Sasha Celebration Weekend 2018 - Part 3

It was late Saturday afternoon at the 2018 SCW and my daughter had sold a few hair accessories at her sales stand, much to her relief after all her crochet work - it was gratifying to have some customers.  We returned to our room with our Sasha dolls and the remaining hair accessories then picked up our violin, flute, music stands and music and met Mary with her flute in the dinner room.

We had corresponded via email about the live music group to complement the Red Carpet Fanfare Band.  Janet had asked if we could play music from the movies and we found a trios book of fairly straightforward arrangements - there were various books with the same parts for different instruments, so I bought the violin and flute book while Mary bought the flute book.  Mary also sent us one piece via email which we printed out and she brought a book of Harry Potter tunes for us to sight read.  We decided to play one piece before the starter, one before the main course and one before the pudding / dessert.  We had such fun rehearsing together for 30 minutes having rehearsed separately because of the big pond between the UK and USA.

Our trio started with Harry Potter - Hedwig's theme (starter), then played Hallelujah from Shrek (main course) then played Raiders March from Raiders of the Lost Ark (pudding). People seemed to enjoy it and Alan filmed us playing for dinner and shared the videos with the Sasha Morgenthaler group on Facebook.

Discussing our parts just before playing Raiders March

The SCW flute and violin trio for Saturday night dinner

After dinner Dee gave the second talk about Sasha eyes following Jocelyn's talk the previous evening - this time all about the Gotz eyes.  The other display at the SCW was a long table of serie (production) Sasha dolls of all the different eye styles and production periods.  It was really interesting to see how the eye styles had changed over time on the serie dolls of the Gotz, Frido and Trendon productions.

Eye display - early Trendon Sasha dolls

Eye display - early Trendon Sasha dolls

Eye display - Trendon babies with their siblings

Eye display - later Trendon Sasha children

Eye display - the prototype Trendon toddlers and some early Gotz dolls

Eye display - early Gotz Sasha dolls

Eye display - early Gotz Sasha dolls

Eye display - early and later Gotz Sasha dolls

Dee explains about Gotz Sasha eyes

During dinner there was also time for a bit more hair styling - my girl did a fishtail plait for Laura's beautiful Sasha doll.

Doing a fishtail plait on Laura's doll

Completed fishtail plait

Arranging the front hair strands into soft ringlets

Matching - Laura made both dresses

We also had some doll visitors to our table.  It was delightful to meet the gorgeous Sasha Studio toddler we had first met in Dorisanne's home last year, this little red haired beauty now lives with one of the biggest collections of Sasha serie toddlers in England.

Sasha Studio bebe and Toddler

This cheeky lad in the tea cup was one of two small BJD (ball jointed dolls) who visited us.

Small BJD boy in a tea cup - this lad was full of mischief

The next post is all about the Awards for the Red Carpet entrants - the Oscars of the Sasha Celebration Weekend.

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Practice for the Summer Music Festival

A Summer Music Festival was being planned so the young musicians were practicing hard. Trendon Elliott got out his trumpet and music while Melanie started tuning up her violin.

Trendon Elliott found the right page of music for his trumpet

He had to remember the correct fingering to use on his trumpet 

Soon he was playing the trumpet with Melanie sight reading the piece on her violin, an easy duet for Trumpet and Violin by Mozart.

Melanie was careful to hold her bow properly with a nice soft wrist to make the sound better

While trumpet and violin practice was going on, baby Nina was playing with the blocks

Nina was briefly distracted by baby Leo having fun on the rocking horse

Soon Jakob arrived with his flute

Jakob waited patiently while the trumpet and violin duet continued and Nina played on the floor

In the kitchen Miranda was frying breakfast for hungry musicians

"Breakfast is ready" called Miranda as the duet came to an end

"I definitely need some more violin practice" said Melanie

"I bet you're hungry though" said Trendon Elliott as he held his trumpet

"Playing the trumpet certainly makes me hungry" said Trendon Elliott

"Yes, lets put our instruments away and have breakfast, then do some more practice later" said Melanie.  

Jakob came and put his flute music on the bigger music stand as Melanie watched

Soon Jakob was running up and down his scales on the flute, making them sound like rippling rivers.

"Yummy, a banana" said Trendon Elliott holding it up for Melanie to see as Miranda approached with a frying pan filled with eggs

"Who would like some fried eggs?" asked Miranda.  "No thanks" said Melanie while Trendon Elliott was only too pleased to have both eggs on his plate

Miranda went to get some more food from the fridge as Jakob would need breakfast too.

Melanie and Trendon Elliott made short work of their breakfast ...

... while Jakob continued his flute practice

"I wonder if our friend Henry will be happy to play the piano part to accompany me during the Summer Music Festival - he played the piano at the Sasha Festival in the USA - I'll ask him" said Jakob.

Leo joined Nina on the floor

The babies played happily with the colourful blocks as they enjoyed the music practice for the Summer Music Festival

Music practice will continue, there is lots to do in preparation for some Summertime fun.