took a little longer than i would have liked but after all the fussing and fighting, the pixxxie pie emporium is now live and open for business. i’m still in the process of optimizing some images on the site…so if it seems to run slow on a couple of pages please forgive me and be patient. there are so many angles when it comes to launching a website and making sure that my big high-quality site images were optimized properly was an angle i just about overlooked…but i’m on it now and should have all the site images optimized in the next few days….so any site slowness should be remedied soon….one way or another lovely clothing for asian ball jointed dolls abound and new products will be added to the site on a regular basis. of course, i’ll still have auctions up on ebay, so there’ll be two avenues through which to purchase my goodies. but enough rambling….i got things to sew and only so many hours in the day.

i find myself looking over the denver doll emporium website, just to see if anything new has come out, and lo and behold i stumble on something that’s extremely rare: a ball- jointed doll company called goodreau…based here in the states. so i’m digging around, pulling off some web research, stumbling into this and that. dollpeddlar.com has them for sale and they are quite reasonbly priced. then i step into deviant art and there she is ‘GoodreauDolls’…sheesh, shows how long its been since i paid attention to the freaking web site/community i post 99% of my art on.

Paulette Goodreau and her sister Annette are the force behind Goodreau Dolls (tho it seems like mainly Paulette on the creative end of things) and the dolls are quite interesting…a couple of them are downright startlingly gorgeous in their own special way and i (of course) can’t wait to get my hands on a couple of them. Aside from her line of bjd’s, Paulette also creates these really adorably off kilter plush dollies called NoNo and a plastic doll line called Snappy dolls.

my heart belongs to the large ball jointed doll though…. heaven knows, fresh blood is always a really great thing in the realm of ball jointed dollies and seeing someone creating these kinds of dolls stateside is pretty damn cool. mind you, the dolls are apparently being fabricated in china, but as ms. goodreau herself stated they are “made with love in china” in a nice factory without the whole sweatshop vibe. which, according to ms. goodreau, bjd’s being fabricated in china is actually quite common…ya learn something new every day.

so doll fanatics out there, pull yourselves together and check out http://www.goodreaudoll.com and ,as i stated above, she’s also a member of deviantart.com too.

note: article initially appeared in my old blog: violletsweb

images in collage layout above: paulette goodreau

slowly but surely i breath life into another underworld chamber of the pixxxie pie emporium. site launch for the emporium is roughly slated for 9-23-07…granted that i find the time to do about six thousand kajillion other things. …worst case scenario leads to a grand opening sometime around early october. which is just in time for all hollow’s eve, so its all good one way or another. i’m basically done with the emporium’s major design elements, so my to-do list has come down to some basic odds and ends.

all i really have left to do design-wise is place my main category graphics. subcategory graphics can come later since they’re pretty low on my priority list. i may rework the site logo just a bit since i recently downloaded a ton of new photoshop brush sets from good ol’ deviantart.com. i need to work on my “about pixxxiepie” page as well as the “pixxxie garden” page. mainly a page for handy resources for the doll/craft/hobby obsessed, the pixxxie garden will be pretty darn simple to compile…just a bit time consuming. and then there’s this blog. now i’ve got this, i’ll be slowly migrating articles from my old blogger site (violletsweb.blogspot.com) to this one until i’m completely done with blogger. but we’ll see. things can change in the blink of an eye.

prioritizing is the name of the game right now and i’ve got quite a bit of sewing on my hand before the grand opening. i’ll post updates here and the day before the grand opening there will definitely be some info here to chew on.