Chat n Snap 2016 - part 3

In addition to the Guiding and Scouting Jamboree and the tables of visiting dolls, another big feature of the Chat 'n Snap is the sales stands with an amazing array of Sasha goodies available to buy. 

Early in the sales my girl bought some purple baby shoes from Gayle to go with a smocked outfit we had just bought from Marilyn

Ginny had some amazing mix and match choices, we bought two long sleeved t-shirts

A general view of the sales stands looking towards the Jamboree display, this was later in the afternoon when sales were quieter so Iris had time for the crossword!

Judith's Dollydoodles stand, we bought a baby outfit for Daisy and a lilac body-warmer for one of the girls

Gayle's and Dawn's sales tables

Joanne was doing crochet while my girl was finishing her lunch and starting to contemplate working on her cross stitch again

The Raffles!  The Chat 'n Snap would not be the same without raffles and there were two - the main one was the blond Trendon with Shelly painted eyes and a whole basket of clothes and accessories.

Greg in his school uniform with his basket of goodies waits for his new owner

Greg's basket of goodies

Greg and his guitar

The other raffle included two dolls, an Our Generation sewing machine with accessories and a host of other individual prizes.

The second raffle

More of the second raffle prizes

The sewing machine and accessories in the second raffle

Dawn assisted Dee with the raffle.  Some of the second raffle prizes were drawn first then half way through the first raffle prize was drawn, followed by the remainder of the second raffle prizes.

The raffle begins

Janet was pleased to win the blond girl

Ginny's daughter picked up a lovely dress on a clothes stand

Alice was thrilled to win the sewing machine, I think at least half of us wanted to win it.

My girl won a very pretty dress

Joanne was pleased to win a prize

A very happy winner of Greg and his basket of clothes and accessories - Jane was thrilled

It looks like Greg was pleased with his new mum too

 A short while later Iris won the brunette boy

All too soon it was time to pack up and say goodbye to everyone.  Jocelyn travelled with us so we had lots of chatting in the car on the way home about the Chat 'n Snap.  Thank you to Dee for organising it and all her band of helpers who served refreshments, it was a very enjoyable day.

Chat n Snap 2016 - part 2

The Scouting and Guiding Jamboree wasn't the only display of Sasha and Gregor dolls at the Chat 'n Snap.  Plenty of dolls had come along to enjoy the fun and were put on tables around the sides of the hall.  I went round a couple of times to take photos as the displays grew, they were fluid through the day as people showed off their dolls to their friends and rearranged them a bit in the process.

Two blond toddlers and red haired girls

A pretty little Iona Gotz toddler girl wearing a ra ra skirt outfit

Toddler twins - one pair of only two Trendon prototype toddlers

Red haired girls in hand made white dresses, and friends

Jocelyn's two dolls (left in Emma Flood outfits) with a Red haired Gotz and a course doll

Two beautifully dressed Trendon girls

A Trendon boy in a wonderful Christmas sweater and a Trendon girl with her attractive beret and cardigan

Some gorgeous red haired girls

Dawn's lovely pram she restored this year

Reuben, Trendon Elliott, Melanie and Edmund brought some of the Summer Music Festival to the Chat 'n Snap

Three of our babies Nina, Daisy and Amy babble to each other while Florence (wearing the lovely Emma Flood outfit I bought at the Sasha Celebration) dreams as she listens to the music from the Summer Festival.  Beside our babies is the soft bodied baby made by Janet for Tricia

Caleb and Cora playing it cool on their motorbike!

A well behaved group of toddlers and babies with the older Sasha and Gregor dolls

A baby with a glove puppet entertains the other babies and toddlers

This collection of Muller Wichtel dolls was brought together for the day by those who collect them as well as Sasha

A doll made by Theresa using a course doll pattern and baby rerooted by Theresa with soft body by Janet joined the display

The Trendon toddler twins were joined by the only other pair of Trendon toddlers, a baby and a puppy

This was the dolls for sale table where anyone could put their doll for sale if they made a small donation to the charity pot

Three lovely Trendon dolls pose in the window, I managed to capture them on camera with the light behind them

Gayle's beautiful re-rooted Cora

Close up of Gayle's re-rooted Cora

Teddy had brought his lovely jointed wooden doll

Close up of the face of Teddy's wooden doll.  She is a bit bigger than Sasha serie dolls and wears Magic Attic and American Girl doll clothes.

Some Sasha children stood behind the motorcycle

This Gotz girl wears a lovely coat and hat set

This Trendon girl likes elephants

Three gorgeous early Trendons

The three gorgeous early Trendons are joined by another lovely early Trendon and a Gotz Claudius toddler

It is impossible to stop the toddlers and babies crawling and playing around and a Mexican copy of Sasha has crept into the lineup

A wonderful Studio girl

close up of the wonderful Studio girl

When eating our lunch and during the afternoon we sat at a table near our dolls and chatted with various people.  I brought out my Heather Maciak dolls - Jenny and Lexie wearing their knitted sweaters and my new Heather Maciak UFDC 2016 Convention souvenir doll Emily and journal which I bought recently via ebay.  Heather had told me all about the making of this doll and her companion doll when we met last year in Vancouver.  Teddy and I had an animated discussion about our Jenny and Lexie dolls and Dee showed me the two she had very recently purchased, inspired partly by my blog posts on them.  My daughter and I also made friends with Joanne who was crocheting a dress for her Sasha baby.  My girl sat stitching her first Cross Stitch kit (and finished it during the afternoon) and I knitted a few rows of a sweater for Emily my newest doll so it became a bit of a working crafts table for the afternoon.  I later saw Diane D knitting at another table as well.