…and really a lot more than that!
i’ve been a busy bee, re-stocking the altered bits shop with heaps of new goodies, including but not limited to frozen charlottes, little victorian dolls, other vintage and antique dolls and doll parts, a whole new page of digital collage sheets (these were up weeks ago — i’m just slow to share), new embellishments and found objects, vintage photo bundles, textile bundles and vintage crocheted lace… all kinds of little pretties. if i add five things per day to my shop over the next seven months, i should be caught up. 😉
a few new items were added to my etsy junk shop too… cleaning out the house in a new year is a great thing!!
i literally have hundreds more dolls so if you’re looking for some, let me know. i’m not going to be able to add them all for awhile (takes a LOT of time to photograph, resize/enhance, write code/add to site, create buttons, etc.).
on a totally random note, wanna swap? i’m looking for a cute little boy cdv, cabinet card or tintype and will swap you for other photos (i mostly have adults), dolls of whatever sort, vintage lace, or whatever you may want from my shop(s) of relatively equal value. i’ll even throw in some digital collage sheets for fun. 🙂 i’m really quite picky about this photo… typically i don’t use children in my art, unless they are fetuses. in fact, this will be my first child. but in the spirit of accuracy, i need a little boy (around age 10 in the first decade of the 1900s, named sam) for the historically accurate ghost book i’m working on.
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27 January, 2011 at 12:02 am
Renate
Sigh – lovely dolls! I just read your haunted post – whoa – I don’t think I could have dropped back off to sleep after that.
27 January, 2011 at 6:39 am
caterina giglio
don’t have any boys lovey but I will look around for you! xo
27 January, 2011 at 7:02 am
jill zaheer
Hi Alicia,
I will look for the old 10 year old boy photo you are interested in. I will check out my collection and let you know later today!!! Just loving all your frozen charlottes- just magnetic!! Will need to spend lots of time to look around your shop!!! xo
27 January, 2011 at 7:40 am
Kim
I’ll see if I have a Sam or you. I just may.
xoxo Kim
27 January, 2011 at 7:45 am
Riki Schumacher
I’ll look for a Sam too! Love the goodies! Riki
27 January, 2011 at 8:49 am
juli
I am new to your blog and enjoying it very much. I have two cabinet photos of boys that may be just right for you.
One has a boy and his dog standing on an animal skin rug (wolf?) -short pants, button shoes and big bows on the boy and the dog!
Other has boy dressed in a very grown up looking 3 piece suit and sitting on a rustic wooden child size settee.
I will be glad to trade with you.
27 January, 2011 at 10:48 am
alteredbits
oooh, you guys are the best! thanks so much!!!
sam is supposedly one of the spirits who haunts the white eagle, where i stayed last weekend. as the story goes, he was a ten year old orphan and the owner of the building took him in to help with cleaning and odd jobs. he ended up living there his entire life and dying… somehow (i must find out how!) in the building. so, i wanted to do a spread of him as a child, then him as a man… or something. not sure yet but thought the kiddo pic would be fun here to represent his youth.
28 January, 2011 at 11:00 am
Lisa
What a gorgeous post Alicia! You have been busy!
On a side note, did you get the pulpy email I sent about a week ago?
28 January, 2011 at 1:10 pm
Seth
Hey Alicia. Going to email a possible Sam or two to you!
29 January, 2011 at 9:58 pm
Riki Schumacher
Thanks for stopping by! You aren’t weird, just the scavenger in you! I see you’re in Portland. I’m in the San Juans in the summer. Great part of the country our NW. Take care, Riki
31 January, 2011 at 5:42 pm
Folk Heart
Any luck with your special boy yet? I have a photo of a turn-of-the-century boy with a stuffed bear in his arm. It’s compelling and unusual, and I would be happy to barter if you haven’t found the right one just yet.
1 February, 2011 at 1:25 pm
Dave
What a fun place! I will have to check out their site…the book on “Scary Nuns”…I wonder if the nuns I had in grade school are in that book?
24 March, 2011 at 3:32 pm
amy
Lov your blog…………Amy