Yellow Challenge - Susan and Mary-Ellen

In twos they come walking down the little path

Pretty little Susan with Mary-Ellen last

Advent 2018 - Day Eleven

Hello Susan, you look nice in that dress.  Cora says.

Thank you Cora, I love the dress you have on as well.  Susan replies.

It is great we get to have the Advent Calendar this year, don't you think?  Susan asks Cora.

It sure is!  Cora replies.

Now where is the Number 11? Susan wonders.

Aha!  Here it is.  Susan says.

She opens the door.

Ooh, look! She exclaims enthusiastically.  It is a little musician!

He is playing the recorder.

Susan puts him down on the little scene and Cora sits down to help set it all up.

Susan was thrilled that the calendar is for the girls this year, although isn't so enthusiastic about her Christmas photo!

The Blonde Bombshells...Part One.

The blonde Sasha dolls have to be my favourite, or at least going by how many of them that live here at Rose Cottage, that MUST be the case.  Over the years I have ended up with a lovely collection of beautiful dolls.  Continuing with my theme of re-introducing them, (having started with The Gotz Gang a month ago), there will be three posts over the next three days featuring the Trendon Blonde Bombshells of Rose Cottage!

Sasha was my first Sasha doll, hence her name!  She left me for a year or so, but then I saw her up for sale again (actually she was sold on not long after I originally sold, her but at that stage I couldn't get her back) and just had to have her back so she didn't have to keep moving home. She is a member of the 'Rose Hip Chicks' who performed at the Summer Music Festival last year.

She has a blue neck ring which dates her to around 1974 by my understanding and came wearing a blue gingham dress.

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Little Sally came to live with me in 2011 from Ted Menton in the USA.  She is from 1972 and has the lovely wide face.  She too came wearing her blue gingham dress.

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Stevie has had an adventure with someone else as well...she came to live with me in 2011 and was dressed in a Blue Cord dress.  She is I believe from around the early seventies as well, certainly before 1974.  I originally called her Serena due to her lovely serene expression, but when she went to live with my friend Jocelyn, she changed her name to Stevie, and it only seemed right that she kept this name.  She especially loves the colour purple, although isn't overly keen on dresses. 

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Susan is a 'Sweater Girl' from 1982/83.  She came from Suzanna Lewis in the USA.  

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Now Sophia has to be one of my prettiest Sasha dolls.  She has the lovely wide face and is from about 1971 I would guess.  She has been with me since 2014 I think it is.  She is definitely a model in her own right and modelled a lot of the clothes that were given as a donation to the 2015 Sasha Festival by Trish.

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Sarah is a beautiful NP Sasha from 1967.  She has also been with me since 2014 I think.  I really need to check dates!

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These six girls all appeared on my Doll and Bear ABC Challenge page. I  am all over the place with this having got behind!

S is for....

Sally, Sasha, Sophia, Stevie, Sarah & Susan, Six Splendid Sasha Sweethearts in their Smocked Summer Dresses Standing in the Sunshine on a Sunday.

All the dresses are made by my friend Kath Barnett of Australia.

Blue Monday

Susan and Sally chatting in the garden, both wearing their pretty blue smocked dresses.

Do they have a party to go to I wonder?

Or some other special occasion?

Goodness, even Maddison has put on a blue smocked dress - most unusual for her to wear this style, being more of a 'modern/trendy' girl.

She seems to be intent on watching something amongst the flowers.

More blue, brother and sister in their sailor suits.

The rest of the 'sea-faring' gang.

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No blue sky here again sadly...I hope it comes back!  

Have a good week.