This bit is not about New Items, but a new section I have created to view all of the Tiny Dolls which are still available. Since so many of the Tiny Dolls have been discontinued, both from the original historical series and the later character-holiday series, the available remaining dolls have been brought all together on this new page for ease of viewing and possible ordering.

To go to the page of still available Tiny Dolls

NEW TINY DOLL FOR 2024 ~ THE LITTLE DOLLMAKER

DESCRIPTION OF THE LITTLE DOLLMAKER, THE TINY DOLL #22, FOR 2024-25:
I think the reason this doll so excites me is that I delight especially in the making of accessories for my dolls. I have had this idea for some time but couldn’t get past what size doll to use, because I really wanted it to be in the Tiny Doll size, but didn’t see how I could execute all the details for a doll that small. Then, just like that while I was unpacking some very old work of mine, the Plan unfolded in an instant. So, here it is. She is called the Little Dollmaker and features a 3.5” Tiny Doll in a dress and lace- trimmed pini and cap, sitting on a small painted wooden bench where she is sewing for her 1” (yes, one inch) wood clothespin doll. She will have her working brass scissors, pincushion, a spool of thread, a tiny stack of possible fabrics and a very tiny dress pattern for her very tiny doll.

This doll is now discontinued.

A NEW TINY DOLL AS A PINCUSHION FOR VALENTINE'S DAY AND ALWAYS
PLUS A NEW ONE IN A RARE YELLOW PRINT THEME

After racking (had to look it up - wracking or racking?) my brain for a new Valentine themed Tiny Doll for 2024, what I came to is making one of my Tiny Dolls as a pincushion. And I ended up very happy with her. She was to be a limited edition of only 25 (due to just that amount of the fabrics) and about 3.5" tall. Like the other Tiny Dolls, she has a molded head torso and arms from my own original molds set into her pincushion skirt which is stuffed with wool roving and hard to see in the photo, there is a tiny pin tuck near the bottom of her skirt for that added special touch. Her flat base has a fabric covered wood foundation so she sits well on your work surface. She comes with her tiny accessories of a tiny strawberry emery and her tiny scissors. The Tiny Pincushion Doll in pinks sold so fast, I decided to do another one in the yellows shown. Nice yellow tiny prints are rare and I found a small leftover piece from another doll where I used it in her clothing. I had just enough for only 25 dolls. An added touch is her tiny strawberry is a real silk, another scrap I found in my stash. Then, couldn't help myself, so found some blues as well.

NEWS - As mentioned above, the pink version sold so fast that having found a small stash of the actual same fabrics, I decided to do an additional small batch . So while the pinks had been sold out, I now have a few more. All colors are ready for shipping.

Tiny Pincushion Doll in Pinks - (This one SOLD OUT)

Tiny Pincushion Doll in Yellows (This one SOLD OUT)

Tiny Pincushion Doll in Blues - (only 3 left)

These dolls are now being discontinued. Remaining dolls are on sale on the Garage Sale Page: look for the Tiny Doll Button.

A SET OF TINY PRIMITIVE HOUSES
(3/4" tall to top of chimneys)

Tiny Houses - Set 1

Tiny Houses - Set 2

A LONG STORY FOR VERY SMALL THINGS: For many years I have photographed some of my items with very tiny wooden houses for scale and for a pop of color. And of course as with appealing tiny things, I have gotten many inquiries about how to get them. The ones I have I purchased at a show where the maker, Christopher Gurshin (a wonderful early mural style painter), and I were both selling and I think I may have spent all my profits in his booth on the tiny houses he had, even though they were very costly. I never regretted the purchases or the new friendship. Later I tried to order more but alas he would not make more.

Many years before that, I made my own tiny houses as part of a tiny village shown at the NY Gift Show that was going to become a kit but which never happened because at the same time my Early American Doll Series did come out and eclipsed all other projects for many years.

Meanwhile I had been collecting very old and tiny German Erzgebirge pieces once part of antique village scenes and Noah’s Arks. The pieces I favor are the tiniest ones and are costly when they can be found. Two years ago, I bought at auction some pieces that meant, with a lot of work in tiny repairs plus the other pieces I had collected here and there, I would have a village with the goal of setting it up at Christmas. In spare moments, I began doing the repairs. This meant learning how to add on missing legs, ears or tails to animals only ½” tall, arms to people only an inch and a quarter tall and rebuilding tiny carts. And to keep their century old age, how to match the old painting. I loved doing this so much that I then rekindled my own tiny houses project. On this, I am just getting started. This is the first set of 4 tiny houses and I am working on a second set which will have other varied shapes and include a tiny church.These are all done by me personally and signed and dated on the bottoms. They are made only in small batches and may have a 4-6 week delivery time.

Set #1 of 4 Tiny Houses $160 Add to Cart 2 sets available now.
Set #2 of 4 Tiny Houses $185 Add to Cart Next Batch in time for Christmas

You can see a short video of my Christmas Village on this Youtube link: https://youtu.be/gASbZvzVPUs