Monday, January 2, 2012

The Contents of the Box!

OK….I finally got this all put together….here is what it looked like in pieces….

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Yup….it is the dollhouse of my dreams! 

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Wayne and I put it together New Years Day, and it wasn’t even really hard.  Just a little tricky, as it has been unassembled and the tabs were bent.  This the called the “Marx Mansion” it is the biggest house they made.  I joined a Marx dollhouse group on Yahoo and have learned so much already.  I bought this on EBay from a person who had gotten it at an estate sale, they hoped it was all here.  It was!  And in near perfect shape!!!!  No dents at all, and a few scratches. 

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Here are a few views of the rooms….such great graphics!  I have a lot of Renwal Furniture that I have been holding onto and guess what?  It fits perfect in this house!  I am so happy to finally have one and feel blessed that I could but this for Christmas…

 

The kitchen, look at the walls and that red floor!

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The bathroom….

 

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The fireplace in the living room…

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the garage…

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the Master bedroom, it is pink ( Yuk) but I am using whatever I want for furniture!  LOL

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and the Nursery…

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And the patio side….

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With my Renwal Furniture:

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Love this kitchen!

I will be building some shelves in my craft room to display this…..I did get a good amount of furniture with this house, but oddly it was the wrong scale, so it is on EBay as we speak!  If you need 1/2” scale Mark furniture, so check out the seller  Sanjos333…

It took me a couple of years to finally get a really nice one, but it was worth the wait…..red and white and all of those wonderful colors inside are right up my alley!  I guess you could say I am in my second childhood, but I don’t think I ever stopped loving toys of my youth.

Thanks for stopping by…..

Sunday, January 1, 2012

A Long Time Ago….

My cousin was looking thru some old things of her mom’s and found this receipt from my great grand uncle. His name was William Reinhard.

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  He was a home decorator and contractor.  This is a receipt from a home he remolded in 1922…

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Can you imagine????  Working for 85 cents an hour?????  Look at the phone number!  Work was hard then just like it is now.

My Aunt Goldie, the woman who kept this never threw anything away, and I am so thankful that she didn’t!  She also wanted future generations to know the connection and so she wrote this on the back…

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Charles Reinhard was William’s brother and my great grandfather.

Charles and Amelia Reinhard 1940

        Charles and Amelia Reinhard

And she tried to put a little something like this on all of the items she kept.  Thank you Aunt Goldie, for thinking of all of us!

I am going to see if the Knutsen family has descendants in Eau Claire or elsewhere so I can share it with them!

 

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