THE FIRST SUNDAY IN NOVEMBER

 

So it's been a week of resting up and recovering from last Saturdays Chat n Snap. Also tidying away the event bits and pieces.

One of the first things I did was get Paul to take the box of 27 mugs used for the chat n snap , to the local charity shop on Sunday morning to donate them , as since it was the last one I no longer needed to store them for another year. Plus I resisted the urge to go through them and keep any ! even though most had belonged to me and were lovely China mugs or from a good maker. I didn't need to have to try and find space for them indoors!

By Tuesday the plastic cutlery, still mainly in bags and unused , had also gone off into town to a charity shop. So two boxes less to store. Mind you all the lovely playground items are now back in the shed, so I can play with them come the warmer weather next year.

So the end of an era, I will miss it I would imagine when next October comes around but to be honest the setting out of all the tables and chairs was hard work and we are not getting any younger. Now I will just have to hope that some other Sasha collectors put on some other events during the year, somewhere I can get to and not charge a small fortune for the attendance. Because my beautiful daughters and friend were willing to come along and help it made all the deference to help keep costs down.

Ginny and Cilla todays headliners are wearing some of last years dresses but Cilla is wearing the pair of Rosie Bloom's I bought from this year's CnS event. Which are perfect with the green of her dress.

One the sales front, I did sell two dolls along with around eighty hats ! Which enabled me to buy a few things at the CnS. 

So now the event is over I am back to sorting out things that need to go, along side tidying up my fabric's and yarns with a view to starting some projects over the coming winter months.

Also Christmas is just round the corner, so I need to get things going for that.

So please send in your doll photos for the fifth.

I'll be back again soon with more chatter about this and that doll related.

Have a lovely happy healthy doll filled week ahead and remember to have some doll time

Dee

NOVEMBER 1ST

 

Well its the first of NOVEMBER ! Yes November ! Almost knocking on the door of the end of the year 

Here we have Sapphire and Violet wearing the two new ballet outfits I purchased at the Chat n Snap. 

So don't forget the fifth will be doll photo day, please send your photos in to be included.

HALLOWEEN

 

Saffy is all ready for a bit of Trick or Treating tonight once the evening arrives and the ghosts start to walk the lanes and roads. . . . . .

MORE TRESURES

 collected from the Chat n Snap 

I ordered these two sets of dungarees off Ginny of A Passion for Sasha a couple of weeks back and she kindly brought them along to the Chat n Snap, so I could get them.

Percy and Scott are the two wearing them first.

It was Lucas's dragonfly outfit that made me want to carry the colours on into the older boys/ girls. Naturally being me, I had to go a little brighter ! But I'd really please with how they have come out.

TWO OF THE TREASURES

 Purchased at the Chat n Snap 

Ashley is wearing the blue dress I purchased from one table and a beautiful green cardigan and hat from another table.

I already had the tights and shoes, so one girl dressed for winter. . . .

CHAT N SNAP TREASURES

 

Well one of the best things about the Chat n Snap are the sales tables ! Made up of those who sell with an Etsy shop or similar and those who sell all sorts of second hand treasures for the dolls

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Some gorgeous shoes from Rosie Blooms table. Looking at this photo I have just realised there is a colour theme going on !

From A Passion For Sasha I bought two ballet outfits and a sweet white apron.

I got this table and chair from Linda S stall, because you can never have too many tables for the dolls ;)

I also picked up this sweet little basket of knitting for the bargain price of £2 ! Another prop for the dolls.

Then there was the raffle 

I picked these two items and gave a couple of my winning tickets to my granddaughter the Princess to choose a couple of items but she also had a couple of winning tickets of her own !

She choose this bunkbed set , which since they came by train, we'll be taking to them on Wednesday. But seeing it here I immediately realised a set of bunkbeds would be handy for the dolls !! Drat ! 

I can see a request to my props manager , Paul, being made, a nice wooden set. . . .

I also received a few gifts of flowers and a doll and shoes. Totally unexpected but much appreciated.

A lovely pair of shoes from a good friend.

I also took my Chat n Snap OOAK bag that was given to me by my daughter Lindsey.

The other side of the bag 

Saffy who headlined today is wearing the magnificent A nightmare before Christmas detailed dungaree's that I bought from Carrie but were I believe made by her mum. My youngest daughter Courtney knew the words along with the songs from start to finish of this film as a child. If the sound had gone in the cinema , she'd have been able to leap in and speak and sing the words to save the day ! 

I have to confess that I just had to order a few more pieces off A passion for Sasha yesterday but did manage not to enquire if certain dolls had sold or were still available ! 

SUNDAY CHAT N SNAP REPORT

 

Well that when fast ! No sooner than we arrived to start setting up at 8am it was all done and dusted by 5pm and everything and one had vanished off home , hopefully filled with joy and exhaustion ! 

I have to make a confession ! I took a couple of photo's once we'd set up and then totally forgot until the day was halfway done !! So I had to send Paul round with the camera and hope to get some photos ! 

The playground was soon busy with children playing.

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Paul did a great display, which was much praised and well deserved. But is now back in my shed for me to play with for a whole next summer.

My wonderful daughters, Lauren and Lindsey , along with my lovely friend Kim , all came to help with the food and raffle ticket selling. Plus because it was the last one, my youngest daughter brought my seven year old granddaughter to see what nanny gets up to !!

I will share more over the coming week

Dee

TOMORROW TOMORROW

WE LOVE THAT TOMORROW  IS ONLY A DAYYYYY A WAYYYYY !   ! 

Oh yes ! Tomorrow is Chat n Snap day ! We are as ready as we can be, just waiting for tomorrow to get to the hall and start setting up.

Isn't that lucky ;) And I'm sure everyone will be fulfilling that, There will be , by the sound of it, quite a few lovely dolls up for adoption, so I'm sure dolls will be arriving with one mum and going off home with another ! 

Then there are all the lovely sales tables and then the raffle !  

A PASSION FOR SASHA

DOLLY DOODLES

ROSIE BLOOM SHOES

SLEEPING ELF

to name but a few . . .. . . . . . .

I will try to remember to take lots of photos to share after the event but I'm sure plenty will appear on the day on the FB groups.

Dee

SUNDAY SUNDAY SUNDAY

 

Well this week's weather was grey ! Day after day of grey cloud completely covering the sky with the sun only managing to fight it's way through now and then. But with only days left until the Chat n Snap I can only wait for the day to arrive! Everything apart from getting in the food is ready  and waiting !! 

Now I think have I missed something? Will I be standing at the hall and realise an important item's been forgotten?? Mmm well I soon be finding out ! By this time next week it will all be over and I'll be recovering and skint from being tempted by all the lovely items for sale.

Not been able to decide on a back ground, so finally had to do two separate ones or I'd still be having them delivered !! 

This day's headliner is Claudia, from earlier in the year, once the event is over I will have to get round to dressing them all for winter.

Well I will be back next Sunday to share tales of chatting and snapping and dolls and goodies.

Have a happy healthy week 

Dee

IT'S COMING ALONG SOON

 

Yes , the Chat n Snap is getting closer. The photo above is of the two , at present, raffle dolls. The brunette doll, which I have donated is wearing a new smocked dress set donated by Shelley B-O. 

The baby is also wearing a romper that was also smocked and made by Shelley but he came in this and will also come with another newly donated outfit by Michelle S.

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I already have a lovely big box of raffle prizes, mostly donated by the lovely Leslie H and also some others by Ronny C and myself. There will be many more on the day.

So If you have a ticket or are on the list, my family and I look forward to seeing you on the day. There are NO admittance to non ticket /listed people on the day, please no turning up last minute as this would be unfair to all those who committed to the event and paid up early to ensure it could go ahead, There are a few, they know who they are, who will be on the list as they have contacted me or have a standing arrangement .

There are a few parking spaces at the front of the hall, please leave those for our older members with mobility issues.

 Please once parked up , make your way to the front doors and have your name checked off the list, please don't try to enter through the kitchen door at the rear. These will be locked.

All sales table sellers please park at the front then move your car to the rear once unloaded. Sellers can arrive from 10 15 onwards, non seller please try not to arrive before 11am

The sales tables will open when announced ,there is no selling or reserving items before they open. Let's be fair to everyone attending.

There will be the usual doll adoption table this year but with a slight twist. You can put up to three Sasha/Gregors on the table to sell but this year you can swap up to two of those for non Sasha dolls. All dolls need to have a tag with price and owner, so people can come and search for you to do the deal. If you want to buy a doll you can pick it up and go hunt the seller and do the deal. The seller must put a donation of a minimum of £2 into the box for selling the doll at the event.

Please do NOT carry any doll around if you are just thinking about buying it, this could stop the owner from making a sale to someone else on the day. 

Please remember there is NO selling allowed unless you have a sales table. 

Food and drink are available for donations, there will be a box for that at the refreshment area. Please bring a mug if you can but there will be some available for those who forget or have travelled from abroad.

Raffle tickets will be on sale and the raffle will start to be called around or just after 2 pm.

There will be some new people attending, so please help them enjoy the event by having a chat.

This years display is a 1960's/ 70's playground. You can add a suitably dressed doll to the display but only one but you do not need to add any. Please be careful of the play equipment , also note there was no proper health and safety back then so safely surfaces. Your doll uses the playground at it's own risk.

Hopefully this is all not too bossy but hey you know me  !! But you will enjoy yourself honest !! 

Dee

FIVE YEARS OR MAYBE LONGER. . . . .

 

I had this little brunette baby with falling hair and decided to remove the falling hair and re root her with maybe red hair.

So I removed all the old hair and started to re root however before I'd gone far , I set her to one side and wandered off on other things. I had stored her and all her parts in an old Tupperware box, that I'd used to keep my knitting needles in. 

And there she stayed for several years, by the time I remembered her the arthritis in my hands was way to bad to push needles of hair through the hard small holes. Mm what to do ? I decided to remove the hair I'd rooted and sell her for someone else to finish off.

But the neck hook was broken ! So back in the box she went and several more years went past ! 

Then a few months ago I was hit by my. . . . I need more babies phase ! Babies began arriving like I'd opened either an orphanage or nursery , although It must be an orphanage has they are all still here ! But this meant |I went looking for the bald baby who was still in pieces. Then sent for a new neck hook, only for it to arrive and me to realise the one I already had was not broken but it was meant to be put together ! 

Yet again the poor girl was left in the box when I realised I had to heat up her neck to get the plastic bar back in. 

Finally today I decided  was the day she'd get put back together. The kettle was boiled, the neck dipped and the fight began ! I hate restring dolls ! Finally the neck ring was back in and now it was just a case of putting her head and legs back on to the body, which I had cleverly left the arms in place, so yet more time was spent trying to get the legs strings in place and the legs hook back on ! 

Then the poor girl was finally after five ( I maybe well out with that number ) years, she was whole ! Well apart from her hair ! But I had bought a wig for another non Sasha doll which I decided may do her and a lovely new smocked baby dress by Ruth Hartley , which had been sitting around waiting for her to come together .

So this is Romilly , finally getting to enjoy life again.

I think the dress suits her and she deserves it due to how long she's been tucked away !

Although the wig from the back appears more suitable to an older doll, I think from the front she can get away with it.

So Romilly is now getting to meet her baby brothers and sisters and there is one less box sitting around.

And  one tick on the to do list !