My family often gave me a doll for christmas or my birthday or just for the heck of it, no special reason at all. I soon had well over a hundred dolls in my collection. So it was quite the norm when Joey and Meredythe fly to Florida for Christmas week they gave me a doll with extra clothes in a doll suitcase.

It was an adorable set. After a few years I started giving some of those dolls to certain ones of my family. And that little doll Meredythe and Joey had given me actually looked like their daughter and my granddaughter Jodi so who better to have that doll.

When Jodi was little I had made her a set of clothes for one of her dolls. So I decide to discard the extra clothes that came with the doll, make a few new outfits for this little doll that looked like her, buy a couple new pair of shoes and socks, put them all in that little doll suit case and present them to my granddaughter Jodi for a keepsake.

This is the doll and doll clothes I made for Jodi. Continue reading

My self portrait age 20

I never in my entire life had sense enough to stop working. I am going to relate to you, my good friends, a few samples of this crazy work-a-holic, ME.

In my freshman high school year every Monday morningmy sister Fannie and I set our alarm for 3:30AM to put a boiler of water on the stove to heat, collected everyone’s dirty laundry plus towels et cetera and did the family washing on a ringer MAYTAG washing machine. Most of you reading this probably never heard of such a thing but believe-you-me at that tender age of fourteen I had a good initiation to it.

Then before getting ready to go to school we hung everything on a clothes line strung up outside to dry through the day while we were at school. We also did all the ironing which included many of our brothers’ white shirts. Continue reading

Have you wished for one very special thing for many, many years and finally at long last had that dream fulfilled? Over the years I carried this dream in the back of my head of having a brand spanking new house built to my specifications!!!!!!

When my husband and I moved to Florida from that lovely home half way up Lower Brush mountain on Karda drive just outside of Hollidaysburg Pennsylvania, we purchased a building lot in Sorrento East subdivision and ordered a new Richmond home built.

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I had three daughters and my sister Bobbie had three sons. Since she didn’t have any little girls I decided to give her a pretty little F&B doll.

Over the years we were each very busy and I had forgotten all about that doll until after I was 83 years old and moved from Florida to Salem ohio and she was 89 years old and brought that doll to a Rockhold family reunion and presented it to me for my doll collection. What a lovely thing for her to do.

It had straight long red air that looked quite skimpy and it needed to be restrung. You know! The rubber band inside the doll had gotten weak with age and its head, arms and legs were all floppy. Continue reading

Portrait of Baby Terri

That jet plane is bringing my daughter Susie, my grandchildren five year Terri and three year old Tommy from Chicago O’Hare airport and is coming down to land on a runway at Columbus Ohio International airport.

Little five year old Terri starts to cry and says “This isn’t Gramma’s house. I want to go to Gramma’s.”

My brother Bugs made everything right! He met them at their gate (you could do that way back when) took them to where his plane was parked on the tarmac and they all four took to the sky heading for his runway beside his home. That little girl’s Gramma, me, was just across the road visiting with my mother in her home for a few minutes while waiting for them to land. Continue reading