The Doll's Christmas Day, 2010

Here are the Doll's presents, all in one basket.

Ana Doll already has her own Doll and seems surprised to receive a gift bag.

Marie Claire has two presents.

Abigail has been given a doll of her own.  No longer will she be all alone, no matter where she is displayed.  I hope that will make her look less sad.  Christine is already opening her first box.

Miss Molly Polly has been the Hostess for this whole thing.  She's been with me the longest, 63 years today.  She was purchased for $.50 at McAtees in Owensboro, Kentucky.  She's a Toni Doll.  She came in a box with little bottles of setting lotion.  Her hair has been washed many times and is now kind of thin but of course, she has a little age on her!

 

Already a pile of boxes is growing on the carpet.

Oh, look, it's a photo of me and Miss Molly Polly, taken years ago.  Note that the card reads:  "To my life's companion."

Christine has a dolly too, as well as a purse, which she refuses to take off her arm. 

Beatrice has a dolly of her own too and Goldilocks has a lovely real pendant to hang over the printed one on her neck.

Katrina has a rather gaudy trinket but she is perfectly happy with it.  All the jewelery is compliments of Oshe.

Little Joe has a Teddy Bear and is grinning about it as you can see!

Rita has a pendant necklace too and she looks very beautiful, doesn't she?

Ana Doll has received some note cards, no doubt she will be asked to send some Thank You's for all the dolls.

Mary has dropped her Christmas card but in just a minute Abe will reach down and pick it up for her!

The Bairn is delighted with his beetle in a closeable box.  The legs wiggle in the most amazing way!

Beatrice has discovered an article in the trade paper about Dolls being in an Auction.  She was purchased at an auction too and is most interested.  A Doll always wants to know how much she might be worth on the market even though she wouldn't want to go anywhere else.  She's happy here.  She's wearing a relatively new dress and a real (though very small) opal on a chain.

So we are surfing the net to see more Dolls like them.  And while I may have the tag sticking out of my dress, the dolls are always nicely and neatly dressed.  They are very proud of their vintage clothing.  You can see Christine has a new wig from Dollsparts.  Before that she was bald for years!  You can see in the other photos that she is much happier to have that taken care of!

     So we have had a lovely Christmas and hope you all will have one too.  I am already thinking about dinner!

Christmas is approaching!

The doll's tea party has been set up for a couple of days.  Today the napkins were distributed and several dolls are holding teacups on their laps.  Some have tasted of the goodies but since they are fake, it's more anticipation than actual eating going on!  As many dolls as can fit have crowded onto the trunk in the living room, where there is a long pew-like seat for them.  This India silver tea pot is about 3 inches tall and had to be polished roundly last Wednesday!

I have been signing the Christmas cards with both our signatures and sealing the envelopes with glue.  Most say "Have a sweet, sweet Christmas!"  Note the tiny stamps.  There are still plenty of cards left.

    

Here are the cards in the little mailbox.  It's about 6 inches tall.

Now the flag is up for the mailman.  My husband, Bill, collects the cards and cancels them with a special partridge stamper.  Then they appear in the mailbox again the next day!

 

Katrina is like to lose her cup in her excitement over her card, the first one she has ever gotten.  How I have neglected my poor dolls!

Cards and napkins are scattered every where.

Christine has her hands up in excitement too.  Little Hannah, on her left, seems a little nervous at Christine's enthusiasm.

Abigail seems a little overwhelmed but is certainly not as sad as she usually is.

Rita has been strumming Christmas carols for the others well into the night.  One cannot say that the dolls have not celebrated Christmas this year!

     I have their presents ready and they will receive them tomorrow morning, after our breakfast.  Then we will really see some excitement!  I shall sleep happily tonight anticipating the Doll's Christmas tomorrow.  Let us all count our blessings!

     It has been a while since I posted,  I really meant to do better than that.  The holidays sucked up all my time.  We had a lovely Thanksgiving, with steak and baked potatoes, Bisteeya, stuffed zucchini, and many other goodies.  My brother Ernie came and brought a pecan pie.  My daughter Rose brought Chocolate silk tarts.  It was all delicious.  The next day we lunched with still more family.

     Here are my son John and daughter-in-law, Jenny and their three sons, Sam, Eli, and Julian at lunch.  Rose is on the left and Ernie is on the right.  Vince is not there yet.  We had green curry and a very good time.

     After Thanksgiving we had some warm days and I was able to work on the trunk.  The house was already clean so I didn't have much in the way of housework to use as an excuse to procrastinate.

Now I need to paint the iron work and put on the clear coat.  A few more warm days, please!
 

      The dolls' Christmas is coming along nicely and I will begin mailing their cards next week, when I do ours.  I have composed a Christmas letter for us this year rather than buying cards.  I really owe people letters rather than cards.  But the dolls will have cards with candy and Santas on them.  I have begun wrapping the presents too.  Of course for most of my family I will need to mail the presents, hence the early wrapping.  But I may as well get the dolls' presents wrapped too!  I can't wait to see the pile.
      I have put up a tiny feather tree, some lights and some framed Santa pictures, and a bright Pointsettia centers the table.  And today, I burned up the orange slices I was candying!  At least the rice pudding for dinner is baking nicely.