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\u2026 The tragedy of my youth. I never had a dollhouse. I couldn\u2019t understand it. It\u2019s not like I was asking for a pony; just a dollhouse. Not even a fancy dollhouse with all the ornate miniature antique furniture and real porcelain tea sets. Just a simple wooden dollhouse that I could decorate myself. And my mom never got me one. Not even the ugly hot pink plastic Barbie dream-house. <\/p>\n

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This little girl has a dollhouse and she\u2019s happy so it\u2019s obviously not a picture of me.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

What horrible mother denies their little girl a dollhouse?! I\u2019ll tell you who. Feminists mommies who reached puberty in the swinging sixties, that\u2019s who. A dollhouse was an evil toy used to indoctrinate gender stereotypes on poor young girls. <\/p>\n

As a result my youth was spent seeking out girls who had dollhouses and making excuses to play with them. I\u2019d bring my Han Solo action figure over to play the husband and whiny Luke was always the little boy we stuck in the corner. I remember every Christmas visiting the toy collection at the Abby Aldrich Folk Art Museum<\/a> in Colonial Williamsburg. They had an entire room of dollhouses\u2026 and I seethed with envy. <\/p>\n

I had almost forgotten this childhood neglect and trauma until I beheld the wonder of the Southern Christmas Show in Charlotte this past weekend. There was an entire exhibit of dollhouses. Dollhouses made out of hat boxes, teacups, even laundry detergent boxes. I felt like that longing little buck toothed girl again and excitedly realized if I want a dollhouse I can finally have a dollhouse, damn it!<\/p>\n

However, I like the more unconventional dollhouses<\/a> where the designer makes everything themselves with odd bits and ends, similar to the Bloggess\u2019s Haunted Dollhouse<\/a>. Except mine would be the Crazy Catholic Lady dollhouse, with tiny pictures of the Pope on the wall, miniature rosaries and statues, tiny little holy water fonts and itty bitty chalices<\/a>. Oooo. Maybe a mini dollhouse convent stocked with thimble sized nuns! Maybe even throw in a priest performing an exorcism in the attic. I mean, why not. It\u2019s my dollhouse after all. <\/p>\n

I think I have a new hobby. <\/p>\n

Related Links<\/strong>: All The Small Things <\/a>, Jane Freeman\u2019s Miniatures<\/a>, Colleen Moore\u2019s Fairy Castle<\/a><\/p>\n<\/body><\/html>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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