It’s literally taken years, but I finally picked up my old doll collection from East Milton. It took two suitcases, a shopping bag, and a big box to pack them all, but here they be.<\/p>
It’s literally taken years, but I finally picked up my old doll collection from East Milton. It took two suitcases, a shopping bag, and a big box to pack them all, but here they be.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-533","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/hendersonbrook.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/533","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/hendersonbrook.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/hendersonbrook.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hendersonbrook.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hendersonbrook.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=533"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/hendersonbrook.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/533\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/hendersonbrook.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=533"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hendersonbrook.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=533"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hendersonbrook.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=533"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
\nMany of the dolls aren’t worth keeping, the ones that are cheaply made and have no special character.
\nMost of the dolls are beautiful, though, especially the ones from a doll club I belonged to when I was a kid. A doll from a different country would arrive each month (or maybe every other month).
\nI bought a hutch, oh, five years ago, with lights and glass shelves, largely so I’d have a place to put my dolls – eventually.
\nIn the meantime, I’d filled up the hutch with junk, and I always felt guilty looking at the wasted space.
\nSo, today, I cleaned out the hutch, washed the glass and put in the dolls<\/a>, divided roughly by region – Asia\/Middle East\/Africa on the first shelf, Europe on the second, and mostly North\/South America on the third, including what I’m told was one of my very first dolls.
\nI’ve also been trying to clean up the house, which was a disaster – so much computer equipment in the living room that I haven’t been able to vacuum, papers everywhere, etc.
\nPlus, yesterday the kids came over for a couple of hours, and there were a few things left to stow away, a remote to be found and dishes to wash.
\nI thought I was doing so well: arranged the dolls, cleaned up the living room and the guest room, vacuumed, found the missing remote and a bag of batteries for the digital camera….and just now, I put bleach in a colored clothes wash, thus ruining 2 shirts and a sock.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"