"We're both so odd; I think we'll be the best of friends."

 If this line worked as a successful icebreaker for my fiance to use on me, I'm positive it's fine to use as an introduction for this blog.

Welcome to Quiet Fanatics: a blog shared between my fiance and I about our shop TimAndBen Dolls and Design, creative ideas, interesting things we find, and our hatchling family.

We should probably get to know each other a little better.
My name is Megh Rall, and if you've somehow found this blog without actually knowing what TimAndBen Dolls and Design is, I am both perplexed and delighted! That sentence gave me an in to describe what the shop is all about, without really having to work at it.

TimAndBen Dolls and Design is a business I started with my younger sister when we were in high school. I sewed my first plush voodoo doll when I was thirteen out of scraps of fabric that I had lying around and named him "Tim". My sister (LiLi) asked for a red one with a black heart, and I obliged. What she did with that plain doll was marvelous. She hacked off limbs and sewed shut wounds and created a gory mess that she christened "BEN".

The only known picture of our dolls together: Tim on the left, BEN on the right.

Wearing a voodoo doll as an accessory is bound to get you noticed, and soon we were receiving requests for dolls.

Six years later, TimAndBen Dolls and Design is based on Etsy, the marketplace for handmade stuff and supplies and we are selling more than dolls. We create handpainted wooden jewelry boxes, prints, t-shirts, original acrylic paintings, and custom sewn gifts.

I hope you take a look at our shop and continue reading this blog, which will hopefully be updated daily.

Come see what we're all about, and help us trip through this world, because we have no idea what we are doing.

-Megh