This is Cherry – she is today’s little one that is up for ‘adoption’. If you are interested in purchasing this sweet little gal please leave a comment below (do not click on the picture and then leave a comment, just go to the end of this post and leave a comment there!) She costs $135 (USD) plus shipping and ,if you are Canadian, taxes. One ‘entry’ per person please. The new family will be chosen by a random number generator. This listing is open for 24 hours and will close at 8pm PST tomorrow Monday March 8th. I will then contact the buyer and arrange payment/delivery details with them. The buyer will have 24 hours to respond to my email to purchase the little gal – after 24 hours we choose another comment (please check your Spam folder – it may be in there! ) Good luck!

Cherry is made with cotton interlock ’skin’ and stuffed with clean, carded wool. Her sweet ringlets are made with a mohair boucle dyed in a pink and blonde color – her eyes are blue. She is wearing a dress and wool felt shoes.

Good Luck!
Christina

This is Fleur – she is today’s little one that is up for ‘adoption’. If you are interested in purchasing this sweet little gal please leave a comment below (do not click on the picture and then leave a comment, just go to the end of this post and leave a comment there!) She costs $135 (USD) plus shipping and ,if you are Canadian, taxes. One ‘entry’ per person please. The new family will be chosen by a random number generator. This listing is open for 24 hours and will close at 8pm PST tomorrow Saturday March 6th. I will then contact the buyer and arrange payment/delivery details with them. The buyer will have 24 hours to respond to my email to purchase the little gal – after 24 hours we choose another comment (please check your Spam folder – it may be in there! ) Good luck!

Fleur is made with cotton interlock ’skin’ and stuffed with clean, carded wool. Her awesome hair is made with handspun wool dreds in a pink color and she has gray eyes. She is wearing a kimono, jeans and wool felt shoes.

‘Serendipity Selection’ is a new, regular feature over here at Bamboletta. Several times a week I’ll be post a listing for a doll for sale -keep checking back!

This is Violette – she is today’s little one that is up for ‘adoption’. If you are interested in purchasing this sweet little gal please leave a comment below (do not click on the picture and then leave a comment, just go to the end of this post and leave a comment there!) She costs $135 (USD) plus shipping and ,if you are Canadian, taxes. One ‘entry’ per person please. The new family will be chosen by a random number generator. This listing is open for 24 hours and will close at 8pm PST tomorrow Wednesday March 3rd. I will then contact the buyer and arrange payment/delivery details with them. The buyer will have 24 hours to respond to my email to purchase the little gal – after 24 hours we choose another comment (please check your Spam folder – it may be in there! ) Good luck!

Violette is funkalicious! I LOVE this gal’s wool felt dreds and cool purple eyes. Violette’s body is made with cotton interlock in a dark color and then stuffed with clean, carded wool. She is wearing a kimono, pants, underpants and wool felt shoes. Made with lots and lots of love.

Good luck!
Christina

Thanks so much for entering – Blossom was a popular gal!

Congrats to Ona!

We will have another Serendipity Doll up on Tuesday night at 8pm PST.

‘Serendipity Selection’ is a new, regular feature over here at Bamboletta. Several times a week I’ll be posting new dolls -keep checking back!

This is Blossom – she is today’s little one that is up for ‘adoption’. If you are interested in purchasing this sweet little gal please leave a comment below (do not click on the picture and then leave a comment, just go to the end of this post and leave a comment there!) She costs $135 (USD) plus shipping and ,if you are Canadian, taxes. One ‘entry’ per person please. The new family will be chosen by a random number generator. This listing is open for 24 hours and will close at 8pm PST tomorrow Monday March 1st. I will then contact the buyer and arrange payment/delivery details with them. The buyer will have 24 hours to respond to my email to purchase the little gal – after 24 hours we choose another comment (please check your Spam folder – it may be in there! ) Good luck!

Little Blossom has been made with cotton interlock and then stuffed with clean, carded wool. Her hair is made with mohair and wool yarns in a platinum color with highlights of pink in a thick handspun wool ‘dredlock’ . She has light blue eyes and fair skin. Her outfit consists of a cotton kimono, pants, underpants and wool felt shoes – she is so sweet and pink and fresh – just like her name. Anyhow – she is excited to meet her new family!

Thanks again!
Christina

If you are looking for this month’s ‘Giveaway Doll’ – she’s right here. Good luck!

I’m starting their training early!

I’ve been making dolls for a while – it’s been over 7 years now – but it’s only been the past few weeks that I’ve had to think of what I do as a business. I’ve resisted the ‘business’ in my business for a long time – just plugging along and happy if I could pay my wool bill at the end of the month. In the past few months things have grown… and quickly! I’ve taken on a few more sewing mama’s, I have  Rachel here almost full time and Brandi part time so that we can create more dolls – but still in a way that suits my ‘vision’ – dolls are made with lots of love and with very skilled hands. I’ve also hired on an accountant to do my books and help me with the business side of things – the past 2 months have seen Johanna pouring over every receipt and transaction measuring my output against my input. I’m not going to bore you all with my business story – but to make a long story short – if we are to continue Bamboletta and to perhaps one day make it into our family business I have to raise my prices. I’ve known this was coming but to actually see it and have a professional tell you , well it kind of made me look at things realistically. I want Bamboletta to go on for a long time, I can’t imagine doing anything else and somehow feel that ‘this’ is really what I am supposed to do.

So, starting March 15th my 15″ Bamboletta with a sweater or jacket will sell for $155 ( from $145) and without a sweater/jacket $135 (up from $125- $130 depending on the hair). My Little Buddies will go up to $75 from $70. Small Babies will cost $115 for the 12″ and $145 for the 16″. Blankets will go up to $23 (from $20). There will be small increases in clothing but not by much.

Phew – now that’s out of the way – I’m sure most of you know about our new ‘Serendipity Dolls’.  I post dolls on the blog several times a week that are for sale, if you are interested in buying that doll then you simply leave a comment. After the ‘listing’ is up for 24 hours I then contact the buyer and arrange payment and delivery.. the buyer is chosen via a random number generator. I am loving this new way of getting dolls out there – it’s a lot of fun and gives buyers another chance at a doll. I wish we could make lots and lots of dolls so that you could just pop on the site and buy whatever you’d like , and, maybe one day it will be like that ( a flock of sewing mama’s!!) but for now we’re trying our best to make dolls available to as many people as possible – and not just by the posted upload times.

As for the Wait List – we are still undecided about this. We have about 20 more custom dolls to finish up and then we will have around 20 to 30 dolls available per week. I hoping that at this time many of you will find your doll. We have some great ideas about what to do around uploads as well .. we are thinking of doing theme weeks  – like all blondies or something so that if you are wanting a doll that looks like your little one then you’d have a chance then to score your brown eyed blonde gal (this idea was thought up by a fantastic lady over on Facebook!).

That’s it for now – sorry this was such a long one tonight…  Again, I can not believe how fortunate I am to have all of you as customers – thanks again for all your support and patience and kindness during all of this – it’s amazing! Thanks to all the sewing mama’s, Rachel and Brandi and Reggie , and of course John.. yeah ‘Team John!’!

xo,
C

‘Serendipity Selection’ is a new, regular feature over here at Bamboletta. Several times a week I’ll be posting new dolls -keep checking back! And a BIG thanks to Jennifer for coming up with the great name of ‘Serendipity Selection’ – good one lady!

This is Angel – she is today’s little one that is up for ‘adoption’. If you are interested in purchasing this sweet little gal please leave a comment below (do not click on the picture and then leave a comment, just go to the end of this post and leave a comment there!) She costs $130 (USD) plus shipping and ,if you are Canadian, taxes. One ‘entry’ per person please. The new family will be chosen by a random number generator. This listing is open for 24 hours and will close at 8pm PST tomorrow Saturday Feb. 27th. I will then contact the buyer and arrange payment/delivery details with them. The buyer will have 24 hours to respond to my email to purchase the little gal – after 24 hours we choose another comment (please check your Spam folder – it may be in there! ) Good luck!

Sweet Angel has been made with cotton interlock and then stuffed with clean, carded wool. Her hair is made with mohair and wool yarns in a platinum color with highlights of pinks/lavenders and mauve’s – so pretty and soft. She has light brown eyes and sunkissed skin. Her outfit consists of a cotton dress, underpants and wool felt shoes – very cute – I love the pattern of this dress and I think it’s the last dress I have like this. Anyhow – she is excited to meet her new family!

Thanks again!
Christina

These doll blog uploads have been met with a great response – so – I’m going to do more, like LOTS more!

This is Timothy – he is today’s little one that is up for ‘adoption’. If you are interested in purchasing this little guy please leave a comment below (do not click on the picture and then leave a comment, just go to the end of this post and leave a comment there!) He costs $130 (USD) plus shipping and ,if you are Canadian, taxes. One ‘entry’ per person please. The new family will be chosen by a random number generator. This listing is open for 24 hours and will close at 8pm PST. I will then contact the buyer and arrange payment details with them (don’t worry if you in a different timezone and aren’t awake at 8pm PST – I’ll give you some time to respond). The buyer will have 24 hours to respond to my email to purchase the little guy – after 24 hours we choose another comment (please check your Spam folder – it may be in there )

So, about little Timothy – he has fair skin, green eyes and a sprinkling of freckles across his nose. His hair is made with mohair and wool yarns in a sweet copper color  – I LOVE this little man! He is wearing a cotton tshirt, jeans, underpants and shoes. Although the shoes aren’t shown here because he took them off to climb the tree (better ‘grip’ he says!). He is stuffed with wool and his skin is made with cotton interlock.

Good luck!
Christina

Riley has found a new home! Thank you!

Hello there! This isn’t the doll raffle – this gal is for sale. To enter the raffle, please go here to enter.

I’m trying something new tonight. I’m posting Riley here for sale ($130 USD). If you are interested in purchasing this lovely little lady – just leave a comment. I will leave comment’s open for 24 hours and then choose Riley’s new family by using a Random Number Generator. Once a comment is chosen, I will then contact the buyer and arrange payment. Easy! I’m looking forward to see how this will work, if it goes well I will post several dolls on the blog per week . Not to worry – I will still have my uploads on the website – I just thought this is another way for people to have access to the dolls without having to go through the whole upload process. Comments will close on Thursday Feb 25th at 8pm – I will contact the buyer then.

A little about Riley. She measures about 15″ tall and is handcrafted using cotton interlock for skin and stuffed with cozy and warm wool. Her light brown hair is made from mohair and wool yarns and can be styled in a multitude of ways. Her eyes are blue and her skin is fair. She is wearing a cotton tshirt, skirt, underpants and wool felt shoes.

Thanks for looking!
Christina

Update ** Wow – so much food for thought – I received over 100 comments on Facebook and almost 40 here within a few hours! There is a lot to think about around this waitlist issue. John and I are having some good chats about this and what it would look like for our business, our creativity and – really- our time.  Right now we are concentrating on getting the rest of these customs finished and will revisit this idea later. **

I feel sometimes as though I’m in the ‘teen years’ of this business – not really a one woman show anymore but I still have a business that can easily be derailed a few weeks if one of my kids gets sick. One of the ‘growing pains’ I’m having is doll availability. I know that getting a doll is hard – some say near impossible – I get emails daily from moms that are frustrated at the ‘process’ of trying to obtain a doll (some call it a sport) and I really and truly feel bad for them. The reality is we can only make so many and now that I’ve stopped taking customs the amount available will increase each week – but with more people vying for the dolls in February then before Christmas – I don’t think it’s going to get that much easier to get a doll.

So – this brings me to my question. What do you think of some kind of wait list? I would only allow the ‘basics’ for a doll to be selected (ie skin, hair and eye color and ,of course, if you want a boy or girl doll) and would perhaps allot several dolls a week to go to the people on ‘the list’. The wait may be year(s) (this is something I have no idea on how long it would be – depends on how many orders come through)  - you can’t be as specific as a custom order – but you may rest in knowing that by the time your one year old is 4 – she’ll may have  a doll. I also think as we grow (and by this I mean both kids in school full time – ohhh the time I’ll have then!) we may be able to make more dolls and go through the list easier. What do you think? Is this madness? I still don’t know how I’ll go about taking the information in an easy and organized fashion (do I give preference to families with no dolls?)- but I’ll figure that out…

Thanks for listening to my little ramble – this is so cool that I get to grow the business with so many of you around!

xo
C

Thank you all for entering! The winner of  ’Spirit’ is Misha – Congrats lady!!

‘Oh my gosh – she’s so gorgeous. And the knit set is incredible. Thanks for the generous giveaway. I’ll keep my fingers crossed for Lucy and I!’

Yeah Misha!!!

As you all know – I LOVE doing Giveaways – it is such a small thing I can do to thank you all for your amazing support and kindness! Ingrid  (if you are on Facebook you know Ingrid – best lady ever!) and I have teamed up to present this latest giveaway in honour of the 2010 games in our hometown Vancouver. Ingrid posted a pic of this sweet little set she knitted her daughter’s doll last week and then offered to knit up one for our Giveaway.. yeah Ingrid! Rules are easy – just leave a comment to enter, one entry per person – contest is open to anyone, anywhere. Giveaway closes on Feb 28th @ 9pm PST. Winner chosen by Random Number Generator. Good Luck Ladies! Thanks for entering!

xo,
Christina and Ingrid

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