.

Based on the popularity of their previous craft kits and books, I think this is a natural progression and will give girls even more ways to express their creativity and connect with the American Girl Doll characters and stories.

Doll Craft – Custom Labels

I found this cool tool for creating custom labels easily and online at World Label. Immediately I thought what a great way to create your own return address labels featuring your favorite doll, make labels for doll storage or even make your own mini doll books and use these as labels. Read more

Doll Crafts

Summer vacation is here which means my girls are in the mood to create! They love making things for their dolls bur are looking for something new this year. I’ve been looking all over the web trying to track down ideas and make a list of things to get when we go to the craft store later this week. Here are some of the projects I think they will want to start with: Read more

How to Pierce A Doll’s Ears

Let me start off by saying, DO NOT pierce your doll’s ears without first getting parental permission, and I highly recommend that you have parental supervision while doing this. Also, if you pierce your dolls’ ears, it is PERMANENT so think long and hard about taking on this project first.

Now that I got all that out of the way, TracAn posted a very detailed tutorial on piercing your doll’s ears in our forum and gave me permission to repost it here.

SUPPLIES NEEDED TO PIERCE DOLL’S EARS

• Pencil to mark the place to pierce
• Needle nose pliers to hold the pin or needle
• A thin pin or needle, make sure it is a thin one
• Lighter to heat the pin or needle
• Earring to put in the ears

Use the pencil to mark where you want to pierce the ear

Hold the pin with the needle nose pliers so that you do not burn your fingers when the pin is heated and it is easier to hold steady.

Do not try to push the pin straight in – it will bend.

If you work more from the front, you can see the earrings better and they fit their ear more securely.

Next hold the pin or needle and use the lighter to heat it up so that it will melt through the plastic (PLEASE use ADULT supervision with this part – I’m serious!!!)

Brace your hand on their shoulder and line the pin up where you want it.

Then you can slide the pin in and pull it back out immediately.

And the result:

Thanks TracAn (aka The Crazy Doll Lady – check out her cool store)!