The 2024 Sasha Festival went by far too fast!
On the Sunday morning we had breakfast together in the conference room rather than upstairs in the top floor restaurant. Breakfast was followed by the Special Doll raffle draws plus announcements about the 2025 festival, which will take place Ohio, USA.
My daughter (Dmd) brought Laura in her Fair Rosamund outfit and her newly purchased Aurelia to breakfast, I brought toddler Louisa and my newly purchased Katie (plus Trudi in her travel bag given to me by Dorisanne 2 years ago).
We were given our final souvenir gifts in flag bags, apparently Petrana went to great lengths to obtain the doll sized trolley bags which were included in the final gift, along with doll underwear. I will do a separate blog post featuring all the festival souvenirs we received.
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| Aurelia, Laura (Fair Rosamund), Louisa and Katie with the 2025 festival postcard at breakfast |
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| Awaiting the Special doll raffle draws at breakfast time |
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| Chatting at breakfast time |
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| A Trendon Gregor, Gotz Sasha and a Studio doll at breakfast |
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| Sheila drawing the Baby Tally raffle |
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| Preparing to draw Dawn's Gregor raffle |
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| Dawn reads out 'number 19' for Gregor raffle and it dawns on me who that is! |
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| An astonished Number 19 (my daughter) goes up to collect Gregor! |
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| JoAnn, Dmd with Gregor and Sheila at the special doll raffle |
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| Judith Dollydoodles draws the ticket for her Special Baby raffle |
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| Judith reads out the winning number |
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| Diane and her granddaughter draw the raffle ticket for the Special doll raffle donated by Petrana |
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| Dmd's new Gregor joins Aurelia, Laura, Louisa and Katy on our breakfast table |
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| Petrana presents gifts of a festival notebook to each of the Table Hostesses (including me) |
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| Heidi tells us all about the plans for the 2025 Sasha Doll Festival in Columbus, Ohio |
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| Petrana presents special gifts to all who helped at the festival |
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| Petrana with Dawn when she gave Dawn her gift |
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| Petrana and Janet |
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| Petrana and Marti |
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| Petrana presenting Sheila with her gift |
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| Petrana presenting roses to Dawn |
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| Petrana gave Janet some roses too |
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| Final announcements and thanks from Petrana |
Then it was time to pack up and say goodbye to people. We had the joyful and unexpected task of taking all the outfits for the Gregor Special raffle doll off the board and putting them into our bags.
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| Dmd with her new Gregor and his vast collection of clothes and toys |
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| Dmd with Gregor and more of his outfits |
It was sad to say goodbye to people after 3 intensely fun days celebrating Sasha dolls together. Thank you Petrana for taking the considerable financial risk of the 2024 Sasha doll festival, for the glorious souvenirs and for making it such an enjoyable event, with the help of many people who pitched in to offer their previous experience of running different elements of the festival.
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