For my birthday this month Samantha made me a bathing ensemble to wear at the beach and the springs. She looked at many different fashion plates and settled on  on this! I think she will be posting the fashion plates she looked at later. But for now……I am going to enjoy the water!

 

This past weekend Samantha and I traveled to Atlanta, Ga. The main reason for this trip was fr Samantha to take a doll making workshop. She is trying to become a doll maker.  Thursday was a day of traveling. At the airport while waiting to be picked up I indulged in a snack of french desserts.

 

Friday Samantha’s class started. She I was on my own during the day. I rooted around in the doll studio meeting new friends and getting into things I shouldn’t have been in into. But enough about that.

The next day the class was the same length of time but afterwards we went to the circus! And not just any circus……Cirque Du Soleil! The show was called “Kurio’s” or “Cabinet des Curiosites”. It was great! I saw daring feats of acrobats, an invisible circus and funny clowns. I was told I can’t join the show. There goes my dreams of adventures and romance!

 

The last day of class I had to say goodbye to my  new friends. But I said I would see them next month. Samantha finished two new dolls and we are becoming fast friends!

Excuse the nudity! Samantha is working on clothes for them right now.

 

Monday we left for the airport and in the afternoon we were back in Gettysburg, Pa.I cant wait to return to Atlanta next month for Samantha’s next class. We will be there for a whole week too! Can you imagine the trouble I will find….er…..I mean the adventures? See you soon!

Since publishing my last post I was challenged (Yay a challenge!)to look for size comparisons of doll parasols with there original owners. So I went to the best place for great dolls with great (orginal!)wardrobes; Theriaults . They are the premier doll auction house.

 First photo is of a pre 1880 Jameau parasol. This sizeof 16.5″was made for a 24″ doll.

 This doll is circa 1870 and measures 17″ tall. Her parasol is almost half her height. Hers might measure about 8″ or 9″ tall.

 This doll is circa 1878 and measures 19″ tall. Her parasol is almost the same height as the one above. This is going into the era when parasols were larger so that could explain the large size. This parasol could measure about 15″ or so.

This doll is circa 1866 and her parasol looks to be in better proportion to her her height. She measures 17″ tall. If we figure that the parasol is almost half her height, then it might measure about 8″ or 9″ tall.

 

I will leave you with this photo of original doll parasols circa 1865-1880. There is no matching doll to these beauties so we wont know how tall there original owners were. The measure from 7″ to 10″.

 

*All theses images and the information is from Theriaults auction house and Doll Shops United.*

I wanted to start off my post showing what parasols for regular lady’s looked like in comparison to there height. First off we see a fashion plate from 1861:

 

Obviously its quite small. Most original 1850-1860’s parasols are like this for regular  lady’s. Here is a real life example aka the original cast:

Now for the doll sized examples:

This one is not quite as dainty even though it dates to about 1865-1870. Showing that the doll industry fudged with there sizing. I’m not sure why but its common. As with this original parasol that Samantha will be recovering for me.

The next posting will be of the recovered parasol itself! I picked out a lovely blue silk with black lace to decorate it!

 

Stay tuned!!!