It is certainly true that time flies when you are having fun and I have had a lot of fun last year.
Finally getting the Sasha Village Studio underway, finding some lovely Sasha's plus other dolls and generally enjoying interacting with the lovely Sasha doll people out there in the world.
I'm not making any new years resolutions or accepting any challenges for this coming year , I'm just going to go with the flow and see where life takes me.
So what shall we do this year? I have seen on flickr a friend who puts on a photo of her doll shelf every Sunday. I believe it's an idea put out and people have joined in. It was nice seeing her shelf each week of her various dolls etc. But every week would be a lot of work mainly to remember to do it.
So I thought lets do a monthly doll shelf. So I will put a photo on , on the 1st of every month of a a space in my house or where ever that my dolls are standing/ sitting etc, they may not just be Sasha's , there could be another doll or two who are not but that's fine or it may be just bears, who knows Not I, it will be what ever takes my fancy each month. But I think that having to take the photo will make me 'display' my dolls and pose them to hopefully make for an interesting photo and then they'll be displayed for me to enjoy for the rest of the month.
It would be lovely if you all would join in and send in your monthly 'shelf' ' , it is entirely up to you , they could be just some dolls standing on the side or a doll you just put down and left somewhere, or you could set up that display and change it each month. But from the photo competition last year I know that we all love seeing peoples photo's of their dolls and I think it's nice to be able to share your photo's especially if you don't have a blog or anywhere else to show them off and even if you do have one , it's nice for us to see them along with other peoples.
I have taken a few quick photo's around my house just to show the sort of thing you could do, yes I do have a room setting for my Sasha's but you could just do a doll sitting with her Teddy or standing with her pram etc.
It can be set anyway you want, as simple as sitting a doll on a shelf with a few things as above and taking a photo.
So I hope some or all of you will join in each month or on the months when you have the time. But I'll put up my photo each month and hope to be able to add other peoples.
So if anyone would like to send me a photo I will add it to a post on the 5th for this month but it will be on the 1st from Feb onward.
Another Chat n Snap will be held on 22nd October in the Village Hall , so the website/page will go up for that in the next day or so.
I will be going to Janet's Sasha Celebration weekend in May. Lots of friends have asked me to attend and It will give me the chance to sit and have a good old Sasha gossip with those friends and also to meet and make some more. I am looking forward to meeting those who have been unable to get down to attend the Chat n Snap in the last couple of years ans also to get a chance to chat to those that have.
I was also considering whether to try and attend the Rochester Festival in the US but that would mean selling a doll or two and again a big decision, which would need deciding soon.
Of course if I was to win the lottery I'd be able to do all this but that's not likely to happen , mind you If I stopped buying dolls I'd also have a better chance of attending these events! but well I see a doll and if it calls I just cave... just like on the last day of this year... Yes Kendal the total for last year increased by yet another one at the very last minute... more about that when the doll arrives.
So I hope you will join in with the photo ops or if not that you'll enjoy those photo's that do appear.
Looking forward to sharing the coming year with you all
Dee x
