Chat n Snap 2018 - part 2

I put my daughter in charge of the camera at the Chat 'n Snap, I did take some photos but she had fun prowling around with the camera and experimenting with the settings (the best way to learn).

In addition to Animal's Halloween Band, we brought 5 of our Sasha and Gregor dolls for the general display: Timothy, Laura, Florence with babies Amy and Leo.  We had dressed them in autumnal outfits.  My daughter enjoyed capturing their close up portraits.

Timothy, Laura, Florence and babies Amy and Leo

Timothy

Amy

Laura

Leo

Florence

Teddy was dressing his dolls in their Halloween outfits and did some restringing of dolls for Leni, who was delighted.

Dressing dolls in their Halloween outfits

I photographed a general view of the sales tables (after we had bought 2 outfits and two pairs of trainers).

Sales tables a the Chat 'n Snap 2018

There was an adoption table which also had a large box filled with lots of small balls of crochet cotton in many colours (donated by Catherine F) - my daughter chose plenty of colours for a donation towards the charity which the Chat 'n Snap always supports (Alzheimer's).

21 different colours of crochet cotton

My daughter took some photos of the Raffle table - there were 3 dolls in the raffle this time, with a multitude of other prizes.

The Raffle table

Two of the raffle dolls and some other prizes

Raffle doll donated by Dee

Raffle baby

Raffle doll donated by Petrana

Close up of the doll donated by Petrana

Raffle prizes (including the coat and hat set my daughter chose for her first winning ticket)

Raffle prizes

Raffle prizes

Raffle prizes included this table and chairs set

My raffle prize donation was the promise to sew a shweshwe outfit (sundress, hat, under pants and sandals) - I didn't have time to make anything before the event.  I brought the fabric with me in a bag to show to the winner, who made her choice, therefore I have some sewing to do soon.

The Raffle table, including my promise of a shweshwe outfit in fabric selection of the winner's choice

I took some photos of the dolls on the general display. Some of them had their hair dyed.

General display of Sasha dolls 1

General display of Sasha dolls 2

General display of Sasha dolls 3

General display of Sasha dolls 4

General display of Sasha dolls 5

General display of Sasha dolls 6

General display of Sasha dolls 7

General display of Sasha dolls 8

General display of Sasha dolls 9

General display of Sasha dolls 10

General display of Sasha dolls 11

General display of Sasha dolls 12

General display of Sasha dolls 13

General display of Sasha dolls 14

General display of Sasha dolls 15

General display of Sasha dolls 16

It was time for the raffle - the first doll (donated by Dee), later the baby doll with her set of clothes and the third doll (dressed and donated by Petrana) went to three different very happy people. We were lucky enough to win 4 prizes (a grey coat and black hat set, an original red pinafore dress with an original white school shirt, a pair of boneka shoes and some miniature cookie cutters). 

Returning from the raffle with the coat and hat set

The draw for the final doll (donated by Petrana)

Lucky winner of the final doll

Dee presented prizes for the Halloween ball best costume awards (all the individual dolls were entered, excluding the band).  The first prize was won by Theresa, all the prize winners received pumpkins from the display.

Winning the pumpkin for the best Halloween costume

Thanking everyone for supporting the Chat 'n Snap

All too soon it was time to pack up - Animal and his band went back into a trolley case for the journey home while our other 5 dolls went into their travel bags and we had final chats with friends before going home.

Thank you to Dee and all her helpers for another very enjoyable Chat 'n Snap, the spookiest yet!  Apparently a total of £1,300 was raised (via the raffle, tickets, food and donations) at the Chat 'n Snap for Alzheimer's research, a really good result.

USA 2017 - Sasha festival part 9

The Sasha Festival was over, we had returned from the Udvar-Hazy centre, the girls had a swim and we had dinner together with Charla and her granddaughter.  After returning to our room I decided to sort through all our wonderful new items we had acquired during the festival - souvenirs, gifts, crafts, won and purchased.  It was during this sorting out period that I discovered my girl had left her Friday table souvenirs behind in the ballroom and they had gone into lost property, so I contacted Charla and Karen and discovered that Karen had them, but had returned home, an hour's drive away.  We made arrangements to collect them from her once we had a hire car after our Washington DC adventures which were about to commence.

My wonderful collection of 2017 Sasha Festival souvenirs including the superb outfit by Karen W with Marti shoes

The felt and magazine/booklet craft patterns along with the puppets we made up when designing the patterns

Table hostess gifts, mostly my set - top left is the cape and hairbrush set from Friday (my daughter's gift), top right is the Saturday night gifts from Karen K, the two fleecy baby blankets (I gave the red/blue/white tie dye patterned blanket to my friend Jocelyn when I returned to the UK)

My prizes from the Helper Raffle - two Morrisey sewing patterns and a vintage rag doll, quilting book and partly made doll quilt

My daughter's (incomplete) collection of 2017 Sasha Festival souvenirs with Laura modelling the wonderful outfit by Karen W - this was when we discovered the white bathrobe etc was missing

My daughter's partly made glove puppet and her other craft items

My daughter's prizes from the Helper Raffle - the dress on the right was a gift from someone who won it on Sunday and passed it to my girl.  L-R: Our generation workshop tools, mini laptop for dolls (a mirror), globe, blanket, Dollydoodles outfit and the peach/orange dress set with a bee embroidered on it

The gifts my daughter received during and after the gift exchange - the white dress and Holly Hobbie doll and the USA outfit which will feature prominently in the next set of blog posts as those who are on the Sasha Morgenthaler Facebook group will know

The various gifts people just gave to my daughter during the weekend - on the left is the outfit by Phyllis G (she made outfits for all the children at the festival), in the middle are various lovely little Sasha scaled items and on the right is the Smocking magazine and pleated fabric from Julie R for my girl to start smocking

The items my girl bought from Fran's sales table on Saturday - knitting needles and wool along with art materials for Sasha

My daughter's table hostess gifts from Saturday and Sunday - on the left are the novelty items from Karen K and on the right is the picnic basket, bottle of chocolate milk and Jemima Puddleduck cushion from Pat P

Not pictured is the collection of lovely recycled cashmere wool balls I bought at the Sales and the outfit which Timothy bought from Sheila F at the sales (his much loved Minion shirt and denim shorts with real pockets) and wore to the Air and Space museum on Sunday afternoon just after the festival. 

Also not pictured are the toddler outfits I bought - the dress and sandals for my new girl and the shorts and sandals for Edmund.

The other posts about the Sasha Festival are part 1, part 2, part 3, part 4, part 5,  part 6,  part 7 and part 8.  The next posts will be all about Laura's adventures as she explored the USA.