The refreshments table was appropriately decked out in patriotic red, white, and blue.
Also appropriate for the dog days of summer, member Mary McKenzie did a program on dolls and their dogs. Here she holds a little fripon, the type of puppy made to accompany the French doll Bleuette.
Mary brought many of her own exquisite artistic creations, each accompanied by a canine companion.
A Marie Antoinette automaton offers cake to her fluffy pup.
A vintage dalmatian next to an older fuzzy spitz.
These dolls pose with needle-felted papillons modeled on Mary's own beloved pets.
These older dogs represent the Borzoi, a breed often found with French Fashion dolls. An antique toy Borzoi can cost hundreds of dollars.
Mary's interpretation of F. Scott Fitzgerald's fictional characters, Jay Gatsby and Daisy Buchanan, with a little beagle pup.
Other members brought toy dogs to share. Bette Birdsong shows off some of her kennel of canines.
A wooden Mickey and Minnie Mouse with Pluto Pup, made by Fun-e-Flex in the 1930s.
Bisque bathing beauties from the early 1900s posing with puppies.
A vintage Barbie walks her poodle.
A Sasha girl cuddles a vintage cloth puppy.
Myrna Loesch displays a diminutive "Snobby" poodle by the German company Steiff.
Wonderful program. Thank you
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