Sasha Celebration Weekend 2017 - part 2

Waiting for breakfast, our doll shelf in our hotel room.  It looks like there is a Makie doll among the Sasha family, a baby in the pram and Clemence the bear has come along for the ride too.

Our doll shelf - Clemence on the pram, Nicholas James, Edmund, Timothy, Trendon Elliott, Miranda, baby Mabel, baby Daisy, Isabel the Makie, baby Leo, baby Amy

Easter Egg hunt

Laura has been shopping for eggs and has set out an Easter egg hunt in the garden for the others.

Her trolley is now empty as she checks the locations of all the hidden eggs

"Happy Easter everyone! We are having an Easter Egg hunt. Please be friendly, no pushing or shoving."

Florence is the first to find a pretty basket decorated with butterflies.

She sees there are several eggs in this basket

Melanie finds a bunny slipper full of eggs in the flowery undergrowth.

Isabel brings her shopping trolley along as she looks for eggs

"What's that" she thinks as she sees something peeping out from the flowers

Isabel has found an Easter chick!

"I can't wait to eat this later."

Edmund sees a pair of bunny ears poking out of the flowers and runs towards them

He wobbles and nearly falls over as he climbs towards the bunny ears

Trying to keep his balance Edmund approaches the bunny basket

But falls on his tummy just as he gets to them and admires the large collection of eggs in the basket.

Nicholas James, Reuben and Trendon Elliott find a treasure chest...

... filled with eggs!

Timothy and Miranda go looking through the flowers together

They find a bunny slipper filled with eggs

Everyone loads their eggs into the wagon and make their way to the picnic rug

Edmund, Florence and Isabel admire their eggs and chick

Miranda has one bunny slipper of eggs

while Melanie has the other bunny slipper

Laura and Clemence have no eggs and relax as they watch the others with their eggs

The bigger boys gather around the treasure chest of eggs

Edmund is delighted with his large basket of eggs

What is the difference between this basket of eggs and a few minutes earlier?

Edmund's basket of eggs doesn't seem so full...

Edmund looks in his basket of colourful eggs, which seems a little emptier than before

Edmund looks at the girls - his basket only has a few eggs now

Edmund holds a green egg

Clemence comes to look in Edmund's egg basket

Clemence looks at Edmund enquiringly... there is no chocolate around Edmund's mouth

Reuben and Nicholas James have LOTS of colourful eggs ...

The big boys have plenty of colourful eggs while the treasure chest of light coloured eggs is still full!

Edmund and Clemence firmly hold onto the remaining eggs.  What naughty big boys!

Meanwhile Isabel is enjoying licking the top of the chocolate chick filled with smarties.

Florence sorts through her basket of eggs and chooses which ones to eat first

Miranda peers into her bunny slipper of eggs, she doesn't think she needs to share them with Timothy who has PLENTY of eggs now.

Laura has some eggs which Florence has kindly given her from the pretty basket

Happy Easter everyone - we hope you had a lovely day.

Welcome party

There was a party going on

Music was provided by the band with Laura singing the vocals

Laura was wearing a dramatic red velvet cloak as she sang and danced

Edmund had joined the band with a guitar though was in danger of being deafened by Trendon Elliott's trumpet!

The flute, guitars, drums and backing singers were in full swing

The backing singers Matroshka, Jayne and Harriet were dancing and moving their arms in time as they sang while Matilda and Belle danced on the balcony and Nicholas James played the guitar

Clemence the bear fancied himself a singer too and held the microphone stand for Laura

Peter the drummer and Matroshka the singing dancer

Matilda and Belle were loving the music

Trendon Elliott was playing the trumpet, Anna the flute and Samantha the guitar

Reuben, Miranda, Florence and the babies Amy, Mabel and Leo were loving Laura's singing as they danced along to the music

The music drew two newcomers into the room - they were astonished by the welcome to their new home

Reuben rushed over to greet them "Melanie, Nina, at last you've come" he yelled in delight to see his new sisters

"Welcome home" cried Reuben as he hugged his new sister Melanie while Miranda greeted baby Nina

"Hello Melanie and Nina, we've been looking forward to meeting you" exclaimed Florence and Miranda as baby Amy peeped between their legs to see Nina

The Sasha and Gregor family gathered round Melanie and Nina to welcome them, there was a lot of excited chatting

soon they were all partying together as the band started playing again to welcome their new sisters to the family

Melanie, Reuben and baby Nina (with Nina's basket)

Melanie and Nina my two new Trendon Sasha dolls arrived at the end of January via Susanna Lewis's site. They both came with their complete original outfits and boxes, and Nina has her basket.  They are both minty, in fact Melanie still has the new vinyl smell and Nina, who was a shop display doll until she went to the same private collection as Melanie also has a faint new vinyl smell and her basket is perfect.  Melanie is the 1983 Cora Flower dress and Nina is Little Flower.  Reuben, who is a later Caleb is slightly shorter than Melanie (though it may be her hair) - he doesn't seem to mind though as he is delighted to have two new sisters.  The elder sister of my childhood playmate Reuben was called Melanie and another Sunday school playmate I had at the Cathedral was also called Melanie.  Nina is named for two Nina's - one was the mum of three neighbouring children whom I knew all my childhood and the other is a current friend.

My daughter was playing music from Queen while we set up and photographed this story, including Bohemian Rhapsody, We are the Champions. Somebody to Love, Another One Bites the Dust, I Want to Break Free and We Will Rock You.

I've had so little time for the dolls in recent weeks so it was fun to carve out some time with my younger daughter today to play dolls again together.