a teapot treasure
Made for our daughter by her Dad, loved and played with for a thousand hours, but not for a while now…
we can’t throw it away, surely!
Cautiously open it up (I once discovered an escaped gerbil in there and nearly died of shock), and it looks as if some riotous house-party has taken place…
but it’s soon ship-shape again.
I do love a proper played with dolls house. There’s a lot of cats, a lot of homemade fried eggs,
and a brutal, irreversible haircut.
It’s hugely cranky for a grown-up to be into dolls houses, so I promise I won’t play with it.
Very often.
Any toys you can’t bear to throw away? Add them to a ‘pre-loved’ list right here!
I can’t bear to throw anything away, much to my husband’s despair – I fear this may rub off on Holly – though she might thank me for it in the future! (unless we move to Australia, then I really would have to)
Your dolls house is amazing!!! It’s like a proper treasure trove! I love it!
Hello Jo, thanks so much for commenting! Hoarders of the world unite: I like to like of us as the curators of our family life, a very important job…
but don’t want to be the subject of TV documentary, needing to be dug out of my home through a tunnel of newspapers!
Oh! how this brings tears to the eyes. Perhaps because I read the post on Gabriel’s 13th birthday… We keep everything, it’s terrible! My most treaasured toy is Chitty Chitty Bang Bang. I expect Gabriel’s is a knight of some kind. Oh and Yo-Yo the sausage dog of course!
Thank you so much James – what a lovely comment! And to think of Gabriel being 13 now – how splendid. I’m a great fan (unlike a lot of people) of the teenage years… and I hope he had a really lovely birthday.
Perhaps you’d post a pic of your Chitty Chitty Bang Bang? We could start a list of treasures!
What a beautiful dolls house!
Toys we can’t throw away: my “arbre magique”: http://eighties.fr/culture-eighties/jeux-et-jouets/50-arbre-magique.htm Got it when I was 3 or 4 and I brought it to England with me. Both my children have played with it :0)
My Corolle doll, which my daughter now owns.
How fantastic! I’ve just been looking at the ‘arbre magique’: I’d never heard of it before, but it’s enchanting – I’m not surprised your children loved it. And a very special doll, too…
I used to long for a really cheap plasticy doll, like a Cindy or a Barbie, but was given beautiful fabric dolls made by my mum instead. Honestly, I just didn’t know quality when I saw it!