Our Latest Creative Ideas... :)

Impractical as usual, but we shall not be deterred! :) Sarah and I have made many dolls before...rag dolls, paper-mache puppet dolls, finger-tip puppet dolls, pin-cushion dolls, paper dolls, flower dolls, vegetable dolls, and pretty much any you can think of! But when watching part of the new Sense and Sensibility, I saw Margaret Dashwood's wooden dolls and wanted to make some so badly! :) I wouldn't play with them exactly, but I'd love to make a few! I think Margaret's were actually marionettes, because she was putting on a play with them, but wouldn't that be fun? Some wooden dolls are pretty scary looking, so I'd be sure to make mine pretty! :) I love the old Colonial dress-makers' dolls! They got to wear prettier clothes than anyone else's! :P But I can't figure out how to make the wooden body and head...I'm not much of a hand at carving anything, and neither are the boys.....I mean, carving something so detailed! We can all whittle sharp ends onto sticks for arrows, marshmallow-roasting, etc. or make a spoon or two but that's all! :) So I guess my plan will have to go by the wayside, but can't you imagine a play we put on with gorgeously dressed wooden dolls? :) I still want to do it someday!

Here is a pretty doll, but her clothes need some work! :)

This guy needs shorter hair, but their clothes are pretty detailed! They remind me most of Margaret's dolls!

This doll has a scary face, most likely caused by continuous dropping-by-a-child :) But her clothes are sweet!

Aw! I love this doll! But I would have chosen different hair to make her more wooden-looking...know what I mean?

There are so many books written about wooden dolls! :) The Tale of Two Bad Mice, Miss Hickory, Hitty's First Hundred Years...and I'm sure there are more! :) Anyway, this is just the latest creative thing bobbling around in my brain...impractical, and I'm sure Sarah will be able to talk sense into me, but interesting nevertheless! :) -Rachel

"The Pink People"

Hey guys! I lost the Thanksgiving poem I did write. I left it on a legal pad that Mama and Daniel used for a meeting about his graduation, so I never saw it after that. So much for soliloquizing about pilgrims and feasts and giving thanks! If I find it I'll post it! Sarah is planning on doing a post about the history of Thanksgiving tomorrow of something, but for now, (to finally explain the title of the post) here is a poem I wrote this afternoon about Gracie's favorite group of dollhouse people! Tell me what you think of it! :)

"The Pink People"
By Rachel Heffington
They are a little family
As real to her as you and me
Residing in this grand doll house-
There is a Mama and her spouse
The Papa, though, is "only blue"

As she will gravely say to you,

As if we all would surely think

The only thing to be is pink.

For pink are all the little girls,

(One has a bow atop her curls)

And petal-pink is Danny Boy

(For he is just a painted toy)

The baby too is just that shade

And proudly are they all displayed:

The chosen favorites of Grace

Who neatly now are set in place,

As we proclaim atop a steeple,

"Hooray for all the pinkest people!"

-Rachel