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After dinner everyone had the opportunity to just relax and enjoy the scenery...  "This place is so beautiful."   Nuri came and sat beside her parents...  ..while her sister and brothers climbed up on a rock in hopes of seeing some whales off in the distance...  ..but they didn't see any.  The dragons and the twins arrived at Cape Bonavista and set up camp high on the rocks overlooking the ocean.  No one felt like making dinner, so they picked up some fried chicken takeout at KFC and Mary Brown's.  That way everyone could enjoy their favourite...      After breakfast they all flew to the beach at Bayview, near Twillingate, where there was an iceberg grounded close to shore....  The night before, the iceberg had been positioned like this....  ...but some time in the night it had turned, and a big piece had broken off...  Winston was amazed...  They posed for some photos with it...     ...then turned to watch and see if anything else would happen....  Before continuing their journey, they needed to start every day off with a good breakfast...  There were so many delicious things to choose from....   Scorch got out the bowls....  ...as the others decided which cereal they wanted....   The dragons decided to stop for the night at Blow Me Down Provincial Park along Humber Arm...      The dragons didn't need to take the ferry to Newfoundland because they could just fly there...  They arrived on the west coast over the Tablelands in Gros Morne National Park...  flying over the austere landscape...
 ..with Avery and Emily in their hot air balloon.  I took along three sets of dolls on our trip to Newfoundland earlier this summer; Jude & Grace's family, the dragons & the Avery twins, and my Ruby Red kids. I started posting photos through each other, then decided to do lengthier section of each group, starting with Jude & Grace as a contemporary family. However, I also took along their Celtic outfits in hopes of photographing the family in appropriate rugged settings. But it's a lot of work to change the dolls - it took me two and a half hours - so it was only going to happen once. I took a LOT of photos on our trip, and it takes weeks to process them all, let alone post them. Anyways we've come to the end of the first part of Jude & Grace's trip as a contemporary family, and I'm ready to move on to some of the other groups for a while. But first, as a teaser of what's still to come, I just wanted to share one of my favourite photos of the entire trip.  It was taken late one evening, high on a mountaintop pull-off in Labrador just before sunset.
Rex and Bianca were all dressed up to attend a formal event.  "Would you like to dance?"  "Yes, I would love to."    I finally finished the blue roses evening gowns. Sarah is modelling the fuller gown with the five rose panels.  ...and Bianca is wearing the gown with just four....       The next day we took Hwy 431 south...  into the Tablelands in the southern section of Gros Morne National Park. The tablelands are the reason Gros Morne is a World Heritage site. The red and orange rocks were once part of the Earth's mantle, deep beneath the planet's crust, and it's the only place on the planet where it's exposed on the surface.  We arrived in the village of Trout River, on the coast,   Jude and the kids went out to explore the harbour....        |
AuthorMartha Boers is an award-winning Canadian doll maker and costumer specializing in fantasy and historical-style costumes. Archives
January 2026
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