The day we celebrated Daisy's 40th birthday with a Daisy Convention in Wimbledon.
There was an exhibition of 40 years of Daisy, in which we tried to get together as many boxed dolls as possible, all in the outfits in which they were sold.
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| Jo´s Havoc collection |
Our special guest was Joan Corlass, the illustrator of all the Daisy booklets. A very lovely and lively lady, who took her very special collection of Daisy doll items with her.
At 9 am we were ready to enter the room and to start getting everything ready.
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| Ralph introducing Joan Corlass |
Around 11 am Joan arrived and told us all about her work on the Daisy doll booklets, the trade posters, how hard she had worked on the illustrations for the commemorative Brittania Daisy for the Queens silver jubilee, and many, many more things.........
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Sweet Kate |
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| Garden party |
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| Just Dolly |
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| prototype baker boy? |
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| the skirt Daisy is wearing in the stickerbooks |
She was so happy to show off her collection and to let us take pictures of all of it.
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| Brighton Belle prototype |
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| prototype hopscotch |
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| knickers for paper dolls |
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| black magic |
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| on special request |
All too soon it was time for her to go and we had a short lunch break.
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| group poto with Joan |
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| Louise´s dolls |
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| my dollies |
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| a moment for chat |
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| Helene´s lovely ladies |
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| Ralphs own printed fabric |
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| Jo´s fluff |
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| Yvette´s sailor Daisy |
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| 2 Space Daisy´s (Yvette & Jo) and Mohican Daisy (me) |
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| Yvette´s Finland Daisy |
After that we started the prize table draw, on which I managed to get hold of a lovely MOC Optimum
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| the prize table |
Then it was time for the quiz, from our brilliant quizmaster Ralph. It wasn't all that easy (there's still one question I'm trying to find out about, lol!), but even though I hadn't been studying, I managed to win the quize. As a prize I got this lovely t-shirt with Daisy wearing Spot On, one of my very favourite outfits from my fashion diary!
Jo demonstrated how to restring a Dashing Daisy.
After that it was time for some more prize table draws and the presentation of the OOAK party frocks.
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| OOAK party frocks |
Finally we handed over the convo dolls and the goodie bags.
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| The official Convo doll group photo |
We did have a lovely dinner at the pub next door to the hotel with some of the other attendees.
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The art work on the on the boxes are fab.
I have just paid a Daisy Doll now let’s see how many outfits I can find.