- {NOTE: Due to some messages I've gotten I'm adding this note: PLEASE READ ALL OF MY PROFILE BEFORE MESSAGEING ME ABOUT MY DOLLS!!!! I've had a few requests to "buy my dolls" shown on my profile. If you had READ my profile you would know that Yes I am a doll maker; No my dolls are not only not for sale, they are NOT even pictured on my profile page!!!! As stated SEVERAL TIMES on this page, the dolls shown here are dolls on my "Wish List"... that is dolls made by others that I want to add to my doll collection. My dolls, as stated, are fabric/soft sculpture, I do not make ceramic dolls. Thank You.}
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My name is Wendy C. Allen. I am a writer, editor, publisher, artist, doll maker, animal rights activist, and fashion designer. I am sometimes known as EelKat. I change from Gothic to Lolita to Punk depending on my current mood. I've been one or the other since the early 1980's, and often all three at once. I write in the Gothic, Horror, and Science Fiction genres. My works include The Twighlight Manor series, it's spin-offs: The Planet Ptarmagin series, and The Crystonite Chronicles. Some of my other writing habits include children’s stories, The Adventures of Pink Frog (series), comic books, and the dark retellings of classic folk lore & fairy tales, known as EelKat's Twisted Tales. I am the owner of The Twighlight Manor Press, which has it's own profile; to read more about that, you can find it on my top friends list.
I started this profile for The Rabbit Hole, so it'll change and evolve over time, along with The Rabbit Hole. The Rabbit Hole is a Gothic~Lolita Clothen Store, that has yet to be built. Everything is still in the planning stages. I love desgining my own clothes, and clothes for my dolls, and hope to one day have a fashion line of my own and a little shop in Maine to sell them in. The Rabbit Hole gets it's name from Alice in Wonderland, the theory being that once you walk through the front door, you leave the real world outside and enter a world of wonder.
There are no Gothic or Lolita stores around here, I want to change that. As my plans for The Rabbit Hole stand at the moment, I'm planning to sell Gothic and Lolita fashions, makeup, dolls, and other such items. I don't want to carry mass-produced fashions, rather those made by designers, possibly custom work. I like one-of-a-kind items, so I want everything in my store to be either one-of-a-kind or very limited runs of 10 or less. I've been working on this for 5 or 6 years now, getting all the kinks and stuff worked out. I've written and rewritten the business plans, studying other businesses plans, and reading up everything I can find about starting a business.
Well, long story short, I came to the final stages of my plan in February of 2007. The onlything stopping this plan from going on the road, is I need about $500,000 to cover store-rent & remodeling, fixtures, computer-system~regiter, merchandise~stock, and marketing~advertising costs. So the next thing to do is get a loan, right? Wrong. That's where I am stuck. Okay, I've gone to all the local banks and applied for a loan, but have been denied at all of them because I have no credit and no "real" job. They told me to get a "real" job, but I've been applying for a job for 18 months now, (a total of over 200 applications and interviews), and at each of them I was told that because I never attended school, they couldn't hire me (they claim that I have a servere lack of social skills caused by my never going to school). Other interviewers have said that because I never had a "real" job in the past 30 years, that they couldn't hire me because I have no job experiance. (Apparently 7 years as an Avon Representative doesn't count as a "real" job.) So because I have never been to school and beacuse at my age never had a "real" job, I am not able to get hired for a job or get appoved for credit cards or a loan. (or so bankers and job interviewers keep telling me).
I want to know what differance does it make that I never attended school? And how to kids get hired for their first job? You don't have job experiance before a first job. If job experiance is required to get a job, than how does anyone get a job? Personally I kind of think these are just cop-outs and the interviewers don't want to hire a woman who dresses like me. Why do I think that? Well I'll tell you: The jobs I've applied for are sales-rep/sale associate jobs at retail and clothen and department stores. I was an Avon Sales Representative and make-up consultant for 7 years. That is 7 years of running a home business that involved my purchasing merchandise and then selling it door to door. In otherwords I have 7 years of job experiance, in spite of what the interviewers say. And school or no school, 7 years as a sales representative counts for a hell of a lot of socializing. It's illegal in Maine not to hire someone based on what they look like (including the way they dress.) The job interviewers don't have anything to back up their claims that I lack schooling or job experiance, but they can't hire me and they can't legally not-hire me based on the way I dress. So to get around it they just say "no job experiance" or "no schooling", cause they can say that without getting in a discimination lawsuit. Well, that's what it looks like is going on to me anyways.
I feel like I'm up against a brick wall here. Well my question is, how do other people get money to start their own business? Has anyone got any ideas?
My clothen style includes velvet, capes, empire gowns, gowns with trains, burnoose, shawls, runas, fishnet hose, striped stockings, combat boots, velvet, top-hats, long dresses, ruffled frilly skirts, cosplay, Gothic, Lolita, Victorian, Edwardian, velvet, frockcoats, Alice in Wonderland, vampire fashions, Medival fashions, crilolines & petticoats, eyelash-fringe fabric, sequins, beads, glitter, lace, cloaks, ruffles, broomstick skirts, stripes, plaid, poet blouses, peasent dresses, fairy tale princess gowns, faerie outfits, wizard-look stuff, big hats, bright colored hats, ballet flats, platforms, anything that Dracula would love to wear, and stuff like worn by Jem*, The Holigrams, and The Misfits. I was dressing like Jem, before Jem was invented. I love anything made of velvet! I don't like pants: won't wear them, won't own them. I the 1980's I wore min-skirts, but as the years have gone by, my dresses and skirts got longer; today my hems sweep the floor and they often have trains. I have one dress that has 7 yards of fabric on the skirt alone, it can be worn with or without hoops.
No, what I'm wearing is not a costume.
Yes, I dress like this every day, all day long, even around the house, when working in the garden, and when shoveling manua out of the barn.
No, I don't own any "normal" clothes.
No, I can't tell you where I bought them, because I didn't buy them, I sewed them.
No, I can't tell you where to buy the pattern, I didn't buy a pattern I made the pattern. I've been sewing since I was 6 years old when I made my first doll. I made my first ball-gown at age 12. At age 16 I graduated from a 2 year course in fashion design & merchandising. I've spent most of my life studying fashion history and the art of recreating historical clothen from the Gothic periods (1300 - 1500 & 1850 - 1930), and those are the clothes I thus wear.
I don't like people who think I'm wearing a costume even after been told that I am not.
I make soft sulpture fantasy/faerie dolls. My dolls very in size from 6" doll house dolls to 12" fashion dolls to 20" collector dolls. Thier soft bodies out of stretch jersey knit, their eyes and lips are hand embriodered, eyes and noses are sculpted, their hair is made out of purchased yarn that has been "carded, washed, and baked" to resemble real hair, and their costumes are made out of a wide varity of fabrics from silks to velvets to laces. I do not use patterns for any of my dolls, all of which are based on elinor peace bailey's "pancake doll theory". e.p.bailey is my fave cloth doll designer. All of my dolls are one-of-a-kind creations. Most of them being charaters from my books: The Twighlight Manor series. No they are not for sale. I don't currently have any pictures of them to show you (my camera is acting up, guess I need a new one.) Doll pictures on this page are dolls I like that have been made by others, not dolls made by me.
In addition to sewing clothes and dolls, I also make teddy bears, chickens, and other stuffed animals. I do embroidery, bargello, cross-stitch, beadwork, crazy quilting, crewel, Jacobean work, crochet, and whatever new thing comes along for me to try. When it comes to sewing-needlework-crafts, I try everything at leaste once.
I also build doll houses and model cars, doll house furniture, doll house dolls, etc.
For art my main skill is pen & ink, but I also do color pencil, watercolor, acrylic, and pastle. My focus is book illustration, fashion design, birds, pets, farm animals, alien/ufo sightings, and ocean landscapes.
I love Gothic Mad Hatters!
My Favorite Things:
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My favorite color is orange.
My second favorite color is blue or purple.
I also like pink.
My favorite place is Otter Cove, Maine.
My favorite place to walk is Rachel Carson's, Maine.
My favorite view is the rocky coast of Maine.
My favorite Disney character is Scrooge McDuck.
My favorite super hero is Darkwing Duck.
My favorite Disney villain is NegaDuck.
My second favorite Disney villain is SteeleBeak.
My favorite super villain is the Joker.
My favorite Disney non-duck character is Tigger.
My favorite trees are white pines & weeping willows.
My favorite flowers are purple iris & blue roses.
My favorite animals are eels & bobcat & roosters.
My favorite flavor ice cream is French Vanilla.
My favorit popcicles are Edey's Coconut Cream.
My favorite food is veggie & rice stir fry.
My favorite pizza is black olive, mushroom, spinach, cheese, dill pickle, & lima bean, with no sauce.
My favorite book is Retief and the Warlords
My favorite series of books is The Retief Series by Keith Laumer.
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OMG! He looks like Etiole! Mad Hatter and Etiole cross-over look doll!
What Kind of Goth Are You?
Cutesy Goth
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What type of gothic lolita are you? (many results and beautiful picks)
The Elegant Lolita! What a fine specimen, you have a very raffined taste in clothes ^_^
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What kind of loli are you?
you are Elegant Gothic Aristocrat.
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I'm a cat.
I growl when I'm happy.
I wag my tail when I'm angry.
I'm as mad as the Hatter.
I'm mad, you're mad, we're all mad here!
Just mad I tell you.
Posativly mad!
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I WANT THIS DOLL!!!!!!
"If I had a world of my own, everything would be nonsense. Nothing would be what it is, because everything would be what it isn’t. And contrary wise, what is, wouldn’t be. And what it wouldn’t be, it would. You see?"
~~Alice
Potter casts spell on Snape;
Snape turns into dragon;
Dragon eats Potter!
YAAAY!