FINAL DAYS SALE

Gail's Clearance Sale & Announcements

Many special items from my personal collection to be added in February.


Please read new Terms of the Clearance Sale**

This is the biggest sale I have ever had.
There are featured items listed on this page and links to new categories with sale items as well as a 25% off on all other items, including finished things (unless otherwise noted)**on regular pages of my website. And the discounts remain for all the last days, weeks or months.

Exclusions: New Items as marked, reprints and replacement items, all PDF's, club items, and items with another discount. All items listed on the Garage Sale page do not get further sale discounts.
**NEW: Due to orders well beyond expected for Hitty Finished Items, with nearly all stock being completely depleted, orders placed after January 1 for Finished Hitty Items, will get a 15% discount not the previous 25%. We simply cannot keep up wtih the demand and since nearly all of Hitty's Finished Items need to be made from scratch to fill orders, I need to be able to pay my helpers who make these things possible. Hitty Kits and Supplies will remain at 25% off with other available items throughout the website.

PLEASE TAKE NOTE:
Prices on this Sale Page and the Garage Sale Page have their sale prices noted and those prices will show up in your cart. Any other items from other pages WILL GET THE SALE DISCOUNT, but the discount will NOT show in your cart. We will apply the discount here as we sort and input all orders into our computer before charging you.


AFTER 51 YEARS IN FULL TIME DOLLMAKING
FINAL DAYS ARE HERE

I am not retiring or going out of business - quite yet. But as external issues including increased technology demands, obtaining supplies issues, lack of available qualified help, aging issues for myself, my husband and my workers and the declining market - to name a few factors, keep mounting up, I am face to face with the need to start putting the brakes on, well, everything. Sadly, it is no longer possible to sustain this small business.

For the near future, I will be selling out of all of my work. This won't happen overnight or indeed in the current sale. Some items (patterns, kits, all Hitty kits and finished Hitty things) we will continue to produce until supplies for these run out. Until the bitter end, there will be a discount on all items sitewide, unless otherwise noted.

So, what will be next? Some ideas include that I may re-issue favorite kits or offer very small editions of favorites of my dolls, or even a new doll, or item. Once this website becomes outdated and cumbersome, I may start a blog. I will keep the mailing list to let customers know.


NOTES ABOUT PRODUCTION AND SHIPPING: Both time and the previous pandemic have made it ever more difficult to do my work. What this really means is I can only make smaller numbers of things and it takes longer to do the work. I have lost several key workers who cannot be replaced (ever) and all of the work now has to be done by fewer people. Keep in mind we never have had enough time in a day and now it takes true genius to manage all the details. All of us here are aging and with age has come added time away from work to help care for our families and ourselves. I will never compromise the quality or integrity of my work, but I ask your patience in the necessary wait times while we (my tiny team of 2 here and my 2 long distance workers) carry on.





Prices shown in this section will show up as sale prices and are all limited numbers available.


TIP FOR VIEWING THE MANY ITEMS AVAILABLE ON SALE:

The items have been divided into categories to keep it organized. Each category is linked to its own page to avoid having too many items on this one page.

Click on the Categories opposite which will open a new window with items in that category. The same categories also appear on the Garage Sale page.



 LIST OF DOLLS LEFT:
SPEC ED MILLINERS MODEL
HANSEL AND GRETEL
HALLOWEEN CAT
LITTLE RED RIDING HOOD
LITTLE MISS MUFFET
LITTLE BO PEEP
MOTHER GOOSE

KITS STILL AVAILABLE, OLD REFURBISHED KITS & SUPPLIES BEING DISCONTINUED

FINISHED ITEMS, INCLUDING DOLLS
AND ACCESSORIES PLUS ORIGINAL SAMPLES
EARLY PORCELAIN & OTHER DOLLS
AND ITEMS FROM EARLY AMERICAN SERIES


TERMS OF SALES (please read)

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 sale page and the Garage Sale Page. All other stuff ordered on other pages will not have sale prices show up in your cart, unless it states otherwise - we will apply the discounts here when we invoice.

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.

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.
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.
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, reprints, my painting services 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.

Make sure to visit the Garage Sale Page
Some unsold items from past sales are moved to this page.

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.



603-835-6551 (phone)
gailwilsondesigns@gmail.com (email)