A Sasha Doll called 'Little Kendal'

My friend Anne (the lady who leaves such lovely descriptive comments here) has been on the look-out from www.sashadolluk.co.uk for a Sasha waif for her six (nearly seven) year old granddaughter, Cerelia (such an unusual and pretty name which I'm told means, Spring) to play with when she visits and asked me to help her in her search as the doll was going to be named after me.



After several months we spotted this delightful little 1972 girl just oozing character from her past with her loose stringing, trimmed 'bobbed' hair, a little dot of white in one nostril and a tiny 'boo-boo' to her lip (made much more noticeable in the photos than in real life for the benefit of the buyers.) Who could resist this tot appealingly standing there in her vest and knickers wistfully looking for someone to love her?



We got even better news when after she arrived at her new home and was then forwarded on to Kelly Wenarsky's for a spa and re-string as Kelly emailed Anne with an extra piece of history...

"Your doll with the bob is from 1970/71 - she's really lovely and very unusual. She has an off center part over the right eye. They stopped doing side parts on the dolls in 1969, and the parts were always over the left eye. I've had one or two of the 1970 dolls with a "sort of" side part and they are hard to find! ;)"



I personally just adore these dolls who have had 'little would-be-hairdresses' practising their cutting skills into very attractive 'bobs.' I have several of these little souls in my collection and much prefer their hair styles to those of my dolls with IMO rather too much hair.



I only quickly snapped these photos for Anne to see as Little Kendal only stopped by, like a 'pitt-stop' on the racing circuit, to visit me so that I could get to meet her in person before she continued her long journey out to the US.



The last few photos were quickly taken to show a few ways in which her hair can be styled since she was only here for less than an hour before being re-packed and taken to the Post Office, then onto the airport to catch her flight to her new home and mummy.



The little white speck of dust has now been easily wiped away by Anne with a dampened cotton bud as I didn't like to attempt it with her not being one of MY own dolls.



Wishing Little Kendal and Cerelia many happy years together filled with fun and laughter, adventures, new clothing and different hairstyles, photographs and many future treasured memories.



Extremely grateful thanks again to Sarah for her usual, wonderful help.

My second Frido Developmental Doll

This Frido Dungaree girl was the second developmental doll that I bought off Shelly's website. She came wearing her original grey dungarees but replacement copies of her shirt and sandals.
She is here in a OOAK daintily smocked seer-sucker checked dress by Jill Mackley from Frocks n' Socks.



These are all photos taken from my pictures rather than recently taken ones due to lack of time at the moment. Here she has on a Ruthsdoll's OOAK complete outfit in a warmer material for the Autumn/Winter.





A full length photo of Jill Mackley's dress with commercially made shoes and socks.





I like the green colouring with their tanned skin tones. Very Spring-like.



Another of Ruthsdolls OOAK dresses with commercially made socks and shoes suitable for the Spring weather with it's slightly heavier weight material and short sleeves.



A close up showing Jill's beautifully neat and remarkably even trellis-work smocking. I think that these Frido red headed girls always look very pretty in pale pink clothing.



Grateful thanks to Sarah as always.

PS. I shall be taking a week away from 'blogging' and using that time to do take a few more needed photos for the festival journal, plus a MASSIVE deleting session on my laptop AND finally trying again to master adding enlarged sized photos to my blog.
Hopefully see you again here this time next week.

Continuing the theme of my Three Frido Developmental girls

This is my third Frido developmental girl (as I hadn't got the photos together for the second, a red head Dungaree doll.)
This is a rare doll in the fact that she left the factory dressed in a Brown Cord dress rather than the usual Gingham outfit that was used only for the brunette girls in the first two years of production. She was up for sale at one of the big toy fairs in her special box labelled Brunette, Brown Cord....and this was how I bought her last year from Shelly's website. Will try and locate the photos of her in her box from the millions of photos stored in my 'pictures' when I have some spare time and ask Sarah if she could add them at a later date.



She was my 2011 Christmas Doll from 'me to me.' Here she is casually dressed in Dollydoodle leisure wear and commercially made converses ready to join the rest of the Brood in their playtime.



Another facial close up.



Here she is again in more Dollydoodle leisure wear. This was taken to include in my Christmas Dollydoodle-wear Sasha Book.



I think that this full on facial shot shows how really beautiful she is with that absolutely fabulous eye painting and overall colouring....reminding me of why I choose a doll just like this, rather than the other five styles available, for my daughter's second birthday.



Bundles of thanks now Sarah heading your way.

Making amends and showing a 1966 Frido Developmental NP

This doll was the very first developmental NP that I added to my collection. Until then I had never taken to these dolls with the unique 'silver' eyebrows due to the original brown paint oxidising.



She was originally a Jeans girl and came in her brown cord jeans and white blouse and sandals but here she is wearing a Pinestreetstudio outfit with manufactured shoes and socks.



When I was chosing a doll from the Galt Toy factory (close to the Frido/Trendon one in Stockport) for my daughter's second birthday gift there were six different dolls to select from. Firstly I eliminated the Ballet and Dungaree dolls as I wasn't keen on their red hair. Then I dismissed this Jeans doll as didn't care for the three-quarter length farmpants. Next to fall by the wayside was the Brown Cord girl since I didn't think that the colour of her dress did anything for her blue eyes. So I was left to choose between the Blue Cord girl and the brunette Gingham, finally deciding and coming away with the latter.



Since buying her I have been very lucky to obtain examples of both the red and brunette developmental girls to stand besides her.
She has beautifully soft hair with a full centre part. Apologies for the usual fly-way stray hairs! Getting to be a trade mark of mine since I quite clearly don't see them when taking the actual photographs, just when they appear in a large size on the computer screen and tghen it's too late to rectify.



The reason that she isn't wearing her beret is because I had just done her hair taking and securing the side pieces at the back and knew that pulling on her beret would mess it up.



More grateful thanks to Sarah.

Practising for the 2012 UK Oylmpic Gymnastic's display

Here is my 1966 Frido Ballet NP who is hoping to be chosen to take part in the 2012 UK Olympic gymnastic display about to start on one of her ribbon display practises.



She is wearing her new Dollydoodle pale peach gym 'trackie' with the gymnastic motif that arrived here today and commercially manufactured converses.



Unfortunately our Gymnastic ribbon display team didn't make it into the competition as they missed by one point as one of the ribbons became knotted in the challenge. Such a great pity as these girls had delayed taking their A-level examinations until next year in order to take part in this event.







This is my favourite of this group of photos capturing her very pretty face and colouring.





A lovely upward pose here showing the delightfully machine embroidered motif. Please note how the ribbon matches the colour of the motif's ribbon.





Huge thank you-s again to Sarah for her superb downloadings.

Another little vintage-sasha outfit spend

Treated myself to a little new dress from Sarah's vintage-sasha blog and seen here on my 1970s Trendon wide faced waif with her once 'beginning-to-go-green' eyes enhanced by Shelly.



I hadn't realised until one day Steve pointed out to me that I always seem to use the same Trendon/Gotz waif dolls when trying on any new outfits and when I thought about it later I realised how true that was.



The only reason for this that I can think of is because I maybe love these dolls probably more than the Frido earlier, mintier and rarer NPs, single fringe and the 1969 side-parts and the two-toned haired 1970/2 etc.



Sarah's Sasha outfits always have the most perfect fit and this little biscuit coloured background dress with its black flower print is no exception. Worn here with manufactured black socks and shoes.



Thank you once again Sarah for your help here.

A new outfit from vintage-sasha arrives AND a very happy St. Valentine's Day to you all

Fell in love with this outfit by Sarah W the moment I saw it on her blog. Adore the design and colouring, just perfect for the Sasha girls.



1970 Trendon Riplee, customised by Shelly, arrived here nude and needing a new outfit which, just as I thought it would, suits her to a 'T!'



She arrived holding this delightful single red rose made from wood ready to give me on Valentine's Day. Thank you Shelly for your thoughtfulness.



Wondeful little frilled detail on the smock which can be seen above. Nice new touch here Sarah.
Riplee is wearing an original Trendon Velvet wig which I had emailed to ask if I could buy when I first saw it for sale on Shelly's website... BUT she herself had already bought it.



One of my brothers and his wife gave me these for Valentine's Day. I just love these chocolates!




Yet MORE thanks to Sarah for her photo listings.