Welcome

Greetings! And welcome to our minidoll world. We provide a nuturing atmosphere for members to create beautiful 1:12 scale dolls - at little or no cost, anywhere in the world. This website combines our online group, magazine and minidollU classroom all in one convenient place.

The *minidoll mission* is owned by Dana, run by a fantastic group of volunteers, and made possible by donations from our sponsors and benefactors.

To get started, simply click a link to the left. Enjoy almost 125 gratis tutorials, take part in one of our many events and be sure to join our group for maximum enjoyment.

Happy Creating!
DANA

**NEW** Dana's Daily Blog

JUNE EVENTS

Early Birds ... get a head start on next months theme and contest by clicking the CALENDAR link to the left.

*NEW* Tip Trade Page

Enjoy the creative tips and tricks from our members. Pages will be uploaded several times a week - so keep checking back for more how tos!

AUCTION SITE

One of our members - Shelly Norris has opened a fantastic way to advertise your miniature wares (including) dolls for sale. To view Press release ... click here. She is also accepting web sponsors (advertising spots). For more information - email Shelly.

Trailer Park (Character Month) underway

Many fun and exciting things are brewing in the virtual community! A month of games, prizes and events have already started! I'd like to thank AnneMarie and Joy for their donations to the list ... which are paying for postage (prizes) this month! For more information and a schedule - simply click on link below.

Prize Page ....... Resident (photos of dolls) page ... Sunday Contest events

Welcome Newest Members!

Viola William's latest magazine article has introduced many new miniaturists to our group! Thank you Viola ... and welcome new members! We even had our JOSEPHINE Class doll (seen left) pictured in the article - how cool! Be sure to check out the student photos in our *GALLERY* section.

FF Returns

To view our 6 wonderful past issues of FRILLS AND FANCY EZINE online, click link to the left hand side of this page and select ARCHIVES.

After a year of hiatus, the online ezine for miniature dolls - FRILLS & FANCY is finished. Our wonderful new staff of 8 volunteers (Ren, Liandra, Jo, Marilyn H, Mary W, Irma, Janet A, Rachelle and Dana) have created a wonderful spring 2008 issue on pre-Raphaelite - especially the LADY of SHALLOTT. Including many tutorials on props, settings, and dolls.

Week 1 schedule

May 4th, 2008 (Jils BD!)

Sunday....Strutting Sunday, and Trailer Park Picnic contest and games
Monday..... JIL Moderates
Tuesday...open
Wednesday ... Ebay dolls for sale
Thursday .. open discussion
Friday ... Miniatures For Sale
Saturday ... sale day

May Character Contest

Our new *Good Times Trailer Park* contest and events

To Get a jump start on making your May Character, click to our Bodacious Biddies (FF) issue.

**NOTE** this is one of our wonderful ARCHIVES tutorial magazines. Some of the links may be defunct, but the how tos are still great!

Michigan Museum Exhibition winners

Marsha Mees, Marilyn Hughes, Dana Burton, Val Monroe, Emma del Castillo, Carol Patterson ,Marilyn Parke and Tammy Shoup. Toys will be provided by Shellie Williams, Ren and Carol Peterson, and Nancy Croin. The items are all at the museum, and Tammy will be sending us a link to view shortly.

2008 *Tutorial Membership*

The new May/June tutorial will be uploaded the end of April. Its time for the bi-yearly link switch to keep everyone honest <G> .... so if you signed up previous to May lst, and haven't received your new MEMBERS ONLY link, simply contact DANA (Dana@Miniatureart.com).

To purchase a (6) - $1.25 tutorials for 2008, paypal donations@minidollLIST.com $8.50. This covers cost of tutorials and $1 paypal fee. All tutorials will be posted to the members only section of website for continual download/reference during 2008. For questions, email Carol at cpetersen429@aol.com - for more information and photos of dolls done.

2007 *Tutorial Members * section

For all the members that signed up to receive the 2007 tutorial mailings initially sent out snail mail, I have uploaded the 6 pdfs of tutorials and patterns to the MEMBERS ONLY page.

If you did not receive this link - or have lost it, simply email me with MEMBERS ONLY in subject line and I will resend. If you are interested in purchasing these 6 tutorials from 2007 - simply send $5.00 to (paypal) donations@minidolllist.com (3 L's).

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LUCK OF THE DRAW WINNERS for 2008 - CONGRATS!

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