Leprechaun costume

March is welcoming St Patrick’s day and leprechauns are numerous in our woods and streets, even in our doll world. So, why not make a costume for our guys? 

Pierre and  Marie  never miss an opportunity to disguise for any event.

Personally I love to line my dolls outfits, but this one, as disguise will be kept very simple.

Mars accueille la Saint-Patrick et les lutins sont nombreux dans nos bois et nos rues, même dans notre monde de poupées. Alors, pourquoi ne pas faire un costume pour nos gars?

Pierre et Marie ne manquent jamais une occasion de se déguiser pour tout événements.

Personnellement, j'aime doubler mes tenues de poupées, mais là comme c est un déguisement le montage restera très simple.

   Wishing you a great St Pat’s Day./ Nous vous souhaitons une bonne St Patrick

Original dolls: Pierre, 16” Trent  from Mel Odom (beard by myself)

                       Marie, 16" Gene from Mel Odom (repainted by Glenn Mielke)

                           

2006-September 21 The Barbie convention visit

The name was "Glamorous", and it was the new Barbie convention held in Calgary. As some of my friends were going, I accompanied them, but I did not registered and was just visiting.
le nom  "Glamorous", c etait le nom de  la  nouvelle Barbie Convention présentée à Calgary. Comme certains de mes amis allaient, je les ai accompagnés, mais je n'étais pas enregistrée c estait une simple visite.

As I didn't look at the program /schedule before,I was a stunned, and wonderfully surprised to discover that my idol (since I was browsing the web for dolls) was present at this convention.
Bruce Nygren was here,  bones, flesh and smile in front of me! I just couldn't believe my own eyes!! Since quite a long time I discovered and loved his work, the intricate beads and sequins,  trade mark of his dolls, always inspired me. I am not too much on being a crazy groupie around celebrities, but this day I could not resist to ask this charming, gentle man to pose with me.

Comme je n'avais pas regardé le programme avant, j'étais un  merveilleusement surprise de découvrir que mon idole (depuis que je navigue le web pour les poupées) était présent à cette convention.

Bruce Nygren était ici, en chair et en os  et en sourire,  en face de moi! Je ne pouvais pas en croire mes yeux! Depuis assez longtemps j avais découvert et aimé son travail.  Les broderies complexes de perles et paillettes , sont sa marque de fabrique . il m a toujours inspiré. Je ne suis pas trop d'être une folle groupie autour de célébrités, mais ce jour je n'ai pas pu résister à demander ce charmant monsieur de poser avec moi

And...here we are Bruce Nygren and I behind the most beautiful dolls you can imagine
Et nous voici.. Bruce Nygren et moi posant deriere les plus jolies poupees que vous puissiez immaginer.

I could not find any website  but I found a link from a very interesting article in the "view Neighborhood newspaper"
http://www.viewnews.com/2005/VIEW-Mar-16-Wed-2005/SEast/766848.html
and you can still find Bruce Nygren and Peter Nickel 's dolls on e-Bay, and dolls site like Stella's treasures ( www.stellastreasures.com )

Je ne peux pas trouver son site WEB mais j'ai trouvé un lien d'article très intéressant dans le journal "view Neighborhood newspaper"

http://www.viewnews.com/2005/VIEW-Mar-16-Wed-2005/SEast/766848.html

et vous pouvez toujours trouver les poupée de Bruce Nygren et Peter Nickel 's sur e-Bay, et les sites de poupées  comme Stella's treasures (www.stellastreasures.com)

we had of course opportunities to buy Barbies ,Genes and other dolls 

a la convention nous avions bien sur l opportunité d acheter des Barbies, Genes  et autres

collection were numerous and gave us the up close look, that we all love 

Les collections etaient nombreuses, et nous on donner l occasion de voir de tres pres toutes celle dont nous rêvions.

Of course we could, as visitor, have a look of the contests results of the convention
Evidement comme visiteurs , nous avions aussi l occasion d'approcher le resultat des concours de la convention

I was very pleased with this beautiful visit
ce fut une tres agreable visite

Time period: Calgary Ab. 1999-2007.

2000-2004- My friend garde-robe : the evening dresses

The outfits are presented here by Gene Marshal (Mel Odom) both the brunet and the blond are Simply Gene

Here are the evening dresses

Time period: Calgary Ab. 1999-2007.

2000-2004 My friend Garde-robe: the sumer outfits and underwear

The outfits are presented here by Gene Marshal (Mel Odom) both the brunet and the blond are Simply Gene

Here are the underwear and summer outfits

Time period: Calgary Ab. 1999-2007.

2000-2004- My friend garde-robe : the day dresses

While living in Canada, I met  my best friend Anne, through the 15"dolls gathering/meeting.
she was (and still is)quite passionate about fashion dolls, she is mainly responsible, I should admit, for introducing me to the "Big girls".
I was, from our first meeting, fascinated by Gene Marshal (M. Odom) then later by Tyler Wentworth (R.Tonner) and Anne encouraged me to have at least one of them. Today some 10 years later I have more than 30 of those and keep counting (this is "My Gang")
I bought some of them in second hand (from Anne mostly) she offered me my first Brenda Starr (Effanbee) for my birthday (she became my Gang first character under the name Petunia Greenwood who is freelance journalist)

As Anne's collection of Gene dolls amplified, she asked me to make some outfits for her ladies.
She told me what she had in mind, and we roughly sketched her ideas. I remember  how we went through the big patterns catalog, I got from the fabric store (you know, those "after season" huge books we go through to choose our patterns)
She wanted me to use fabrics from dresses she had,  that just reminded her of found memories, or because she still loved, after all the years, the nice patterns that scaled well with a doll this size, and she bought brand new fabric from the store as well.

The outfits are presented here by Gene Marshal (Mel Odom) both the brunet and the blond are Simply Gene

After all those years in my photos album, I thought it would be nice to share this with you.

Here are the day dresses

Time period: Calgary Ab. 1999-2007.