A EVENING AT THE THEATRE

 

The dolls are ready and waiting for the performance to start.

Luckily the theatre is at home since Marigold in the centre front and Bella Play on her right decided they didn't want to get dressed today!

The performance has started and the Sugar Plum Fairy is dancing away.

Today's puppeteer is Lillian , one of the bigger dolls

She is even wearing the skirt mum made her with some nutcracker patterned fabric !

Everyone seems to be enjoying the dancing and humming along to the music.

Lillian is doing a great job.

It's so quiet in the audience , you could hear a pin drop !

Lillian is very good at managing all the puppets.

I think we will leave them there to see the rest of the ballet. 

A LYNNE AND MICHAEL ROCHE DOLL

This blog is/ will be about my collection of dolls by the artists Lynne and Michael Roche. 

 Some of their handmade dolls released Christmas 2024.  They have been making dolls for almost forty years, in fact it will be forty years in 2025.

Over recent years they have semi retired, so only a few dolls are released at Easter/ Spring and Christmas/ Winter. But the dolls do come up now and then on the second hand market but to sell at a premium. 

Most of the bigger dolls are made of Lime wood bodies and porcelain heads and hands. 

Tall dolls like this Lillian from the 2024 collection are around 21 inches.

Down to Kitty here who is 10 inches , usually have the wooden bodies, below this size the bodies will usually be all porcelain or could have fabric bodies with porcelain heads and hands.

You can find their website at roche-dolls.co.uk