Hi everyone,
Thank you everyone, for sharing all your stories and antics and home repairs. You certainly keep us entertained when I’m busy.
My day was not a productive one… at least as far as dolls and sewing goes, and I never made it into my sewing room until 10:45… a bit late to start something, so I decided to share this with you.
When I was finishing up the last dress I made for American Girl, Molly, I got to thinking about what kind of “sweet treat” I could add along with the dress like I sometimes do. It’s always fun to try and match the color or colors in the dress and I do try. I got to wondering what kind of candy I could buy now that may have been popular in the 1940’s. So I Googled it and found this really fun site… which I’ll post a link to, so you can click on it and step back in time and see if you remember these candies. There are STILL lots of them around today… and I won’t tell which one I picked, so the winner will be surprised when she opens up the package I put in her box. It was really a fun read about all the details of the candies and what year in the 40’s they were introduced. At the bottom of the page talking about the all the 1940’s candies, there are “other” years starting at the 1900’s that tell which candies were famous in those years.
Now, this is a dolly blog, so let’s have at least a couple pictures from someone showing off their new doll… This is Kiki, Susette’s newest Ruby Red Fashion Friend doll, I think she arrived for Mother’s Day! I love how Susette has her posed… and this is what she said in her email…
This is the last of the orchids as they’ve been blooming since February. I saw one of the Kiki dolls on the website with what looks like a paper cutout bowl of orchids. I ordered one of what I think it was; a paper greeting card. That gave me the idea to just get outside and take a picture with the real ones. Duh! Fortunately, this one was a late bloomer.
If you click on the pictures, they will enlarge.
…what we do to get just the “right” picture of our dolls… :o) Thanks Susette!
I reminded me of what I had to do to take some pictures of Emmie in “Under Blue Skies.” Whatever works! :o)
I’ll see you tomorrow,
Blessings, Jeanne