[Nfb-krafters-korner] Memories

[Shelbi Hindel]

That sounds wonderful and like something I'd purchase at a craft show. Keep
those prescious memories flowing and feel totally free to share them on
list.
Shelbi


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Sent: September 4, 2014 12:08 PM
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Subject: [Nfb-krafters-korner] Memories

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
 
 
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