mountainmullins

About mountainmullins

Sasha doll collector primarily plus other interesting dolls. I inheirited my love of dolls from my dear Mother and also her collection. My first Sasha doll was Gwennie, a redheaded studio doll. Since Gwennie, I have collected other Sasha dolls and love their individual personalities created by their eye painting, hair color and styling, and dressing them. It is such fun to share with other collectors!

I Love Abby …… I Also Love Abby

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Abby is a lovely A-I Sasha Studio doll made in the earlier days of doll making by Sasha Morgenthaler. Her face was painted by Sasha and I think she is beautiful. I just love Abby. ❤

Abby is wearing a floral studio dress that Janet Myhill-Dabbs graciously allowed me to buy while I was visiting in England. You may remember that Gwennie modeled this dress earlier on the blog and it was lovely on her but a bit big for her. When Janet visited, she suggested that I try the dress on Abby since Abby is a bit bigger than Gwennie. Well, Janet was spot on and this dress looks like it was made just for Abby! Wonderful to find a perfect dress for Abby. 🙂

A closer view of the smocking and the pretty fabric. 🙂

A lovely sash in the back. 🙂

A Sasha label. ❤️

The lovely Abby who is very, very happy with her new dress. 🙂

During the 2016 Sasha Festival, I met Ellen Church and it was so nice to meet her after years of being internet friends. Ellen had a beautiful Kilt girl for sale that was minty and in her original outfit and so beautiful. I have not adopted a Kilt girl before though I have admired them and I always have admired Ellen’s dolls. So, as you might guess, I adopted the Kilt girl.:)

Please meet the beautiful and newest member of the Sasha Shangri-La family. Please meet Abby. ❤

I at first thought about changing this dear girl’s name. After all, I have a Sasha doll named Abby, right?

So it did not seem to make sense to have two Sasha dolls named Abby. So I thought of selecting maybe a new name like Gabby or Tabby or maybe a name entirely different and new…..

And then she whispered to me that her name is Abby and that she loves her name very much. Well, after looking at that sweet face, hearing her sweet whisper, and giving thought to having two Abby’s, I wholeheartedly agreed with her that her name was and is Abby. I love that name too! So, why change it? 😉

Abby is modeling my third auction win at the Festival which is a very pretty dress made and donated by Millie Dingham. I teamed the dress with smokey pink leather shoes that were made by Jean Jensen and hand knitted socks found on Shelly’s site. ❤

The back of Millie’s dresses are as beautiful as the front of her dresses. Wonderful. 🙂

Abby’s pretty pants for you to see. 🙂

Another full length view of Abby. ❤

Dear Abby, please meet your new little sister, Abby. ❤

The Abby sisters together and they immediately bonded as loving sisters. The big sister Abby said “Look Mummy, we both have blonde plaits! We look just like sisters, don’t we?”

I answered quickly, “Yes dear Abby, you do look like sisters and in fact, loving sisters and best friends too!”

All is wonderful here at Sasha Shangri-La! 🙂 xxx

Thank you for visiting with us today. I hope you enjoyed this post. Both Abbys and I are sending you hugs and happy wishes for the week to come. As a parting gift, a waterlogue image of Abby for you to enjoy. 🙂 xxx

2016 Sasha Festival – More

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I thought it would be interesting to show items that were well used during the festival plus a few, wonderful wins!

My paddle #35 was a great paddle. It was used for the auction and the number 35 was my number for the helper and raffle drawings. A lucky number for me! 🙂

The agenda, paper dolls, a coloring book and a cook book (not shown) were nice items to find in your envelope. Also, the back of the paddle is a dear Sasha Image to color…thank you Cathy Himmel for the coloring opportunities. Dorisanne Osborne put the cook book together with receives submitted by fellow Sasha collectors. 🙂

Sheila wrote a nice thank you note for helping with the festival as a table hostess. You might have noticed a cherry dotted box. What is that?

This box and its contents were donated by the very talented and generous lady, Christine Durand. The hostess volunteer numbers were drawn to win this box and #35 was drawn! I was so surprised! 🙂

Inside is a gorgeous dress and a beautiful bunch of fragrant lavender from Christine’s garden. 🙂

How lovely! The second apron is lovely and I love the blue gingham fabric which gives a special nod to our Sashas. ❤️

The very pretty blouse and the special petticoat make for a perfect Sasha outfit. I feel very blessed to have won such a special prize. ❤️

Helpers

Some of the helper wins. Some of the helper wins were gifted to others. 🙂

Gift Exchange

This lovely coat with two hats was a lucky gift exchange win. Made by Esther Kardini. 🙂

Auction

I won 3 auction items. The first is this wonderful set donated by Diane Duke (mini Kaffe cardigan), Judith of Dollydoodles (trousers), and Noreen (gold leather shoes). Fantastic!

The second win was this box which contains the festival items from the 2013 festival.. That was my first Sasha festival and a wonderful memory. 🙂

The light blue dress with lovely smocking and hearts was made by Millie Dingham. Both outfits have shoes and socks and the studio dress has black leather shoes made by Jean Jensen. The outfits that I brought home in 2013 were different from these outfits. It was so nice to win this auction. 🙂

My third auction win will be shown in the next post modeled by the newest member of the Sasha Shangri-La family. ❤️

Thank you for visiting with us today. Have a wonderful weekend! 🙂 xxx

2016 Sasha Festival Gatherings

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A fun create a visor workshop. 🙂

Colorful tubs that you decorate. 🙂

Decorate an apron workshop. 🙂

Lovely apron. 🙂

Pretty Sasha dolls. 🙂

Finn enjoying the Festival. ❤️

Gathering to dine. 🙂

Fun displays of fabulous Sasha dolls. 🙂

Lovely babies. 🙂

Gertie and Janet’s girl. ❤️❤️

Janet’s Nellie sitting in her lovely dress. She won a blue ribbon in the Dress a Sasha contest in her category. Tink is standing next Nellie and Otis is standing next to Tink. 🙂

Presentation/workshop on making shoes by Monica Jarpey and Marti Murphy. 🙂

Photos of Studio Dolls

Gracie and her friend Peaches.<3

Tender moment with Peaches. ❤ Tender moment with Natalie.<3

The beautiful Dani wrapped in her Mother’s scarf. ❤

Dani, Lisabeth and Shelly. 🙂

It was wonderful to see the studio dolls. The owners were very generous to share their Sadha treasures with the group. Thank you to everyone that shared their studio dolls. ❤️

One more post for the 2016 Sasha Festival…..I think. It was a very full and fun time! Thank you for visiting and have a great week! 🙂 xxx

2016 Sasha Festival – Janet’s Sasha Doll Project Display and Raffles

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At the 2016 Sasha Festival, Janet gave a lovely talk about how she came to create her Sasha Doll Project and her inspiration from Sasha doll books. She created their outfits, fashioned the wigs, rerooted some, and her talented hands repainted all of them. It was wonderful to see them all together for the first time and wonderful for Janet to see this reunion. 😊

Janet in front of her lovely dolls. ❤

Janet received kind support and encouragement from Beth Whiehouse and get mother Elizabeth Mizerek, Anne Votaw, Laura Ward, and from Sheila Foery. Plus the owners of the dolls who graciously sent or brought their dolls to be displayed. Many thanks to everyone who helped to make this display happen. 🙂

I am so happy to have seen Janet’s beautiful dolls all together and in person. Thanks again to everyone supporting this lovely display and special thanks to Janet for bringing many of the dolls over in her suitcase so that they would be a part of the Festival. ❤

RAFFLES

The first raffle was just wonderful and included two babies, beds, furniture, clothing, and cuddly things. Francine Briggs won this raflle! Congratulations Francine! 🙂

The second raffle was a fantastic Maria Gotz doll in the tube with many accessories to include shoes, socks, purses, folding chair, basket, quilt, outfits and a lovely note from a lovely lady that had also won the doll with all of her items in a raffle long ago. Very, very touching to see Sasha history in this raffle.<3

Plus, I won this raffle! I was so surprised and it is the first raffle I have ever won!

Raffle

A raffle winner in disbelief! 🙂

This wonderful raffle featuring “Peter” was won by Robert McGarity. 🙂

The lovely 4th raffle with a beautiful doll and wardrobe. I understand that one of the young girls won the 4th raffle but I do not have a name.

Thank you for visiting the blog today and I hope you enjoyed the photos. Next time, I will share different festival events and gatherings and a lot of wonderful studio doll photos. Have a great week! 🙂 xxx

2016 Sasha Festival Auction Items

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I will try to catch up on the lovely Festival events. There were 82 auction items plus nine more added at the end. Most of the dolls in the photos were models only. However, items # 16, 23, 33, 43, 51, 61, 69, 76, and 82 included the dolls and everything you see. I apologize for any gaps in the lineup as I took my photos early on. Plus the items added at the end were after I took the photos. The generosity of our lovely Sasha friends is just wonderful and what a special group of people. A lot of money was raised for the children’s charity! I had a wonderful time. 🙂

The next post will be raffle items and Janet’s display of her amazing Sasha Studio doll renditions. ❤️