Meet Susan and Helen....

Susan is the eldest.  She had the most lovely long hair in plaits and I used to love playing tea parties with her.  She was dressed in a green bonnet and dress to match and had a lovely well fitted pair of shoes.  She is 62 years old.  Sadly as a child I cut her long locks as I thought her hair would grow back. Here she is wearing her pink dress - beautifully made by my mother all those years ago.

Helen is one year younger - she had beautiful curly dark brown hair, and still has a good head of hair - but rather "sticky" and "clumpy" with age.  Still has bobby pins stuck in and she too has a pink dressed made by my clever Mum.  Her best dress was a long dress with tiny beads sewing in (made by my Mum) and white shoes.  

These dolls have had a hard life.  In Australia, I played with them til I was about 12 years old and then they were stored in the loft, then my parents moved and stored them in the garden shed - this was no small shed, it was a corrugated iron shed with lots of shelves, and both dolls were in a box on the top shelf  I would reckon they were there for about 7 years, and temperatures were in the 30 degrees C, and iron gets hot.  By then I was in the UK - and so the dolls were "saved" and shipped to me here.  But I just put them in the loft - again a very low ceiling loft exposed to the elements of hot summers and cold winters.  

At last I have "saved" them again - but really don't know what to do with them and yet as they have some very good memories, I don't want to get rid of them. At the moment, they are sitting on my book shelf......I moved the books to the floor to make room - after all they are special....