Happy Easter! In my new tradition of turning over holidays to my children, we will be celebrating on Saturday at my youngest daughter's house. I baked brownies and a lemon pound cake tonight. Tomorrow I am putting together crack green beans, scalloped potatoes and chicken breast stuffed with asparagus. I bought a sliced ham. But I don't have to clean my house.
I have two kitchens in my dollhouse. This little doll is in the second kitchen with my Hallmark appliances and white furniture.
The ice box is from the inherited kitchen. I bought the wooden cabinet set about ten years ago. The kitty is waiting for scraps.
The Dionne quintuplet on the right is holding court around the fireplace in a living room in sad need of remodeling. In my defense my sister in-law who owned this house originally let her toddler daughter play with it.
The papoose in the den has her own dollhouse. The footstool was made for me by author Camille Minichino (writing as Margaret Grace) in her dollhouse miniature cozy mystery series. She hosted a giveaway on her blog and personalized the prize for me. Camille passed away in May. Not only did she author two award winning mystery series, she was a former nun and a nuclear physicist. For real! She also invited me to "Noir at the Bar" a literary event that is part of the Lit Quake mystery authors conference in San Francisco during the pandemic. The event was held on line and we sat at home with cocktails while several mystery authors read chapters or short stories of their work.
The reindeer and elves are sleeping in the upstairs bedrooms.
Second cataract surgery completed. I have had a few more side effects this time but plowing through. Today we even made it to the gym.
Oh I love your dollhouse! I had one as a kid but it was metal with plastic furniture. Our toy animals took over of course and tossed the people out.
ReplyDeleteHave a wonderful weekend. Happy Easter.
You made me homesick for my dollhouse! You have so many neat things in yours. I especially love the dollhouse within a dollhouse and the ice box. Have a good Easter.
ReplyDeleteYay for you being cataract free! Keep on healing. Have a fun Easter...you certainly made a feast, but don't have to clean house at least!
ReplyDeleteWell I'm not the dollhouse type but your Easter food sounded delicious Miss Merry. My heart broke a little when I saw that big bandage on your eye, but I'm just glad it went well and I hope you're not in a lot of discomfort. It's a pretty photo of you too. :^)
ReplyDeleteI loved seeing the dollhouse and hearing about it. The footstool is special, for sure.
ReplyDeleteYou're doing lots for Easter, at least you don't have to clean!
Yeah for your second eye surgery! Hope all goes well for you. We have like four days of one drop in one eye left to do. It is a remarkable surgery! My husband got a clear shield to wear for 24 hours....I had a bandage and a perforated metal shield on my eyes when I had them done.
ReplyDeleteBeautiful doll house. If you're ever in Kansas City, MO, you need to visit the toy and miniature museum. It has several small and big dollhouses. Be careful with the eye. Weren't you supposed to let it rest at home instead of the gym? Linda in Kansas
ReplyDeleteI love seeing your dollhouse. It's something I always wanted to do and never did. The woman in the photo looks like Della Street from Perry Mason! How fun to have two of them, and especially those with some personal connection. I love the mini-dollhouse too! Happy Easter -- have fun at your daughter's and don't overdo!
ReplyDeleteThat doll house is amazing! I also have to say that the photo of you is shocking. You look so young!
ReplyDeleteHow fun to see your dollhouse and to hear about the footstool ! Love, love the little dollhouse inside the dollhouse, so sweet. Great story and great photos of you. Have a wonderful Easter celebration with your family and don’t work too hard. Best wishes and take care, Virginia
ReplyDeleteGlad your Surgeries have gotten done and you're on the Mend now. Also that Dollhouse is lovely, something about miniatures has always appealed to me so I kept a lot of Princess T's Dollhouse accessories and have them stored away in an Antique Typeset Cabinet's Drawers. She's now glad I kept them since she's having Nostalgia for some of her Childhood stuff she thought she was Over once she turned 13. *LOL* It's good to turn over the Holidays to the next Generations and relieve ourselves of some of the Work and responsibilities... along with cleanup. The Man and I now always have a Tradition of going to a Greek Restaurant for our Easter Dinner and a spit Roasted Lamb they do there. Sometimes we make a return visit on Greek Orthodox Easter. So we have Reservations there for Tomorrow Afternoon and then we'll see if, on the 12th, Orthodox Easter, I have enuf $$$ to go again? Happy Easter my Friend.
ReplyDeleteYour dollhouse is absolutely adorable. It's so much fun to look into it.
ReplyDeleteI hope your eye surgery heals quickly. Have a wonderful, delicious Easter celebration!
Dear Miss Merry, your dollhouse is fantastic. I am glad your surgery is done and I wish you a full recovery.
ReplyDeleteHappy Easter to you, dear friend.
I'm honored and delighted that you spent your Easter Eventide to come visit!! I know your weekend must have been busy. I tried to order a Margaret Grace book, but the $45+ of the two I found was beyond my sampling. I know you enjoyed your correspondence; my authors of acquaintance were all Southern---four of them gone now: Miss Welty, Barry Hannah and a set-up date with Willie Morris to a blues concert in Oxford. An old beau who became just a friend knew I loved his work, and invited me to join him and his new girlfriend for the concert, with the surprise (Startle/almost paralysis) of Willie's company for the evening. And then WM insisted that we go to his house for "Russian Tea," which turned out to be that recipe from the 70s with the dry tea and all the cinnamon and clove that everybody served at Winter baby showers and the like. Huge thunderstorm, and when I called home (on WIllie's home phone) to see if Leah was OK at home 50 miles away, she was so surprised at the company I was keeping she couldn't talk. I've lived a very interesting life in small parcels.
ReplyDeleteAll good wishes and pleasant dreams, Sweet Friend.
Happy Easter, Miss Merry. What a blessing, not slaving over a stove and madly cleaning the house!!
ReplyDeleteWOW....how cool about the footstool. Things like that are so neat and allow your readers to know that authors and such are people like us. Best of luck with those surgeries, mom was always so glad she had hers done
ReplyDeleteJust wanted to say hi to one of my favorite bloggers, I hope you are well MM. Hope we get a Memory Monday in a couple days. 😊👍
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