Happy Easter to everyone who celebrates it today. For me, Easter has never been about chocolate egg hunts or Easter bunnies. So, today I would like to show my new Catholic doll in the appropriate setting. I took these photos in my parish church during Lent. The doll is from a new Catholic (!) doll […]

Today is Christmas Eve. And one of the things that come to my mind is this famous scene from Season 1 of Poldark. The scene where Demelza is asked to sing a song and she sings beautifully… I’d a pluck a fair rose for my love I’d a pluck a red rose blowin’ Love’s in […]

Yesterday was my second daughter’s very special day – she had the First Holy Communion. I didn’t make her own dress for the occasion as I did for her sister 4 years ago but I made a matching dress for her new American Girl doll Molly. The dress is made from exactly the same fabric […]

Today is the first day of Chinese New Year. And although we are not in Singapore anymore, our nostalgia is so great that I decided to continue with the tradition and celebrate this feast. My Claire (A Girl for All Time Lydia) has decided to dress up as a Manchurian lady. This is not my […]

With the New Year celebrations going on around the globe, I will continue with Sam’s Christmas trip to Salisbury and her new 1960s outfit. For this outfit I was inspired by the red jumper on this picture. I made the white turtleneck from the Liberty Jane t-shirt pattern (a great fit, by the way!) but […]

This year we spent Christmas with our family in Salisbury – a gorgeous medieval city in Wiltshire (I have shown photographs from it before but never in winter). Although, this year the weather didn’t oblige and it was very warm (+15C!), wet and windy! I made a special 1960s outfit for Sam for this trip. […]

This year I didn’t have time to take any pre-Christmas photos – like dolls decorating a Christmas tree, etc. However, I have just finished a 1960s outfit for my A Girl for All Time Sam and she is going on a short Christmas holiday with me. So, hopefully, I will have some Christmassy photos once […]

Today Singapore, country that was my home for over 13 years, is celebrating the 50th anniversary of its Independence. To commemorate this wonderful occasion I have decided to show some photos I took in June, a week before we left Singapore for good. On that Saturday we had a family walk around Boat Quay, took […]

The final part of Lydia’s trip to Hong Kong! Not so much of Lydia here. I just wanted to show the Frozen madness in Disneyland. My children and I are also big fans of Frozen (who is not!). So, it was very exciting to see so many things related to the cartoon! Photoshoot with Elsa […]

So, Hong Kong Disneyland! We spent 2 full days there (well, at the least the children enjoyed themselves!), but Lydia went there only on the first day. Opera House on the square next to the entrance. We didn’t go inside. A magnificent Christmas tree on the same square! The main street. Sleeping Beauty Castle. Grizzly […]

Our next destination in Hong Kong was Disneyland (for the sake of our children, of course!)! We stayed for 2 nights in the fabulous Disneyland Hotel and it is so magnificent that it deserves to be shown separately! The Disneyland Hotel is built in a Victorian style and has lots Victorian style pictures on the walls. […]

And so, I am starting a report from A Girl for All Time Lydia’s recent trip to Hong Kong! The trip was short (only 5 days in total), but she has seen so much and I took so many photos of her that I will have to split them into a number of articles. Let’s […]

My daughter’s A Girl for All Time Amelia received a new outfit for Christmas – knitted by my mum, of course! It is so beautiful and suits Amelia’s light features so well. She looks like a Snowmaiden in it. I thought, it is just the right timing to show it on the New Year Day. […]

Last year I already showed the Christmas Nativity scene in St Ignatius Catholic church that was on display there during the Christmas time. You should look at it HERE before you continue as I told a lot about it then (and it has changed quite a bit since last year and I will concentrate more on those […]

A few days before Christmas I took my daughters and Florence (Bonnie & Pearl doll) out to the main shopping street of Singapore – Orchard Road – to enjoy the Christmas decorations and take lots of photographs. In Singapore Christmas decorations usually go down on 2 January and are immediately replaced by Chinese New Year […]

My four girls – Laura (Gotz doll Laura), Marianna (Kidz’n’Cats doll Tara), Catherine (MAG #49) and Florence (Bonnie & Pearl doll Olivia) – also decorated the Christmas tree, a very special one I got just for them! Laura and Marianna Florence Marianna Florence Catherine Laura and Marianna And the whole bunch has gathered around the […]

Christmas is approaching and it was time to hang up those Christmas stockings! Laura (Gotz doll Laura), Marianna (Kidz’n’Cats doll Tara), Catherine (MAG #49) and Florence (Bonnie & Pearl doll Olivia) were very keen to do it!

The Advent is here! And so, it’s time to decorate the Christmas tree!! Today Laura was helping my children to decorate it. Isn’t she just gorgeous!

This is a Nativity scene which has been displayed at St Ignatius Catholic church in Singapore during Advent and Christmas time for the past 2 years. It is quite large, measuring 6.7 m by 4 m (I would say, it is, probably, 1/6 scale) and the details are simply amazing. The scene was created by one of the […]

I mentioned to my 10-year-old daughter about a month ago that I wished I had had mince pies for one of our dolls for this Christmas. And a couple of days ago she surprised me with this little mince pie which she had made out of felt herself! It is extremely well-made and is very […]

Singapore and Christmas do not really go well together. Even with all the lush decorations I personally cannot help feeling it is all out of place in the tropics. But as we don’t have a choice (all I want for Christmas is snow, lots of snow and frost!), my daughter’s Alice had a walk around […]

Today is the first day of the Chinese New Year. So, here are traditional photos of a traditional orange tree and a doll wearing a Chinese outfit. Nikki is an Asian Hannah at the Ballet Gotz doll. Gong Xi Fa Cai! Happy Lunar New Year!

This dress is supposed to be for Marie (in some versions, Klara) from the Nutcracker story. I have taken quite a number of girls’ dresses from the end of the 19th century as an example and have come up with a stylized simplified version of them. The dress is made of white silk dupioni with a […]

Our Alice and Amalia also celebrated Christmas! The Gingerbread Man was made by my 9-year-old daughter without any help from me!

I crocheted a second rainbow dress in a different size for my Leah (Fairyland LittleFee doll). So, Leah also had a chance to celebrate Christmas in a new outfit!

Just before Christmas I finished crocheting a little rainbow dress for my Adele (Addie by Bo Bergemann). I will show the dress in details later. Today Adele is celebrating her first Christmas! Happy Christmas everyone!!

Our Gotz doll Julia has recently been renamed by my second daughter who is now totally obsessed with her. So, she has become Izzy and yesterday was taken on an outing with us (on a last minute Christmas shopping!). These few pictures were taken in a Japanese Shopping Centre Takashimaya which has my favourite Christmas […]

Yesterday was my daughter’s very special day – she had the First Holy Communion. I made matching dresses for her and her American Girl doll Marie-Grace. So, here is Marie-Grace. She wears white satin dress with zip closure at the back and lacy top with 4 pearly buttons at the back. Her hair is adorned […]

OK, this year I didn’t have time even to think about my dolls celebrating Easter, but since I still haven’t shown photos from last Easter, I thought I’ll show them instead. Let’s celebrate, girls! What a yummy hot-cross bun! Hi girls! Can I join in? Am I too late? I’ve just come back from my […]

Today is Chinese New Year’s Eve and my dolls are also celebrating! Gong Xi Fa Cai – Happy Lunar New Year!

My beautiful Olesya recently received a new dress which I knitted for her. It is based on a pattern by Becky Colvin. I used Palette Fingering yarn and 2 mm (#0) knitting needles. And then it was time to celebrate Christmas!! Enjoy. And Happy Christmas!!