My childhood doll crib
Rose Pekelnicky
2 months ago
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I've this doll bed since I was a little girl. I just got it out of the attic and put it together. My granddaughter is coming in a couple weeks and I think she would like playing with it. Now I need to sew some bedding for it. I plan to repaint it this summer.
Apparently my father paid about $10 for that doll bed, which must have been a lot at the time. He probably made less than $2 an hour back then
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Comments (9)I've sewn doll clothes for years(over 40),for my DD then GD'S and now GGD's.And the other poster are correct,get the doll first.I have a soon to be 3 year old GGD,and she loves the soft dolls i make,(think rag dolls).She loves to drag them around with her for play and for bedtime.I make her the dolls and the clothes.She isn't to the stage yet where she just wants to change their clothes all the time,she just likes playing with them,talking to them etc. I've made her dolls,bunnies,bears etc,and different sizes in all of them.Then she just took over some of those sort of dolls that i keep around the house for when the kids come over. If she lives close by,take your cues from her!!My almost 3 year oldGGD plays with Barbies,but she doesn't try to dress and undress them yet.She just talks to/with them,and shows them her other babies.Make sure to make her some dollie blankets as well. I have doll patterns going back to when my DD was little 44 years ago,and for all sorts of dolls. Check your thrift stores also for old doll patterns,ours has lots of them from time to time. 2 years ago i made a wardrobe for my niece for her American Girl doll,she was 11 at the time.She was thrilled!! Kathi...See MoreHow much/what do you have from your own childhood?
Comments (11)but it seems like the memory is often in much better condition than the toys actually were. This is so true! I nearly "lost" a wonderful memory because of this. When I was a little girl, I helped with a skit as an ending to a performance by a barbershop quarter of high school boys (my dad as a drama coach, and helped them with it--I was the "love interest" at the end of "What Ain't We Got, We Ain't Got Dames"--not something you'd make jokes about now, though. I was a little bit in love with all of them, but especially curt. (I was, oh, 6.) After the contest was over, the boys got together and bought me a purple bunny with yellow satin lining in his ears, and Curt (swoon!) brought it for me. I LOVED that bunny. Loved it. Slept with it, carried it everywhere. Kept it around as I got older. At some point he ended up in a box in the attic. And when I was a young adult, out on my own, my mom & dad sent me all my stuff from the attic, including my stuffed animals. They were really in a sorry state--misshapen, coarse, and dirty. Their present-day reality pretty much overwrote my wonderful memories of them from when they were lovely (or, loved and their misshapenness completely invisible because of it). I have a few things I treasure: -the license plate w/ my unusual first name that my grandparents had custom-made for me -the cloth doll that "my little old lady down the block" gave to me, and I used to create a room design that won a red ribbon at the Iowa State Fair. -the "Night Before Christmas" book that I was given as a kid, and read from every Christmas -the printed velvet vest that my mom made for me (part of a set, but I accidentally ruined the skirt); I could wear it up until relatively recently....See MoreIs there a childhood toy you wished you still had?
Comments (48)The only toy that I remembered really loving was a toy electric organ. But it broke. Remember taking it apart and knowing what was needed to fix it. Definitely would not be the Tinker Toys. We played with them a lot; so much that they wouldn't stay stuck together. I think that is when I learned to cuss. I would have loved Legos but they weren't around (in the US) when I was a kid. Did have a lot of dolls but was never into playing with them much. As I got older, I was more into trying to make clothes for them on my mom's sewing machine but wasn't very good at that. Prolly where I got my second lesson in cussin'. So, no there aren't any toys that I wished I still had...but I do wish that I had had Legos so I could miss not having them now. :-) Best toy was the sandbox that Dad built for us. He built a brush arbor (primitive pergola covered w/ cut willow branches) over it so we had shade. We spent hours out there with those die cast metal cars...the larger ones that were forerunners to Hot Wheels...building roads & tunnels. And a couple of bigger earth movers--Tonkas or Tonka like. The cars were more fun than the Tonkas. Next best was the Red Wagon and then my bicycle....See More
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