Marlaine Verhelst’s
Paris Doll Holiday and Workshop Week
One of the highlights every year is the Doll Holiday in Cernay La Ville in the
Parc de la Haute Vallee de Chevreuse near Versailles and Paris. During this week we make a complete doll in self-hardening clay, including clothes. Alternatively, you can also work with porcelain (sculpting head, hands and feet). The next week is from May 24th – May 31st 2025
Impressions from the previous years
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... or have a look at the galleries per year.
Our amazing location, Cernay la Ville
About the location and our hosts
- In 2007, our students made a hymn about our hosts, the De Koning family.
Close to our doll week location
- Abbaye Des Vaux De Cernay (walking distance)
- Château de Breteuil (walking distance)
- Château de Dampierre (10min by car)
- Château de Versailles (45min by underground)
- Château de Malmaison (Napoleon I et Joséphine de Beauharnais. (45 min by car)
- Disneyland Parijs / EuroDisney (90min)
- Golf Isabella
Besides Marlaine’s doll week, Paris has even more to offer – some tips.
Paris, the city of love, the city of fashion, the city of creativity is the ideal background for a doll holiday. Here are some tips if you have some time to spend in the area:
Usefull links
Tips
More Paris tips
- Shopping in Paris
- The Champs-Elysées
- Shopping near the Sacre Coeur and the Notre Dame
- More fabrics: Moline Mercerie
- Paris Flea Markets
- Paris Flea Market ‘Les Puces de Vanves’
- Rue Cler – one of the best market streets in Paris
- Bonial.fr – Shopping portal
- Bookstore Shakespeare and Company (Quartier Latin)
- Drink coffee in Café Litéraire Les Deux Magots (Jean-Paul Sartre and Hemingway)
- Paris à pied: Walks in Paris – by Eddy le Couvreur