Enough About Me, How is the Doll House Doing?

Thanks for listening and for the suggestions on my bone health. Just a quick paragraph. At age 59, before my husband retired and we had to self pay a reduced benefit policy, I went for every test possible. My bone scan was fine. The information about dextroscoliosis and degenerative bone spurring in the spine was in the second page of an online chest x-ray report before surgery for my extremely painful spiral fracture a year later and each x-ray is listed separately with separate reports and I did not go through all of them.  When I reached Medicare age, I went for all my testing again and was surprised when she called with the results. (not that she provided any information about the results, just a recommended treatment). The report says I meet the criteria for osteopenia and shows a 15.9% decrease in bone mineral density from L1 to L4, a 15% decrease in bone mineral density of the left femoral neck and a 13.1% decrease in bone mineral density off the right femoral neck "when compared with the prior exam". I do not have a copy of the report from the prior exam. Anyway, I am over it. I am waiting a year and making an appointment with someone else and discussing it with them. In the meantime I have added 2 Oscal 500 plus D tablets to my morning pills and I am ignoring what I think is a radical treatment that was suggested.

I did get Santa and all my elves to bed for the year. While going through some of the miscellaneous boxes I re-found four little dolls that I think belonged to my mother. I placed them downstairs in the dollhouse for safe keeping. My youngest granddaughter is very upset about this. 

She thinks the bigger dolls are out of place. And she is especially concerned about what Santa will think about this when he wakes up. 

I tried to do a little research on the littlest dolls. The bald doll is listed on Ebay a few places as a "Russian Peasant Doll". Mine is not exactly the same as the others. My clothing, which I am sure is original, seems to be sewn better than the other examples, but the face, legs, feet and tiny hands are identical. And mine is missing a wig and a head covering. 

The doll in the felt dress seems kind of 1920's to me. She is stamped "Made in Japan" on her back. I see similar examples to mine - most with curly blonde molded hair in the back; mine has a dark bob. And the dress on my doll seems unique, though period. Her straight arms and legs are jointed with crude wires which is how the similar ones I saw on Ebay were made. They were marked "vintage" and did not give an age.

The baby doll in the front is plastic and the one in the back of the room is a Madam Alexander Baby Dionne Quintuplet. I do know those were my mother's dolls and I remember that she and my grandmother let me play with all five when I was too young to appreciate them. I would change their clothes and I think that I do have one more sun suit somewhere. As the threading in the limbs came loose, I am pretty sure the other sisters got thrown away. Oh, what we didn't know then.  

I bought this Christmas refrigerator ornament on clearance at our local Hallmark store maybe in the late 80's or early 90's? I had no idea there was a matching Hallmark Christmas stove until my neighbor shared she had found one. Well, the cost is now about ten times what they cost new, but I decided that was what my husband needed to get me for Christmas this year and I am absolutely in love with it. 

It is very difficult to take any interior photos in the house's new location. Fortunately I have found a doll house store within a road trip away and I think I am adding some kind of lighting to the rehab project.