DID YOU CLICK ON THE BUTTERFLY?

Hey brave person. My name is Joy. I am one of the dolls that Charlotte made - one of the first dolls. I want to invite you back here on Friday. Charlotte tells me that I am to be the subject of her Show & Tell this week. I'm glad you clicked on that butterfly so I got to meet you or you got to meet me I should say. That lady that made me gets a little silly sometimes, but she means well. 

xoxo Joy

I'VE BEEN TAGGED

Carrie of Oak Rise Cottage has tagged me to tell 7 unusual or random things about myself so here goes.

1. I got my first permanent when I was 2 years old (1938) at a beauty parlor where they used those heated roller things. 
2. I learned to drive on a gear shift car, but can't drive one now.
3. I used to walk 10 miles to school in the snow (no -  just kidding). 
4. I rode a camel at the pyramids in Egypt.
5. I won a horse at a roller skating rink when I was a teenager.
6. I don't like mustard, mayo, catsup or special sauce on my hamburgers. 
   
7. I prefer a bowl of cereal to eggs etc. for breakfast.
   
8. I didn't start drinking coffee until I was 40 and now I drink it twice a day.
   

Hey, that's 8 things. Oh well, one of them didn't count.

Here is a picture of me taken right after I got that first permanent.

Instead of naming those I wish to tag, I'm going to let you consider yourself tagged if you are reading this. 

A MAKE OVER

I was never happy with this doll after I made her. I thought I had hollowed out the eye sockets too much and so the eyes I had to use were too large and didn't especially like the way I painted her face, so one day I decided to just make her a new head.

This is still the "old head" but it looks better here because of the lighting. BTW I took this picture in California on our front porch by potted Azalea plants. Azaleas did wonderfully well in California. The only way we can grow them here in AZ is as houseplants. 

Here she is with her new head. I decided to give her a new wig too. These heads were made from the same mold, but look quite different. This picture was taken in front of a picture. The wooden books are real. They are still in my doll room.

I took a lot of pictures of my dolls back when I made them. In fact, I have a whole photo album filled with these pictures. Photography is another passion of mine, one which I'm enjoying even more with the invention of digital cameras.

Thank you for visiting my Show & Tell. If you are here now (and you obviously are or you wouldn't be reading this. lol) you probably came here from Kelli's place. If you happened to just "stumble in here", click here for more Show & Tell posts.

BUNNIES for SHOW & TELL

Are bunnies dolls? Probably not. So why am I featuring bunnies on my doll blog? Because I want to. Let's just call them bunny dolls and they can pass for dolls.

I made this little bunny family over 20 years ago. I don't have them anymore. I was trying to remember what happened to them. I think - I'm pretty sure - I gave them to one of my nieces. I remember I had fun making them. I decided they needed a spot here in my doll blog so here they are.

I'm grateful to Kelli for hosting the Friday Show & Tell. I've enjoyed participating in this for a long time and I look forward to it every week. Go there to link to lots of interesting S & T posts.

Hugs,

Charlotte

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DANFORTH, RALPHIE & AN AWARD

Before I do my Show & Tell for today I want to acknowledge this award from Carrie at Oak Rise Cottage. She gave me the award specifically for this blog. I haven't been doing this one for very long and am so honored that she gave me this award. 

Now, I'm suppose to give the award to at least seven people. When I started thinking of who I should give it to, I decided to see who had made comments on my Dolls blog. There just happened to be 7 comments on the first post, so I picked those 7. Only one little problems. One of those people was Carrie who just gave the award to me. So, Carrie, I will give you the award as well. Here are the other six people and here are the rules.

1. The winner can put the logo on her blog.

2. Link the person you received your award from.

3. Nominate at least 7 other blogs.

4. Put links of those blogs on yours.

5. Leave a message on the blogs of those you’ve nominated.

ceekay at http://thinkinofhome.blogspot.com/

Katherine at Yellow Rose Arbor

ginger at http://thank-youjesus.blogspotcom/

Louise at http://pinkgate.blogspot.com/

Kate at http://singlehearteddevotion.blogspot.com/

Mam at http://morthanenough.wordpress.com/

Dan Quayle was the Vice President when I made this little guy. That's where I came up with the name Danforth. Some of you may not know that Dan Quayle's name is Danforth. That brings up a political thing because I can't think of him without thinking how the press destroyed the man. Do you think they would have been so vicious if any and I mean any Democrat had stumbled on spelling the word potato? I shouldn't get off on that path.  I apologize. I had no intentions of doing that when I sat down to write this post. Soooo back to the doll. If you have been to my regular blog in the last couple of days you will see that I used this picture in the header. Click here to go there. 

Here is a picture of Danforth pulling Ralphie in his little wagon. If you have been reading my blog for a long time you may remember this doll as the two faced doll. One side has a smiling face and one side has a frowning face. The bonnet covers up the second face. If you would like to know more about Ralphie and see his other face, you can click here to go to that post.

I appreciate all the lovely comments I have received about my dolls. I had so much fun making them. Some have a hard time believing I made these dolls. I know how you feel. The first time I saw the doll our teacher had made, I thought "no way". You can't make a doll like that. But it really isn't hard when you have a good teacher who provides the greenware and shows you how to do it. Now I'm happy to share them with all of you. Have a great weekend.