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Pink Winner

The "Dolls in the Attic" Retreat is now over, but what an amazing creative experience it was - five days and five nights with the five most renowned and talented divas of cloth doll making - elinor peace bailey,  Patti Culea, Barbara Willis, Betts Vidal and Sally Lampi.  The retreat was the 20th birthday celebration of "Hello Dollies" the group I belong to... and the main night of celebrating was the Pink Banquet.  Everyone dressed in pink, and five Hello Dollies members, including me,who were hosts for the night created a "table" doll which was won by someone sitting at our tables. Janice Laurent from Canberra won my doll ( pictured above)

Pink Banquet 
Beautiful table doll created by Shannon 

The Winners of the five table dolls and their creators. 
Even the gifts were pink!

Pink temari 
 Doll Divas 

Hello Dollies gift to Gloria 
best pink costumes - epb and Jandee 

Keep watching this space - the next few blog posts will be about the dolls we created at the retreat....  
Aanuka Resort - venue of the "Dolls in the Attic Retreat" 


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