My nieces spend a lot of time at my house. I don’t have an x-box, video games, or even now a computer as the desktop died recently. But we do have board games (Clue, Life, Monopoly), jigsaw puzzles, lots of decks of cards, books and movies. When the girls were 7 and 8 I bought a dollhouse kit and spent Christmas Eve putting it together for them. Since then I purchased a second larger one (already assembled) which is the one they have in their bedroom at my house. We use dogs and cats rather than dolls - we agreed that the dolls sort of creeped us out a bit. They are now 13 and 14 respectively and they still mess around with that doll house. I found them in there just the other day meticulously arranging the rooms to absolute perfection.(see photos to the right)
Yesterday I went to the doll house store to have a look-see. They have a wide array of doll houses, both assembled as well as do -it-yourself kits, loads of teeny-tiny furniture, and all the other bits and pieces needed to create another universe. I started talking to a mother and her daughter while there, the daughter in the process of buying her very first doll house, She already creates little scenes using doll house furniture but as yet does not have an actual house. Got the impression she was doing the buying - good for her. As we were talking, I found out she’s a big reader and loves to bake - shades of me at that age. It was a treat talking to a kid who revels in using her imagination - and good for her Mom for supporting it.
Sometimes when my nieces have left to go back home, I walk by their room catch the doll house out of the corner of my eye in a somewhat disheveled state and am compelled to stop what I’m doing, grab a chair, sit myself down to rearrange a whole new world.
Yesterday I went to the doll house store to have a look-see. They have a wide array of doll houses, both assembled as well as do -it-yourself kits, loads of teeny-tiny furniture, and all the other bits and pieces needed to create another universe. I started talking to a mother and her daughter while there, the daughter in the process of buying her very first doll house, She already creates little scenes using doll house furniture but as yet does not have an actual house. Got the impression she was doing the buying - good for her. As we were talking, I found out she’s a big reader and loves to bake - shades of me at that age. It was a treat talking to a kid who revels in using her imagination - and good for her Mom for supporting it.
Sometimes when my nieces have left to go back home, I walk by their room catch the doll house out of the corner of my eye in a somewhat disheveled state and am compelled to stop what I’m doing, grab a chair, sit myself down to rearrange a whole new world.
Would have loved to have kept that doll house from Grandma's Lenape house... it was in her pink room! She used to buy cool lil sets at a doll house shop in Lane Ave and it was a treat to go with her to pick stuff out. I wonder what ever happened to that house...
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