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Hello everyone... My life has changed dramatically this month due to the sudden death of my dear youngest son...

I am changing prices to sell as low as possible.... I hope to add very many new things that have been in drawers for years... my sole focus now is to sell off as much as possible and finish up projects that have piled up over the years. Please check the ebay store for auctions of doll-related items and non-porcelain collectable dolls that I will be listing as soon as I can manage it.

I am open to offers for dolls in my own collection, so write if you have any interest.

Warmest regards, Emily

Hello everyone... thanks to all of you for your continued support of my work....

I have quite a few new heads and some new dolls as well as lowered some prices... You can still buy through the ebay store while I am away but I will not be able to ship as promptly as I normally do..

A new page has been created to show you what the wonderful bodies from Joyce's doll bodies are like... I will add more as I have time to photograph them.

From Thursday August 5th to Saturday August 14th, I will have a short break... so if you write and don't get a response, it will happen as soon as I can get to it when I return..

I hope everyone is having a great Summer.

Emily Hart

Hello Everyone...

Mid July has left me without many dolls to sell, but the good news is that I have nearly finished painting 22 new heads and some will be for sale as "Heads Only",... others are stated to be made into finished dolls...

The fabulous new Hand Glass Craft sold glass eyes have arrived and we now have a new color of palest blue along with the regular colors I have always stocked, that is light brown, hazel brown, French Navy, Blue/grey, light blue, turquoise, mauve and olive.

My next order will include dark Puppy Brown and some other new colors... but that will be a few months down the road.

Other fabulous news is that Joyce's doll bodies are available now with a new payment method, as Jim has signed up with paypal and you can now order his incredible French, and German reporduction bodies with greater ease of payment...

I highly recommend Jim's wonderful artistry when it comes to Antique Reproduction bodies none can equal his meticulous attention to detail and wonderful satin finish.... I like to paint my heads pale and his bodies are the mose amazing color to compliment the heads. As well, his delivery time is very prompt... you won't be dissappointed.

You can contact Jim in Oregon State at phone # 541-382-4033 or Cell phone # 541-460-0032 . Please support this wonderful bodymaker and keep him in business...
If you want his price list emailed to you, you can also write to me and I will forward it to you..

Please let me know if you have any special requests as I will be doing more pouring again soon.

Hope everyone is having a great Summer.... I am thinking of taking a week off to go to fabulous Cortes Island to spend time with my sons and my little grandson.... but not sure yet when that will be... you can check my ebay store where there will be a notice if I go on Holiday..

Warmest Regards...

Emily Hart

Hello everyone...

Thank you for your continued patronage and patience in this time when I have little to offer for sale... I finally got my new shipment of porcelain slip, and yes, it is the wonderful "Magnolia White" Ultra Chic porcelain that I find so appealing. I have done a pouring of 15 new heads this week, but will be continuing to pour until I get a good stock of heads to work with... So those of you who have been waiting for your orders... they are in the works now. In the coming months I hope to be offering heads you have not seen for some time... If you want to order heads, now is the time to do it, in many cases there are only one or two heads made each year, and as most of you know, the time I will be able to make dolls is limited.

My wigmaker is working hard to create some new wig styles and colors... the new "Mindy" wig is going to be spectacular. I have made large orders of wigs and Hand Glass paperweight eyes, so they are being made now. There will be one new color of eyes, and that is pale blue, an even lighter blue than the light blue. Hand Glass eye colors I am stocking are Hazel, light brown, olive green, turquoise, mauve, pale blue, light blue, blue/grey, French Navy, and a very few of the dark blue that are gorgeous but have not photographed well, and therefore they have not sold well since all my dolls and heads are sold by photos.. In the case of blue eyes they often appear brighter in photos than they look when you see them in front of you. I decided not to order grey eyes even though they are very historically correct for Bru dolls especially, I found they just did not sell very well.

I have added to the "Dolls for Sale" Gallery today, some of the dolls I consider to be my very best. As much as I want to keep them all, new dolls are coming up and I am practicing "non-attachment" so... these are now priced to sell and this is your opportunity to buy the best of the best at very affordable prices... all dolls are ONE OF A KIND.

The ONE OF A KIND silk shantung (in most cases) dresses with Vintage Tambour net overlay and fantastic under garments, with corsets, have been very well received and many are sold now, however a few remain and more will be offered in the comming months. Also smaller sizes are being made, so those of you who like to buy your heads and add your own bodies, I am working on acquiring more outfits to sell also.

Mary Lambeth costumes are always in high demand, and these also I continue to buy as many as possible, though there are few available as Mary is very limited in how many and how fast she can produce them.

Although Lady dolls are rarely offered, I do have quite a few molds for Lady dolls, such as the Smiling Bru Lady, Gaultier Lady, and Lady Margaret, as well a several parians, and I am going to pour a few of them.

Also Mechanical head and arm sets for the 14 inch Seeley mechanical bodies can be ordered for the H-doll, Long Face Jumeau, and Phenix bebe.

New doll Jullien Bebe will be offered soon, she goes on a 13 inch body to make up to be a 17 inch doll.

Please give me feedback on any suggestions you may have.

Warmest Regards, Emily Hart

Hello everyone... Thank you all for your continued support of my work this year so far.

I have had a few people write recently asking questions but cannot answer them because they have not filled in their email address correctly... If you don't do that properly on the contact form there is no way for me to write back to you.

This is my retirement year and I am counting the months now until October when it becomes official, and I can collect my Old Age Security Pension... Then perhaps I can relax a bit and just "play dolls" and do what I want instead of what I think everyone wants to buy. I will continue to create in a more limited way in future, and some new things will be offered but not as many as I have been offering in the past years. My Doctor has been telling me for years to stop this work as I have disc degeneration and must not be lifting the heavy molds much more now.

I have been waiting and waiting for a shipment of porcelain to work with and still want to do a big pouring and make a few more of some of the best faces... At this point I no longer do custom order dolls, but I will make a note of what you might want and if I have it in future I will let you know. Most of the heads I painted this year in February have been sold, so this was quite a surprise for me. Many of them were only listed for a few hours and they sold.

My wigmaker and I have been working hard together to create a new and very beautiful wig style... the "Mindy" wig will be a showstopper and also we are working to create new and better colors for the wonderful mohair wigs she makes for me. There will also be boy wigs made now and some changes to the "Emily" wig that has had too much hair in the bangs...

I will start doing some sewing again and do the kind of costumes that take three weeks each to make... these are called "competition quality" and are meticulously made with much hand stitching with invisible stitches and often beadwork or silk ribbon work... Few of these have been shown for sale since I began buying my costumes from Mary Lambeth and Sue Laurent. I have made my concentration on the porcelain work and not my own sewing that is more like the Genuine Antique clothing was made.

I also look forward to learning the complicated ribbonwork flowers that I have had a book on how to make for years, but never the time to focus on learning this interesting craft. I have been slowly searching out sources and buying as I have found them and now have a significant stock of wonderful ribbons, Vintage stamens, Vintage laquered leaves, and velvet leaves to work with....It is time for me to enjoy life now and just "play" at my creativity instead of working long hours just to make ends meet.

I think retirement is going to be a lot of fun for me... Finally I will be able to relax and let the real Masterpieces flow out of me...

I am not quite gone yet... Sending love to you all... Emily

Hello everyone and thank you for a fabulous year gone by...now it is time to focus on the New Year and so I offer something new to my website.... Incredible handmade gemstone jewellry with 925 Sterling silver. These items just cannot be truly appreciated from photos, however you can see how unique they all are. Please don't hesitate to write for more and larger photos if you have any interest...

I have 27 new doll heads in the works as well, so hopefully there will be new faces soon and some are from new molds. It will be fun to see how the new little girls and boys turn out.

I am also making some of my own dresses again and also featuring wonderful silk shantung with Antique tambour laces and outfits with undergarments including little mock corsets... these are already well received.... and more to come...

Happy New year to everyone.... Emily

Hello everyone... and thank you for your wonderful messages to me, your compliments and your loyalty...

Some of you may have been wondering what about the Milettes I promised a while back? Well, some of them were sold before I could list them... Some of them are still waiting to be dressed, as the costumes I ordered arrived but were too big for the dolls... so back to square one with the costumes... You know I am obsessive about making everything perfect...

I am thinking of new ways to go with the business... I may make up the dress fabric and laces kits again, as they used to sell quite well and I still have lots and lots of beautiful silks and laces to offer, let me know if you are interested in them... Each one comes with a yard of 54 inch dupionni silk and a variety of complimenting laces to make up at least one costume for a fairly large doll.... Some kits have more fabric and laces... They sell for U.S. $ 29. to $49.

I also have a couple of hundred acrylic wigs for everything from babies to Santa wigs and beards.

I bought out all the remaining stock of Global's Leather doll shoes for French and German dolls... Some of them will be for my dolls but some will be for sale... Especially if you have large dolls, I may just have the most exquisite leather shoes for you... Most of the French shoes are black leather... I will list as soon as I can get to it.

I have literally 200 dolls around the studio to get finished and dressed.... maybe even more... there are drawers and drawers full of painted bisque... just need to be put together and get them dressed... And I think I am going to retire in a year? Hmmmm.....

I have been back to painting new heads this week and presently have about 40 new heads nearing completion... A big change will be to see some German Painted eye dolls again... The very rare Elsa K*R 109 will come in two sizes. Also the 114 Pouty "Hans" and "Gretchen" and the very rare Franz Shmidt "Gloria" one of the most beautiful dolls I have ever seen, all are in progress now.

I have the bigger Milette bodies on order so as soon as they arrive there will be some Milettes available... If you want to reserve one, let me know, they will be U.S. $950.00 with shipping included.

Hello everyone I am so excited to be able to tell you I have a site now on Webshots and you can see slideshows of my work now by going to my Links page and clicking on the appropriate link.... so far only one slideshow in Sepia with 115 photos... a passion of mine to create such amazing photos of dolls I have made.... Please let me know if you like it... Emily

Hello everyone... Thank you for your continued support of my work... More dolls have been listed and prices reduced on some heads and some dolls... I will be pouring again very soon as the weather has cooled down a bit... my aim is for pouring by the last week of August so please let me know if you have any particular requests.... Only 14 more months before I hope to retire.... Love and Blessings to all... Emily

Hi everyone!

Good News! Almost all items have been reduced in price as many new heads and dolls now appear in the weeks to come...

This is the time to get in on some fabulous deals!

Also gorgeous new Mary Lambeth costumes are arriving now... Milette finished dolls will soon be available... these are just as gorgeous as the larger French dolls, but are only 11 inches tall!.... Most will be selling around $900. an amazing price for this quality of rare French dolls. Jester boy dolls are in the works....Just amazing.... keep watching...