Fisher Price #250

I found it!
Here it is on Etsy and it's in great shape!
(If only I had some extra bucks to spend... it's okay though... finding this gives me hope that one day when I DO have a few extra bucks, a #250 will turn up just like this one...)
:-)

A trip down memory lane...

For some reason, we don't really "spring clean" at our house... We clean and get rid of things after Christmas...maybe it's our antidote to the craziness of the holidays with four kids. Anyway, the other day I took a couple of bags of books to our local library to donate them to the "Friends of the Library". While there, I spotted a copy of Muppet Magazine from 1982, featuring Ricky Schroeder on the cover. Flipping through the pages instantly took me back a few decades. The trip down memory lane was well worth the dollar I spent. (It was also entertaining listening to my kids read through the magazine--especially when they got to the Monchichi advertisement... "It's a monkey. It's a baby. Monchichi? Oh, mom...")

Driving home, I got to thinking... "I wonder if I can figure out who made that dollhouse I had when I was about 5." After a little bit of internet sleuthing, I found this--the Fisher Price Dollhouse #250. This was my first dollhouse and I'm tickled to find out that some of the furniture is available for sale on Etsy and on eBay, and the cost isn't terribly exorbitant. I even found a house just like mine on Etsy, but it had already sold. (Don't tell my husband, but I'm seriously considering acquiring the #250 again.) Here are some pictures of things I've found on eBay:

The bathroom and kitchen fixtures... My fingers still remember the feeling of the plastic and the texture on the shower door. The dollhouse people's clothes were not removable so they took showers with their clothes on...

This is the exact fabric that was on the sofa that I had.
I remember that my grandfather superglued it to the base so it wouldn't come off.

 

This is the house... It's missing the chimney and maybe the sliding door on the second floor...
I'll hold out for one that has all of its pieces.

Thanks for stopping by and humoring my little trip down memory lane... Have a great day!

Anxiously waiting...

For Christmas, my husband gave me a gift certificate to Hobby Builders Supply. I decided to order a dollhouse kit! This will be my first dollhouse kit and I am excited. I decided to get a small kit for the first one to see how things go. Abigail's room is basically just a room box and the Witch House hardly qualifies as an official dollhouse, so this is a big step. I chose the Arthur from Greenleaf.

I'm a little bit "on the fence" about the gingerbread trim at the top and under the eaves. I might switch that out for something else. Also, I have no clue what color scheme I'm going to go with...

I've already started assembling furnishings from my stash that I will use and have started thinking a bit about how I want to decorate... I'm thinking early 20th century cottage... I love pink and green and roses, but I don't necessarily want to go "shabby chic" with this. We shall see how it all comes together....

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150-year-old German dollhouse to be displayed in Albuquerque museum | KOB.com

KOB Eyewitness News 4 reported on this November 16.
A 150-year-old dollhouse, passed down from one generation in the family to the next, was left in Germany when the family fled the Nazis. Given to a Christian friend to store in her attic, the dollhouse was saved and later brought to the United States. Lilo Lang Waxman, now 91, has donated the dollhouse and its contents to the New Mexico Holocaust and Intolerance Museum in Albuquerque.

This is a real heirloom... And such a special treasure.

Be sure to watch the newsclip!
150-year-old German dollhouse to be displayed in Albuquerque museum | KOB.com

In the news...

A couple of mini-related items popped up in my news feed over the past couple of days...

From the Chattanooga Times Free Press:
"Fairy gardens bring whimsy, imagination to landscape"
Fun!

From Ohio's Dayton Daily News:
"46 literary clues live in a storybook dollhouse"
I would love to see pictures of this and try to identify all of the clues to the books!