Birdie is delighted to be the proud owner of a Bleuette doll. She’s planning to learn to sew for her, but for now the tiny Bleuette is dressed in a classic middy and hat of red silk trimmed with white, created by Lawton’s own seamstresses.  The perfectly scaled and replicated Bleuette comes on an exquisite ball-jointed composition body. She has been made for The Lawton Doll Company by Nada Christensen and features Nada’s signature kiln-slumped glass eyes.  Birdie wears a summer pleat dress of blue and white plaid silk and a felt cloche with matching trim. Her eyes are a warm brown and her hair is light brown.

Every third year, the Lawton Doll Company pulls out all the stops to create a decadent collection—something far more complicated than any doll in the regular collection.  For 2008, Wendy Lawton issues an edition limited to only 50 pieces. It is called "Born with a Silver Spoon" and features two dolls, a nine-inch boy, aptly named Sterling, and his sister, a nine-inch girl named Amethyst.  The dolls come in a burnished cherry display armoire. Each doll can be displayed in the curved glass door on either side. All of the clothes and accessories fit neatly inside.  The set includes two complete extra outfits, underwear, two extra pairs of shoes, and a wide array of accessories, including two handmade amethyst and sterling necklaces, a whistle, a pocket watch, penknife, bath salts, mirror, books, and many more treasures.  It is obvious that the mischievous Sterling and the solemn Amethyst were born with the proverbial silver spoon!

Wendy Lawton Dolls  2010 - 1 - 2 - 3 - 4 - 5 - 6