This year Dee changed the theme of the Chat 'n Snap in response to the death of Her Majesty Queen Elizabeth II. The idea was to find a picture of the late Queen, King Charles or any of the British Royal family and replicate it with a Sasha doll or two. We had done some sorting through our large collection of clothes for Sasha in the week before the event and I had no time to make something new. We chose to depict Princess Charlotte as a baby in a smocked dress with a ribbon in her hair, because that style of clothes is regularly used for dressing younger members of the British Royal family. My younger daughter carefully styled baby Daisy's hair after dressing her in a smocked dress made by the late, lovely Marilyn H.
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| Baby Daisy as Princess Charlotte |
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| Princess Charlotte with the Scottish piper |
The display this year was in front of the St Ippolyts wall hanging rather than on the stage. It was a small but lovely display of several dolls depicting associations with royalty.
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| The Scottish bagpiper piping for the King |
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| Katherine, Princess of Wales |
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| A close up of the Princess of Wales |
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| Prince George, Princess Charlotte and Prince Louis |
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| Modern royal children always wear very classic traditional clothes for official occasions, such as the baptism of Prince Louis |
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| The late Queen Elizabeth II celebrated her Platinum Jubilee this year |
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| Jennie W made a replica of the late Queen wearing her Platinum Jubilee outfit |
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| The late Queen Elizabeth II with her corgi, handbag and Paddington bear |
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| A very regal outfit for the late Queen |
Many other dolls had come to the Chat 'n Snap and were displayed on a couple of tables nearby. We had changed some of our dolls into fresh outfits, so Trendon Elliott got to wear one of the Sasha Festival souvenir outfits (the snow suit), Nicholas James put on jeans to go with the rainbow hoodie I had bought for him at the
2021 Chat 'n Snap, Miranda wore an outfit she won on the raffle at the Sasha Festival, Laura still wanted to wear her goth style outfit she had won in the raffle at the Dolly Jolly and Florence wore a dress I won in the 2021 Chat 'n Snap plus a jacket I bought at the festival. Toddler Louisa wore an outfit I bought from Lynne F at the Festival and Edmund wore his union jack waistcoat made some years ago by my younger daughter.
At the Dolly Jolly in May we had won a baby Ginger on the raffle, along with her quilt, a second outfit and a teddy bear. Baby Amy wore the second outfit (made by Rosie Laird) and they shared two pairs of green / lime shoes, wearing one of each pair while playing with their monkey (knitted for me by a church friend last Christmas). While she was admiring our red haired baby twins at the Chat 'n Snap, Jennie W suggested a name for our newer baby: Robin.
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| Our babies Amy and Robin with their monkey, toddlers Louisa and Edmund, with Trendon Elliott, Nicholas James, Miranda, Laura and Florence behind them, surrounded by some Little Darlings, Teddy's BJD and Sasha dolls, with Hans the studio doll in the background |
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| Tricia's lovely girls and needlework |
We had limited ourselves to only buying for the boys this time as our recent sort out of all our Sasha clothes revealed plenty of dresses and outfits for our girls, with far less choice for our boys. We bought two pairs of trousers (cargo pants and corduroy trousers) from Ginny, 13 Sasha World magazines from Jocelyn, a Christmas sweatshirt and a Christmas hoodie from Dollydoodles, and some gorgeous fabric and tiny buttons from Jane.
Teddy had brought his restringing equipment and spent much of the time restringing dolls for people, I got a ring side seat for taking photos as Teddy and Alice were at the same table as us for the day.
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| A beautiful No Philtrum girl was restrung ahead of being shipped overseas to her new owner |
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| The notorious Curly had his arms restrung (too much use of your gavel Curly) |
One of the dolls whose arms needed restringing was Hans the studio doll.
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| Hans before his arms were removed for restringing |
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| Threading through the new elastic cord |
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| Teddy restringing Hans |
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| Tying the knot in the stringing |
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| Hans being redressed after his arms were restrung |
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| Hans being redressed |
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| Hans holding up his arm to show he can do so! |
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| Close up of Hans, photo taken with my macro lens to show his beautiful Sasha hand-painted eyes |
Another doll who attended the Chat 'n Snap was Amelie, the very rare Sasha baby who is a life size version of a new-born infant, she is made of some kind of wax compound so has a translucency to her appearance which does make her look very fragile and lifelike. I held her while my daughter Dmd took photos of her with my macro lens and camera on the tripod.
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| Baby Amelie being held by DollMum |
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| Baby Amelie |
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| Baby Amelie |
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| Close up of Baby Amelie, taken with the macro lens by DollMum's daughter |
We were fortunate enough to win 5 prizes in the raffle (which raised £400). Our prizes were two Dollydoodles outfits (sweatshirt, tracksuit bottoms & beanie, plus jeggings), some fabric (blue fat quarters), a green patterned pinafore dress, a tartan skirt and red cardigan.
Thank you Dee and family for another very enjoyable Chat 'n Snap.
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