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NIADA 2011: Conference Events

Posted on September 16, 2011 by Blog Admin
Keynote speaker Lynne Bruning

Programs, Demos, Banquet Night and More!
Keynote Speech by Lynne Bruning | “Up in the Clouds” Challenge
Visiting Artists critique dolls | Programs and Demos by NIADA artists:

Susan Scogin: Wigging. Annie Wahl: Making Eye wear for a Small doll.
Marlaine Verhelst: Sculpting Shoes. Deborah Pope: Hand-Felted Character Head. Diana Effner: Hands on Hearty Clay, An Invitation to Play.

Helper drawing, Banquet dinner and Souvenir presentation Continue reading →


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Tatiana Baeva & Mary Ellen Frank make a discovery…

Posted on July 9, 2011 by mefrank
a 5 inch / 12.5 centimeter miniature Samovar from 1970s E Russia

Tatiana Baeva & Mary Ellen Frank Skype IM up a storm & make a discovery…

Mary Ellen (that’s me) was at the doll museum* doing a bit of organizational work when a little icon popped up on the right bottom of her computer alerting her that Tatiana Baeva** was on Skype in Moscow. It was 12 hours different there so almost midnight in Moscow and noon in Alaska. Continue reading →


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Wedding cake topper

Posted on September 5, 2010 by jetrilling
jetrilling caketopper

Emily and Jeremiah’s wedding cake topperThese figures were built over a wire armature, using cloth and polymer clay, stitched painted, glued and fixed to an upholstered wooden base. 5″ high. Last seen high above a pyramid of luscious cupcakes on a beribboned and flowered dock over Santa Barbara Harbor, this cloth and polymer clay armatured couple, stitched, painted and glued…escaped to their honeymoon in Patagonia.
(made by Jo-Ellen Trilling a.k.a. “mom”) Continue reading →


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