Thursday, December 27, 2007

Here is Muffy, my favorite doll! I was 6 I think when I received her and my memory is that she was a gift from Grandma Rife. She is in her origional outfit. The case was built by Dad and is a really great work of wood.

These are outfits for Muffy...the ones on the left were sewn by Mom and the ones on the right were sewn by Aunt Maureen. My favorite gift every year was doll clothes made by Aunt Maureen.
This little doll was a Nancy Ann Storybook doll and in front of her are very old doll dishes. The pitcher I think was Grandma Rife's and the glass dishes were from a set Mom had as a little girl. I called these the "High Heel" dolls. The one on the left is a "Revlon" doll and was expensive at the time. The one on the left was a much less expensive doll that was ordered from the Speigel Catalogue (talk about things of the past.) They are each wearing outfits made by Mom, who was an excellent seamstress.
These are also outfits made by Mom. The corderoy coat and hat...beautiful and the capri outfit is "amazing" with its hand made frog closures. Wow, Mom.