by Karen Nyenhuis | Jun 28, 2024 | A Miniature 1910 Painted Lady, Uncategorized
The first floor apartment has a bedroom and a kitchen at the back. The metal bucket in the kitchen has coal for the iron stove and a cast iron food warmer. I assume my mother made the furniture in the bedroom. She signed the end table, and the other furniture lacks...
by Karen Nyenhuis | Jun 26, 2024 | A Miniature 1910 Painted Lady, Historical Clothing, Uncategorized
Wristwatches weren’t invented until World War I, so men’s watches sat precariously loose in men’s pockets before then. In the eighteenth century, watch fobs, chains that hooked into a buttonhole on a man’s waistcoat, kept watches from falling out of their...
by Karen Nyenhuis | Jun 26, 2024 | A Miniature 1910 Painted Lady, Historical Clothing, Uncategorized
The doll in the solid red dress with black lace is by Liz Staryk. When I find my mother’s book of records, I will add the provenance of the others. In the first floor apartment, the ladies have been dressed and waiting for their escort to take them to an evening...
by Karen Nyenhuis | Jun 25, 2024 | Historical Clothing
These three dolls are in the stairwell of the apartment building, preparing to enter the apartments on each of the three levels. The doll in the riding ensemble was made by Connie Sauve in 2000. I do not know the provenance of the other dolls. The chair in the third...
by Karen Nyenhuis | Jun 20, 2024 | A Miniature 1910 Painted Lady, Uncategorized
The back of the apartment building opens to a kitchen and bedroom for each of the three...
