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Dolls House Furniture
Wednesday, October 14th, 2009Having a doll house is one of the most joyful experiences of a young girls life and most of the fun of having the dollhouse is being able to add dolls house furniture over time, until you have an entire room furnished exactly the way you want and can move onto another. Dolls house furniture can be found everywhere, and some of the pieces that you’ll add you to doll house are so incredible detailed that you wonder how in the world the designers were able to incorporate such beautiful designs on such a small space. Wooden doll house furniture looks exactly like their full size counterparts and in fact, can hold quite a bit of value over time.
Dolls house furniture doesn’t just include couches, recliners and tables and chairs, but also includes lamps and electrical fixtures that come in a wide variety of designs and styles Many of the pieces of dolls house furniture that you can collect are modeled after actual pieces of furniture and it is even possible to create a miniature set-up that models your own home. Dolls house furniture can also be made from kits which can be a great father daughter project, or something for the entire family to do together.
Dolls house furniture can be found in any miniature store in your area or online at sites like www.minishop.com. Dolls house furniture prices range from around $10 to upwards of $50 or $60 for extremely detailed high quality dolls house furniture. You can find everything from miniature pool tables and game room furniture to tiny dishes and food that fits in the cupboards and refrigerator. You can get bedroom furniture with all of the trimmings and build the room you have always wanted, as well as put your own unique style into the doll house by adding in dolls house furniture that you create yourself.
The nice thing about the fairly expensive dolls house furniture is that not only does it hold its value over time, much more than toy furniture such as barbie doll house furniture, but can increase in value making a dollhouse something that you can pass down to future generations will someday may actually be worth quite a bit of money. Sit down with your child and decide what kind of doll house and dolls house furniture she would like, and then building it together can be something that the entire family can take part in.
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Doll Houses Provide for Fun and Undefined Play
Monday, October 12th, 2009The toy world is full of video games, intricate gadgets, kung fu gripping action figures, and complex Barbie concepts these days. That’s all well and good but it feels as if we have forgotten some of the most important aspects of play and have outsourced our imaginations to the toy companies. Toys are supposed to be simple so that they can supplement our imaginations and allow us and our children to develop stories and games all on our own without the help of some invisible toy manufacturer telling us what to do.
Doll houses are exactly the kind of simple toy that has been forgotten over the years and replaced by more advanced technology. We forget how much enjoyment we got out of simply putting doll house furniture next to our porcelain dolls and pretending that they were having a tea party. We forget just how much fun it was to play house with our toys and develop a family story in our minds.
Video games have taken up the mantle of the doll house and are providing our children with graphically intense virtual versions of our old fashioned doll houses in games like the Sims and Second Life but these don’t have the same kind of emotional attachment that our precious wooden doll house had.
If you are looking for something that will inspire your child and allow them to play free and unrestricted you should look into purchasing them a doll house of some kind. You can find doll houses of all different shapes and sizes, ranging from the incredibly expensive doll furniture furnished mansions to the cheaper plastic Barbie condos we all know and love. Give your daughter the gift of imagination and creativity and supply her with all the dolls clothes and doll house furniture she needs to really create something with endless opportunities.
Whether you’re a mother or a father there is something for you to do that will help you bond with your daughter. As a father you can help her to build new attachments to her doll house or maybe some miniature doll beds for her dolls to sleep on, as a mother you can dress up with your daughter and host doll house tea parties and really get into her imagination.
The possibilities are endless when you aren’t given any rules to follow and that’s exactly what you’re looking for in a toy. Doll houses are the perfect toys for open ended, unrestricted, and undefined play that will develop the creativity of your child and expand their imaginations.
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Is a Porcelain Doll to Look at or Play With?
Monday, October 5th, 2009I don’t know how many times I’ve brought my daughter to my mother’s house only to have her get scolded for trying to play with my mother’s doll collection. My mother has always been the antique collector type of woman and she’s accumulated a room full of porcelain dolls over the years. As I was growing up I would make sure to stay away from the doll room of the house because not only did they scare me with those big unblinking eyes but my mother was like a hawk in protecting them.
“Collectible porcelain dolls are the most precious and valuable dolls” my mother always used to say to me. “They will be worth millions one day as long as you kids don’t break any of them!” Well, they might be worth a fortune right now but she’ll never see any of the money from them because she’ll never sell them. My mother is so in love with her porcelain doll collection that she would probably like to be buried with a few of them.
It just goes to show you, dolls take on meaning to people. Even though these little porcelain girls are just sitting up on the bookcase and in those doll houses collecting dust year after year, my mother feels something for them and will be transported back in time through her memories whenever she goes to look at them. As she tells her granddaughter: “Antique porcelain dolls are for admiring, not for touching.” She has kept that motto for the past thirty years.
If you own porcelain dolls I urge you to let your children play with them. They were made by an artist who specializes in letting little girls have fun and if you’re just using them as show pieces for your guest room, do yourself a favor and just let it go. There is nothing cuter than seeing a little girl wandering around with her favorite porcelain doll tucked under one arm as she wanders out of bed to get a glass of milk.
Porcelain dolls aren’t meant for adults to collect and gawk at, they are made to be played with and loved by a small child. If only there was some way I could convince my mother that her collection of Victorian porcelain dolls should be played with and not just looked at.