We did it!

We just had a wonderful weekend, a regional convention hosted by Lesley and Mike of Ellie's doll workshop and the Southern Belles Chapter. The venue was perfect, the food was fantastic and an awful lot of chatter was going on the whole time!

 Sylvia and Eddie minding the Southern Belles stand at the fair on the Sunday

 Some of the modern baby dolls in the competition

 Miniature and small dolls in the competition

 Lesley and Sue had a fun evening on Friday meeting with the Essex ring of dolls Chapter who had travelled from Essex and the great Western Chapter who had travelled from Bristol. I guess the Southern Belles are in the middle in Bournemouth!

 Mareen Rose gave us a wonderful insight into different silk and cotton fabrics and she has a wonderful collection of beautiful fabrics which she was happy for us to touch and feel, and some of the better 'polywatsits' as she calls them!

 Carol gave us a lovely demonstration on wefting mohair to make wigs for antique dolls

 Trudy has worked very hard in updating the gem award system, she explained the new system to us and several gem certificates were awarded.

Elaine gave a workshop making a little sewn box for keeping trinkets.

We have to thank great western too for giving a very busy workshop making leather shoes, unfortunately I didn't get a picture, I hope someone did to show later.