Dianna Effner talks about porcelain doll making as a guest on PBS show Creative Living hosted by Sheryl Borden. For more information please visit www.expressionsdolls.com
Dianna is deeply missed but us all...being a friend of hers, and having her teach me from start to finish in her studio how to make these beautiful dolls, those times with her will now live on in my heart forever....
I love it, it looks so adorable, I hope you keep on making these dolls. You are very talented 😍😍😍😍😍😍😍😍😍😍😍😍😍😍😍😍😍😍😍😍😍😍😍😍😍😍😍😍😍😍😍😍😍😍😍😍😍😍😍😍😍😍😍😍😍😍😍😍😍😍😍😍😍😍😍😍😍😍😍😍😍😍😍😍😍😍😍😍😍😍😍😍😍😍😍😍😍😍😍😍😍😍😍😍😍😍😍😍😍😍😍😍😍😍😍😍😍😍😍😍😍😍😍😍😍😍😍😍😍😍😍😍😍😍😍😍😍😍😍😍😍😍😍😍😍😍😍😍😍😍😍😍😍😍😍😍😍😍😍😍😍😍😍😍😍😍😍😍😍😍😍😍😍😍😍😍😍😍😍😍😍😍😍😍😍😍😍😍😍😍😍😍😍😍😍😍😍😍😍😍😍😍😍😍😍😍
It’s terrible lol like you no your going to be interviewed on this subject but when she goes to answer it’s as if she goes I don’t really want to give out info lol
I was just on your website after seeing some of your dolls on eBay (modeling clothes, not dolls to buy there. Your creations are beautiful! I would so love to get one. One of your basics could have been modeled after my daughter.
Wait, so you sell the molds for these? Just face molds, or the whole doll (arms, legs, torso if it's all-porcelain). Would the molds work with "pressed" clays like Sculpey et al?
These molds are not just standard plaster, they are made of stronger, denser plaster called hydrostone. If you put sculpy on them, it will seal up the pores, rendering it unusable for pouring porcelain because it would not draw the moisture out of the clay like it's supposed to. But yeah, if you only use it for sculpy, first powdering it with baby powder so the sculpy with release easily, you could use sculpy clay in the mold. But the doll will come out to a larger finished size than the sculpy one, because fired porcelain shrinks quite a bit from its raw greenware size.
I have molds that was pasted down to me & I have no idea what to do with them or where to start. I would rather sell the molds & give the money to my son's. Any suggestions?
I have between 300-600 of these castings in my garage. they are all ceramic, some dolls, some heads legs,body parts, then some are whole figurines, many shapes and sizes and quite a few very large ones. If someone would come get them .they can have all of them , for free just for me to get rid of them
The Doll maker was vague and not someone I would want to watch for long ... the poor interviewer did her best to make this an interesting video though !
I have between 300-600 of these castings in my garage. they are all ceramic, some dolls, some heads legs,body parts, then some are whole figurines, many shapes and sizes and quite a few very large ones. If someone would come get them .they can have all of them , for free just for me to get rid of them
