Janet put on a fantastic program on Dolls and Classical Music for our November meeting. We also had an exceptionally fine number of show & tell dolls this month. Click on the thumbnails to see more pictures on Flickr.
A huge thank you to Ann Chandler who came down from Maine to give us a presentation of her dolls in boxes. The creativity and workmanship were amazing and inspirational! We’ve all agreed that we’ll never look at little boxes the same way again. Ann gave us tips on how to find boxes of the right style or era for our little dolls, how to customize the boxes and how she documents the contents with short narratives. Ann showed us many examples of little dolls, wardrobes, toys and accessories that she had lovingly crafted or found to fill the boxes.
Ann’s display table started looking like a tree at Christmas and we got to watch her unbox each treasure and tell us about it, then she passed each one around and let us look closely! Here is Ann with one of her petite antique dolls:
Some lucky Dollers even got to continue the fun with Ann in a workshop the next morning.
At the Tuesday meeting, our Janes (and friends) looked lovely dressed in their Halloween finery! We also got to hear a report and see the souvenirs from the Region 15 Conference by the ladies who attended.
A big thanks to everyone who helped make the evening happen and to Jill for taking all these pictures. Click on the thumbnails to see the set on Flickr.com.
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The September meeting was a blast! Here are some pictures that Jill took:
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We met at Rosemary’s house in August and had a wonderful Ice Cream Sundae party. We brought our wardrobe dolls for closer inspection. All I can say is “Wow!”. With extra show and tells and lot’s of talk, talk, talk – we had an excellent evening.
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Our annual potluck and silent auction was a blast, as usual! Here are the pictures that Janet took:
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A big thank you to Sheryl for her program on Madame Alexander dolls. And to DianeR for taking these pictures (with Sussi’s camera)!
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What happens when you get 15 or so “mature” ladies (and one junior collector) together for tea at the American Girl Bistro in Natick? Lots of fun, that’s what!! Thanks again to Jill and Rosemary for organizing this fabulous event.
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The weather was kind to us and we managed to have our February meeting, all about Vogue Ginny dolls. We watched UFDC slideshow CD “A Doll Named Ginny” which was very interesting (all about the history of the company and the changes the dolls went through over the years). The best part, as usual, was the Ginny show & tell where people talked about their Ginny memories and showed us the dolls they owned. I’m not a Ginny collector but it is always fun to hear stories about childhood dolls.
Here are some pictures of the fun!
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We had an extremely fun January meeting at the church! Jill started us off with a entertaining and interesting look at dolls and books as she presented a topic that we hadn’t had time for at the earlier meeting on that topic. Jill’s approach was to look at the common themes in children’s literature about dolls such as loss/giving up childhood, dolls being self-aware, comfort objects, and so on. She even read us a wonderful book about wooden dolls who were forgotten then refound! Sadly, since Jill is our photographer, we don’t have any pictures of that part of the meeting.
After talking about books, we segued into an extra long show & tell session! Everyone brought in fun finds they had made over the holidays or their most recent projects. As always, the variety and enthusiasm made it a total pleasure to share with each other. We enjoyed having SherylF as our guest and we hope we’ll be seeing lots more of her in the future!
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Yankee Doodle Dollers has been a proud member of UFDC since 1978!
December 13 ~ Holiday Party!
The Yangtze River restaurant in Littleton, MA was invaded by about 20 crazy doll ladies last week! Fortunately, they put us in a lovely private room where we could display our dolls dressed in their Christmas Story-themed finery and act totally silly during our Yankee (Doodle) Swap without disturbing anybody. A big thanks to Rosemary for organizing everything so well.
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At the dinner, Claudia, our Philanthropy Chair, collected the donations we all brought for the Santa program at WHEAT. I think we did a fabulous job of putting together an excellent pile of presents for our family to wake up to on Christmas morning!
Thank you for organizing and thank you for the pictures, Claudia!
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