Sasha Doll Style

Sarah who was the first Sasha I ever bought is lovely girl from 1975. She originally wore the red dress with white stitching on it. She is a little different than my other Sasha dolls as one of her legs is quite a bit shorter than the other. It can give her a very natural stance but makes her a bit harder to pose than other dolls in my collection.






I adore the colours in this sock wool. very rich tones of magenta, purple, mauve and pale blue. Beautiful combination.

I had a lovely needlecord in a dull mauve tone which looked beautiful with the sock wool.






The magenta needlecord I made the duffle coat from picks up the magenta in the sweater perfectly. I chose a mauve coloured lining for the coat which matches the corduroy trousers. I was lucky to find a mauve suede for the loops.

I haven't decided about socks yet.

We are home from our magical holiday in Brittany.



We stayed in the beautiful Breton house that my sister Pip and her partner Euros are renovating. Pip was with us for the first week which was great fun. That is Pip cutting the hedge.



My brother also lives in Brittany not far from Pip so we were able to visit him frequently and Neil spent a day helping him bring in the bales of hay to the barn (I on the otherhand enjoyed a peaceful walk to Bon Repos along the canal).





The house nestles within an acre of peaceful woodland and we were woken by the dawn chorus and the peck peck peck of a woodpecker.

The canal runs along the lower edge of Pip's garden woodland.



It is a beautiful walk of about 4 kilometres along the canal to the Abbey of Bon Repos.



The tow path is used by riders, cyclists, anglers and on this occasion by the lock there was also a small group of English ladies painting.

Pointe du Raz was a very touristy place when we arrived but it had all the amenities, toilets, shops and cafes. I bought a book of Celtic Legends of Brittany and a few postcards of lighthouses.



The beautiful statue overlooking the point seemed to be for sailors lost at sea (we may be wrong on this as our French is not all that good).

We parked beside the lake in Huelgoat, crossed the bridge and looked down upon Chaos.

We walked on through the tunnels and arches created by huge 100 tonne rocks and boulders of the Grotte du Diable. It was extraordinary with tree roots grasping hold of the boulders like huge hands.

An attractive town built mainly from granite. It was a very arty place with crafts people, artists and gift shops as well as cafes and creperies.



My sister Pip sitting beneath the wisteria!



The druids created large sacred areas called Nemeton. These represented on earth the movement of the stars in the sky. The Locronan Nemeton is the only one to still survive. This is thanks to the Irish missionary St Ronan who merely replaced the Druidic divinities with Christian saints.