Finally....!!!

This Frido 1966 Developmental Jeans/farmpants girl has been quick enough this time to secure the choosing and wearing of this outfit that she has had her eye on since this time last year but has usually been 'pipped' to the post by one of my other blonde NPs.



Liking how the grey materials enhances her eye colouring.
For years I wasn't taken by these dolls with the brown eye-brows that over time had oxidised to this silver colour but when I spotted this doll for sale on Shelly's website I couldn't resist buying her.



This delightful outfit was designed and made by vintage-sasha and is worn here with Ruthsdoll's shoes. I just adore the use of the grey materials here and also have one of Sarah's pinafore and blouse sets in the same materials.



I'm quite pleased these days that my tastes in my Sasha dislikes are now changing over my many years of collecting so enabling me to purchase some of the dolls that I previously wouldn't have.





Sincere thanks to Sarah who must be getting fed up with doing all MY re-sizings and listings as well as her own!!!!

Not too sure here....

Wasn't too sure at first if I liked this doll's choice of outfit the colours being rather too much of a 'muchness' with her hair colouring.....





This 1966 Developmental Dungaree NP girl is wearing a vintage-sasha sweet little dress with Pinestreetstudio socks and JJ sandals.





....but the more I looked at her the better it got......different.....and in the end I rather liked it on her.



Thanks again Sarah for your invaluable help. So sorry that whilst tring to move photo no 12 up to the top of the post I broke the link and hence lost it.
Sarah, bless her, has now re-put in the 'lost' photo.

1968 Frido Single Fringe waif

This girl went straight from Shelly'e website to Brenda Walton for a complete spar and re-stringing before arriving here.



The transformation was wonderful as she could now stand and pose on her own and her trimmed hair was now flattened and under control although still very short on the top layers but at least her cut fringe was down on her forehead again and not reaching for the skies.



She has chosen a very smart navy cotton sailor styled dress with white trimmings by Pinestreetstudios and teamed it with ooak JJ bar shoes and commercially made socks.



I think that I did give her a name (Ameilia, Bethany?) but have since forgotten it so will have to trawl back someway through the blog to check.



Photo showing her wide face, eye painting and hair detail.
I haven't fully decided if she is definitely staying here for good so not as yet sorted out the various possiblilties of what's to be done with her badly chopped fringe and first few layers.



Tons of thanks heading down from here to Sarah.

New Specially ordered JJ sandals arrive

This is a 1967 Frido Brown Cord NP who arrived here in her large white box.
I must apologise for the rather dull photos today as have just realised that I had forgotten to lighten them a little with it being quite an overcast day when I took them.



This delightful dress from eseacaper arrived from the US on the same day as this doll came so the dress and doll came together nicely without me having to go through all the boxes of Sasha clothing trying to decide just what would suit her.



She has been photograhed in this dress before but with JJ navy sandals but have since asked Jean to make her these in a matching blue which I think really enhance the outfit especially with the pale blue socks.




Yes dear, your sandals are really lovely and perfect with your dress..



I'm afraid that she is still patiently waiting to go to Brenda Walton or for someone to come here to wash the dust from her hair as I've never done a hair wash as yet and would hate to get the water in the rooting holes and cause a falling out of the hair syndrome.



She I think has quite a different look with her round eyes and delicate colouring.



Millions of thanks to Sarah for her never ending task of resixing and downloading these photos. MUST TRY HARDER TO LEARN TO DO THEM MYSELF!

Another 'lesser-known-to-the-blog' Sasha

Unfortunately these photos don't do justice to this Frido 1967 Dungaree NP girl. She is a petite doll with a rather a sad and wistful expression.



She has chosen to wear this OOAK Ruthsdoll's smocked homespun outfit with a little bit of a history to it.



This little dress was worn by one of Ruth's own Sashas when they came to Dawn Law's first ever Sasha Funday. I fell in love with it immediately (along with a dear little smocked green/white gingham dress that another of her dolls had on and which my Gotz slate-eyed Sally loves to wear) and asked if I could buy them. You can see the answer!!!!



They originally came as an outfit with Ruth's trademark in those days of making 'matching material to the dress' Mary-Jane shoes and her plain white socks and which I still have.



Apologies as usual for all the flyaway hairs across the face and the loss/deleting of photo one photo along the way.
Loads of thanks again to Sarah.

Two more outfits chosen by the dolls themselves to wear.

This is my Frido 1967 Jeans NP with her full centre part and dramatic and unique eye painting by Kristina, a Manchester art student, who came to help Sara Doggart with the eye painting during the 1967 Summer holidays.This doll was featured in the book, 'For the Love of Sasha' published last year.



Now normally I would have put this dress on a brunette haired doll to bring out the little black motifs in the material BUT I have to say that I am impressed with blonde haired Krista's (named after her eye artist) choice here.



Another view of her unique eye painting.



I love the style of this Pinestreetstudio simple little dress which Cindy Patrick has used on many occassions in a wide variety of different materials as it really suits the Sasha girls. This dress came with a beige jacket and beige/brown stripped scarf for those more dressy occasions or cooler climbs. Here it is teamed it up with commercially made shoes and short cream socks but looks just as good with long black three-quarter length socks.



Next up on today's menu is a Gotz slate eyed mid 1960s pale skinned doll with her hair re-rooted with mohair by Bettina.



The outfit that she has chosen to wear is a Limited Edition by Ruthsdolls but shown here with commercially made socks and JJ sandals instead of the original socks and laced shoes.



This girl knows that she looks good in this shade of pink as it brings out her lip colouring and goes well with her brunette hair.



I always think that this doll has rather a film star quality look about her.



Millions of thanks again Sarah.

Two NGould outfits

Have again been letting my girls choose which outfit that they would like to wear because they have complained that when I dress them I tend to put the same outfit on them as in previous years.... (guessing knowing 'which suits who' saves me 'trying-on' time if I find that it doesn't flatter them as I had thought.





Here we have my Frido 1967 NP waif with the bobbed hair who has chosen a spotted red smock-type top (ususlly worn by Gotz crude yellow eyed waif, Holly with her short red hair) over jeans (maker unknown) and JJ sandals.



I remember when I first spotted this doll for sale on Shelly's website and she looked just like she had come out of a fashionable hair salon. I knew then that she was 'a Kendal-must-have-if-possible' doll as I love 'different or unusual dolls and there wasn't the re-rooter people in those days.



Even though given the choice of all the outfits I see that Sally, my 1960s Gotz slate eyed girl has decided to go for the 'linen look alike' smock and jeans by NGould with the ever popular for Summer JJ sandals that I have chosen for her in previous years. Must be doing something right for a few of them then!





I recall just missing out on winning this outfit from eBay and was upset at the time BUT luckily a year or so later this new copy appeared for sale so I was able to buy one after all.



I love the little bead togs and embroidered band detail here and the cream colour really suits the red headed girls.



A great bundle ot thanks, Sarah for your continuing wonderful support here.