Just One More

I like to do my houses the best in the 1920 to 1940 period. I only have a couple of contemporary houses. It's fun looking for the old style furniture. It's not always easy to find except the kitchens. I have two Victorian houses and they were easiest to furnish.

It was on TV in 1962. I just got the 50's kitchen but the house can be older. I just finished watching 242 Leave it to Beaver episodes to get ideas for furniture from those times. I remember our sofa and kitchen from the 60's. It wasn't too different from now except the kitchens.

I just got a Hallmark mini TV with a light up screen and music from the Beverly Hillbillies. It's the perfect size and the older style TV console cabinet. I've gotten several different Hallmark items over the years and this one is really different because it has the music. I'll try and get a picture in my Picasa album.

We moved so much when I was little, the only thing I had like a dollhouse was a book case my Grandmother let me use when we lived with her for awhile. I used it for the little beds and furniture I made from match boxes. I had a wind up metal piano with Daisy Mae that danced when you wound it up. I took her off the piano and used her as my dollhouse lady. This was in 1947. Everywhere we moved I had some kind of box I made into a dollhouse. I didn't start building real dollhouses until I was about fifty years old and have been doing them ever since. I have 13 finished and furnished houses now and would love to start another but don't know where I'd find the room. I've lost count how many I've built and later sold. My other hobby is dolls so my house looks like a toy store.