Selling on Sunday

I've decided Sundays will be the day I list anything I have for sale Sasha related.  As I am on the NHS Shielding list, I need to allow time to arrange for either collection or for someone to post items for me, so I won't be as quick as I used to be at sending things out, but I will do my very best and keep buyers updated all the time.  At the moment I am reluctant to send outside the UK  due to possible long delays.  

All items sent in the UK will be sent tracked and signed for and postage is included in the price.  Please message me if you would like an item lorraine at (takaro).co.uk  - removing the brackets and substituting @ for at with no spaces.  

Over the last couple of months I have been working on clothes for both Sasha and Gregor.  Today I have available some little dress and cardigan sets for Sasha.  My model Sophia and her shoes and socks are not included in the sale.  

Set 1:  Lovely cotton dress with a fun nursery themed print, lined bodice, hand sewn hem, teamed with a soft NZ Merino Possom wool mix short sleeve cardigan. £25.00 

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Set 2: 'Let's play ball'  Sleeveless dress, lined bodice, handsewn hem.  Little cardigan made with NZ Merino wool  £25.00

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Set 3:  Winnie The Pooh.  Sleeveless cotton dress, lined bodice, hand sewn hem.  Short sleeve cardigan made with NZ Merino wool

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Set 4:  Short sleeve dress, lined bodice, hand sewn hem.  Short sleeve apricot cardigan. £25.00

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Set 5:  Teddy Bears - Sleeveless dress, lined bodice, hand sewn hem.  Short sleeve lilac/purple cardigan.  SOLD

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Set 6:  Sleeveless dress, lined bodice, hand sewn hem.  Yellow short sleeve cardigan made with NZ Merino wool.  £25.00

My First Sasha - Sasha

My first Sasha came to live with me in January 2011 along with a Gregor whom I named Peter. He has long since left home to live with someone else. Sasha remained, although she did briefly leave a few years back to live with two other people before returning home as is only right. She is of course, like many other's first Sasha, called 'Sasha'. She dates to around 1974 and has a blue neck ring. Sasha came to me wearing a blue gingham dress, panties, shoes and non- original socks. I had always wanted a Sasha doll. I used to see pictures of them in my Mum's Golden Hands magazines and wished I could have one. Unfortunately due to living in New Zealand they were not regularly available so I was never able to have one until the day many years later I decided to go for it when I saw a pair of them listed on Ebay - a Buy it Now if I remember rightly. I then panicked about what I had done, having never before had such 'expensive' dolls.  As it turned out they were a really good price for a pair of Sasha dolls. I remember being quite surprised at their size when they first arrived, as they were smaller than I had imagined in my mind.  I was also excited at the prospect of sewing for them, having previously made 1950s fashions for Tressy dolls. Never did I realise where the purchase of those two dolls would lead and the travelling I would do as a result of entering into the wonderful world of Sasha. 

So without further ado, meet Sasha.

She is a sweet girl.

At times somewhat reflective...

At others a bit more bold and and sassy

She was the first Sasha to go travelling and journeyed to New Zealand in February & March 2011, although at that stage I was quite shy about taking a doll out in public, so she stayed at my parents home and the only other travelling she did during that trip was when I visited a friend.  I don't even think I took any photos, apart from at the airport!

She enjoys music and is in a band.

Below is her arrival photo with Peter and on her own.

Sasha Haven - Home by the Sea

The Adventures of a family of Sasha and Gregor dolls who live on the Isle of Wight.

New adventures, stories and tales to be told

Wonderful sights to behold

Come on a Journey to discover

the love of Sasha and Gregor and

their wonder of Nature and the World that surrounds us.

Flora and Fauna, the sea and sky

Introductions of the family, the how and why.

Sometimes familiar, sometimes new

hopefully when the sky is blue!

Come join us on this new experience of ours.

We welcome you with open arms.

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