On the Saturday morning at the 2024 Sasha Festival we were able to take photos of all 15 Dress a Sasha entries, and vote on them.
Dress a Sasha English Garden Assembled by Teenager entry
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| Fairy at the bottom of the garden |
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| Dress a Sasha Teenager entry |
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| English Garden Assembled by Adult - 1 (Rebecca) |
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| English Garden Assembled by Adult - 2 |
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| English Garden Crafted by Adult - entries 1 (DollMum's daughter) and 2 (Anna DollMum) |
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| English Garden Crafted by Adult - 3 (Jane W) |
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| English Garden Crafted by Adult - 3 (Jane W) |
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| English Garden Crafted by Adult - 4 (Gerry) |
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| English Garden Crafted by Adult - 4 (Gerry) |
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| English Garden Crafted by Adult - 5 (Erin) |
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| English Garden Crafted by Adult - 5 (Erin) |
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| English Garden Crafted by Adult - 6 (Julie) |
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| English Garden Crafted by Adult - 6 (Julie) |
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| English Garden Crafted by Adult - 7 |
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| English Garden Crafted by Adult - 8 |
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| Afternoon Tea Assembled by Adult - 1 |
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| Afternoon Tea Assembled by Adult - 1 |
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| Afternoon Tea crafted by Adult - 1 |
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| Afternoon Tea crafted by Adult - 1 |
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| Afternoon Tea crafted by Adult - 2 (Elizabeth) |
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| Afternoon Tea crafted by Adult - 2 (Elizabeth) |
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| Afternoon Tea crafted by Adult - 3 (Jane W) |
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| Afternoon Tea crafted by Adult - 3 (Jane W) |
Voting was done by each person being given little coloured slips of paper in their souvenir bags and writing the number of the entry on the relevant coloured slip and putting the slip in one of the 5 voting boxes (there was one for each category). Apparently, it was quite complicated counting the votes and working out who had won, second and third in each category, because of the colour and category confusions mentioned above, though there were 5 clear winners for each category. Voting took place on the Saturday morning and winners were announced at the buffet lunch on the Saturday. The winners with their rosettes will be shown in another blog post.
The Saturday morning was shown on the programme as 'activities' and what this turned out to be was a series of displays which were set up that morning at breakfast time with talks by Frank Triggs and Anna Doggart until lunchtime.
Frank gave an interesting long talk about the sculptural processes involved in creating Sasha dolls, he showed us moulds, explained the lost wax technique, the methods used to create the elongated white faced Pierrot doll hands and feet and even picked up and expertly cradled the very rare baby Amelie which belongs to Diane D.
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| Dawn welcomes Frank and Anna |
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| Frank holding Sasha head moulds |
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| Frank explaining the lost wax technique with the casting moulds for another object |
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| Frank cradles baby Amelie |
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| Frank and the hand and foot casts for Pierrot dolls |
Anna talked about the influence Sasha had on her life when she was a teenager and the close bond which formed between Sasha and the Doggart family.
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| Anna with a photo of herself and Sasha M |
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| Anna talking about Sara D and Brenda Walton |
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| Brenda and Sara with some Sasha dolls |
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| One of the wonderful promotional scenes with props created by Sara |
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| Anna talking about promoting Sasha |
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| The influences on Sasha, including Paul Klee |
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| Sasha M the very young child |
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| Painting by Ernst M of Sasha making toys surrounded by her children |
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| Sasha making large models |
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| One of the Pro Juventute babies made by Sasha M when she was a midwife |
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| Anna talking about Sasha's influence of humanity on the dolls |
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| Anna with the photo of Sasha holding a Trendon party girl doll |
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| Anna talking of Sasha's studio dolls |
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| Some of the books about Sasha dolls |
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| Winterthur book |
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| Baby Amelie with the Pierrot boy |
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| Baby Amelie |
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| Course and Studio dolls and Sasha moulds on display |
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| Pierrot moulds with Studio dolls |
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| A Studio baby and the Pierrot doll reclining |
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| Sasha Pierrot doll close up |
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| Harry's much played with Sasha doll called 'Dirt' (Anna and Frank's son's doll) |
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| Sasha Studio doll belonging to Anna |
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| Pale coat Sasha Studio doll belonging to Anna |
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| Sasha Studio baby belonging to Anna |
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| Sasha Studio baby without eye paint |
During the morning my daughter re-plaited the fishtail plait in Jocelyn's doll's hair, the same doll whose hair she had plaited at a SCW in 2018, Jocelyn was very pleased and said now Ella could wear her festival souvenir dress.
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| DollMum's daughter working on Ella's fishtail plait |
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| Carefully adjusting the fishtail plait |
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| Jocelyn pleased with the fishtail plait for Ella |
The next post will be about the special displays on the Saturday morning.
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2 comments:
Hooray, a photo of me looking happy at last! Thanks, Anna - Jocelyn
Hooray, a photo of me looking happy at last! Thanks, Anna (and Dmd)
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