I put my daughter in charge of the camera at the Chat 'n Snap, I did take some photos but she had fun prowling around with the camera and experimenting with the settings (the best way to learn).
In addition to
Animal's Halloween Band, we brought 5 of our Sasha and Gregor dolls for the general display: Timothy, Laura, Florence with babies Amy and Leo. We had dressed them in autumnal outfits. My daughter enjoyed capturing their close up portraits.
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| Timothy, Laura, Florence and babies Amy and Leo |
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| Timothy |
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| Amy |
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| Laura |
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| Leo |
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| Florence |
Teddy was dressing his dolls in their Halloween outfits and did some restringing of dolls for Leni, who was delighted.
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| Dressing dolls in their Halloween outfits |
I photographed a general view of the sales tables (after we had bought 2 outfits and two pairs of trainers).
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| Sales tables a the Chat 'n Snap 2018 |
There was an adoption table which also had a large box filled with lots of small balls of crochet cotton in many colours (donated by Catherine F) - my daughter chose plenty of colours for a donation towards the charity which the Chat 'n Snap always supports (Alzheimer's).
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| 21 different colours of crochet cotton |
My daughter took some photos of the Raffle table - there were 3 dolls in the raffle this time, with a multitude of other prizes.
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| The Raffle table |
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| Two of the raffle dolls and some other prizes |
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| Raffle doll donated by Dee |
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| Raffle baby |
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| Raffle doll donated by Petrana |
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| Close up of the doll donated by Petrana |
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| Raffle prizes (including the coat and hat set my daughter chose for her first winning ticket) |
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| Raffle prizes |
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| Raffle prizes |
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| Raffle prizes included this table and chairs set |
My raffle prize donation was the promise to sew a shweshwe outfit (sundress, hat, under pants and sandals) - I didn't have time to make anything before the event. I brought the fabric with me in a bag to show to the winner, who made her choice, therefore I have some sewing to do soon.
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| The Raffle table, including my promise of a shweshwe outfit in fabric selection of the winner's choice |
I took some photos of the dolls on the general display. Some of them had their hair dyed.
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| General display of Sasha dolls 1 |
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| General display of Sasha dolls 2 |
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| General display of Sasha dolls 3 |
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| General display of Sasha dolls 4 |
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| General display of Sasha dolls 5 |
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| General display of Sasha dolls 6 |
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| General display of Sasha dolls 7 |
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| General display of Sasha dolls 8 |
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| General display of Sasha dolls 9 |
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| General display of Sasha dolls 10 |
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| General display of Sasha dolls 11 |
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| General display of Sasha dolls 12 |
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| General display of Sasha dolls 13 |
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| General display of Sasha dolls 14 |
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| General display of Sasha dolls 15 |
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| General display of Sasha dolls 16 |
It was time for the raffle - the first doll (donated by Dee), later the baby doll with her set of clothes and the third doll (dressed and donated by Petrana) went to three different very happy people. We were lucky enough to win 4 prizes (a grey coat and black hat set, an original red pinafore dress with an original white school shirt, a pair of boneka shoes and some miniature cookie cutters).
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| Returning from the raffle with the coat and hat set |
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| The draw for the final doll (donated by Petrana) |
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| Lucky winner of the final doll |
Dee presented prizes for the Halloween ball best costume awards (all the individual dolls were entered, excluding the band). The first prize was won by Theresa, all the prize winners received pumpkins from the display.
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| Winning the pumpkin for the best Halloween costume |
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| Thanking everyone for supporting the Chat 'n Snap |
All too soon it was time to pack up - Animal and his band went back into a trolley case for the journey home while our other 5 dolls went into their travel bags and we had final chats with friends before going home.
Thank you to Dee and all her helpers for another very enjoyable Chat 'n Snap, the spookiest yet! Apparently a total of £1,300 was raised (via the raffle, tickets, food and donations) at the Chat 'n Snap for Alzheimer's research, a really good result.
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