Showing posts with label Sasha Story. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Sasha Story. Show all posts

My God-daughter the Young Photographer...

I was just sorting through my photographs tonight before going to bed, moving most of them to the external hard drive for storage and I came across these photographs that were taken in May.  My nieces had been planning what they wanted to do while I was visiting.  

In this series of photographs... all the ones showing my niece (who is 6), were taken by me...  and all of the photos showing just the Sasha dolls and their toys were the actual photos taken by her with only a tiny amount of cropping.  Her grandma bought her the camera she is using for Christmas the year before she turned 4 and she has been taking photos of her teddy bears and dolls (without beheading them) ever since.  She was given her own camera after she accidentally dropped her mum's camera.


My niece had been planning exactly what type of photos she wanted to take.   Isn't it lovely the way her little sister watches what she is doing with such concentration...


She posed her baby Sasha (sundress baby) crawling towards her little toys...


She posed the dolls and took a few photographs...  Each doll is holding its own cuddly toy...


Then she spent ages getting her Sasha dolls to stand up.  I think I had to help a little with her blonde girl  Anna (schoolgirl).  But she succeeded in getting Holly to stand up and I just love how she has posed her baby Sundress...  such a lovely composition.  This is her actual photograph.


Then she posed Holly sitting on the stump from the old hedge holding a beautiful blue hardy geranium.


And this lovely photo is the result...  I didn't crop this photo at all.  

For little girls who lost their papa only the month before these were taken, they are a total inspiration to all of us.   
(I am known as Dolly Auntie aka Dolly Godmother... she is a fan of my Sasha Stories and has them on her favourites button on their laptop...)


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Happy Halloween...

31 October 2010
Hope you have a wonderful Halloween going trick or treating...

Eating freshly baked apple pie like my mum used to make...

And having loads of fun at your Halloween Parties... 

When we were children my mum used to have amazing Halloween Parties...  I based the Sasha Halloween Party story on what we used to do as children...  It was so much fun...

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Baby's Bedroom...

15 September 2010

I have taken quite a lot of the photographs for the baby's bedroom...  Although I still need to take some additional shots hopefully at the weekend when there may be the opportunity of having similar light conditions... I hope...


I have loads of ideas for the story and even know what the title will be... for a change...
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Murlough Bay... A New Sasha Story...

11 August 2010

I took these wonderful photographs in July a couple of years ago when my mum and I visited friends in Dundrum.  I have been intending to create the Sasha story using the photographs for such a long time...

Finally... it is finished and on my website Murlough Bay...

For once I actually went prepared... Sasha's and Gregor, all their accessories and beach toys... camera... water and a rug for me to lie on (plus one for mum and her friend who preferred to sit a little further up the beach from me... but who also answered loads of questions from walkers who were interested in what I was busy doing... which was really helpful...)

The view of the Mourne Mountains sweeping down to the sea are (I think) the very best from the beach here... it is amazing and really stunning.

It was very funny doing this setting... I am not really one for photographing the Sasha dolls in public (or at least where people walking past can see me...) 

Anyway, mum and her friend and I had walked down to the beach and I chose the perfect place to set up... near to the sea... everything ready to photograph... when I realised the tide was coming in (very quickly) and I and my Sasha dolls were quickly sinking into a sand bank. 

While I had been busy... I hadn't noticed the sea surround me...  Mum and her friend had to paddle out to help me move everything further up the shore...  It was funny afterwards!!!

Mum said wistfully that she wished she had taken a photograph... but there wasn't the time...
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New Sasha and Gregor Story














A New Sasha and Gregor story in Sasha at Home at http://www.sashadollstyle.co.uk/

http://www.sashadollstyle.co.uk/twelfth_night_of_christmas.htm

Hope you enjoy it.
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Baby bedroom













I spent the weekend having fun with some of my props.

I have been collecting pieces of furniture for a baby bedroom for about 4 years. I was really pleased when I finally found a cot.

These are the first sample shots to see what else the setting needs and I have not yet decided upon the pictures for the wall. I favour pictures from my favourite early childhood book "I am a bunny" by Richard Scarry. I am thinking of a seasons theme for the pictures.

I haven't decided if these will be the actual babies, toddler and Sasha in the picture story when it is finished. I definitely know I want to use a different Sasha but I really like my little brunette toddler. She was an Esther that I bought on ebay. She had already had her hair coloured a ginger colour but the problem was that in night light her hair looked salmon pink. After a couple of weeks I decided to colour her hair and made her a brunette. She is really cute.

My brunette baby is an early sexed baby girl. Her eyes have a hint of green and I keep intending to repaint her eyebrows which are olive coloured. She is playing with a cream cat family who live in my old Lundby dolls house. She is using the Lundby nursery furniture for them.

I love looking for appropriately sized props for the settings. I invariably find the furniture on ebay. Everywhere I go, I am looking out for toys in the right scale. I am not a perfectionist about scale. It is hard to find the right size so I tend to think if it looks okay it will do. I suppose I should carry a tape measure with me but I never have one when I see something so it has to be a judgement call.

I love the American girl items.
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