Showing posts with label The Farnsworth House. Show all posts
Showing posts with label The Farnsworth House. Show all posts

Tuesday, August 11, 2026

Dolls & Dreams 8/11

 

8/11

  My first dream took place in a big old school where I was working. There was a craft fair, and a woman had a table of crafts and a round basket on the floor overflowing with stuffed primitives. I had a gray rabbit in my hand and sorted through the basket finding more rabbits. An older woman behind me took three rabbits. I found another, black rabbit, with very long arms and short legs. There was a bee who had a $62 price tag on his head. There was a furry gingerbread man with a pattern stuck on his tacky backside. Removing the pattern that featured a small girl on the cover, the ginger man’s backside was covered with gingerbread scratch and sniff stickers. He was $20, and I held on to him. I found a large Holly Hobbie type of doll with a blue and red gingham gown and bonnet. Her face was soft sculpted sort of like a Cabbage Patch Kid only linen, not stockinette. Her eyes were halfway closed. She was $64. I took them both to the vendor who was busy with another customer. I waited, then put them back. I was walking down the hall where a little boy with brown hair was turning somersaults. His dad, a colleague of mine, grabbed him up, calling him sweetheart. 

  The second dream seemed like an extension of the first. Ron and I drove out to a doll show on a snowy night. The show also took place in an old school. At first, we thought that it had been cancelled, because it was dark, and there weren’t many people around. Ron was straggling, and I left him behind. I came across a family. Their boy, a preteen, said that he had gone down the hall looking for his old room, but it was vacant. The floor was dirt. I did see a big cardboard box of old dolls but didn’t want any of them.

Dana's Dreams

Dana's Dreams Two

Saturday, April 4, 2026

Easter Boys

Arthur and I had a great time at PetSmart's Easter egg hunt. We got Frankie's birthday present, a honeycomb bed complete with bees. Wonderful Michelle gave Arthur a bee named Bea after my sweet old friend from Pittsburgh that I just dreamed about. I figure she's in The Great Beyond now with Mummy, Miss Brown, and Theresa. Ron is doing his damnest to ruin Easter as usual, but I'm going to have a wonderful time. I'm going to stuff myself at Easter brunch at the Farnsworth House in Gettysburg. Have a Happy Easter! TTYL... 🐰

 

Wednesday, March 11, 2026

Monday, March 9, 2026

Books on Amazon


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  Very excited! Easter would have been Purple Witch's fiftieth birthday. Last year was not the first time we celebrated our birthdays in Gettysburg. In fact, Blue Witch was born the last week, April 15th, we are each a week apart. I'm the first and oldest. Now that Mummy's gone; she was born on Halloween, I'm Supreme. Ron has booked me the Sweney room, the only room in the old house that I haven't stayed, at the Farnsworth House. Little Ron and the witches certainly will be coming along. There is a desk, and maybe the epic poem, The Apple Orchard, about Robert Townsend, George Washington's spy in New York, will be complete. It is running round my mind, and my research has led me way around TURN, which I love and have watched twice. The poem will be the outline for my next musical satire of the same name. There certainly will be a Robert Townsend doll. He was a Scorpio, and I don't know why I write from a man's point of view. I always seem to. Anyway, I will TTYL... Arthur is begging me. It is likely because Peter Rabbit came right up to us in the backyard. It was bizarre, and I thought, oh, my ghoul, Starve Acre. 🐰Why don't we have hares and hedgehogs in Pennsylvania? Release the hedgies! 

Sunday, April 13, 2025

Wednesday, March 12, 2025

Let Me Rearrange That Too

  Frankie is relentless. My shakers I got in Hawaii when I was nine are now top shelf in the hall closet. Here he is in one of his many favorite spots, on the baker's rack. I'm working on rearranging that too. Other favorite places for Frankie to raid are behind the microwave, in the kitchen cupboards, (he's there right now), in the dishwasher, in the dryer, on the rooftops of my dollhouses that he can no longer check in to, and of course on top of my aquariums. Oh, look, he's terrorizing Cupid right now.

   Zsu Zse sold in twenty minutes along with most of the other dolls that I have listed and blogged about lately. I have some major Doll Magic going on just now. I wish I was not so looking forward to my Gettysburg trip. I don't like any kind of anticipation or expectations. That only leads to disapointment; I prefer to wing it. 

  When I took my little frog back to the pet store today in exchange for some Betta treats that Frankie had dumped all over the floor I saw a couple of gorgeous platinum Bettas and a marvelous baby blue twin tail half moon. I always see Bettas that I want when I have not got the room for them. Oh, hex. Anyway, TTYL, Ron is home and I've got to finish his supper. He 💖 Frankie. 


 

Saturday, March 1, 2025

Dolls & Magic March Clearance

  While I'm on a roll, (Thank You!), and saving for Gettysburg I've spent the last hour going through and slashing prices in my Ebay shop. You'll find mostly handmade, one-of-a-kind art dolls and original watercolor paintings, but there are also dolls and books from my collection, you never know. Will I be listing more stuff? Maybe. I've been typing Minie' Ball Catch All, I've made it to page sixty-six already. We had Anthony's Coal Fired Pizza today. It's good, but like everything else very exspensive. I've got to start a playlist for Frankie. It's hard to believe we've only had him five months. He came into our lives and took over. He's sleeping by my feet. He's very touchy feely, I'm not. I had made a playlist for Shiner on his last birthday, all of his favorite songs. TTYL... 

Shop Clearance on Ebay (Thanks!)

Shiner's Songs





 

Sunday, February 23, 2025

Jimmy Carter Collection For Sale

  Get Collection on Ebay

  Fund Purple Witch and my April Gettysburg trip, buy my Jimmy Carter collection. The set includes Amy Carter Peanut and paper dolls and four colorful placemats that I remember from my first grade Weekly Reader. The doll is still in her original package, and the paper dolls are uncut. They make for fabulous seventies patterns. This collection epitomizes the seventies and is in good condition. Zoom in and read the description. 

Thank You! 




 

Cher, Turn Back Time Set For Sale

  Get Turn Back Time Set on Ebay

  Fund Purple Witch and my April trip to Gettysburg, buy my Turn back Time Barbie and framed autograph. Zoom in and read the description, her jacket and boots have started to crack. 

  Thank You! ♫


  



 

Deadpool For Sale: Sideshow 12 in Boxed

Buy Deadpool on Ebay at a Discount

  Fund Purple Witch and my April Gettysburg trip, buy my Deadpool at a discount. He's only been out of the box a few times. Sideshow figures are very well made, heavy, and pose-able. I have several, and have sold another. They maintain their value. Wade comes along with loads of extras: a stand, weapons, and words. He has an interchangeable head and lots of extra hands. Zoom in and read the description. 

Thank You! 



 

Friday, February 21, 2025

Lots to Talk About: Dana's Dreams, Books, & More...


   First, I finished the cover of Dana's Dreams Two which came to me directly from a dream a couple of months ago. They were painted on the ceiling of a dressing room where I was changing my clothes. I have put them on loads of things on ZAZZLE: 

Wallpaper

Acrylic Prints

Ladies' Denim Jackets

Planners

Pillows

  Next, and sticking to the subject, I was telling my aunt how she might remember her dreams when The GOOGLE Monster gobbled everything that I had written up like a bag of cookies. A lot of folks might be interested, so here it goes. Take a glass of water to bed with you. Take a sip and say aloud, "I will remember my dreams". Set the glass on your nightstand. When you wake take a sip. Keep a dream notebook close to your bed. When you first wake, do not stir. Lie there and unravel your dream. Write down keywords in your notebook, so that you might remember upon waking. Share your dreams, talk about them. You must get to them first thing, otherwise you will forget. Pickles and pepperoni are dream foods, pickles being #1. The dream symbolism that you find online goes back to the ancient Egyptian priests. Finally, I had shared tonight's dreams with her: 

  2/21

  First I woke up as I heard Ron yelling, “Dana!”, in my head. This is the third time this has happened lately. It was just a dream, though very real. 


  The next dream was just a snippet: turquoise ladies panties embroidered with an Aztec bird were dancing in my head. 


  The third dream was Aunt Nancy’s summer wedding. Aunt Janet was there. They wore long matching sun dresses with blue and white printed roses on a red background. We were late getting to the church and missed the ceremony. We were waiting at my grandmother’s house. There was a dark haired young man working along the side of the house who I got snippy with. He had two of Mummy’s long stemmed fake flowers that Aunt Nancy was asking about. One was just a green bud, but the other might’ve been one of those dancing daisies. My little cousin had a big naked Jane doll still in the box. I was looking out the window at Aunt Nancy and her groom lying on a patio, snuggling. I told my cousin that Aunt Nancy and I both had Jane dolls too. 


Dana's Dreams


Now, on with my readings. Tonight's quotes are taken from BATTLEFIELD and Eisenhower:


"It dawned on me that I was up against more than an inflexible rule; I was challenging a tenet of economic survival. A utility company was loath to relinquish even one customer whose lifetime of rate-paying would add tens of thousands of dollars to its coffers." Svenson


This book, that Ron got for me at The Farnsworth House for Easter, is brilliantly written by an artist no less. In Farming a Civil War Battleground Peter Svenson gets down to the bones about building his third house.


"MacArthur, the most political of generals, never succeeded in politics, while three of the most apolitical generals in American history, Washington, Grant, and Eisenhower, did. They were true American Caesars, only American soldiers to hold both supreme military and political power." Ambrose

Wednesday, February 12, 2025

Minou with Rena


   Purple Witch got me Rena for Christmas, and Ron got me Minou, the Corsican Himstedt, several years ago when Shiner broke his hip. She was one of the first Himstedts, besides Tara, the German girl that was my first, that I ever saw back in Bethel Park at Bear Trax next to BORDERS. That was a fun place where I also got a big handmade Raggedy Ann, who was always Mummy's favorite Raggedy. Rena's is spelled Raggady, and she is from the same time, over twenty-five years ago. The handmade dress was made for Himmies and came along with another. The booties are Ron's mother's christening booties, kid leather, and over a hundred. I just got my valentines for Ron and Frankie together. Frankie got a cute new caterpillar as he loves Shiner's old dollar store one that he rips up and drowns in his water bowl. This one is a lot furrier and valentine themed, pink and purple. I'm watching something dumb, an 1895 mystery on free Hallmark channel. Haunted Wedding, on the otherhand, was adorable. I've noticed the same fake Tiffany lamp in three different Hallmark channel movies now. I'm painting the cover of Dana's Dreams Two, it is from a dream. I'm also getting together my gifts for The Farnsworth House, Minie' Ball stuff and Captivating Tarot, as well as an original I did of Elizabeth Thorn long ago. TTYL... Happy Valentine's Day! 💕💘💕

Tuesday, February 11, 2025

The Love Duchess

  Seriously, check-out Frankie. 😹 Anyway, Purple Witch says she's meeting me in Gettysburg, so I'm trying to list more dolls. I've been suffering a stomach virus, but have recovered. I'm still really lazy. Free Hallmark channel means I'm enjoying Haunted Wedding. 

TTYL...


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