RINGS & THINGS for Show & Tell

I just love this silver ring holder that I got for Christmas. It is so handy to keep the rings I wear the most so that I can just pick them off the tree. 

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Two Faced Doll

This is certainly not one of my favorite dolls, but I think it is interesting. That’s why I made it in the first place. It can be turned to one side for a happy face and the other side for a sad face. I like the happy face side the best.

Here the two faced doll (with the happy side up) is pictured with the doll that IS my favorite. She is the largest doll I made. I will feature her sometime in the future and tell you more about her.

The buggy was a Christmas present from my daughter many years ago. She thought I needed a buggy for my doll room. She was right.

Remains of My Cat Collection

Through the years I have had many collections. One of my collections when I was a teenager was ceramic cats (knick knacks). I still have a few of them. The one above was my favorite. I paid $2.50 for it. Everyone thought I was crazy to pay that much for a cat. $2.50 doesn’t sound like much, but it was back in 1955. Most of the cats I had cost less than a dollar each. I think I bought this one at a Hallmark store. The little pedestal it’s sitting on I bought in New Orleans when I visited there in 1989. The background for the picture is a table topper that I now use to cover my sewing machine. When I bought a new sewing machine, I kept the old cabinet. Well, that didn’t work real well. It wouldn’t go down inside like the old one did so I used this table topper to cover it. This makes a pretty good background for several pictures I’ve taken. (Victoria magazine in sidebar is one.)

All of these little cats now live in my doll room.
You should hear the music the little band makes. Well, you can hear it if you have a very good imagination.

Another Hobby

Before I started blogging, I spent a lot of time making DVDs of our photos. Here are some of them on the top shelf of our CD/DVD cabinet. All together I made 22 of them. Actually it was more, because I updated most of them - sometimes more than twice. After I would finish one, I would run across some more pictures that should have been included, so I would have to update it.

Making the labels and covers to put on the holders is almost as much fun as making DVDs, but not quite.

When people come to see us, I don’t bore them with home movies (we never had any of those). I bore them with DVDs.
Here is the front of the one about Carmel & Monterey. That’s a picture of me probably about 25 years ago. We spent our honeymoon in Carmel and those pictures are on the DVD as well as pictures from the many trips we have made back there over the years.

My porcelain doll making days were over when I left California. I guess I was still a little in the doll making mood because shortly after we came here I made these two cloth dolls. The picture below was taken in our back yard. Her wool yarn hair was part of a sweater that I bought in Greece years before. I had remodeled the sweater and had some left over so I unraveled it. I thought it made great hair.

OK It’s back to dolls again. This is my Jeannie Walker doll, (a Madam Alexander doll) that I got for Christmas in 1942. This was never one of my favorites. I was partial to baby dolls. I do think it’s neat that I have a picture of me holding the doll right after I got it. I’m wondering why the Christmas tree was outside. Maybe to take pictures. They didn’t have flash bulbs. That’s my cousin Jerry holding the football. My mother always said this picture should win some kind of award. How many people have a picture of themselves at Christmas with their finger in their nose. But then again how many people would want a picture like that.

As I said, this was never one of my favorite dolls, I don’t know how it is that I ended up keeping it all these years. It even still has the original dress on. Anyway, I’m glad now that I kept it. Man, that doll is 65 years old. If it was a person it could be getting social security.

It’s funny the things I do remember. I remember that the outfit I had on in the picture my Mom ordered for me and when it arrived it was too small. I wore it anyway. I remember a lot of things that happened years ago. Now if I could just remember yesterday.

Show & Tell

Valentines Day is over, but I’m still thinking hearts. Last week I talked about the pretty tins that Brighton jewelry comes in so today I decided to feature some jewelry. Here are two bracelets, two necklaces, two pair of earrings and a ring. (You can’t see it very well, but I have a Brighton belt on in the header picture.) I’ve been collecting Brighton jewelry for about ten years, maybe longer. I got Brighton for birthdays, Mother’s Days, anniversaries, Christmases, and other special occasions. I hardly ever wear any other kind of jewelry now. I have two Brighton necklaces with crosses. I guess they’re my favorites, but I like the hearts awfully well too. Maybe I should be a salesman for Brighton. I'm certainly sold on it. Of course, if gold jewelry is your thing, and not silver, you probably wouldn't like it.

Nannykim asked me what the book was about that I wrote about in last Sunday’s blog. Tomorrow I’ll answer that question.

Show & Tell

Since Valentine’s Day is just around the corner, my thoughts have turned to hearts. I love hearts. I have quite a lot of Brighton jewelry. Almost all their jewelry includes hearts in some fashion. When you buy their jewelry, they always put it in a darling little heart shaped tin. I had a whole bunch of these little tins that I gave away. I kept a few. I’ve been trying to think of ways to use them. The first thing I thought of was a good place to store straight pins and safety pins. Button boxes is a good idea. I just put them on my vanity dresser to look pretty. I bought the round pink tin at a garage sale several years ago because I thought it was pretty. I wonder what it contained when it was new. My best bet is CHOCOLATES. I display it in my doll room.

Show & Tell

I'm not sure how this Show & Tell thing works. But I'm going to try it. I want to share this stained glass window panel I made for my kitchen.