So today is the day… when my dolls go on sale at Anthropologie’s King’s Road shop in London!
Please forgive me a little “squeeeee!!”
It is a long-held ambition of mine to have my work on sale in Anthropologie. I fell in love with the fancy rugs and other homewares on their website long before I ever visited any of their shops – and then fell in love all over again when I actually visited whilst on a tour of London’s King’s Road shops a good few years ago.
The dolls in question are a collaboration with Sarah Campbell, one of the two founders of fabric design company Collier Campbell (although Sarah now no longer owns the name or the company) and has designed goods in her unmistakeable colourful style for Michael Miller quilting fabrics, Liberty, Habitat, West Elm and more.
Sarah is one of those people whom you may not know, but whose work you will undoubtedly have come across at some point.
She painted a collection of fabrics and sent them to me to work my doll-making magic upon…
A couple of weeks later I had a collection of twelve dolls (nine girls and three boys) ready to send off to her.
Here are a few of them… (Ms Side-Eye below is, I think, my favourite!)
Each doll comes in it’s own hand-painted travelling bag…
I can’t quite believe how popular their photos have been over on Instagram. I’ve had my most likes ever for these particular makes.
I hope that means that they will sell like hot cakes! 
Should you be in the market for a doll (or indeed any of the other wonderfully hand-painted items by Sarah) they will be available exclusively from Anthropologie’s shop (not online, alas) from today as part of Sarah’s Painted Treasures event, details of which are here…
I do hope they sell! Please spread the word!
(Then I might get to make some more!) ♥
They will sell like hot cakes! How I wish I was in London!
Thank you Clare – I do hope so!
Your dolls are fabulous. But I want their clothes for myself! Particularly the blue dress with big flowers. And the white dress with spots and pink/orange border. And the trousers with two different legs. Any chance you’ll ever collaborate with a pattern cutter to produce dressmaking patterns for them…?
None whatsoever Kate! I am hopeless at human-sized dressmaking! I wouldn’t have the first clue as to how to go about making a proper pattern. The only thing like that I’ve ever done was to draw around a very simple shift dress to attempt to make myself one similar from an old sheet. Even that didn’t fit me properly!
Sarah Campbell has had some of her painted fabrics made up into women’s clothing – and they are predictably beautiful (I daren’t ask how much they cost though!) You can see one of the coats here
And this smock, in a similar pattern to the doll dress:
Well, it was worth a try…. Maybe I’ll have to make my own dresses and paint them myself 🙂
Prachtig, op Pinterest blijf ik ze opzoeken. De eenvoud van de poppen met hun heldere,kleurige stoffen jurken e.d. heeft een grote aantrekkingskracht op mij. Ik hoop dat de poppen ooit kan bestellen. Ga zo door. Je hebt er al heel veel mensen een plezier mee gedaan. Dank je wel! Ineke Vries.
Bedankt!
I’m with Kate. I want the clothes too! Congratulations on your debut in Anthropologie!! That’s a well deserved honor. I wish I could pop over to see for myself. Alas….
Congratulations and well done! Your dolls are so unique and absolutely lovely.
Congratulations! They are wonderful! You are living the dream!!!
Well done – you’re brilliant! It seems wrong to covet one of these when I have so many of your marvellous creations already, but… I’m wondering how much I could get for a 53 year-old kidney…. Do I really need two??
(Oops 54-yeat old kidney – I’m not going to get much money for it if I can’t even remember how old it is!)
How exciting that you were able to reach your Anthropologie goal. The dollies are a perfect fit, perfect fit.
The exhibit will be a smashing success and will be appearing everywhere.
Well done.
What a lot of lovely and encouraging comments, congratulations and thanks! Two girls went off to new homes yesterday – one hand-painted, one in Atelier! x
Oh, that’s wonderful to hear Sarah! Thank you for letting me know!
I had lots of lovely messages on Instagram, some from people who had made a special trip to the shop to see the exhibition!
I hope the other painted treasures are all selling well too.
Did you sell all the dolls?
No, my shop update goes live on Friday 20th at 6pm GMT.
Sooo adorable! Do you sell these or patterns (although, I’m not the best sewer).
Hi Susan, the dolls were commissioned by Sarah Campbell in her fabrics and are for sale via Sarah. The exhibition has finished now so I’m not sure how many or which dolls she has left, but her website shop is here:
https://www.sarahcampbelldesigns.com/?category=art+dolls
I don’t sell patterns I’m afraid. (Not yet anyway!)