Dolls Sew Beautiful
4/5 Sunningdale Court,
Balhannah, SA 5242 Australia
dollssewbeautiful@iprimus.com.au
Phone: 08 8398 0423
Mobile: 0415 503 730
My name is Jackie Bond and I live in South
Australia.
I have been a dressmaker for well over 40
years and a porcelain doll maker for around
15 years.
My Dressmaking talents and interests were sort of put on a back burner for a few years once my
children grew up.
I discovered the art and craft of creating beautiful lifelike porcelain dolls and thus my dressmaking
skills were also rekindled.
My love for the art of Modern doll making has grown even more over the years and I continue to seek
to learn as much as I can to improve my skills, to this end through the aid of the Internet I have made
many close friends around the world and have been fortunate enough to have been invited to go and
stay with these wonderful ladies from both the USA and the UK.
Being a Nail Technician I developed and mastered the art of applying long acrylic sculptured
fingernails to my bigger lady dolls, this was discovered by the ladies on a doll makers E-Group to
which I belong in the USA after seeing one of my award winning dolls showing off her beautiful hands
on-line, subsequently I was invited to teach workshop classes at the “ Greater Eastern Texas doll
show” in Tyler Texas needless to say I accepted the invitation and I have done this for several years
running and I am planning to go back again and again for as long as they will have me, from this
came the production of a technical tutorial CD-R along with the availability of a starter kit to teach you
step by step to do your own beautiful long nails on your lady dolls, these are available for purchase
from either myself here in Australia or from my partner in the USA Kaye Dunn of Keepsakes of Van
Buren.
1997: 2nd place ribbon, 3 - 1st place ribbons, and 2 rosettes.
1998: 2nd place ribbon, 3 - 1st place ribbons, and 3 rosettes.
1999: 4 - 1st place ribbons and 4 rosettes.
2000: 4 - 1st place ribbon and 4 rosettes
2001: 4 rosettes.
2002: 1 - 2nd place ribbon, 2 - 1st place ribbons 2 rosettes.
2003: 6 - 1st place ribbons, 5 rosettes and award of Merit
2004: 6 - 1st place ribbons 4 rosettes.
2005: 8 - 1st place ribbons 5 rosettes.
2006: 4 - 1st place ribbons 5 rosettes.
2007: 4 rosettes.
2008: 2 - 1st place ribbons 3 rosettes.
Award
Explanations
1st place ribbons
90 points out of a
possible 100
2nd place ribbons
80 - 90 out of a
possible 100
Rosettes
95 - 100 points,
best in that
category, or best in
show
It is possible for one
doll to have more
than 1 rosette.
There are about 10
different categories
you can enter a doll
into but not all at the
same time.
Baby Doll with glass
eyes, baby dolls
with closed eyes
and baby dolls with
painted eyes,
toddler with glass
eyes, toddler doll
with painted eyes,
adult with glass, and
adult with painted,
and so on.
On top of that there
are skill levels
Novice, Open 1,
Open 2 and finally
professional.
Recognition
Media
