Voracious Readers

Some of my children are such voracious readers they always insist on sitting in the library to be read their story of the day! I  think  antique dolls and books are natural together and having a couple of pink flamingos watching over is a good thing. I find I can fit more books in this bookcase by storing them horizontally. I must have at least 1,500 books of all types and ages. I think the Mets uniform is shrinking, lol.

Hello Dolly(s)

 

Some of my vintage dolls and figurines scanned for a piece of art I made in 2008. Above—All I have left of this Victorial bisque doll is her head and shoulders piece. She's so serene and beautiful though, she'll remain with me forever.

Adorable little fairy figurine. So impish!

One of my own little dolls from my childhood. He's a tattooed warrior in a fabulous feather-and-leather outfit. I used to talk to him for hours as a child.

Disney's "Sleepy" chose to pose without his floppy felt hat. The better to see his sleepy eyes!

 

 Hoohoo's prized Roly-Poly from the late 1920s. Still the pride of my collection.

Sleeping Dolly. She will rest in peace in my collection as long as I am around to curate it.

ThanksgivingColours

Victorian china doll, with handmade Depression era dress, surrounded by vintage tins. I'm pretty sure this doll was "repurposed" during the Depression and updated with a bright new dress for perhaps the daughter of the original owner. I'd find a "proper" Victorian dress for it, or make something more suitable, but who's to say who loved their doll more, mother or daughter? The newer dress is now more than eighty years old, so it stays. And I'm always fascinated with once-bright colors as they age and these tin cases wear them well.

I just finished rewiring this ca 1947 Italian porcelain lamp. It's named Le Chanticleer, but I've always called it the chicken lamp. It was left to me by my mother's first cousin who died just a short time after my mom almost 13 years ago. Corinne bought it on a trip to Italy that year and of all her relatives, I'm the only one that cherished it, lol.

I guess even the wild beasts that roam around Pink Gardens' yard decided to have their own Thanksgiving. This was a cool brown pumpkin with pale gray highlights, but the interior is as orange as a regular pumpkin. I like the way the raccoons left the seeds nicely arrayed on the granite steps. Very Martha—"In-the-sticks-Martha," that is.

One Maple tree in the backyard clings to some of its golden leaves. 

Milkweed Pods—

They look like tangled, fluffy birds to me

Motley Crew Together Again

The doll with the bonnet is the one that I've been searching six days for, in the second-to-last carton left to be opened up. lol. She's missing a shoe now, but I don't doubt it will turn up sooner or later. What I didn't realize was that she was with the doll in the lower right, wearing the terribly stained old lace wrap. They were probably playing hide-and-seek with me. Here they are reunited with their long-lost buddies. I swear they were really happy to see each other again, giggling and talking a mile-a-minute when I put them together again! 

I have a few other antique dolls in other rooms, china and bisque, but they're a bit snobby and never hung out with this motley crew. Also with them was the Teddy Bear with the NY Mets T-shirt and cap. I got that for my mother sometime in the early '90s. She was one of the Mets biggest fans! I take it the two old dolls have become attached to the teddy during their sojourn together in the attic, so I'll leave them together now.