Dolls and dollhouses

As for toys, I mostly had dolls and paper cut outs. I remember mostly playing marbles, making our own play-houses by using sticks and strings to divide them into rooms and then using some little play dishes and pans if we had them otherwise just old jar lids and cracked cups and whatnot. If we lacked something, we made do with whatever we could dream up. Once we used the empty corncrib for a dollhouse and thought that was great! We decorated with flowers and/or pretty weeds and dressed up in whatever was available. We always had rope swings and a gunny sack swing in the barn. When I was little, Howard and Chauncey had bikes. Howard took us little kids for rides. Chauncey hid his bike if he was not going to be home. I could never find it. But he did teach me how to walk on the stilts that he had made, and that was great I thought. Janice was six and a half years older than me. I know she liked to read and did it a lot. I remember one dolI I had that I named Anna Mae after a song I knew. Also had a little Chinese pin-cushion doll and had a doll cradle that was made by an old friend of the family, which I loved a lot.

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