Here comes some changes! Shop Update Newsletter

Thar be Changes Ahead At LuLusApple

7/25 update :
Things are going great and have been working on a new series. These Dolls will be ready by next week ;) Thank you everyone who has convoed me support! I appreciate it, some of you know how much of a nervous Nellie I am about change! haha 
If you have not signed up yet the first Newsletter will go out next week. Hugs L.....Carry on ;)

I have been having a blast making Art Dolls. And thanks to my wonderful Collectors I have been creating a lot ;D I love to wake up everyday and be able to fulfill my dreams by creating.

Along with creating I have been fortunate to have met fun people from all over the world and the love that I get in return when my dolls travel to their homes is the best! ;)

With all the fun there have been some snags while trying to list the Art Dolls and be fair to all  .. So in an effort to minimize the not so fantastic parts, I am implementing a new and hopefully improved way of offering my 

Art Dolls.

Starting this week I will no longer be listing individual dolls one at a time but instead be making a shop update with several dolls available at once in my Etsy Shop. 

What does this mean? 

Where in the past I would list individual Art Dolls as I finished them, preceded with a small update in my Etsy Shop announcement if I knew I would be listing shortly. I will no longer be doing this. Instead I will make a shop update by listing several New Art Dolls at once, One time a week or bi-weekly. 

How will this work?

Prior to the listing day I will make announcements in my newsletter that you can sign up here for

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on Twitter @lulusapple and in my Etsy shop announcement. (under the shop banner)

Important: A Preview will be available the Day before the Art Dolls are listed here on my Blog. The Art Dolls will not be available for reserve. But merely a preview of what will be listed in my Etsy Shop the following day. 

Reserves Will No longer be available immediately on newly listed Art Dolls.

All previous reserves and layaway's are still valid and will continue to be per our individual agreements. 

However New Reserves and Layaways will not be available until an individual Art Doll has been listed for 5 days and has not sold in that 5 day period. This is to allow those that wish to purchase a doll a chance to. I will at that time take requests for payment plans. 

Why am I doing this?

I have been fortunate to have a fantastic group of collectors. Thank you so much <3 ;) Because of this my Art Dolls can become reserved quite quickly. And I appreciate this, I do ;)

But this is where the not so fantastic part comes in. It has become increasingly difficult to field convos and tweets for upcoming dolls. It takes a lot of time to respond to convos from the first to reserve and to people who were not first to reserve. Also its just not fun to tell them they missed out. ;( Along with this the disappointment expressed in these messages that there is not enough time to get a doll before they are reserved, that people cannot be on the computer all day and the time difference between countries has made it frustrating for many, has all  been part to promp this change.

So I have decided after many weeks of struggling with how to make listing Art Dolls as fair as possible; That this is the best way currently to handle it.

This does not mean I do not appreciate and love all of you who have continued to support my Art ;) It is merely a change that I need to make in order to continue to create ;) My wish is to have more time to paint, something I love, and to offer you the new Designs in Art Dolls.

 I hope you will understand and if you want to contact me personally please do so ;)

Hugs!! 

LuLu

Autumn Feeling ;)

I have tweeted this and facebooked lol But the weather over the last week here has been spectacular and inspirational. I am so in the mood for Autumn. I created a masked girl Birch a few days ago. It was so drizzly and cold outside I lit candles. I had the house to myself and popped in some scary movies. I was loving it! After Birch came Reine The Reluctant Pumpkin Princess and Then Katara the creature of the night. 

Katara

Katara felt alive when the sun left the sky. The night spoke to her and all that she was. Hiding behind her mask she could be free and follow her heart. During the day her life was much more constrained, oh how she longed for the night.

Birch

Birch had some mayhem in her life and was nearly at the end of the turmoil. When her drama crept back in and overtook her very being. She felt unconfident of who she was anymore, more so of whom she had become.

Befallen to this predicament she found comfort behind the mask.

Reine

Reine sits alone in the Throne room, unaware of what is to come. Thrust onto the throne the day her Mother the Queen went missing from the Goblin City. Having never attended any official parliament business she is terrified at the prospect of her new duties. How will Reine cope without her mother by her side and how will she have the courage to rule?

Along the Autumn Theme I had created these 3 sets of kids with Imaginary friends. These are inspired by my granddaughter who has an imaginary friend named Michael. Michael is constantly in trouble and when asked why can't Michael go home I am told His mother is at work ;)

Imaginary Friends Pepper and Millicent the Corpse

Pepper has a problem and she follows her everywhere she goes. Her Problem is Millicent. Pepper's Mother thinks Millicent is her imaginary friend. There are times when Pepper seems to be talking to herself, but really she is talking to Millicent. Pepper gets in trouble and blames Millicent; Mother is getting tired of hearing everything is Millicent's fault.

Miss Marla And Bunny

Miss Marla knows that when life has bumps Bunny will be there. After all that is what she imagined her for. A child in a time of trouble needs a hand to hold and and ear that listens Bunny has both ;)

 Benny and imaginary friend Boyd~Boy Art Dolls ;)

Benny thought it would be fun to conjure up an Imaginary friend. He was after all an only child with a lot of time to spare since his parents were always traveling. Little did Benny realize that when you create an Imaginary Friend they are yours for life and beyond. Benny had best get used to the situation.