Dear Grandchildren: Thinking twice is always a good thing when you are around big, red, alligators. This one has been very nice to me. She even let me dress her in a sweater and fix her funny, greenish hair into curls. She is as long as the playroom table and …
Hey, Grandchildren: Here is another “this-from-that” puppet for our summer gathering. This-from-that means that a person makes something useful out of something else. This animal is now a puppet and with your help he will be able to walk and talk and wiggle and flop. Wow ! Won’t he love you …
Hey, Grandchildren: I have had my “thinking cap” on for quite some time now. If I start early, I can usually come up with something fun for you to do at our Summer Gathering. I don’t think I will tell you everything I have been thinking about but I will …
One of my favorite children’s books is The Hundred Dresses. It was first published in 1944 by the author Eleanor Estes and illustrated by Louis Slobodkin. It is about a little girl who is very poor who tries to convince her friends that she has one hundred dresses in …
“I’m sitting on top of the world Just rolling along, just rolling along. I’m quitting the blues of the world, Just singing a song, just singing a song.” This is an old song as old goes. It was written by Al Jolson but many people have recorded their own …
Be a Lamp, a Lifeboat or a Ladder. At the top of the globe are a lamp, lifeboat and a ladder. They are joined by a little-boy-turned-angel so that there is someone to light the lamp, row the boat and steady the ladder. I bought the little fellow over 25 years …
Rosie was smashed against the back of the shelf behind the trucks and castles. Her hair was tangled and had in it little sticks and pieces of grass That is how I knew that she had been playing outside. I wasn’t sure if all of the dirt would come off, …
OUTER SPACE These little tins came from the thrift store. These little robots came from the Internet as did the images of outer space. The magnet sheets, on which all are mounted came from Amazon.com. The little cogs and wheels came from my scrapbooking stash and the little magnets …
Silly Stuff Lacing Cards Beautiful handmade dolls by Zwergase. I just love them. I can’t afford to collect them, however. So, I saved some pictures and made them into lacing cards for little people in my family. (The silly duck card is from Zazzle.) Every year, new dolls are made …
I have come to know about Disney Animator Dolls. In case you don’t, they are dolls made for Disney princesses and movie characters. People buy them or thrift them as I have, repaint the eyes, re-do the hair and make specialized personalities for each doll via handmade clothing and accessories. …
