Today is the anniversary of our wedding – we’re celebrating it in Venice! What else is there to dream of? But my dear husband is also giving me these wonderful girls – 12 dancing princesses Isla and Headley. I’m just happy! I have seen them only onse in one shop in our town. But I had no money to buy them.

And then, no matter how much I looked, they weren’t available anywhere but eBay. And they are wonderful – so elegant and slender, with hinged handles. Only their legs don’t bend, and the pointe shoes don’t come off. But a straddle split is no problem for them.

They were sold with stands that move and rotate while performing a dance. I named them Ellie and Audrey. Thank you, my dear, for being you!