Lise Ashby and Natasha Yaskova

I always admired people who can knit, especially when they do miniature knitting!
I have met this very talented women who was at the Montreal miniature show. She does miniature garments of all kind, very impressive work! Her name is Lise Ashby (Tricots Mini-Lise Knits). I bought outfits from her for three very special dolls of mine that were made by another artist I really admire! Here are the pictures I want to share.

The dolls are my absolute treasures. They were my birthday gift from my husband! They were made by the very talented Natasha Yaskova. A russian doll maker who makes breathtaking dolls. She kindly accepted to make the dolls look like us. She even painted the wedding rings! If you are like me and looooove miniature ball jointed dolls, here is the link to her blog:http://natashayaskova.blogspot.ca

The first doll that made me discover her was her Svetlana doll, which I found on ebay. When I saw how beautifull it was, the expression on her face, the fact that she was a porcelain 1/12 scale bjd, it was perfect and I had to have it! Here is a picture of Svetlana who is also wearing clothes done by Mme Ashby.

I always love her daydreaming expression. That is one of the things that never ceases to amaze me, how she manages to make very unique expressions for each of her dolls. It is at a point that I recognized Svetlana's face in one of her working pictures where there were multiple doll faces that had just been fired in her kiln.

I sadly had a very unfortunate accident when I was trying to restring her (yes I know it was stupid), the leg just slip out of my hands! I could not catch it because I was holding the string on one hand and the whole doll one the other. The only thing I could do was close my eyes and pray it would not make a... And there was the dreaded smashing porcelain sound. A sound of millions of shatered tiny tiny pieces... I usually love everything tiny but this time, not so much... When I opened my eyes, the leg was nowhere to be seen. I panicked and understood that it smashed to bits. Luckily I am very patient. I managed to find almost every pieces. There was a gap which I could not find the pieces for. So I repaired it with Ladoll, a surprisingly fun to work with self hardening clay, having no idea if it would work. Suprisingly it did! I felt soooo bad, I made her a wheelchair... Sorry Svety...