Pretty in Pink Collection...

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14:24
30 April 2011

This collection is in shades of pink...

The outfits in the forthcoming collections will all be "One of a Kind"...  


As usual I have been inspired by the beautiful world of nature... grass... leaves... blossoms... 


I find a lot of pink a little bit cloying and sweet... yet... pink offset with other colours... greens... blues... paler ice pinks... can be truly beautiful... as we find in nature... this image is of a pink variety of Babies Breath...  I love how it looks against the green leafy colours in the background...


I love the pinky tones and beautiful starry blossoms of Astrantia...  I used to have Astrantia growing in the garden and it does make a lovely cut flower... the lovely green and pink wool is a unique hand dyed wool...  Some of the ideas developed in my sketch book have been used to create the new outfits for the Pretty in Pink Collection while others have not... 

I have been trying to do the little bit of work needed to complete the new collection... 
which I had almost finished before Easter...  we had some devastating news on Easter Monday and it is difficult to continue with anything as all our lives have changed immeasurably...  but nor does doing nothing help...  



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A Nautical Theme...

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12:13
10th April 2011

Progress on the new website continues...  Creating the new website has given me the opportunity to make changes... to take time to re-photograph the dolls... update sections that I had been intending to add to or change for such a long time...

A Nautical Theme...


My nautical collection of outfits from the Trendon and Gotz eras...  I have always thought that it was a shame that there isn't an outfit for Gregor to wear...  


Sometimes when I am displaying this collection at home I put Sandy Hikers outfit with it (but without his sleeping bag and ruck sack) as I think it works quite well within this theme.  I have two of the Sandy Hiker shirts one with a pocket and one without.  I like the shirt without the pocket when he is wearing his rucksack.  I like the shirt with the pocket with this grouping...

The outfits from left to right...  
Pintucks wearing Trendon "Marina" outfit, Gotz Claudius wearing his own sailor outfit, Miriam wearing Trendon "Sailing Suit" outfit, Sandy Hiker wearing his own Trendon outfit, early Baby Boy wearing Gotz baby "Lena" outfit, and finally, Lily wearing Gotz "Marina" outfit...  

I think it is so interesting the different ways in which the nautical theme can be interpreted.

My Sasha Collection is being completely reworked...

I have been collecting the original pieces of Sasha clothing for a very long time.  When I first started buying Sasha dolls I often bought nude dolls or waifs on ebay as I couldn't afford the MIB dolls...  so after investigation I would start to watch out for the outfit that they would have worn on ebay or for sale on other websites like Shelly's...  

I decided that I would like to combine my original outfits collection with the photographing of my Sasha, Gregor, toddler and baby collections...  So I have been photographing a few of the dolls each morning... I have been enjoying the process and thinking about the outfits that I am still looking for...  

A couple of my outfits have a reproduction element as the doll arrived with part of its original outfit missing...  I decided it would be fun to photograph some of the dolls wearing their original outfit but others are wearing a different outfit to the one they would have arrived in...  Partly because the clothing collection is larger than the doll collection and partly because I always thought a few of the outfits were cuter on a different doll...

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