Tillie Tinkham's Frocks & Fashions at Tasha Tudor Inspired Doll Fair!

Celebrating Tasha Tudor's 100th Birthday Year!

Little Hitty Diane and Hitty Beth are so excited to see Tillie Tinkham's newest line of handmade fascinators! Little Hitty Diane has an eye for the yellow rose with sparkly tulle, however Tillie directs her to the smaller red spotted fascinator with forget-me-not and yellow twirls! Hitty Beth likes the yellow rose fascinator, too!

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Hitty Rachel is assisting Tillie in her Frocks & Fashions Booth.

The flowers adorning the fascinators are all handmade originals made by Tillie Tinkham.
Amongst the flowers on the fascinators are forget-me-nots, roses, violets, bachelor's button, "pink" (Dianthus), and water lily.

On display at her booth are two forget-me-not inspired frocks that Tillie made especially for the Corgyncombe Forget-Me-Not Fair: one with forget-me-nots scattered on pink and one with forget-me-nots on beautiful blue! Each of the forget-me-not inspired frocks has a matching forget-me-not fascinator. She also made a dark blue frock with a striped pinafore.

Tillie Tinkham and her fascinators have been featured before on the Corgyncombe Courant, as she has been in the Millinery business for years. Millinery means hat shop and frocks are dresses.

 The 100th anniversary of Tasha Tudor's birth was on August 28th, 1915.

Nanny Nettie-Kin reminds us of Tasha Tudor and we and the dolls and critters of Corgyncombe will continue to be celebrating this, the 100th year since Tasha Tudor's birth!

Tasha Tudor illustrated delightfully festive fairs in her books "Corgiville Fair", "A Time to Keep", and "All for Love". "A Time to Keep" in September features the dolls' fair with booths for selling.

Forget-Me-Not bouquets decorate Tillie's Booth at the Corgyncombe Forget-Me-Not Doll Fair!

Nanny Nettie Kin's Corgyncombe Forget-Me-Not seeds are sold at a booth at the Annual Corgyncombe Forget-Me-Not Fair.  Seeds to sow for a beauteous, bountiful sea of dainty forget-me-nots!

Nanny Nettie-Kin holds the Annual Corgyncombe Forget-Me-Not Fair to promote the delight and appreciation of her favorite flower, forget-me-nots! Tasha Tudor also loved forget-me-nots!

Hitty Beth was brought to the fair by our friend Hitty Beth's Mum who also delighted in attending the Corgyncombe Forget-Me-Fair.

Tillie Tinkham suggests Hitty Beth try a fascinator with a "pink" (Dianthus) atop with pink twirls.

Hitty Beth is wearing the frock that Tillie Tinkham made especially for her.

Hitty Beth loves the frock and looks so sweet in it and the fascinator with the "pink" atop looks lovely with the frock!

Tillie Tinkham covered the hat boxes with special Corgyncombe Forget-Me-Not wallpaper exclusive to Corgyncombe.

 Quackenbush and Dilley Dibble Dabble

at the Herb & Flower Booth

at the Corgyncombe Forget-Me-Not Fair.

Last we saw Dilley Dibble Dabble and Quackenbush they were buying forget-me-nots at the Herb & Flower Booth. As they joyfully perused the fair Dilley spied Tillie Tinkham's Frocks & Fashions Booth. Dilley hastily tossed to Quakenbush her parasol, her seed packet and her hat...

Dilley paddled her big-little webbed feet as fast as she could and flapped her wings, quacking all the way in excitement to Tillie Tinkham's Frocks & Fashions with delightful fascinators!

Paddle, waddle, quack, quack, quack!

Dilley made a ducky beeline to the water lily fascinator.
Oooohhhh, a water lily!

Doesn't Dilley Dibble Dabble look like a little flirty ducky in her water lily fascinator!

Tillie also sells lovely satin pincushions that she made with the tiniest handsewn stitches!

Little Hitty Diane says that Hitty Beth's fascinator looks so pretty with her frock!

Little Hitty Diane asks Hitty Beth, "What do you think? Is it me?"

Hitty Beth says "That fascinator is you!"

Tillie Tinkham's Bitty Buttons!

Making these buttons takes a lot of effort and time.

Tasha Tudor had the children use buttons to buy goods for their dolls and animals. The currency for the dolls and critters at Corgyncombe is buttons and the goods at the Corgyncombe Forget-Me-Not Fair are purchased with buttons, as well.

Quackenbush is heard saying that Dilley is some cute little quacker!

She just glows!

Tillie's inspiration for Dilley's water lily fascinator.

Hitty Rachel is amused!

Inside Tillie Tinkham's Frocks & Fashions, little Hitty Diane stands upon a hatbox to see herself in the mirror sporting her red spotted fascinator with forget-me-not and yellow twirls.

Hitty Diane is thrilled as the red spotted fascinator with forget-me-not and yellow twirls is so zingy and goes perfectly with her yellow frock! She thinks little Andy will think she is quite the bee's knees in this Tillie Tinkham original!

From Her Own Dainty Paw and Golden Thimble!

Tillie Tinkham, the seamstress mouse at Corgyncombe, received the Golden Thimble Award for her exquisite efforts in sewing, frock making, millinery fascinator fashioning, hatbox designing, and button & pincushion making.

As they were leaving the Corgyncombe Forget-Me-Not Fair, Dilley Dibble Dabble and Quackenbush could be seen swimming across Corgi Creek. Dilley with her new water lily fascinator and Quackenbush carrying everything else! They paused and Quackenbush rested on Forget-Me-Not Island where they both admired the Forget-Me-Nots and agreed they had the best time at the Corgyncombe Forget-Me-Not Fair!

All who attended the Corgyncombe Forget-Me-Not Fair had delightful thoughts of all the forget-me-nots at the fair and all the seeds that will be sewn for next year's Annual Corgyncombe Forget-Me-Not Fair!

We hope all of our Dear Readers enjoyed the

2nd Annual Corgyncombe Forget-Me-Not Fair!

Some of the photographs and some of the writings on this post are from previous Corgyncombe Courant posts that can be found here on the Corgyncombe Courant and from our previous postings elsewhere on the internet.

Here is a link to:
Nanny Nettie-Kin's Baked Goods at Tasha Tudor Inspired Dolls' Fair!
Celebrating Tasha Tudor's 100th Birthday Year!

Here is a link to:
Forget-Me-Not Blue, Dilley, Dilley: Tasha Tudor Inspired Dolls' Fair!
Celebrating Tasha Tudor's 100th Birthday Year!


Here is a link to Hitty Maple's Pancakes & Doughnuts:
Birthday Celebration Tasha Tudor Inspired Forget-Me-Not Dolls' Fair!
Celebrating Tasha Tudor's 100th Birthday Year!


Here is a link to Ima out gathering forget-me-nots with Tasha Corgi for the 2015 Fair:
Gathering Forget-Me-Nots for Tasha Tudor Inspired Dolls' Fair!
Celebrating Tasha Tudor's 100th Birthday Year!


Here is a link to last year's 2014:
Forget-Me-Not Fair at Corgyncombe!
To Sow a Sea of Forget-Me-Nots!


Here is a link to:
A Flower Favoured by Nanny Nettie-Kin and Tasha Tudor!
Oh, the Delight of Forget-Me-Nots!


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Tillie Tinkham's Bitty Buttons and Fashionable Fascinators!

Tillie Opens Shoppe in New Location!

Tillie's friends clap their hands, pat her on the back and tell her what a good job she did fashioning the marbleized buttons! The buttons are sewn to cards and labeled:
Tillie Tinkham's Bitty Buttons
4 b. Corgyncombe Currency

The "b" on the tags stands for buttons. Tasha Tudor had the children use buttons to buy goods for their dolls and animals. The currency for the dolls at Corgyncombe is buttons, as well.



Tillie has also added a millinery department to Tillie Tinkham's Frocks & Fashions which has brought squeaks of joy from her Mouse friends, as they like to spend their time trying the hats on in front of the mirror.
Tillie Tinkham started Tillie Tinkham's Frocks and Fashions over 4 years ago.
Tillie has opened her shoppe in a new location that she will sometimes share with other businesses at Corgyncombe!


Closing in the late afternoon sun.
Tillie's friends are wearing some of the inventory home.

Tillie Tinkham's Frocks & Fashions has added Fascinators to her inventory, some imported and some she has also made for her own line of Fascinators!

Below, Tillie models some of the Fascinators.

Tillie in an imported Fascinator, to which she has added one of Phidelia Finch's feathers.


Looking in the window, a dress form can be seen.


Yesterday, whilst scurrying about the garden, Tillie came across one of the earliest flowers to appear at Corgyncombe, Cowslip, also called Lady's Keys.

Upon seeing this flower a lady from Britain exclaimed with joy "Oh, it's Lady's Keys!" In Britain Lady's Keys is a favoured flower. Fascinators are also favoured!


The Lady's Keys makes a very stylish Fascinator as it has a natural drape.
In "The Country Diary of An Edwardian Lady" by Edith Holden, she has illustrated the cowslip photographed above.
In the book, Edith Holden included the poem "The May Queen" by Tennyson:
"All the valley, mother, 'ill be fresh and green and still;
And the cowslip and the crowfoot are over all the hill.
And the rivulet in the flowery dale 'ill merrily glance and play,
And I'm to be Queen o' the May, mother, I'm to be Queen o' the May."

In "The Country Diary of An Edwardian Lady", on May 1st, Edith Holden speaks of going to Bristol and how lovely it was. She wrote: "The Primroses are still thick on the banks, the hedges are all green, many of the Apple orchards in blossom; and the Oaks showing the first signs of golden, bronze foliage: In Somerset the meadows were yellow with cowslips"
On May 7th, Edith Holden wrote in her diary:
"I was stooping down to gather some cowslips, when a robin fled out over my hand, from under the roots of an Alder tree, growing close beside me."

In John Milton's poem "Song on May Morning" he wrote the following lines:
"The flowery May, who from her green lap throws
The yellow cowslip and the pale primrose."

In Beatrix Potter's "The Tale of Mrs. Tittlemouse", Beatrix wrote the following lines about Mrs. Tittlemouse as she is gathering things for her meal from her storeroom:
"I smell a smell of honey; is it the cowslips outside, in the hedge?"

In Beatrix Potter's "Cecily Parsley's Nursery Rhymes", Cecily Parsley the rabbit is illustrated making cowslip wine.

In Beatrix Potter's "The Tale of Mr. Tod", old Mr. Bouncer, father-in-law of Flopsy Bunny, was supposed to be bunny sitting her little Bunns. When purposely distracted in conversation by Tommy Brock the Badger, Mr. Bouncer invited Tommy Brock in to have "a glass of my daughter Flopsy's cowslip wine". He also gave Tommy Brock a cabbage leaf cigar whilst he smoked his pipe. Whilst they were smoking and drinking, Mr. Bouncer fell asleep and Tommy Brock took advantage and stole away Flopsy's sweet baby bunnies!
When Flopsy discovered her babies were missing she slapped Mr. Bouncer whose foolishness had allowed Tommy Brock to steal Flopsy's babies. Foolishness that old Mr. Bouncer would not soon forget!

In the photograph above, Tillie has fashioned a Fascinator featuring a Johnny Jump Up from Corgyncombe Gardens.
Tillie looks forward to fashioning many more Fascinators using flowers, paper flowers, feathers, and whatever doodads strike her fancy. Quackenbush and the Dibble Dabbles are very interested in Tillie's new Millinery department.

Violet is measuring Quackenbush for a new spring vest. Violet complains to Elizabeth that she is having difficulties getting the proper measurements due to the constant movement, paddling about, and quacking. Elizabeth sternly says "Now Ducky, You must hold still for measuring or the finished garment will pinch your underwing feathers and restrict your wing movement!" Elizabeth has been looking at "Mouse Mills Catalogue for Spring" by Tasha Tudor. It is a book of fashions for dolls, bears, and ducks.
Elizabeth especially likes Mouse Mills' motto:
"Good, Better, Best, Never rest, 'Til Good be Better, And Better, Best."

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