A Spring Memory

Earlier this summer Nick and I popped into the Garfield Park Conservatory. Flowers bloomed in the Monet Garden and the Desert Room. We scraped real cinnamon bark across stones to release its fragrance and made little rips in the leaves of a lime tree to smell its amazing fresh sweetness! And the Fern Room is like stepping into another world all together! It was a lovely afternoon.

Etsy bound!

These last few months I have been hard at work creating my first batch of dolls that will be for sale in my new Etsy shop! I am hoping to have the shop up and running by mid August with lots of great dolls and a few little bunnies, just for fun.

Dollies take Manhattan....or Brooklyn, rather

Something about the Fall always seems to bring on a surge of creativity and energy. This Fall I am so excited to to be collaborating with Brooklyn based children's clothing designer Wolfechild! 

Four adorable Nicey and Effner dolls are on their way to the east coast to be clothed in mini-interpretations of Wolfechild's fantastically chic and whimsical ensembles. The dolls are making their debut at the Wolfechild trunk show on November 10th at 

Lulu's Then and Now

on 5th Ave. in Park Slope, Brooklyn.