: About Me

Children don't need store-bought toys when they have an imagination! As a young girl, I loved to play with dolls, especially my Barbies. I had probably twenty dolls, oodles of clothes, a couple of cars, a house, and furniture. Beyond that, it was up to me. Raised by grandparents who lived through the depression, penny-pinching was an art form in our house. My grandmother started by teaching me to sew clothes for my dolls. We used old cardboard boxes to make some of the furniture. Once I packed my Barbies into their truck for a camping trip in our backyard on a tree stump. The flowers and b...