Here are my dolls...there are two newer porcelain dolls mixed in here, but all the rest are high heel fashion dolls from the 1950's. Sometimes I feel like getting rid of them simply because they take up so much space in the cabinet. In fact, I started to weed them out today, but changed my mind.

Here are my porcelain ladies. Most of them are from Home Interior and were given to me by different family members as Christmas gifts.

When I was a teenager, I went through a music box stage. Most of the ones that I had were small cheap ones and they're long gone now. I only have a few left, one of which is in this photo. The deep cobalt casing has swirls of gold in it and the music mechanism is brass. It plays Blue Danube and there are little bee hammers that hit the bells while the music is playing.

These next two photos show some of my beaded purses. The one with the French scene on it is only about 30 years old. The rest are about 1880ish - 1920's.

Titanic is one of my favorite movies and you can just see the bottom of my Rose doll's dress in the photo. I also have a decorative Titanic plate and music box that plays "My Heart Will Go On".

I also went through a period when I collected decorative eggs. Most of them are marble and a few have handpainted scenes on them.

I did take alot of stuff out that I no longer wanted in there. I like it much better like this now...I can actually see everything instead of a jumbled up mess.

Anyone else have collections they wanna share??

I collected few things until recently altho have probably made up for it in the last 5 years since I retired. The only things I collected seriously were the cobalt blue Bing and Grondahl Christmas plates. It was an easy collection as it took little time. Started in 1965 and bot my last plate in 1994 as I knew I didn't want to display more than that. I have 35 plates because there is a larger one every 5 years altho I didn't get the 1965 large plate. When we had this house built I had plate rails built on 4 walls (3 in the great room and one in the breakfast) for these plates. I love plates and have since collected dozens of single plates I like and I often use them on the plate rails instead of the blue ones.

I also collect a lot of other things, one of my favorites is silver things. I have some silver treasures from family but most are from auctions and yard sales. One of my recent finds is a set of 51 pieces of silver plated flatware for $5. It's Reflection pattern by 1847 Rogers Bros. so I thot it was a real find and great for tablescapes. I have dozens more pieces - lot of trays, plates, bowls, and wedding baskets which are fun to use in vignettes, for serving, or display. Tried to load some pics but Photobucket must be making some changes and I can't. I'll try later.

I used to have a Shutterfly site with a lot of my pics and it was easy to post a slideshow or link but I found people were using them so I've made it private. Don't mind posting the occasional pic but don't like to give carte blanche for people to steal any/all of my pics. I tried a free watermark but it seems to change the color adversely.

What I collect: Cottageware, Fruitware, Crosses, Santos, Western and Spanish Colonial art
Lynn

hugs, Karen

I never had an interest in dolls as a child.
As an adult, I guess I've entered my childhood as far as dolls go.
I LOVE them, too.

Thanks for sharing your beautiful collection.