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05/28/08 |
        
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Meet my Models
The Sasha collection shown in these photo galleries comes from two collections.
When I started collecting Sasha dolls like many people I had an aim in mind. Yes, one of each hair colour - a few still elude me. The table below shows how we have progressed with this goal (It shows the name of the first girl of that hair colour purchased).
On top of this I hoped for a couple of the Limited Edition Trendon dolls. The LE dolls are really beautiful and among some of my favourites. We also added to the collection with a few different waifs with different eye colours. This allows for many different looks when you change the wigs that they are wearing. Of course, a few of them, settle in a wig that really suits them and get named. Naming Dolls I like to name my dolls. I know they all have their original factory names but from the start of my collecting and before mum started her own collection... when a new doll arrived mum and I liked to relax in her conservatory with a cup of green tea and choose a name for the new comer. The main drawback of naming a doll is that it makes it very difficult to part with a doll... My First Sasha We were staying with my aunt and uncle for a week's summer holiday on their farm and my aunt had a mail order toy catalogue that mum was flicking through one afternoon. Mum wanted find a really special doll for me. She came to a page where they showed Sasha Dolls all naturally posed like children. Mum thought they were the most beautiful dolls she had ever seen. But really they were a bit on the expensive side. Mum started saving up and had enough put by to order a Sasha doll for me for my Christmas present. The doll arrived and was wrapped and put under the Christmas tree. On Christmas morning, I can remember unwrapping my presents, mum always saved up and bought us lots of presents at Christmas, the usual sparkly slip on plastic dressing up Cinderella slippers, a blue cape with white fluffy edging... then I opened the Sasha doll... It was the Christmas of 1968 and I was 3 at the time... Well I can still remember clearly taking the paper off and just looking at the Sasha doll. She arrived in one of those triangle shaped boxes because I can clearly remember being able to see her completely before she was taken out of the box. She had beautiful rich dark blonde hair and a navy corduroy dress with a white collar and navy shoes with white socks. She was just the prettiest doll. Mum and I decided to call her Jane. Jane has wonderful hair with a full centre part which meant that I could put it into ponytails or leave it long and loose.
I used to cajole mum into making things for Jane to wear and I can remember leaning against the table in the living room asking mum every two minutes was the dress ready yet while mum was trying to get it sewn up on the sewing machine. Sewing was never one of mum's favorite pastimes so very quickly she taught me to sew and knit clothes for my Sasha doll. For many years mum would tell me how she had always intended to buy me a brunette Sasha doll a couple of years later so that I would have two Sasha dolls but instead my brother and sister arrived instead! The only time I ever saw Sasha dolls on mass was just before Christmas in 1985. I was a student in Leeds and I was looking for Christmas presents to take home with me. I went into the department store and was wandering through the toy department (as one does) and there they were. Sasha dolls. Beautiful Sasha dolls, and Gregor dolls, and baby dolls... I never knew they came in so many colours and hair styles and sizes and shapes. I was mesmerized. I completely lost track of the time just walking around and looking at them. I decided I needed another Sasha doll... so I started saving up... When I had enough, I went back to the department store and they had gone... the sales assistant said that the factory didn't make them anymore... Fast forward many years, we had just got a modem which allowed us to get onto the internet and I had heard friends talking about ebay... I opened up the ebay site and couldn't think of what to search for... Jane was sitting on the desk (she was a little floppy after years of play and missing part of her fringe) so I thought of Sasha dolls. Suddenly all these dolls came up... I had never realised that there was a second hand market in dolls... I had just been hoping that maybe there would be a couple... For Christmas 2003 I became the proud owner of Sara, a 1975 brunette Sasha Red Dress girl with lovely big brown puddle eyes. She has perfect hair, long and straight with a thick fringe... She was my Christmas present from my mum and when she arrived in the post, I brought her down to let mum see her and we must have spent hours looking at her, standing her up beside Jane, discussing little differences... The start... (Of course as I was a small child at the time some of this story has been told to me by my mother)
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