Louie Louie Bebe

Sculpting Waldorf Dolls

Preview pics : Ready-To-Go Doll upload

November 22nd, 24:00 Jerusalem time. 

(20:00 EDT) (16:00 CDT) Please check time conversion to make sure.

I hope the time frame works for everyone.. 

The dolls searching for homes are:

1. Miss Dakota:

 

Miss Dakota is  14 inch long.

She has moveable arms. Her hair is natural mohair in a beautiful shade of brown.

Her wardrobe includes:

• A fully lined green checkered coat, adorned with pretty pink buttons,
• A short ruffled floral skirt in pink,
• White socks,
• Two pairs of ballet style crocheted shoes,
• A long tiered ruffled skirt in Tan
• A blouse
• A pink corduroy vest
• A beautiful lace scarf
• A long tiered ruffle dress in a warm shade of gray
• Panties

As all Louie Louie Bebe dolls, Miss dakota is made with a lot of attention to detail. She is filled with clean, organic carded wool and a lot of love. Her body is a sun kissed shade of TWA. Her features were hand embridered, and (almost) every single atom of her being was hand made.

She will be listed at $450.

2. Miss Ivy

16 inch long . Blonde hair, blue eyes and full of, um, personality.

Miss Ivy's wardrobe includes:

• A handknit white wool scarf
• A dotted gray ruffle dress
• Gray dotted pants
• A white ruffle skirts (red dots)
• White socks
• Crocheted ballet style shoes
• A long tiered ruffle skirt in tan
• A gray linen top
• A soft,handknit white pompon hat
• Panties

Miss Ivy will be listed at $450 + Shipping

 

I will add more preview pics of Miss Ivy and a couple other dolls, later today.

If you have any questions, just shoot me a message via facebook or comment below.

xox

Einav

 

 

Miss Dakota, A work in Progress {RTG}

An Old Fashioned style doll

 

This week on Louie Louie Bebe

Sometimes I feel as if I haven't accomplished much. I felt that way this week, but then when I discussed my week with a few friends, I've realized I have had an incredibly busy week at work.

I cannot concentrate in anything for long periods of time, which is why I tend to act like a butterfly: I start something in the studio, then I remember I haven't had any coffee in about 30 minutes, and I rush to the kitchen, for fear of dehydration (hrrmmpppfff.)

When I am having my coffee, I absent mindedly do a lot of different things around the kitchen and the living room,   and somehow, before I realize it, I'm sitting by the computer, doing very important things, like pinning projects I'll never make, houses I will never live in, and clothes I will never wear.

The coffee gets cold, and then it hits me..I was doing important things in the studio..what were they? I walk over to the studio, and when I get there, I realize I have left my glasses on the dining table. You get the picture, I'm sure. I tend to go back and forth like this hundreds of times a day, which is why I always feel like I haven't done anything, other than fold the laundry of course.

However, in my weird, butterfly- like fashion, I accomplish quite a lot.

Especially in the laundry department, although I have yet to figure out one of life's biggest mysteries:

Where do all the lonely socks go to?

But back to the busy week I've had at the office, dear, I think I may need to back this up with a few images, or else, you would think I am making it all up and actually, I just drink coffee, fold laundry and pin pins on Pinterest..

I finished the lovely Miss Henrietta,

Finished Miss Joe, who found a new home and will be flying there in a couple of days,

 

Had a successful  Giveaway, in which Miss Mimi found a lovely family to join,

Wrote a couple of blog posts, which in itself is already rather astonishing, due to the above mentioned attention span issue,  finished a couple of custom dolls... let's see, what else have I done?

hmmm...

 

Ah, yes. I folded  some laundry.

 

 

 

Miss Joe

If she could, she would do absolutely everything with her ballet outfit. That is how much she loves it.

What more does a girl need? But she allowed me to make her a lovely polka dot skirt, as long as it swirl well.

She tested it, on the bed, when I wasn't looking.

She said she would sit still for ONE pic. And sit she did.

for one pic.

And immediately after, she took the skirt off, and started chatting with Miss Henrietta

about the kind of home she would like to have.

I had to beg her for a long time, until she tried on her sweater and hat,

but I managed to take a pic.

or two:

Her little teddy bear, on the other hand, would not sit calmly for the pics. See, there was a bee in the room, and he kept jimping at her..

I finally gave up on trying to get a better shot of these two.

Seriously, sometimes I feel this kind of work is too much for me. The stress of keeping these dolls and their pets tamed is exhausting! Exhausting, I tell you.

And then, then I have to go get creative with the kids and fold the laundry.

 

 

 

 

The Giveaway is On!

 

Wooohooo!

Click  HERE  to enter.

Good Luck!

 

 

 

A Doll Giveaway!

 

It has been too long since I have had a Doll Giveaway.

I promised one ages ago, and life got in the way, as life tends to do.  The doll was ready, but when I say 'ready,' it means there was a doll.  She did not have hair, she did not have clothes, or shoes, or rosey cheeks. And this little doll sat there, watching other dolls get groomed and ready to go home, and every time I looked at her I felt sad for her, but I had more pressing matters and could not  spend quality time with her, and do I kept telling her to be patient.

Then, one day, when my studio was buzzing with activity, and the sewing machines were making their lovely buzzing noises,  dresses were swirling on hangers, and I was tired beyond belief, and because I  really did not have time and was  working crazy to meet deadlines, it became obvious this is just the perfect time to add one more doll to the roller coaster.

Miss Mimi was thrilled beyond belief.

She danced and giggled and tried on her shoes and every dress she could put her hands on.

Her enthusiasm was  a little too much for some of the other dolls. Look:

Henrietta was begging me to find her a home already, or do something, to make Miss Mimi calm down.

So I made Miss Mimi  a dress.

 

She seemed to like it, but she said she needs something more..something else...something different..

And she went to the ironing board, where lots of new clothes were waiting to be ironed, and pulled out a vest I made for another doll.

That's it. She said, and ran away wearing her new vest, away and up, above the cabinet where the other dolls sit.

And that was that.

Now, Miss Mimi is unbearably excited about finding a child to call her own. She talks about having a family, a dog, a cat, maybe even a bunny..she wants her child so much, that she gives us all terrible headaches.

So really, it is a matter of urgency. We must have a raffle  and find Miss Mimi's family  A.S.A.P, or the rest of my dolls will leave the studio and run out into the streets, for some peace and quiet.

And we simply cannot have this.

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To enter the raffle:

1. like this page:

Louie Louie Bebe: The Secret (shhhh..) Doll Club

2. With your mouse, hover over the 'liked' tab, and mark 'get notifications.'

3. "follow" it (a little tab under the cover pic)

Go here for the Giveaway raffle:

http://indiecart.com/Louielouiebebe/mt/59/43174/Miss-MiMi

Please do not enter more than once.

The Giveaway will start on Feb 16th,  at 12:00 Eastern time, and end the following day,

Feb 17t, at 12:00 Eastern time. (UTC-5)

Thank you!

 

 

 

Everything that could go wrong, did go wrong

 

Today, everything that c o u l d go wrong, did go wrong.
Pictures failed to upload, computers froze, heads ached, fingers were hurt, and my little girl roller bladed herself straight into a rought iron pole, just because she could. There was blood, there were tears, there were screams, and one of us, from the opposite sex,{ but I am not pointing any fingers or naming any names,} almost fainted.

Everything is back to normal now, though. We gave him a glass of water, and made him sit down and breathe for a few minutes.
My little girl is also back to normal. Her lips are wonderfully plump now, but she seems to be fine with it.

Oh and by the way, Miss Henrietta's auction will go live soon, at 12:00 eastern time, until tomorrow at 12:00 eastern time, right here:

http://indiecart.com/Louielouiebebe/mt/59/90711/Miss-Herietta-

 

Middle of the night resolutions

These days I have to force myself  to call it a night. I just don't have enough hours in the day

to complete all the exciting new things I want to make.  My  head weighs a ton, if not more.

Still, as a mom and a wife, I know I cannot wiggle my way out of all of my responsbilities, and so I

yank myself out of  the doll making world and head down to the bedroom, when I am struck with

the dreadful knowledge that I did not complete my tasks for the day, even though it is basically

tomorrow already.

I

did not check if the kids backpacks are in order for tomorrow, and of course they are not,

and so I find myself sharpening pencils, cleaning sticky stuff from books, roaming the house

very quietly, like a wild tribal dancer,  to find  those darn erasers  that are never ever where they are

supposed to be,  stepping on long lost lego  parts,  and always always managing  to somehow step

on the poor kitty's tail, which is also never where it is supposed to be.

 

Then I brush my teeth and go to bed, not before I do the routine bed covers checkup,

which are, as you all must have guessed, also never where they should be.

I kiss sleeping kids, arrange the covers and toddle to bed.

But then, THEN,  I just can not fall asleep, becuause my mind is also not where it is supposed to be.

 

Late at night, early in the morning, I lie in bed and  compose letters to old friends,  argue with

teachers who fail to see the magnifincent creatures that are my kids,

write long, thoughtful, meaningful blog posts and sew scandalously fabulous doll outfits,

plan blog post series, and quick, painless doll uploads.

And I knit and speak to my (I-do-not-snore) husband, who keeps calm and carries on, blissfully

 unaware of the activity in my side of the bed.

I also make resolutions. Doesn't everyone?

It is just a shame, then, that those fabulous, life altering resolutions fade in the morning, when

the kids, the  dog and the cat wake up and demand pieces of me.

Mr. Louie is usually hard at work by that time,  in case you were wondering why he does not

make any demands. Because of course, as husbands do, he does.

Yes,

Digressing, again. I am so good at that!

In the hazey blur that is my morning, I am lucky to remember the code to the car security lock.

I am lucky if I manage to wear matching socks and shoes, and usually I get as far as the car when I

realize I've left either the car keys, a child or my head, at home.

 

The wonderful, thoughtful, meaningful and engaging blog posts I craft so nonchalantly at night are

but a vague cloud of weird thoughts and ideas, by the time I get my act together and sit by the

computer. 

And this, dear reader, is why my blog is a shamefull notion of a blog, and my posts are scattered all

over the place, and why I post more pics than I ought to.

 

I think.

The Lovely Miss January, pictured above, will be available tomorrow.

More details later today.