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Gail's 75th Birthday Sale & Announcements
SALE IS OVER - THANKS TO ALL MY PATRONS FOR A GREAT SALE
Leftover items are shown below and on the Garage Sale pages.
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Sale is now over.
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*Discount will be taken off the highest priced finished item if you have more than one.
Exclusions: New Items as marked, reprints and replacement items, clubs, items with another discount. All items listed on the Garage Sale page do not get further sale discounts.
New Items Excluded from sale discount
(although they may be in your order):
The Little Dollmaker
Hitty's Easter Outfit and Pulltoy
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MY 51ST YEAR IN FULL TIME DOLLMAKING!
I am not retiring or going out of business yet. What I am doing is trying to hoe out and hone down the vast amount of stuff that has gone into 50 years. More importantly to lessen the number of items that require making in order to fill orders so as to allow more time for creating new.
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I keep adding items we find in the attic and in the scores of storage boxes from all my years (51!) doll making. And I also have been selling my own shop samples (examples of my work) as I can bear to part with them. As I look ahead to the day I must retire the business, knowing it is a business impossible to sell, the only value I can retain is and will be selling all of these items. One must be realistic about just how much stuff one can fit into a retirement home. So, keep looking on the Garage Sale page as I continue to smallen down.
CHANGES TO THE GARAGE SALE PAGE:
There is a whole new format for the Garage Sale Page. I have divided it into 4 sub pages by category. All categories have sale prices.
• Tiny Dolls Being Discontinued and on Sale
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Kits from the Past and Kit Supplies
• Old Finished Items
• Early GW Dolls |
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IRONING BOARD FOR DOLLS' CLOTHES
Tiny ironing board for doll size clothes. Clamp it to your big ironing board or use it without the clamp on a table. Comes fully assembled with clamp. Picture shows a Hitty dress on ironing board. Good for going to doll shows. Regular size irons will work but smaller travel sizes best.
$22.50 Add
to Cart
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THE
14" FEEDSACK DOLL
Important
note, previously this doll kit was going to be discontinued, but
we have received so many orders and gone many batches beyond the "last kits we are ever going
to make" that I have decided to keep this kit in production
because it is such a good basic kit and one recommended as a good
start up doll. However, at the end of 2023, we sold the real last kit due to the difficulty of maintaining a good dress fabric and trim. But because it is such a good kit and a great doll, I have made it a mini kit.
This is one of the best
dolls I have ever designed. She makes up well, with ease, including
stuffing, which is usually one of the hardest parts. She is very
old-fashioned in her style and accessories. Made from a feedsack*,
an historical detail common to homemade cloth dolls, she has a
charming face which is accomplished easily with an iron-on transfer
and colored pencils applied to her painted cloth finish. Mini kit has all supplies including body and striped legs fabrics, colored pencils and stencil for her face, paints and antiquing, leather for shoes and vintage style batise and cotton lace for underwear
and bonnet. Customer provides dress, trim fabric, and stuffings.*NOTE: We are no longer able to
provide the wonderful vintage feedsacking for this doll (the modern
replacement is awful) and so the fabric provided is a suitable
weave that acts the part with ease.
NEW Feedsack Doll Mini Kit on sale $48 Add
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Prices shown in this section will show up as sale prices and are all limited numbers available.
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MY SAMPLE OF 9" LOUISA
My entire career of 35 years began with a
small 8" doll hand press molded in primitive molds I made
before I knew anything about dolls or moldmaking. I made thousands
of these dolls and stopped forever their production in about
1995 with the idea that someday I would make another doll like
them but in molded papier mache. This doll is the first of these
dolls.
Louisa - A 9” papier mache doll with her new Greiner doll,
a papier mache doll made in this time period by German immigrant,
Ludwig Greiner. These were some of the first American made dolls
available commercially. Small Greiner has papier mache head and
shoulderplate on a tiny painted cloth body with red stockings and
even thumbs on her tiny leather-like hands. Louisa has English
mohair wig with hand crocheted snood, hand crocheted lace color
and other laces, high buttoned leather shoes and knit stockings.This sample is as yet unassembled so will have a later delivery date of end of April. A deposit of $100 will be charged with order.
Louisa, her Greiner and Chair $895 Add
to Cart (Only 1 available) |
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TAKING LIMITED ORDERS ON THE FOLLOWING 6.5" AND 8" IZANNAHS FOR LATE FALL '25.
All dolls will come with stands. A $75 deposit will be taken now when orders placed with balance charged at shipping. The 6.5" sizes have molded heads and lower limbs, while the 8" versions have the traditional cloth bodies with stitched fingers. All of my Izannah sizes are derivatives of the 18" size I sculpted using a fabulous genuine Izannah Walker doll as my model.
• 6.5" Izannah Girl (shown in top picture) (2 available) $595 Add
to Cart
• 6.5" Izannah Boy with Wagon of Blocks (not shown but similar to 8" boy in brown in second picture) (1 available) $595 Add
to Cart
• 8" Izannah Girl (see middle doll sitting in chair in second picture) (1 available) $695 Add
to Cart
• 8" Izannah Girl in Coatdress with strawberry. (see doll standing on right in second picture) (2 available) $695 Add
to Cart
• 8" Izannah Boy in Blues with Pulltoy Horse. (see doll in last picture) (2 available) $695 Add
to Cart
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SELLING OUT OF MY CHRISTMAS ORNAMENTS - RESERVE A SET NOW FOR FALL DELIVERY
These ornaments (all about 3") are in very limited quantities each year. Sets of 5: SANTA, SHEEP, BLOCKS AND HORSE plus the OLD FASHIONED SKATES shown in the picture at left below. (Old price would have been $325 for all 5, now on sale for $250 Add
to Cart
Ordering now will be with a deposit of $35 and balance charged when ready to ship.
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OLD SANTA ORNAMENT FROM 1992
This Santa ornament was originally made as a limited edition for the League of NH Craftsmen in 1992 as part of their several decades long Annual Ornament and long not available. Over all these years I have several people who contact me each year to see if any have turned up for them to buy. None have, but in my clearing out of attic stuff, found enough pieces to make a small number. These are about 3" tall and each Santa has movable arms, one carrying a wooden star and dove, and on his back, a backpack with a wooden Christmas tree. These may be pre-ordered for a late fall delivery. Due to the small production, his price will be $75. Orders placed now will not be charged until ready to ship. Add
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HAND CROCHETED LACES FROM MY COLLECTION (about 1/8" wide)
When I first began my dollmaking, I had access to some wonderful narrow cotton lace which took me through a few early years. But then none could be found. Meantime I had found a retired miniature furniture maker who had agreed to make chairs for my dolls. His spinster daughter tatted lace and was a prolific crocheter. She was able to take my designs and make the much needed narrow lace for me. I kept her working on this for many years, building a large stash and knowing I would never find anyone willing to do this for so little pay. Back 20 years ago, she charged 25 cents per inch, probably not even minimum wage, but even so, very expensive lace. But, I loved it and felt it was so perfect for my dolls. I now need to smallen down my large stash and have long since found a reliable source of imported cotton laces. Offering 2 yard pieces (which is how she sent them to me) and I have wound the pieces on leftover wood spools.
2 yards Lace on Spool $18 Add
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FLUMO ~ A LIQUID PAPIER
MACHE POURING MEDIUM for PLASTER MOLDS - NOW ON SELL OUT SALE :
This product (Flumo, made in Spain)
is the modern equivalent of liquid (and pourable) papier mache.
It has some paper pulp in it along with a more modern and more
workable polymer base. This material is the best on the market
(I feel) and I have gone to great lengths to have it. It must
be used in plaster molds. Liter
size (a bit more than a quart) - may require additional shipping if other items ordered.
NOTE: I am clearing out over stock and have set aside plenty for my own doll production.
Liter Size Flumo $22.75/NOW $18 Add
to Cart.
4 Liters $82/NOW $68 Add
to Cart
SHIPPING RATES FOR FLUMO (domestic shipping only and we add shipping costs when we set up your order here):
1 Liter = $14.95 A single liter may be shipped with other items (not always), but the minimum shipping rate will be $16.95.
2 Liters = $16.95 Multiple liters must be shipped independently of other items.
3-4 Liters = $20.95
4 liters is the maximum shipped in one box and no other items may be added to the box. |
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TERMS OF SALES (please read)
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SALE PRICES AND DISCOUNTS DO NOT SHOW IN CART :
Please note that the only prices that will reflect
sale discounts are those items with links on this
page. All other stuff ordered on other pages will
not have sale prices show up in your cart, unless it states otherwise - we will
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WHEN IS YOUR ORDER CHARGED?
Remember that when
you place an order on my website, even though you
give your credit card info, they are not automatically
charged. Rather we manually collect the orders and
then manually charge here after we apply any discounts.
In cases where you order something that will take
more time (for me to make it), we charge a deposit
(20% - non-refundable) then the balance when the
order is ready to ship.
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CONFIRMING ORDERS:
You will
receive an automatic response to placing an order online,
but I will follow up with an individual response once
I see what is on your order and can then determine if any items were sold out and
a shipping date. Usually orders that contain finished dolls will take longer due to GW making each order as it is ordered.
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COMBINING ORDERS: Many of you
order multiple times during a sale - which I appreciate
greatly. But it becomes difficult and to be honest,
crazy, keeping track so that we can combine orders
for more economical shipping. Sometimes we miss a few. Also,
many of you belong to my clubs and sometimes I am
still shipping sale orders at club shipping time.
Since you know if you are in a club, you can let
us know so that if possible (only if the timing works) we will combine with
your club shipping.
Click
Here if you want to combine multiple orders
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LAYAWAYS:
Layaways are always an option. See menu item "Ordering Info" at the top of the page and go to Layaways in the dropdown. All Layaway terms apply. |
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SALE DISCOUNT EXCEPTIONS:
All items already discounted may not be also on sale, including Garage Sale items, items part of any club, items not yet in production or new(unless otherwise stated), PDF copies of patterns and reprints, and a few items marked individually on the website and may not be applied to orders already in place. If some items sell out, you may be offered a raincheck for the same sale discount with a later delivery. |
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Make sure to visit the Garage Sale Page 
Some unsold items from past sales are moved to this page.
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603-835-6551
(phone)
gailwilsondesigns@gmail.com (email)
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