About Angies Angels

As a child I had a love for dolls. To start off with my sister and I were fostered from three weeks old. My Foster Mum had a house full of children and growing up all I remember is sitting in a corner in the playroom with a big bag full of dolls and doll's clothes and my books. I was at my happiest with my dolls and my books.I had vinyl play dolls, walking talking dolls and paper dolls.When I was eight, my real parents took me back and told me I was too old for dolls, they then took every single doll I owned and locked them in a back room. If I found a book with paper dolls in it, I would buy it and hide it, this is where my craving for dolls began.

A few years ago, I kept seeing these porcelain dolls in shops and magazines, I then started to collect them, but the more dolls I collected, the more I wanted to know about how to make them. I could see how beautiful these dolls were and how brilliant the artwork was, the details on the faces.

I found a ceramic shop and started to enquire, the lady there then put me in touched with a shop in Hastings, that was a doll supply shop. I was also told to purchase a magazine called Dollcrafter from America. At the same time there was a woman teaching Doll making where I used to live, it took ages to get into her class and when I did it was only two hours a week, well that wasn't enough for me, so I continued buying Dollcrafter which gave me techniques on Doll Making and then started teaching myself. I had one problem though, I didn't have a kiln to fire these dolls to porcelain, then lucky for me someone told me about a woman who did have a kiln and made Antique Dolls, so I got in touch and through the love of Dolls, Josie and I have become really good friends.

My very first doll was a sleeping baby, then a young child and now all kinds of dolls. It wasand still is a hobby, but the more people saw my dolls, the more people would want one for their wifes, girlfriends, sisters etc. I am working on dolls as much as possible and I am also making dolls in their national costumes.

Each doll is unique and comes with a Certificate Of Authenicity, as well as to customer's specifications. My dolls come in kit form, where the doll is painted, hair and eyes are done, all thats left for the customer is to make the body and put the doll together or as a fully completed doll where they are ready to be displayed.