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Hello! My name is Linda Walsh and I am a doll maker and doll pattern designer.
I thought you might like to see a picture of who I am, but as you can tell from the picture above I always have to be different.
Now, I know what you're going to say. You're going to tell me that that isn't a picture of you, Linda!
Well, you're right!
It's a picture of "The Little Victorian Girl" that has become my Linda Walsh Originals mascot and logo.
So, why am I showing that as a picture representing me?
For a really good reason - SURVIVAL!!!!!!
You see, I live in a house filled with over 1,796 handmade dolls and, they rule everything.
Albeit, I created all of them and they aren't human. But, that doesn't matter to them. They out vote me just by sheer numbers.
So, to keep peace in "The Dollie Storage Room", which is where they live - over the garage, I had to make the picture that represents all of us "The Little Victorian Girl."
We, that is, all the dolls and I, are the owners of Linda Walsh Originals which sells "Doll Patterns For Grown-up Girls!" and Linda Walsh Originals E-Patterns which sells "Instant Download E-Patterns For Grown-up Girls!"
Now you might be saying you sell dolls for grown-up girls? That's right. Grown-up girls.
You see, I'm a woman who has never outgrown her love of dolls. I just love making them and using them as decorations for my home. I change them with every season and holiday and find they create a wonderful, warm environment for my home.
So, I designed a wide variety of different doll patterns, as well as some craft patterns. My doll patterns are designed for all those grown-up girls who are still little girls in their hearts. They are meant to be loved and displayed as decorations by grown-up girls in their homes and are not intended as toys or products for use by children.
My Linda Walsh Originals doll patterns include: Victorian doll patterns, Victorian Raggedy Ann and Andy doll patterns, primitive doll patterns, primitive Raggedy Ann and Andy doll patterns, colonial doll patterns, country doll patterns, snowmen patterns and snow-lady patterns, bridal doll patterns, scarecrow patterns, witches and ghost patterns, Frankenstein patterns, angel patterns, graduation doll patterns, Santa patterns, pilgrim doll patterns, baby doll patterns, woodland doll patterns, little boy doll patterns and multiple craft patterns.
My doll and craft patterns range from easy for beginners to difficult for the advanced seamstress who wants a challenge.
Whether you are a beginner crafter or experienced seamstress you will love our Victorian, Colonial, Primitive, Country, Seasonal, Holiday, Instant Download E-Patterns, and other doll patterns. We have print patterns, e-mailed e-patterns, and “Instant” e-patterns. So, please come and visit with us and have some fun!
Of course we're a little prejudiced, but we think our patterns and e-patterns really are the BEST. If you'd like to know what makes our e-patterns stand out from everyone else please CLICK HERE.
If you don;t know what e-patterns are and would like to find out what e-patterns are and the pro's and cons of e-patterns please CLICK HERE.
And, if you love e-readers like I do you'll be happy to know that all of our e-patterns are easily downloaded and viewed on the Kindle. If you'd like to know more about downloading our e-patterns to the Kindle please CLICK HERE.
We have a brand new FREE 2012 Linda Walsh Originals Print Patterns and E-Patterns E-Catalog that contains pictures of all of our doll and craft designs. If you would like to download our FREE 2009 Linda Walsh Originals Print Patterns and E-Patterns E-Catalog please CLICK HERE and follow the prompts to download. It's a 33 page e-catalog in .PDF format. If you would just like to view our e-catalog online please CLICK HERE.
We are also the owners of Linda Walsh Originals Dolls - Handmade Dolls & Crafts which sells "Handmade Dolls & Crafts For Decorating The Homes of Grown-up Girls!" We have hundreds upon hundreds of dolls & crafts all handmade by me available for sale on our new website.
If you are looking for a decoration for your home then we have a doll or craft for every occasion, every season, and every holiday. We have "handmade dolls & crafts" for grown-up girls primitive, Victorian, country, colonial, folkart, and shabby chic decorating needs.
Please note that all of the handmade dolls & crafts sold on our Linda Walsh Originals Dolls website are intended as home decorations for use by grown-up girls only. They are not children's products and not intended for use by children 12 and under.
Our "Linda Walsh Originals - Patterns & Handmade Dolls For Grown-up Girls!" website showcases everything and anything there is to know about us. Whether it's our print patterns & e-patterns, our handmade dolls, our Gray Is Beautiful line of products, our e-books, our blogs, our photo albums and slide shows, it's all just a click away from our "Linda Walsh Originals - Patterns & Handmade Dolls For Grown-up Girls!" website. We even have links to all our Facebook fan pages to make it easier for you to become a fan of all our Facebook pages.
Besides all of the above I've always wanted to design fabrics using my "dollie" graphics and was finally able to create a "Linda Walsh Originals Fabric Designs" shop at Spoonflower.com. If you're looking for fabric to make decorations and/or handmade gifts for a special occasion then we have many fabrics to choose from. Whether it's a baby shower, little girl's doll or birthday party, little boys birthday party, graduations party, retirement party, senior citizen birthday party, bridal shower, etc. we have fabric designs to help you. And, of course, we have a new "Linda Walsh Originals Fabric Designs" blog to support our new shop.
In 2012 we created a brand new website called "It's Raining Baby Showers." If you're planning a baby shower and would like to host an enjoyable, old-fashioned shower where you can make all the decorations then "It's Raining Baby Showers" can provide you with print patterns, e-patterns, e-printables, fabric, handmade dolls, books about baby showers, a baby shower merchandise store, some baby shower ideas and some freebies. We're here to help you plan, make and decorate for your baby shower including handmade decorations, baby favors, centerpieces, ornaments, and so much more. It's raining baby showers! Let's have some old-fashioned decorating fun!
The other bookstore is all about crafts and crafting and it is called Linda's Crafts Bookstore for Books About Crafts and Crafting. I just love crafts and I just love books about crafts. So, it is only natural that I would love collecting books about crafts, craft making, craft history, various types of crafts, and craft collecting. I've selected many, many books that I think you will enjoy. Many of them I have bought for myself to add to my collection of books about crafts. I hope you enjoy my selection and decide to start your own collection.
Our bookstores are filled to the brim with books. So, if you love books, dolls, and crafts you're going to love our bookstores.
Plus, we created a "Gray Is Beautiful Products Gallery" for selling our "Gray Is Beautiful" line of products. We've got hundreds upon hundreds of products with all the wonderful graphics created by the "Gray Is Beautiful" line of dolls. They are products geared towards all the baby boomers, senior citizens, grandmothers, grandfathers with gray and white hair. The"Grays" are "Proud to be Gray" and don't mind telling you so. They are in charge and have been working really hard on their brand new store.
At the "Gray Is Beautiful Products Gallery" we are proud of our age & our gray hair and proud to say so. After all, we have earned each and every strand. We say "Be PROUD" of your gray. Whether you are a senior citizen, baby boomer, female, or just have gray or white hair our "Gray Is Beautiful" products are for you.
We just opened a wonderful new website for selling our patterns and handmade dolls. It's on Zibbet.com and is called Linda Walsh Originals Patterns and Handmade Dolls Shop. We hope you get a chance to visit us.
We also have a Linda Walsh Originals Etsy Shoppe where we sell some of our handmade dolls and e-patterns. If you get a chance, please pay us a visit.
And, we have a little Linda Walsh Originals Patterns Mini-Shoppe that sells some of our e-patterns.
A couple of months ago the "dollies" and I decided to create some video's of everything we are doing. So, we created several video's and set-up a LWOrig YouTube channel so you could easily view them. Our first video is entitled: "There's So Much To See and Do At Linda Walsh Originals" and is all about us. You can view that video at the bottom of this page.
Our second video showcases our love for "faceless" dolls and is entitled: "Faceless Beauties By Linda Walsh Originals" and showcases some of our Victorian "Ladies."
We also created a video for the "Gray Is Beautiful" series and gallery. If you'd like to see that video please CLICK HERE.
And, if you'd like to see the video of all our Victorian Dolls please CLICK HERE.
Besides our "About Us" page here we also have a Linda Walsh - Google Profile page with links to some of our websites, blogs, and social networking sites.
The "dollie's" and I used to write a monthly column called "Tips From The Blogging Queen" for Faithful Friends Online. Now we have a "Tips From The Blogging Queen" blog containing all my columns and other FREE articles I have written for various e-zines and websites.
We also maintain the Everything E-Directory. I just LOVE lists and I've been keeping lists for many, many years now of some of my favorite e-product and handmade crafts websites. So, I decided that I should share some of my lists with you. A kind of pay it forward way to save you some time and help some of my small business artist and crafter friends. So, I created the Everything E-Directory.
I'm going to continue to add to my lists and hope my lists are helpful to you. If you're an artist or crafter who wants to get listed just CLICK HERE for more information on getting listed in our Everything E-Directory.
The Everything E-Directory is a wonderful directory for listing and advertising your website, blog, and/or products. The best part is you can list your websites and blogs for FREE. Just CLICK HERE for more information on listing in the Everything E-Directory. For our advertisers we've provided plenty of additional benefits for advertising as well as freebies. Just CLICK HERE for more information on advertising in the Everything E-Directory.
And, of course, we created a new "Everything E For Crafts E-Directory Blog" to support our newest website.
If all that isn't enough we also have "a zillion blogs" which we also write for.
Needless to say we do a lot of writing.
Our blogs are as follows:
We do have a "zillion" blogs.
Why so many, you might wonder?
Well, the dolls just love to see their names in print.
Plus, now we are on Facebook.com . We have set-up a Linda Walsh Public Profile Page and pages that you can become fans of for our Linda Walsh Originals website, our Linda Walsh Originals E-Patterns website, our Linda Walsh Originals Dolls - Handmade Doll & Crafts website, our Gray Is Beautiful Gallery, our Linda's Doll Bookstore, our Linda's Crafts Bookstore, and our Top Blogs By Crafters Toplist.
If you'd like to visit my public profile page please CLICK HERE or click on the Facebook button above. If you want to see my detailed profile page you'll have to become a member of Facebook.com and then request to become a friend of mine.
We also have created several pages on Facebook for our fans. If you'd like to view our pages on Facebook just click on the links below to visit our pages. If you "like" us please just click on the LIKE button with the thumbs up image at the top of the page:
- Everything E-Directory Facebook Page
- Gray Is Beautiful Gallery Facebook Page
- It's Raining Baby Showers Facebook Page
- Linda Walsh Originals Dolls Facebook Page
- Linda Walsh Originals E-Patterns Facebook Page
- Linda Walsh Originals Fabric Designs Facebook Page
- Linda Walsh Originals Facebook Page
- Linda's Crafts Bookstore Facebook Page
- Linda's Doll Bookstore Facebook Page
- The Best Free Craft Articles Facebook Page
- Top Blogs By Crafters Facebook Page
Not only are we on Facebook.com, but we're also on Twitter.com. If you'd like to follow LWOriginals on Twitter please CLICK HERE.
We also offer very affordable advertising on some of our websites and blogs. Please click on ADVERTISING for more information on advertising with Linda Walsh Originals.
A lot of our blog readers asked if we would be converting our Linda's How-Do-I Series? Helpful Tips For Crafters With Websites and Blogs to .PDF versions and we decided to not only convert them into .PDF format for you , but to make them available as "Instant Download E-Books" as well.
So, our Linda's How-Do-I Series? Helpful Tips For Crafters With Websites and Blogs that we wrote for our "Tips For Crafters On The Web" blog is now available in .PDF "Instant Download E-Books" on our Linda Walsh Originals E-Patterns website. If you'd like more information on our e-books or would like to purchase our E-Books please CLICK HERE.
Plus, we REVISED our originally free Linda's How-Do-I Series? How Do I Design a Pattern and E-Pattern? e-book and made it bigger and better than ever. "It's now available for purchase on the How-To E-Books page of our Linda Walsh Originals E-Patterns website. Just CLICK HERE to purchase our REVISED "Linda's How-Do-I Series? How Do I Design a Pattern and E-Pattern?" e-book.
You might be wondering why would I do all this? Well, you see, I like to do as much as a I can to help showcase "artists & crafters" on the net.
Why?
For a couple of reasons.
First, the arts & crafts community on the net is one of the best communities out there. Everyone is always so willing to help everyone else out.
Secondly, everyone is so skilled and so creative that I like to showcase their talent as much as I can. So, wherever I can I try to promote all the artists and crafters on the net.
And last but not least, I need something to write about in all those blogs besides "dolls" - don't I?
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If you'd like to download our 2012 Linda Walsh Originals Print Patterns & E-Patterns E-Catalog just CLICK HERE or click on the e-catalog picture above and follow the prompts. If you would just like to view our e-catalog online please CLICK HERE.
There Is So Much To See and Do At Linda Walsh Originals Websites and Blogs
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