From faded blue to chocolate brown.....a Shelly repaint!

Millie's head arrived back today from visiting with Shelly of Sasha Doll UK where her slightly faded blue eyes were repainted a warm chocolate brown. Shelly has done a super job on her and I'm really pleased with her new look.  I really do love how Shelly repaints the Sasha eyes, they are very natural and like the original Morgenthaler ones, but with Shelly's special touch.....just perfect!  Lovely dress set by Ruths Doll, a present from Steve last year when we met in England.

Introducing a new girlie!

A new little girl came to live here in Spain with us, she arrived yesterday and as yet remains unnamed but we have a few ideas up our sleeves, so it won't be long, hopefully, before she tells me her chosen name.

She is a 1969 girl with a short fringe which Shelly said would have been done by the factory, and she came wearing this sweet dress by Molly, but it needs a bit of freshening up...but because I didn't anticipate adopting her whilst we are down here at the coast, I don't have any spare outfits for her to try out, so for now she will wear this pretty dress. 

She has had a wash and I've conditioned her hair.  Unfortunately her hair was quite dry on the ends so I decided to cut it into a bob....I hope you'll agree that it looks really lovely and soft now, so although it was a bit 'scary' making that first cut, I'm happy that I took the plunge!

Oh! Her name just came to me whilst I was typing this.....it's Skye!  Sorry for so many photos of her, I couldn't choose, so decided to include them all!!!

Her hair parting is almost 'off centre' .... 

Here she is with Wren, my 1969 Kilt Sasha...another reason I wasn't too concerned about cutting Skye's hair.  They look very similar but different as well, if that makes sense!!  I think Skye's irises are more 'outlined'  and round, whereas Wren's are more oblate,  but I feel that both girls have equally beautiful eye paint.

A semi-profile to show just how nice and thick her hair is...

 A portrait in sepia....

Thank you for stopping by and welcoming Skye! :) 

No Navel......Traded, thank you :)

My No Navel girl arrived from Shelly this week and she's very sweet, her hair is lovely and thick and she has a very pretty face......but I can't bond with her!  I don't know what it is but she just isn't hitting the spot with me at the moment and has only been out of her box for me to fix the hook on one of her legs which was in the wrong place and making it hard for her to stand.  Now she stands just fine, but still I've not fallen in love with her.  :(  I've wanted a No Navel for ages and am sure that one will come here to stay in the future, but not at the moment. 

Therefore, she is going back to Shelly's :(  where hopefully someone else will adopt her.  I thought I'd post on here in case anyone is interested in her.  I'm asking the same price as I paid, which is £480 plus postage from Spain.  She will come just as she came to me, wearing her 'Dreaming Under the Lilacs' outfit, consisting of matching dress, knickers and hair ties, plus her socks and white leather Boneka lace-up shoes.

I am also open to trades.....I love trades!  I would particularly love to trade for a Toddler, boy or girl, bald or with hair, dark or fair skin, or alternatively I would be interested in other Sasha dolls, of a similar value/condition to this one.  But please, if you do offer a trade and your doll is not for me, please don't be offended if I turn you down, it's nothing personal against your particular doll.

These are Shelly's photos which she sent me.....I've not taken any of my own.

 If you're interested then please email me:

dambuster0662@gmail.com

Thanks very much in advance. 

Thoroughly spoilt....

Yes, that's me!  Before Christmas when my lovely hubby asked me what I'd like for my present, I casually mentioned a Sasha....but I really was only joking because the one I mentioned was a very expensive redhead Gregor on Shelly's website.  However, he took me seriously but said that if I could wait until after Christmas for him, I could get him then, because we had a lot of big expenses to pay before the end of the year.  I laughly told him that I really was only joking, the doll was far too expensive and I wouldn't want to do anything with him "just in case".  Anyway, to cut a long story short, a week or so ago hubby bought himself a new laptop and said if I wanted to get the doll to do so.  However, even though the particular doll had been reduced in price and I didn't love him any less, I decided to wait because as well as being expensive, boys don't get so much attention here as girls do.

Then Shelly updated her website!  Lo and behold there were some gorgeous No Navels on there and I fell nstantly for one of them in particular!  And thanks to my sweet hubby, she will be coming here as soon as Shelly packs her suitcase and gets her on her journey!

And here she is!  (Obviously these are NOT my photos, Shelly sent me these last week and I hope she'll not mind me sharing them....I guess she's used to it by now!)

 

and a close up of her sweet face....I love those pointy chins and sad looking gaze :)

 

And here is her description from Shelly's website:

1969 Gotz Blonde No Navel in Dreaming under the Lilacs dress set. This petite and very pretty young lady is in played with but good condition . She retains her original stringing which is in good order though she has some bulging to her right leg socket and standing is achievable but a little awkward . She has two enlarged armholes where the hooks are rubbing a restring would help with this .Her hair is thickly rooted and soft and silky with some dryness to the ends , there are four empty plugs to the nape of her neck . She has three tiny blue spots to her forehead hidden beneath her fringe . Her face paint is vibrant. She comes wearing a sweet non original outfit by Nikita with shoes by Boneka with commercially made tube socks .

You will see that she has a few issues but nothing major or that I can't deal with....so I'm very excited to be bringing home my first No Navel Sasha.  I blame Dee though, it is definitely all her fault ;)

Now to think of a name for her, all suggestions considered :)

Happy Monday everyone :)



 

Expecting a baby!!!

Yes, at my age!!!!

After all this time of procrastinating, I am finally expecting a baby!  Yes, he will hopefully be here next week.  It was all very simple in the end, no nine months of indigestion, swollen ankles and stretchmarks this time round, no, just a quick chat with Shelly and hitting a few buttons on Paypal and he's on his way!!!

And yes, I know I said that I didn't want to add any more dolls to my Sasha family, but  1) I had already decided before Christmas that I might want a baby (I have witnesses!!!), and 2) he is just a small little fellow and won't eat much so therefore doesn't count!! :)

Here is his photo stolen in broad daylight from Shelly's site:

And he's described as thus:

1969 Sexed baby boy in Dollydoodles outfit . This sweet faced little chap is one of the earliest babies produced and comes complete with his original stringing striped to his legs , usually these babies have a quirky brow but this little baby missed out ;o( . He has beautiful soft and silky perfectly styled hair and raised lids with dark brown eyes . His lips have oxidised. He comes wearing a velcro nappy and a sweet little Dollydoodles outfit which is a little loose at the waist so could do with some new elastic. 

I think I'm going to call him Alberto, or Bertie for short!

Downsizing? Me? LOL, if you believe that, you'll believe anything!

Well I told myself that I was going to downsize.....dolls would be going up for adoption!  And fair enough, I did indeed sell some dolls and my paypal account was looking rather healthy.  Ahh, but as I've probably mentioned before, when I have money in my paypal account, so it burns a hole right through the bottom!  So although my BJD numbers have decreased, I've replaced those adopted out dolls, with ...... yes, you guessed it, Sasha dolls!  Yes, I was the person who initially was only going to have the one, a girl, I didn't want any boys. Erm, then I 'accidentally' bought a boy, so I had a boy and a girl....but then lo and behold I saw my redhead 'waif' on Ebay and just couldn't resist her.....and so we had four! 

But suddenly, I just kept seeing girls that I loved, couldn't resist and could afford......so I brought them home and slowly but surely my Sasha family increased.  Of course I'm completely innocent here, it is all the fault of Shelly of Sasha Dolls UK!!!  Well that's my excuse and I'm sticking with it!

So now I have 9.  Yes, 9!!  Up until yesterday it was 8, but last week I saw another little girl on Shelly's site that I just had to have, and she arrived yesterday.  I had been looking at the later Gotz girls for some time, asking Sasha friends about them and looking at photos on Flickr and elsewhere but I was always a little wary of their eyes, which looked a bit 'staring' in photos so I wasn't sure.  Then I saw a little cutie on Shelly's site, a Wibke, who had repainted eyes by Shelly!!  Absolutely perfect!  I decided to think on it overnight   By the morning, having seen some very cute photos of a similar girl on Facebook, I had decided that yes, Wibke would be coming home to join my girls and boys.  The great thing was, between showing interest and making up my mind, the price of the doll was reduced by £50!!!!  Even better!  So here she is, and I'm really happy with her, she's so cute. I wasn't expecting her to be so petite, I thought she'd be bigger than my other girls but she is actually fractionally smaller even than the older Trendon girls!  I'm really pleased, she fits in perfectly with my darker skinned family.

So introducing Heidi, my little German pale skinned girl with lovely dark blue eyes repainted by the very talented Shelly!  She has borrowed an outfit from another of my girls because she had nothing to wear, but I will rectify that soon enough.  In the meantime, I think this dress suits her perfectly!!

A little infatuation....!

I thought it was about time I shared some photos of my lovely little blond boy.  I got him recently from Shelly in the UK and he is a 1969 Gregor Fair Pyjamas.   He has the most beautifully blue eyes.  I have named him Devlin.

Some of you may remember that my first Sasha Morgenthaler doll was actually a Gregor!!!  I got him from Ronny and he also was a 1969 blond Gregor Fair Pyjamas with lovely blue eyes.  However, he had a matt face and I found that I really preferred the non matt ones so after a few months,  I sold him to a lovely lady in the US. 

However, as soon as he'd gone I missed him and vowed to replace him one day...and that day came a couple of weeks ago!  The original boys name was Devon and I was going to re-use that name, but decided to make it just a little bit different, hence Devlin.  The two boys are incredibly alike, the only difference being their 'skin'.

This little lad sometimes has to wear glasses as he has a 'lazy' eye.  But I think you'll agree that he is handsome both with or without his 'specs'!!

Someone else who's very impressed with our new little lad is my sweet little wider faced brunette from 1971 (who is still in need of a name!!).  She seems particularly taken with the little blond fellow and keeps following him around like a puppy!!  I'm not sure that Devlin is overly impressed though....he is at that age when he thinks that all girls are 'sissy'!!! 

Actually, I have to say that he doesn't look THAT upset after all, does he?!! 

Summer Sashas...and Gregor too of course!

Since my family went back to the UK, I've had a little bit of dolly play time and decided that it was time that my Sasha girls and Alex, my brunette Gregor, got some summer play clothes.
I've already shown Ellory, my redhead, in her new summer dress but I crocheted a hat to go with it because being a redhead she has to be careful not to burn her scalp!!

Maggie, my shy little brunette puddle eyed girl from 1973/4, got a new pair of loose cotton shorts and a tee shirt to match.  I can't recall where I got this fabric, but it has modern flowers and Russian dolls scattered over it, so I cut out one of the dolls and used it as an applique for the tee shirt.  Maggie has falling hair but as long as I'm careful not to brush it through, it seems to be fine at the moment.  I think I might make her a head scarf so that when there is a sea breeze she'll not need to worry about her hair!

Alex, my brunette puddle eyed boy, also from 1973/4, has a new shirt which I made from quilters cotton.  I got the fabric in a fat quarter bundle recently and Alex chose this for his shirt because he likes the little boats all over it.  He is wearing it with his grey Dolly Doodles knit shorts and blue denim sneakers....and he finally got his denim baseball cap back after first Ellory, then Millie, borrowed it from him!

 

Finally, Millie my blond girl from 1971, has a new pinafore in stripes with polkadot trim.  She wanted to wear the lime green Boneka sandals with her outfit but they'd already been claimed by Maggie....who may be shy but she's not slow in getting what she wants!!!

 Left to right: Maggie, Alex, Millie and Ellory

You will notice that there is someone missing from the current line up!  Gabrielle, my later brunette in Pink Dress from about 1979, is currently on her way to visit Shelly in the UK...well actually her head is travelling on it's own to save on postage!!!  Shelly is going to paint her some beautiful new eyes as her default/original eyes are particularly flat.  As my blog followers might remember, I did do a bit of work on them myself but because I used artist pastels and didn't seal them, they soon started to fade back to how they were before.  So Shelly will hopefully work her magic on her and she'll be perfect!


I do have two new girls at home who are waiting to make their debut but because they are there and I am here (at the coast) they will have to wait their turn!!!!  I'm excited to see both of them in the flesh and can't wait to share their photos on here!