Hi everyone,
Weren’t those bridal dresses from Elizabeth just adorable, or maybe elegant is a better word? I just spied that Barbie I recently bought for her rubbery clog shoes, laying on a table in my sewing room and have a new appreciation for all the work on those wedding dresses. Sewing for Barbie, especially with the expertise that Elizabeth did, deserves a medal! It would be NO SMALL TASK… let me tell you!
Rosemary, I’m so sorry you lost Miles… my heart hurts for you. :o(
Charlotte, I’m glad you had Daniel and some friends to go with you to the cemetery on this anniversary… I know it was a tender time for you, and hope each time you go it gets a little easier. You are a remarkable woman!
Joy, thanks for finding out about the cow that was speared by that 2×4! Ouch! I almost hated to show it, but I just wanted someone to pray for her besides me.
Okay, let’s see what my sister, Cindy, found for us at Yesteryear Antique Center, where she has a booth. She said she noticed some new dolls in the lady’s booth that carries the dolls and sent me some new pictures. See if you can recognize any you know the names of.
The pictures Cindy sent, were on the small side, but you can hit the control button in the bottom left of your keyboard and then the + key on the top row of your keyboard and they will enlarge.
Well, I did a little sewing today… Ten Ping now has pink bows on each shoulder and a new slip! I hope to decorate her hat tomorrow! :o)
I’m heading to bed early tonight… too many late nights for me lately!
I’ll see you tomorrow,
Blessings, Jeanne
First of all, thank you for all the lovely responses to my comment yesterday. You gals are the best! And thank you, Jeanne, for your above comment, too.
Rosemary, I’m so sorry about your cat. It’s always so hard to lose a precious pet!
What fun pictures, and so much to look at today! That second picture has two Raggedy Andy dolls in it. When we first got our son, we decorated his room with Raggedy Andy. I had sold Tupperware for a while and they had Raggedy Ann and Andy wall plaques–there was one of each, and then one that had both figures plus some pegs to hang jackets–in their hostess points catalog, so I had bought those, and then found a RA&A bedspread in the Sears catalog. Our son was 3 years old when we got him, so no crib, he had a “big boy bed” right away. Years later, we brought those things to him and his then wife in Kentucky, so they could use them in their son’s room.
In the 4th picture, I see some Hummels in the background. The little girl in the foreground with the straight red hair is a Madame Alexander, I’m sure, but, although she looks very familiar to me, I can’t think of her name offhand. I see a Nancy Ann doll in her polka-doted box in that picture, too
In that last picture, I’m wondering if that doll on the far right is a Sonja Henie doll; my friend Maurine, who was in our doll club of years gone by, had one and that looks a fair bit like hers, as far as I can remember.
Charlotte took the words right out of my mouth as far as identifying some of those dolls! Raggedy Ann and Andy were also a part of my children’s decor in their nursery! At that time, we had a little two bedroom house, and Jennifer and Brian were born just 19 months apart, so there were two Jenny Lind baby beds in their room, with circus wallpaper and Raggedy Ann and Andy dolls for them that a dear friend had made. I still have those dolls, although they don’t look quite as they did when new!
The doll on the right in the last picture is a Sonja Henie doll, and I know because I had one! I got her when I was 9, and she was dressed in the most beautiful skating outfit and had ice skates with silver blades. How I loved her!
The doll next to her, in the brown dress looks to be a Madame Alexander doll from the little Women series. The first pictures were dolls from before my time, I’m afraid!
Thank you to Cindy for sending the pictures! I always love seeing some “old friends” from time to time. They sure do bring back happy memories!