(SALE PENDING) A brand new Sasha creation - she is unnamed.  I have sifted through so many names in the past decade for each doll that I will leave this one up to her new owner!

She began as a 1970's doll with trimmed bangs.  She was inspired by Sasha's girls in white, but also by the black haired studio dolls with short dark hair and dark eyes.  She has her original stringing which is in good condition.  She is overall in nice shape. 

 Her wig is a Monique Gold wig that I have washed and slightly heat treated so that it has lost that "ultra shine" and uniform, flat shape and is now a bit more casual and natural looking.
Her features have been repainted  Her lips are stained rather than actually painted, for a more natural look.

 It was a windy day for picture taking!

" White spring flowers in the grass!"

 .."And in my hair!" 

 Her dress was made by Diane's Delights.  It is very white and smocked.  I added a pair of white socks and black shoes for contrast.  She needs a pair of bloomers, but in their absence, she's wearing a pair of white ribbed Sasha underpants. (I didn't want to hold up her sale by ordering a pair of doll bloomers from Ebay!)

She comes signed and with a certificate, on which I will put her owner chosen name if you like. :)  This lovely "black and white" girl is $395 and overseas shipping is available.   I may be contacted here 

*SALE PENDING** Meet Blossom!  Blossom is one of a kind Sasha doll for Spring 2015.

Blossom began as a 1980's Sasha baby.
She wears a two toned Monique Gold wig that has been trimmed for her and her outfit is a simple white sundress and pants made by the Trendon company (an original Sasha baby dress).  The white and eyelet are so perfect and simple that this dress seemed a perfect match!

Her features have been repainted and sealed (except for the freckles).  She maintains her original stringing in good order, not too tight or too loose.  She has  a sweet, carefree "outdoors" kind of look that is lots of fun to photograph.

Blossom is $265 and comes signed with a certificate.  I can be contacted here

(SALE PENDING) Meet Grace!  She is the newest Spring Valley Studios Sasha re-creation!  She portrays a girl from the past with a simple and pretty name.

 Grace began as a 1980's Sasha.  She has been cleaned, restrung and completely remade into a new doll.  Her round style eyes are blue and she has light cheek blush and freckles.  Her wig is from the Monique Gold collection and is two toned blonde and has been trimmed into a studio doll style for her.

Her dress is a whole other story.  The story goes that Sasha Morgenthaler wasn't much of a seamstress and I guess that is true for me...but this was my first real attempt.  Hopefully in time maybe I will improve!  In the meantime, Grace wears this outfit.  The dress was made from an old cotton shirt and the apron from vintage, used fabric.  I wanted to do what Sasha did - using fabrics from used clothing for her dolls.  The insides aren't really finished very well - nothing is serged but it's a sturdy little outfit, even if the hem is a bit uneven (I haven't gotten hemming down yet!)  They both close with snaps in the back.

Grace wears a pair of boots that have been distressed to look used and worn.
She comes with crude and worn looking hair ties that are scraps from the apron material.

Grace is a one of a kind and can never be exactly duplicated.  She comes signed with a certificate.  She is $365 and overseas shipping is available.  I may be contacted here 

Sepia....

(SALE PENDING)   (Scroll down for "Jessamine" - other doll added today )"Sepia" is sort of my Sasha Morgenthaler "Pierott" doll.  Sasha sometime experimented with a completely different creation and that is what Sepia is.  She is kind of a color study; kind of a unique "being" all her own.  I realize she is completely different in style than all my other dolls, but I think she's a lot of fun - I almost kept her here!

 She began as a 1980's Sasha doll.   Her wig is a wig for ball jointed dolls from the Monique Gold collection.  It is very long, fine and two toned.  Her outfit-a commercial slip and bloomers, were hand dyed using fabric dye and coffee grounds (I know...it's weird...but the dye I had was too light))

She is really kind of elf like in appearance, at the same time, giving an appearance of an older child or young teen because of her eye placement and lips.

Sepia has light eyes in a kind of watercolor style in a totally different shape and style than I have done in the past.

I think she's a lot of fun in an artsy kind of way.  She can be dressed how you like but I though the peaches, browns, pinks, etc were a weird and fun combination.  Sepia is $385 plus shipping and is a one of a kind.  I can be contacted here 

Jessamine: An Edwardian Era Girl

(SALE PENDING) 

Meet Jessamine!  Jessamine represents a girl from the Edwardian era and carries a name that was popular in England for girls at the time.

Jessamine has a synthetic mohair with that is baby fine and soft and it has been trimmed and styled for her.  It is a ginger and brown color, like a brown that picks up lighter tones in brighter light in a very natural way.  She began as a falling hair Gregor from the 1970's and is now a one of a kind girl!

Condition:  She was well played with and put in a stand at some point - I have heat treated and reshaped her sides and her neck knob which was a little misshapen - it still has a small ridge in it so it likes certain head poses but her head  can still be posed in all different ways. She has been restrung as well.  Her neck at the torso is not "caved" but is just naturally indented a little but it should not be a problem, as she is restrung tight enough for a pose but not tight enough to put a ton of pressure on the joint.  On her back is a light mark on her upper back probably where she was stored against something and there are two lightish pink marks on her back.  I am to blame for those - I didn't realize I had red paint on my fingers form opening a paint bottle when I was doing her lips and accidentally imprinted it on her back.  I washed it off but these acrylics can stick and it has left a little pink birthmark.  

Her dress was made by 4everart and it is a lovely Edwardian style dress. I added thick white sockings, bloomers and matching blue shoes.  She reminds me of a little Schoenhut doll in this fun outfit!  

 Fun with antique toys!  

 Her hair can be styled in different ways since it has a top "skin" part instead of a stitched part.

 Jessamine's wig in the sunlight, picking up the light ginger tones.

 Jessamine is $385 and comes in the full outfit shown, signed with a certificate.  She is a one of a kind, never to be exactly duplicated!  I can be contacted here 

Fiona....

(SOLD) This is Fiona!  She began as a later light "skinned" Gotz baby girl from the final production of Sasha in the 2000's.  She had kind of glaring eyes from the factory so she has been remade into a new one of a kind doll!  Fiona means "fair" and her coloring, hair and face painting is fair, light and delicate.   When Gotz issued the lighter skinned dolls in 2000, some people found them "unSasha-like" in that they didn't have the traditional "universal" child skin color.  However, all one has to do is look at Sasha Morgenthaler's studio dolls to see that she always used a wide variety of skin colors for her dolls!  

Fiona's features have been repainted and sealed.  She even has a "quirky" right eyebrow reminiscent of some of the early Frido production dolls :) She has a synthetic mohair wig that has been cut and styled for her and it is baby fine and can be arranged in many ways.  It has a "clear" part in the front so the "scalp" matches her light vinyl color so it looks very natural.

I wanted to make her like an older studio baby even though she was a "modern" Sasha production doll.  She wears an antique doll dress circa 1940's and an old pair of bloomers (that need a new elastic).  Her little dress has a small hole in the back, but her fair appearance really called for something light in both color and fabric.

She has a couple of factory imperfections: her one arm socket is a little more indented than the other but she is not "caved".  Restringing these babies is a horrific task, so I didn't undertake it simply because even if I pushed that out a little bit it would probably just go back to the way it was since I think these later vinyl dolls just came out of the molds and hardened differently.  Her stringing is the perfect tension which I also didn't want to mess with either.

Fortunately it doesn't detract from her appearance.   She can still hug her little springtime Easter bunny that will come with her.  She also has a very faint raspberry birthmark on one leg.  Fiona is $310 and comes signed with a certificate.  I can be contacted here