The winner of one of the baby patterns is Carol.
I love the hunt! One of the things I did on our antiquing trip through Iowa was hunt for dollhouse furniture for my metal dollhouse that my granddaughter Rowan and I play with. I was having so much fun because I accumulated a whole park for the outside of the house. Then I found this rec room/garage that I have not seen before. We are calling it the man cave for the daddy doll.
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| Back of the house. I bought it originally for $40.00 at a antique store. It had a few pieces of furniture with it when I got it. |
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| Front of the house. I took it to quilt market once and used all the rooms for office supplies. |
I have to show you close-ups of some our favorite pieces that I just bought on our trip.
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| Our dollhouse guard dog! You push on the chimney and then it makes a barking sound. |
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| Our TV for our man cave. It's actually a salt and pepper shaker. You turn the big knob and the shakers come up. |
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| The lid goes on this little washing machine. |
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| The sewing machine folds down just like the big ones. |
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| The little bowl slides in underneath the little potty chair. |
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| The highchair / rocker in the highchair position. |
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| The highchair / rocker in the rocker position. |
I also came across this early cardboard Barbie Dream House and had to take a photo. My sister Julie and I had one of these. Ours was all blue instead of brown and blue. When someone passed it on to us to play with it only had a few pieces of furniture unlike this one. I can't remember what the price of this one was....but I remember it wasn't cheap. It was a nice trip down memory lane seeing this one.
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| Front of the house all folded out. It folds up like a suitcase and has a handle for carrying. |
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| The three rooms with all the cardboard furniture. |
My Grandma Bess had a metal dollhouse with a few pieces of furniture that I played with when I was little. I am so enjoying my second childhood playing with Rowan. I really didn't need an excuse but having Rowan and now Norah her little sister makes it so COMPLETE! It is so much fun being a grandma!
Make a comment about your second childhood. It might be buying the Easy-Bake Oven that you always wanted or the sporty car that you couldn't afford in your youth. We will pick a comment by random for a chance to win a Quilt Diva pin. We will announce the winner next Monday - October 21st.
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Wow that brought back some memories! My second childhood involved me buying my first sewing machine a few years ago and learning how to sew. Now, I quilt and make plushies and all the fun stuff I wished I could have done when I was younger.
ReplyDeleteSo cool that I won...love it...thank you! That doll is so fun looking!
ReplyDeleteI love to play with my daughters American girl dolls. I love to make clothes for them too. Ok she outgrew the dolls but I still make clothes for them and now get the great nieces to play with them with me..lol..such fun. I always wanted one growing up but never had one. So I can relive my childhood with her dolls
ReplyDeleteI had "your" doll house in my youth. It's fun to see it again. As I enter second childhood, it is so much fun to play tea party with my grand daughter, with the tea sets I never had, but I do now.
ReplyDeleteYep, me too, I had the metal doll house - early 50s is my guess. I have my 'child's stove' which I bought with my birthday money probably when I was 9ish. It was a forerunner to Easy Bakes and it REALLY cooks. We can fry potatoes and makes pancakes on the top burners. The oven bakes up a mean cake and does cookies! The first time I used it (in the living room!) the folks were shocked it got so hot. That was the last time it was in the living room; the kitchen was the only place it was allowed! It's still fun though I'm rather a nervous nelly when it comes to the grands.
ReplyDeleteBuying the vintage ColorForms Count Dracula set. I LOVE having it again - don't remember what happened to the set I had as a kid.
ReplyDeleteI remember playing with my doll house also. I had a small sewing machine that you turn the handle on and it really sewed. I loved it.
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