Doll's houses have been a feature this Spring.
My Missus is putting together a Teddy room in a suitcase for our Granddaughter.
Those tiny teddies are really hard to find.
The blue bed is made from lolly sticks.
Visiting Cartwright Hall gallery last month I snapped this old doll's house.
Here it is from the rear, together with spooky effects!
and I loved this, a large Moorish toy house made of wood all stacked up on a wheeled cart!
Gorgeous.
Is there a doll's house in your life?
Years ago I lost a friend to cancer. Her husband gave us her childhood dollhouse, which her father had made for her. So we could remember her. We cleaned it up for our own daughter, and spend years bringing home furniture and little anthropomorphic rabbits to live inside. Eventually she outgrew it and wanted to pass it on to someone else, so we gave it to one of the neighbors who had a little girl. Her face lit up when she saw it.
ReplyDeleteThat's a very touching memory Baron. I'm glad you were able to pass on the treasured house to a new generation.
DeleteOn the border of Bradford and Shipley, Cartwright Hall, sitting in Manningham Park, was a familiar place to me as a child. I was often taken there by my mum as a toddler and child, and later went on school and college visits there in the 60s and 70s.
ReplyDeleteSuch a small world Mish! Our Grandkids love Cartwright Hall. They can draw with the crayons and paper in the Museum. Great fun and sounds like it has been for decades!
DeleteI still have all the dollhouse furniture I bought for the kids when I was stationed in Germany. Most of the pieces are still in their boxes as they were never used.
ReplyDeleteThey must be quite a collection Ed!
Deleteit's decent. Lots of the furniture is handmade wooden Bauernmalerei (aka tole painting, boat painting) I got at Globus by an unbranded firm
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