A True Ginny Christmas

    I had wanted a Ginny doll since I was a kid. I got my first, the one in the coat on the right, last year from a lady on Ebay that Ron had gotten my Hexican Himstedt, (Panchita, aka, Esmerelda), from. I got two of them, both from the eighties, still in their boxes, from her for eight dollars. I share, and had sent the spring one to Susie Blue Witch telling her that I planned on making them clothes like witches' dresses. Then, I won the one on the left, Norway from the seventies still in the box, at The Lancaster Doll Show. I also won Scotland that day who is wrapped up for Susie for Christmas along with The Three Witches Magic Shoppe Adventures in Doll Land. Last week at The Letitia Penn Doll Club's Christmas at The William Penn Inn, (1714), Ron won the centerpiece, everything here plus the original Ginny from the fifties in the middle. Both she and the eighties have sleep eyes, but the seventies girl does not. I still like my eighties one the best, although they say that the quality dropped in 1973 when they stopped making her in the U.S.A. I like them all for different reasons. Sadly they stopped making Ginny in 1995. I still get to have a true Ginny Christmas, and I will make them things once I'm done with Fanging with Claude. I've made it to page 185. I will get back to my Gettysburg game and all of that. TTYL... Happy Witches' Christmas! 🌟

Cupid

    Merlin passed away a few weeks ago. I was crushed, but he was fat and eating himself to death like Juno. I had been dieting him on bloodworms when Frankie came along. I think the added stress finished him off. I gave him an extra big seashell out in my fish cemetery. Cupid is the perfect Christmas fish. It has taken me this long to get pictures of him because he had been shy. He seems happy now. I had wanted a white Betta, I think they're called opaline, but Cupid is truly golden. I didn't even know that they existed. They had some deluxe Black Orchids like Lennox, but I only pick very healthy and friendly Bettas. They have to want to come home with me. Although I love the fancy Black Orchids, (Lennox is only a basic one), they didn't look too good. Cupid is gorgeous, and was only ten dollars. I find the less I pay for a Betta the healthier they are. Like dogs, the fancy breeds aren't as good. You can learn a lot from fish. It's true, being fat and stressed kills you too. 
 

Minou's Christmas Dress

   Minou was one of the first Himstedts I ever saw at Bear Trax near Borders in Bethel Park, Pennsylvania, in the nineties. They had her and Tara, who I had ordered from Florida a year later and was my first and only Himstedt for twenty years. Minou is the Corsican girl. Ron got her for me a couple of years ago, and she looks darling in her handmade Christmas dress and hundred-year-old leather booties. 

Frankie Says

  My Christmas witch is clawsome. ✨

 

Frankie's First Christmas Cookie & Necronomnomnom

  Frankie and I have been up all night baking. Shiner was my supervisor, but Frankie is worse. He eats about anything. He loves oysters and clams. We are using my Early American Cookbook this year. Christmas has been catproofed, so we're keeping it simple. We made simple butter cookies with a glaze: Yeti, Anne and Andy, unicorns, elephants, and ducks. I'd had one at Cornwall Furnace, a moose, and it was so good, better than mine. Cornwall has Christmas cookies, tea, and cocoa around their Christmas tree once a year. Next stop molasses and ginger snaps. My dear friend sent me Necronomnomnom, and I can hardly wait to get to that. Oh, my ghoul. I have a handmade Lovecraft doll and have yet to finish the complete works, which is huge. I've been sending offers out on Ebay for Collinwood, asking them to save it from the Leviathan, (Frankie). He's been checking into The Collins Port Inn for Christmas. Guess I have to move that too. 🌟

 

The Letitia Penn Doll Club Christmas

  We started celebrating the holidays all December years ago when it was just us. We have our regular go tos: Joanna and Cornwall furnaces and Bethlehem, but Ron is full of surprises and certainly out did himself this year with the Schoenhut event sponsored by the Letitia Penn Doll Club at The William Penn Inn, (1714). Over the Moon does not describe it. I am seriously considering joining The Letitia Penn Doll Club now. They could use me, I'm so crafty. I made a couple of videos for you to watch afterwards, for sights, but let me tell you all about it. I took Frannie, my Schoenhut, she was a big hit. Looks like my table, the last, thirteen, was the only to bring their doll friends along as Frannie met her sister, Nadjia, and her Japanese friend. I made so many new friends. Funny but Bev, the festive martini lady, was telling me how they love young people, she was referring to me. 🤣 Well, my hex used to say the only difference between me and a seven-year-old is that you can beat the seven-year-old and send it to bed. There were so many gorgeous dolls there, but Ron got Red Witch a tiny handmade wooden doll from Marjorie that I've been eyeing up at The Lancaster Doll Show for years for my stocking. The centerpieces were precious, and wouldn't you know, Ron won one. He deserves it: full of handmade wonders and a Ginny doll from the fifties. The food was fabulous. You have your choice, and I was the only vegetarian of the table and so happy for it: a mushroom quiche and a sweet fruit salad. We had a waldorf salad first witch' was so special as Ron had wanted his mother to make him one after watching My Dinner with Andre as a kid. She would not. Think I'll be making them from now on. The triple dessert was too much, and I brought two-thirds of it home. Frankie loves the cheesecake. He was good only pulled Miss Hickory out of The Collins Port Inn while we were gone. He also upset Bob, the cactus. Anyways, Ron did not only win the darling centerpiece, but I also won a loaf of nut bread from The William Penn Inn. It means more than you know as my mother always made nut bread. The favors, the catalogs and adorable wooden Schoenhut alphabet dolls are enough to make any antendee feel fortunate whether or not you scored one of the fabulous prizes. The maker of the precious alphabet blocks was wearing a groovy seventies Christmas blazer. I have one in orange that I wore as a child that somehow came back to me that a Himstedt is wanting. What a charming way to celebrate the holidays! 

Video Part 1: Prizes

Part Two

 

Letitia Penn Doll Club Christmas