Just look at what I've got!

WOW! It's ACE MAN!

It's a minature replica of an Indian motorbike.

Oh GREAT! Am I a 'hairy biker' now?

Do I look the part?

Stepping into Spring, latest outfit won off eBay.

One of my favourite Sashas, a 1969 waif in a bobbed pale blonde Monique Peggy-Sue wig wearing a Vintage Sasha dress and matching pants, Sashawardrobe socks and JJ sandals.

The origin of the UK's Mothering Sunday.

Different countries celebrate Mother’s Day on various days of the year because the day has a different number of origins. It is also known as Ladies’ Day or Women’s Day but is mostly celebrated on the second Sunday in May.

Mothering Sunday in the UK is the equivalent of Mother’s Day in other countries but it has been celebrated here on the fourth Sunday of Lent since the 16th Century. The day has no fixed date since Lent (Ash Wednesday to the day before Easter Day) varies each year. Mothering Sunday can fall as early as 1st March, when Easter Day is on 22nd March and the latest on 4th April, when Easter Day falls on 25th April. This year it is on March 14th.

For a long time now it has been regarded as a day for giving thanks for all the things that our mothers do for us.
No one is absolutely certain exactly how this day actually began but we do know that on this day, about four hundred years ago, people who lived in little villages made a point of not going to their local church but to the nearest big church, The Mother Church. Here most mothers would be briefly united with their children. People who did this would say that they had gone ‘a mothering’.

Young English girls and boys ‘in service’ were only allowed one day each year to visit their families and this was usually on Mothering Sunday.

Often the housekeeper or cook would let the maids to bake a cake to take home for their mother. Sometimes a gift of eggs, or flowers from the garden (or hot house) was allowed. Flowers were traditional, as the children would have to walk to their village and could gather them on their way through the meadows.

My Mother's Day card.

My Daughter, Chon.

Was 'thrilled to bits' with this Mother's Day card from my daughter.

Though not sure that I deserve such a title although I do try to always do my best!

Several outfits have been changed today.

1969 Dungaree girl in a OOAK Ruthsdolls outfit (the colours and materials chosen by me from provided samples) and then seen with a Ruthsdolls cream fleece for extra warmth.



1969 Dungaree girl wearing a Sashadollstyle outfit and Ruthsdolls shoes.


A 1960s slate eyed Gotz doll (Fritz's sister) wearing the Christine Durand knitted jumper, Vintage-Sasha trousers and Ruthsdolls beret and shoes with a Steiff Springer Spaniel soft toy.



1966 Frido NP with her eyes painted by a Manchester art student for Sara Doggart wearing a Sashadollstyle outfit and Ruthsdolls shoes.



Another 1969 wigged Gregor in a Monique bobbed Peggy-Sue wig in a Vintage-Sasha dress, Ruthsdolls shoes and JJ socks.


1969 Gregor in a Monique Kimberly wig wearing a Sashawardrobe Liberty print dress and socks and manufactured shoes.


1969 wigged with a trimmed Monique Peggy-Sue blonde wig Frido girl wearing Vintage-Sasha trousers, Phyllis G. jumper and unknown manufactured Hoodie with Ruthsdolls shoes.


A 1960s pony-tailed Gotz girl wearing a prototype tweed suit by Vintage -Sasha and Ruthsdolls shoes.


A Kelly Wenarsky customised 1990 Gotz pale skinned Stella in a Doll Works knitted dress and tights and manufactured shoes.

A new prop and a Spring-like outfit making it's first appearance this year in honour of the brilliant sunshine warming this rather cold day.

A Gotz 1960s Orche highlighted eyed girl wearing a fine cord dress made by Ruthsdolls and given to me by Dawn Law some years ago with a Ruthsdolls pinafore and distressed boots added and socks by JJ.


My 1969 Single Fringe girl playing with my latest purchase, the minature Tiny Trike car (and lucky for me surplus to another collectors requirements) which is just the right size for the 5" Berenguer baby doll. She is wearing my very first Ruth Hartley smocked dress. It was literally taken off one of Ruths's own dolls who was visiting and wearing it at my first Dawn Law Sasha funday where I met her and her daughter, Lisa, for the first (and unfortunately so far) only time.
A lot of 'FIRSTS' that day but one day that I will never forget.

More Dollydoodles sleepsuits won off eBay.

New Dollydoodle listings on eBay this week coming to coincide with the advertisement in the UK Sasha World magazine.
Trendon blonde baby Nightdress wearing a Dollydoodle white sleepsuit with pink and white stripped panels and a pink rocking horse motiff.


Oxidised eyed Trendon baby Nightdress wearing a Dollydoodle white/blue stripped sleepsuit with a rocking horse emblem.


Trendon early baby Nightdress now ready for bed in a Dollydoodles pale pink sleepsuit with pink flowers on a white background panels.