[Nfb-krafters-korner] Memories

[Henrietta Brewer]

Nothing better then memories for keepsakes. The real items seem to break or get misplaced. 

The dolls and furniture sound terrific.
Henrietta
On Sep 4, 2014, at 12:07 PM, Joyce Kane via Nfb-krafters-korner wrote:

> 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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