Blue Monday

An absolutely scorcher of a day today - lovely blue sky with the sun beating down.

Girls in blue today are Cora and Ziva

They are taking a walk in their pretty dresses made by Kath B.

There are still a lot of daisies in the lawn!

The beautiful Cora

They stop for a chat.

Girls do a lot of chatting!

I wonder what they can be discussing?

Two gorgeous girls who are very pleased to be out of the winter clothes at long last!

Two handsome lads.

Sharing two handsome lads today...

Gwilym and Francis who were pleased to get out in the garden yesterday.

Introducing Thomas: Boy in Garden -15

My 2015 Doll for the month of February is Thomas Octavius.  

Thomas was introduced in December 2015 in an Advent post, but never really got a 'formal' introduction  so hence his introduction here in the form of a 'Boy in Garden' post of which I did a series of  14 'Boy in Garden' posts back in 2014.  He is a 1973/74 boy with NON FALLING hair!  Yeah!  He has plenty of it as well :-)

Like most of the boys living here he loves being outdoors and clambering around the garden.

Dog Walking

Whilst it is grey and damp, the rain has at least stopped for the moment anyway...

Henry and Peggy Sue decided to take the dogs out for a walk.  

I must say I am surprised the dogs came back as clean as they did as it sure is wet and muddy in the fields!

Peggy Sue thinks they should start a new business dog walking and asks Henry what he thinks of the idea.  Henry points out that it is okay when it is not raining but sometimes it is really miserable out there and did they really want to HAVE to walk dogs in all weather - at least with their own they can wait for a lull in the weather and nip out when the rain eases up.

Happy New Year

Some Scheming going on?

There was lots of whispering and discussions going on in the garden today...I think the girls are planning something....  

I managed to get them to pose for a quick photograph in their lovely smocked Halloween inspired dresses before they continued their chatting and scheming..

Did I hear the words 'Tree House', 'Peggy Sue', 'Boys' and 'Scary' ?

Pretty in Blue on a Saturday afternoon.

This pretty girl just loves to wear blue and she is certainly as 'pretty as a daisy' for sure.

Wearing a pretty smocked dress with matching panties and hat made by my dear friend Kath in Australia and her lovely BetsyMay shoes she is enjoying some time out in the garden.

Taking her hat off so we can see her pretty face and gorgeous hair better.

Contemplating the garden.

Love this shot of her.

My other Trendon Brunette - Monica

Re-introducing the lovely Monica, my 1971 Brunette Sasha that joined the Sashas here at Rose Cottage back in the summer of 2011.    She has slightly falling hair so doesn't get 'played' with as much as the others and I try to limit changing her clothes to just the four seasons, plus occasionally she will model some clothes.

I bought her from Shelly at Sasha  Doll UK  and the following two photos are taken from her stock photos that the talented Shelly took.

She came wearing a pretty smocked dress made by Patty.

How could anyone not fall in love with that charming face?

Of course back in 2011 I was still learning how to photograph these dolls and my photos don't always do her justice!

Her arrival photos.

One of the first dresses she modelled was a Christmas dress that I sold.

She is a beautiful model and a delight to photograph.

In 2012 Monica modelled the Sasha Festival Donation that Norvell and I put together.  Norvell made the lovely smocked dress and provided the shoes and socks and I knitted her cardigan, made from NZ wools and added the Pukeko.

Monica modelling another summer dress in 2012

Wearing a blue corduroy dress and yellow coat.

The dress I made in the winter of 2012.

Monica modelling the white dress I made for the 2013 Sasha Festival.

Here she is wearing the lovely dress that Norvell donated to the 2013 Sasha Festival that I won in the auction.

It is really beautiful.

Looking bright and cheerful in her New Zealand native animals print dress.

Wearing an outfit I made in 2014

This is the dress she was wearing last week....she was glad to be changing out of it in to summer clothes.

She models a short sleeve tunic dress I made for an order.

The other dress made to order with short sleeves.

I think I will have to make her one to keep!

Lastly the dress she has changed into for this summer.  A pretty smocked dress made by Karen.