All of Our Doll Clothes Video

We recently uploaded an "All of Our Doll Clothes" video. I thought it would be a simple video to film because of the simple camera angle, flat ground, and controlled lighting. But I was wrong. The lighting was so bad at first glance, that I thought we would need to move the whole setup. Instead, I borrowed a lamp from another room and put Christmas lights over the whole thing. The curtain setup was also very tricky. We couldn't get them to be taller than the dolls, which meant we kept on stacking books under the boxes until they were tall enough. Additionally, having to change outfits every few minutes took up quite a bit of time. I'm very happy with the finished product, but man, it took forever!

One of my favorite parts of this video is where the Kanani clothes are displayed. Those clothes aren't actually from American Girl. I looked at reference pictures for each outfit, then picked out fabric from my scrap bin, and sewed each piece to look as close to the original as possible. I'm really proud of those. We weren't planning on showing them in a video for a while because we thought we would wait until we got Kanani, a doll we have wanted for years, but we realized that would be happening any time soon (considering her price as a retired Girl of the Year).
We're enjoying the holidays: time to spend with family and friends, time to be creative, and get some well-earned rest.