A view of the sun rising on the morning of our last day at the Outer Banks of North Carolina.  Such a beautiful place to visit.

Rick and I walked along the beach with Shelby early each day.  She really enjoyed her walks. 🙂

I am so happy we brought dear Shelby with us. It was a perfect family outing. ❤

Later, we returned to the beach for a walk and, as you can see, my son Tyler was able to join us mid-week which made our perfect family outing even more perfect. ❤

A lovely pelican flew by which was often seen along the beach. 🙂

Pearl finally made it to the beach and spent most of her time playing in the sand. She made a big castle with a nice moat. 🙂

Pearl loves her sand bucket and became a little tired after all of her hard work! 😉

She finally rested and enjoyed the ocean view. 🙂

Pearl and I enjoyed watching the boys play ball. 🙂

Pearl sadly waves goodbye to the ocean that is so big and beautiful to see. She said that she will miss the beach.

What we leave behind are our footprints in the sand.  What we take with us are the fondest memories of loving times spent together as a family. ❤

Thank you all for visiting us while we were on holiday and away from Sasha Shangri-La.  It was a special time for our family and it is always nice to return safely home and rekindle our love of the mountains and our little piece of heaven on earth, Sasha Shangri-La.  We are sending you big hugs and happy wishes for a wonderful week to come. 🙂 xxx

Finn and his pup Fetch are reassuring their sisters Pearl (white sandals) and Gertie (blue sandals) that everything is okay.  Both girls were alarmed because they woke up in a new and different place.  Finn explained to them that sometimes Mommy is able to take a vacation with Daddy and that she likes to bring a few of the Sasha Shangri-La family members along to have fun!  Finn pointed out that is why they have their summer fun clothes on! 🙂

This is the first sunrise we saw at the beach. 🙂

Rick and I took an early morning stroll on the beach with sweet Shelby. This is her first road trip and first beach beach trip and she did incredibly well on the 9 hour trip. She also loves the sand at the beach but not so much the water. 🙂

The walkway from the beach and our house is the dark gold colored one on the left. 🙂

Finn at the beach later in the afternoon. The sun was very hot and bright!  His shorts were made by Dollydoodles. His leather sandals were made by Jean Jensen. 🙂

Finn loves the beach! He visited Cassie Rogers at the beach last month in Santa Monica, California and was able to see the Pacific Ocean.  Now he is in Corolla located along the Outer Banks of North Carolina and he is seeing the Atlantic Ocean. I think Finn could be a beach boy very easily. 🙂

Finn asked for a map to show Pearl and Gertie where they were and I found one! 🙂

Corolla is located at the northern end of the Outer Banks. 🙂

Today Pearl and Gertie were playing in the kitchen.  I think they are enjoying their vacation! Pearl’s red blouse and striped shorts set were made by Millie Dingham.  Gertie’s red shorts were made by JoAnn Staricha and both pairs of leather sandals were made by Jean Jensen. 🙂

Pearl said she was having a great time at the beach!  Gertie said that it was her turn to go to the beach today. 🙂

Pearl is happy for Gertie. The day is lovely and Pearl will go to the beach tomorrow. 🙂

At the beach, Gertie rests with my dear hubby and he is keeping her from getting too much sand in her clothes!

Gertie is so happy, she loves the ocean! ❤

The ocean is very nice today. 🙂

Rick and our son Luke are really enjoying the water. 🙂

Back home it is time to get lunch.  Gertie is looking for Pearl. 😉

There you are dear Pearl! You will love the beach!  Thank you Sis, I think so too! ❤

What a nice day today is and we are grateful to be able to share happy times together on vacation. 🙂 xxx

Last year I was thrilled to learn that Janet Myhill-Dabbs was planning to interpret 20 studio dolls made by Sasha Morgenthaler herself. I contacted Janet and she provided a list of the dolls she had under consideration. From there, we selected two dolls and I packed up two Sasha doll candidates and sent them on their way to Janet. This first doll is a doll that I particularly liked in the Sasha-Puppen Book plus I had seen her in museum photos that have been shared on facebook.  She is #11 Blond Smock. 🙂

This lovely Certificate was made by Janet. As you can see, this pretty girl began life as a blonde Gregor. 🙂

The back of the Certificate explains how Janet came to create the studio interpretations. ❤

Here is the lovely girl who just arrived at Sasha Shangri-La last week. She was created last Fall in 2014 and she remained in the UK in order to attend the wonderful Sasha Celebration last month.   I am happy that those in attendance were able to see her in person. 🙂

A closer view of this soft, sensitive girl. ❤

Janet made her entire outfit with wonderful handmade layers of clothing. 🙂

Her socks are handknitted and her slip on shoes are made of leather.  Wonderful attention to detail. ❤

A lovely scarf as adornment plus flowers in her hair. ❤

A very pretty pose. 🙂

A side profile of this dear, sweet girl. ❤

A photo of the back of her studio dress with tiny little buttons and her fabulous braid that Janet wove into her hair at my request. It was important to me to have this pretty braid addition for this girl and Janet made it so. 🙂

The second Studio interpretation is #7, Red Smock.  She was also created last Fall and was part of Janet’s display at the recent Sasha Celebration. 🙂

This beauty began life as a White Dress girl. 🙂

I love the fabric used for her studio dress. It reminds me of a sputnik-type or atomic age design. ❤

A beautiful girl now living at Sasha Shangri-La. 🙂

I love her strong facial features. Her unique sprinkling of freckles are a perfect surrounding to her green eyes.  Her hair was perfect as is and was left alone and it still has that hard to find, new doll smell. 🙂

She has lovely under garments that she shyly agreed to show. 😉

The knitted stripy socks and leather studio shoes are perfect. ❤

She is watching a butterfly that is floating by. 🙂

A beautiful, pensive girl. ❤

Thank you for visiting the blog and I hope you enjoyed seeing two of Janet’s studio renditions. It is very special to be a part of this tribute to the artistic genius of Sasha Morgenthaler. ❤

Time to say goodbye to the month of May, one of my favorite months of the year. I love the warmer days from those remembered during the long and lingering winter. Most of all, I love the beautiful new display of flowers and trees and the return of the hummingbirds and other birds and wildlife. There are so many varied shades of green in the trees and that means new life to me. ❤

I am very vunerable to Sasha waifs and this pretty little golden eyed 1960’s Gotz girl captured my heart on Shelly’s site. I watched her for what seemed like an eternity and finally contacted Shelly and adopted her. 🙂

Remember her now??? 😉  This was Shelly’s photo.  She is a waif most definitely!

This little girl is quite assertive and immediately wasted no time and told me her name was “Mae” 🙂

Her hair is very silky and her fringe strands are shorter so we tried placing a pretty clip sweeping most of the fringe aside. 🙂

I had this nice butterfly dress made by Jadzia and found a pair of gold leather JJ shoes for Mae to wear.   She loves her new outfit. ❤

A photo of her looking off in the distance. Wonder what is commanding her attention?….

Well, hello there girls!  Now I see that Mae was looking at Tassie (redhead) and Sammie who are both lovely repaints by Cassie Rogers and also recently adopted. ❤

It is so nice to see these girls together and they have become fast friends since they arrived at Sasha Shangri-La at nearly the same point in time. 🙂

A final photo for you to see. Tassie, Mae, Sammie, and I all wish you a wonderful week to come as we begin to live in the beautiful month of June! 🙂 xxx