[Nfb-krafters-korner] Memories

[Blindhands at aol.com]

Talking about making things out of ice cream sticks, sparked a memory for  
me that I had to share.
 
Going back to my sighted days and when I was into craft shows and babies  
and little kids, I made sock dolls and especially sock clowns.  
 
I don't know where I saw this or how John, muy husband came up with it, but 
 he would take wooden clothes pins.  The ones that have the metal thingy  
that you could press and it opens up the other end.  Well by taking out the  
metal and just using the wooden parts, he would glue them together and make 
a  small rocking chair out of them.  I would make a sock doll out of a 
child's  cotton sock.  She would have a calico dress with a hat that was trimmed 
in  a small width lace with yarn hair and an embroidered face.  I would put 
her  in the chair and sell the doll sitting in the chair.  He then designed 
out  of the wooden clothes pins a cradle.  I made a calico mattress with a  
pillow and sold just that without any doll.  There was a picture in the  
past of him sitting at the kitchen table with some of them being made and some  
sitting with the glue drying.  No glue gun use for this..  It was  tacky 
clue.
 
I never did save one of those for keepsake, but my Mom has one of the dolls 
 sitting in the rocking chair still on her dresser.  That will be my  
keepsake some day.
 
Joyce