Easter Sunday 2025

He has Risen!

We want to wish you all a very Happy Easter remembering how special this day is.

The little Easter display we have set up this year.

 

A Doll a Day in April: Day 20 - Camille, a Les Cheries Corolle Doll

Today's doll of the day is my sweet Camille, the Les Cheries Corolle doll I found in a charity shop in Orewa, New Zealand in February 2019.  

She is wearing a lovely Easter outfit that my friend Jay of Jay Dolls UK on Youtube made for her for a swap we did for Easter last year. 

So pleased I found this sweet doll. 

 

Sewing for March

 I have been doing a little sewing the last week of March, it is good to feel up to sewing again.

I made a couple of these dresses, one for myself, and one for a friend.

This dress I made for my grand daughter - I have a little brunette Les Cherie Corolle doll that I will be giving her for her birthday in June with a little wardrobe of clothes.

This I made for a friend, she likes hot air balloons.

This dress I made for another friend who sent me the fabric, oh gosh, a long time ago!

I made this little dress for Wren.

I made two Easter dresses, the one above for me and the one below for a friend.

I made this dress for my Barbie Bestie doll.

Lastly I made this little dress for my Not a Blythe Blythe.

Happy St Patrick's Day

 Happy St Patrick's Day from some of the Rose Cottage Friends.

Clara, Clare, Camille & Chloe

Here we have a line up of my Corolle Les Cheries dolls.

In order that I got them, from left to right: Clara, Clare, Camille and Chloe

Clara is wearing a Les Cherie outfit which is beautifully made and fits her so well.  The other three girls are wearing Glitter Girl outfits.

Some face shots:

I love Chloe's delicate features and little freckles.

Clare has different freckles and quite a different look I think, a bit more cheeky.

Camille

and Chloe.

They hang out with a coupe of my American Girl dolls.

Here they are with Oona Faith my Paola Reina doll

Below is a picture of my original Chloe whom I sold a few years ago.

She came in a pretty little ballerina outfit.  She was actually really photogenic, and had an adorable tilt of her head in some positions as shown below in these photos also taken in 2012.

Such a shame they are no longer producing these sweet little dolls.

 

Unboxing Chloe

So another box opening... this time a Les Cheries Corolle doll.  Now I already had three of these little dolls that are quite special to me.  One my MIL gave to me for Christmas a few years ago, one I found in a New Zealand Charity Shop in 2019 which was fun, and one I was from a friend.  Out of curiosity I did a search the other day and discovered they are no longer producing this line of dolls.  They briefly changed them to 'ma cherie creation' but I don't think they really took off under this newer guise.  A shame as they used to have such lovely clothes when they first came out. Anyway I managed to find one on Amazon - but not by searching on Amazon, nothing came up!  Instead I found her on a google search that came up with an Amazon link.  There were only about three I think it was available so I decided to get her as I didn't have one with brown hair.  (I used to have one years ago, but sold her!  Haha, yes I have re-purchased the same doll, but not in such a lovely outfit as my other one had).  

In her box 

Back of the box

She was easy to take out of the box, although does have a mark round her neck where the string was.

There are little bits of fabric that you can attach to the dress

to make 'designer' outfits.  Obviously very much geared with children in mind.

However, the dress has that 'yukky' feel to it, I guess so the other 'bits' stick, and I couldn't wait to take it off her.  She DID come with underwear which was nice, as I have had two dolls arrive without recently.  She also has pink shoes.

She has a pretty little face with eyes that open and close.

She fits into Oona Faith's clothes and I love how these dolls can share clothes with other similar size dolls.

Next post I will show her with her 'sisters' and also with Oona Faith, my Paola Reina doll for comparison.

 

New Dresses and Comparisons.

It is easy to see which colours are going to suit Oona Faith well.

She likes her new unicorn dress, just like many little girls probably would.

As promised, now for some comparison photos.

My Les Cheries Corolle Doll Clara,  with Paola Reina Doll, Oona Faith.

Clara's feet are slight longer than Oona Faith's feet.

Behind photo, which shows the difference in colour of their 'skin'.

Front photo, I think the Paola Reina doll has more pronounced 'features' such as her knees and little toe nails.  Interestingly the Paola Reina dolls have changed a bit since my original one that I bought in 2013 - picture shown below of a comparison photo I took then.

You can see the Paola Reina doll then was quite a bit shorter than the Les Cheries Corolle doll, plus she used to have a much more pronounced belly button.

I put a dress on Oona Faith, that I made back in 2013, it suits her really well.

This photo I took in 2013 when Clara was wearing it, and for some more comparisons I have posted another couple of photos of the dress being worn in 2013 by:

Cristi as she was called.

and my Sasha toddler.

I love it when you can make an outfit that fits more than one doll!