I have an ongoing fantasy about living in a Tasha Tudor book (if you don't know Tasha, I highly recommend forming an acquaintance. Your imagination will become more charming by the page). In my favorite book of all, A Time to Keep, Tasha's family puts on a doll fair for their dolls. We decided that we should do this, too.
The flower show and button money...
...getting ready for the musical number
The girls decorated a carriage so Mrs. Squirrel could arrive in style. Anything less would just be humiliating, really.
Pants, and the presence of hair on top of one's head, were optional for the toddler crowd.
special button jewelry was required.
p.s. Remember the game hen we were in the process of mummifying? My husband just reported to me that the feral cats in our neighborhood tore open the bags it was packed in (I had put it on a corner of our porch to cure - no way that thing was staying inside) and ripped it apart! Wow. Gross, and probably the end of that particular experiment.
I love A Time to Keep! I kind of want piles of corgis running about our 'estate'
ReplyDeleteI also have dreams of that wonderful birthday with the cake floating down the river.
Dreamy.
cool!!
ReplyDeleteJess - that cake - i KNOW!!! wouldn't that be amazing?!
ReplyDeleteI need to read these books.
ReplyDeleteI love the doll fair party. Neat idea
Beaker! Sorry, I was following until I say him! memories!
ReplyDeleteI loved, loved, loved that book when I was little. And I would have freaked out at the awesomeness of putting on a real doll fair with my own dolls! This is amazing. I bet they'll remember this for the rest of their lives.
ReplyDeleteWhat a gorgeous idea! Can't wait to do something like that when my little girls are older!
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Oh! I read a gardening book about her a few years ago and immediately ran home and made myself an old-fashioned apron. I didn't know she wrote children's stories too! Thanks for sharing this!
ReplyDeleteLOVE the Sugar City Doll Fair! I always love to read Tasha's books and dream of receiving letters and catalogues via Sparrow Post...
ReplyDeleteGorgeous! Wish I was there!
ReplyDeleteI have that same exact "Jo" madame Alexander doll!
Jen
MISS YOU!!!!
Thanks for the book recommendation! And the presence of Madame Alexander makes me nostalgic! My girls have some of my old ones -- including the Little Women! How fun!
ReplyDeleteMy mama recently gave me her spare copy of A Time to Keep. My girl is an enchanted as I ever was.
ReplyDeleteI have a goal that one of these years I will work my way through the book imitating month by month,
None of us have a birthday in August but I'll float a cake down a river just the same.
I am so pleased that you did a dolls fair. I have adored Tasha Tudors books for years and am delighted that you are carrying on some of those great traditions. Maybe we will do our own someday.
ReplyDeleteI am so pleased that you did a dolls fair. I have adored Tasha Tudors books for years and am delighted that you are carrying on some of those great traditions. Maybe we will do our own someday.
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