Dottie Digital

I'm pleased to announce the opening of Dottie Digital, where you can instantly buy downloads of some of the vintage paper dolls in my collection.

 

 You can use them in your card making, scrap booking, crafting  and home décor. You can print them on thin card for play, they will fit nicely on to your home printer paper, but as the files are jpeg format, you can resize them as you wish.

 

 

 

Each image has been digitally restored, to remove any tears or marks, and to ensure that the colours are bright and clear.

 

I'm so pleased to be able to share these gorgeous old images with you, and there will be more ephemera to come!

Wordless Wednesday



More Dottie Dolly Doodles

Fresh in the shop today is Julie, a 1924 Dolly Dingle paper doll pin.

 

Julie is a gorgeous strawberry blonde girl, with cute black mary jane shoes, and blue stripey socks.

 

She's available with a cute blue gingham dress, with organza sleeves, and a white belt.

 

 

Or, a pink and white frilly party dress, and a posy of red flowers

 

I think that the blue is my favourite, but maybe you adore pink. If you love them both perhaps you can spin a coin....

 

 

 



Shop Update

Just listed some illustrated pins in my Etsy shop.

 

Tommy & Nelly

Peggy in Pink

 Kewpie

 

This final pin is being sold to help raise fun for my cousin Lauren Dixon. Lauren needs to raise £25,000.00 to pay for treatment with Avastin.

 



 

You can buy the special brooch pin here, or at any of the events that I'm attending.

 

You can read Lauren's story here.

 

For more information follow Lauren's Marvellous Medicine on Facebook, or Twitter

 

 

 



Pop Up Shop

This Friday, 24th May 2013 Dottie Dollie will be Popping Up at the GO4 Market Cafe  in Colchester town centre.

• Holy Trinity Church, Trinity Street
• CO1 1JR Colchester, Essex

 

 

 

It's a wonderful venue, and the home to Lesley's Girls Vintage, What's Your Tale Nightingale, Sarah Lawrence Designs as well as pop up traders like us! Lots of unique, vintage and handmade items on sale, a beautiful building, and a relaxed a friendly atmosphere.

 

 

 

The food is home made, and there are impromptu music performances, did I mention some scrummy cake!!! ;0)

 

I've got a lot of new bags and brooches which will be available for the first time on the day

 

Molly & Charlie

 



Pointy Pixie

Peggy in Pink

Tommy & Nelly

Kewpie

 

Robin Hood Shopper Bag

 

Peggy in Pink

 

Puppy Girls Shopper Bags

Jenny & June

I have got another bag and another brooch, but more about them tomorrow.....today is Mr Dottie's Birthday, so I must get back to celebrating!



Doodle Day

I was supposed to be listing some more wonderful charms on Etsy yesterday, but I woke up with a cold, and just couldn't face it. So instead I made some Doodle brooches.

 

Peggy in Pink

Pointy Pixie

Molly, Charlie & Peggy

 

 



Also debuting in Etsy Shop this week are the Dolly Dingle Pillow Dolls!

 

Large Valerie

Small Johnnie & Joan

Small Peggy

The whole gang....so far!

 

The antique paper dolls in my collection, are fragile, and difficult to display, so these reproductions have been hand printed onto Egyptian cotton, and stuffed with all new polyester stuffing. Great to display on a shelf, or your bed...they are also great to cuddle :0)

 

Dottie's Doodles Shopper Bags

 

At last! My hand printed cotton shopper bags have been listed in my Etsy Shop.

Sailor Girl

Johnnie & Joan

Kewpie Crazy

 

 

I've also listed this new brooch pin. She has been reproduced from Petit Echo de la Mode from 1926

 

Busy, busy Monday....

I've been a bit poorly over the weekend....we had plans to go to London to catch up with friends, and to my cousin's 30th fancy dress party, but the 'flu kept me confined to base camp, without much energy to do a lot.....

 

Today I'm back painting brooches....

 

 

And organising some other bits and pieces, ready for The Secret Vintage Fair which I'll be trading at this Saturday...

 

 

Available for sale for the first time will be my new cotton tote bags...

 

Johnny & Joan - Grace Drayton

 

Sailor Girl - Dottie Dollie Original

Mabel Lucie Attwell Collage

 

If you come along, you may well need one or two to put all of your new found treasures in!!

 



Where does time go?

I haven't blogged for weeks, because there's been quite a lot happening......

 

I took a trip into London, and visited the Becoming Picasso exhibition at the Courtauld Gallery

 

 

It's not a huge exhibition, just 18 pictures spread across 2 rooms, representing works from 1901, an epiphany year for the 19 year old artist.

 

The first room shows impressionistic works, inspired by the works of Degas, Lautrec and Van Gogh. These paintings were exhibited in a Paris exhibition in the early part of the year. 

 

 

Whereas the second room shows how much his work changed in the second half of the year, after the suicide of a close friend. The paintings are the beginning of Picasso's "blue period". It's a great opportunity to see some great paintings which have been borrowed from around the world.

 

 

The Courtauld is a gorgeous gallery, I love the Degas bronzes, which are on show just outside the Picasso exhibition.

 

 

Whilst I was I round the corner, I walked up to Trafalgar Square to browse the Impressionist paintings at the  National Gallery

 

 

I also had a visit from 2 of my cousins from Canada, and we spent the day at Colchester Zoo. I haven't spent time at a zoo in years, and early on we were struggling to see any animals.....I think they were all staying in their warm shelters, and eating breakfast.

As the day went on though we found lots of interesting creatures, I think our favourites were the sea lions.

 

 

There is an fantastic walk through tank, and they "swoop" over and around as you walk through, this was a great experience.

 

 

On the work front, I've been making some fabric dolls, based on vintage paper dolls and postcards from my collection....

 

Brainstorming with paper and fabric

Valerie 11 1/2inches

 

PC McGarry 8 1/2 inches

 

Valerie, PC McGarry & Peggy

 

After a lot of cold and grey weather, at last we've had a little sunshine, and the crocuses are just starting to open up.....

 

Today I've spent the day painting......I have a batch of brooches on the go, and I'm preparing to turn my sailor girl into a fabric doll too.

 

I'll be trading at the The Secret Vintage Fair in Colchester on the 30th March, do come along if you can. I can't tell you where exactly it will be yet, because it's a SECRET, but it will be a truly memorable day.......