I was going to use this blog to display all my other dolls but have decided that I will keep it just for the dolls from this collection and their stories.
I have wanted one of these girls for quite a while and finally decided that now was the time to add her to my collection of dolls .
I was raised with a love of History and film, so as a child would wander around medieval Castles and Abbey's around the country with my sisters and brother following after my parents, so you could say it's in my bones!
Then there was nothing like sitting on a Saturday or Sunday afternoon and watching old films of Knights and their Ladies winning against the Evil Baron! The out to play to re-enact the film we'd just seen in all it's glory.
Also I was raised in South London within spitting distance of the River Thames, in the days when children roamed free and just had to be in before it got dark! So The National Gallery, Prtrait gallery, The Jewel tower, Westminster Abbey, The Houses of Parliment, Trafalgar Square and the Tate Gallery as it was called then were the places I played and wandered the corridors of.
The V&A, The Natural History and Science Museums were places of wonder and desire and Hyde, St James, Regents and Battersea parks were vast area's of green for children to traverse.
I walked the shore of the Thames when the tide was out and the Embankment when it was in, this is what gave me the love of the bones of history that formed this fine country.
So the girl I am going to introduce pulled at my 'bones' as soon as I saw her and I was not disappointed when I finally opened her box and removed her.
MATILDA , A GIRL FOR ALL TIME:
These are the photo's I took on her arrival and when I removed her from her box.
Here she is. I love the box that she came in.
She was well tied to her box, so it took a little while to get her out.
She is a Tudor so I thought this area of my garden that we call The Cloisters , would make the prefect back drop to her first photo shoot.
I love this girls face.
checking out her surroundings.
a closer look.
She would ask the gargoyle how it happened but she decides to stay silent!.
You can find A Girl For All Time , on www.agirlforalltime.com and I bought my girl from www.petalinadolls.co.uk because she is on offer at the moment which is also one of the things that spurred me on to get her now.
I have taken some more photo of her round the garden which I will share soon.
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