OT - for the Barbie doll lovers

now that's interesting. I couldn't get in without registering but I did a
search and read about her. Wow

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"vj" wrote in message
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[From today's Times} New York Times - it was posted in another group!

FRANCES GLESSNER LEE, a Chicago heiress, provided for just about every
creature comfort when she fashioned 19 dollhouse rooms during the
1940's. She stocked the larders with canned goods and placed
half-peeled potatoes by the kitchen sink. Over a crib she pasted pink
striped wallpaper.

But you might not want your dolls to live there.

Miniature corpses - bitten, hanged, shot, stabbed and poisoned - are
slumped everywhere. The furnishings show signs of struggles and
dissolute lives; liquor bottles and chairs have been overturned;
ashtrays overflow.

Mrs. Lee, a volunteer police officer with an honorary captain's rank
whose father was a founder of the International Harvester Company,
used her ghoulish scenes to teach police recruits the art of
observation.

[...]

Not surprisingly, John Waters, a Baltimore native, is an admirer of
the sometimes blood-splattered dioramas. "When I saw these miniature
crime scenes," he said in an e-mail message on Tuesday, "I felt
breathless over the devotion that went into their creation. Even the
most depraved Barbie Doll collector couldn't top this."

http://www.nytimes.com/2004/10/07/garden/07DOLL.html


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WOW that is soooo cool! I want to see the dollhouse.

-Kalera
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vj wrote:
[From today's Times} New York Times - it was posted in another group!

FRANCES GLESSNER LEE, a Chicago heiress, provided for just about every
creature comfort when she fashioned 19 dollhouse rooms during the
1940's. She stocked the larders with canned goods and placed
half-peeled potatoes by the kitchen sink. Over a crib she pasted pink
striped wallpaper.

But you might not want your dolls to live there.

Miniature corpses - bitten, hanged, shot, stabbed and poisoned - are
slumped everywhere. The furnishings show signs of struggles and
dissolute lives; liquor bottles and chairs have been overturned;
ashtrays overflow.

Mrs. Lee, a volunteer police officer with an honorary captain's rank
whose father was a founder of the International Harvester Company,
used her ghoulish scenes to teach police recruits the art of
observation.

[...]

Not surprisingly, John Waters, a Baltimore native, is an admirer of
the sometimes blood-splattered dioramas. "When I saw these miniature
crime scenes," he said in an e-mail message on Tuesday, "I felt
breathless over the devotion that went into their creation. Even the
most depraved Barbie Doll collector couldn't top this."

http://www.nytimes.com/2004/10/07/garden/07DOLL.html

....and I did!

http://www.2wice.org/issues/theend/botz.html

-Kalera
http://www.beadwife.com
http://www.snipurl.com/kebay

Kalera Stratton wrote:
WOW that is soooo cool! I want to see the dollhouse.

-Kalera
http://www.beadwife.com
http://www.snipurl.com/kebay

Cool. Thanks that was interesting.


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Debbie (New Mexico)
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"Kalera Stratton" wrote in message
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...and I did!

http://www.2wice.org/issues/theend/botz.html

-Kalera
http://www.beadwife.com
http://www.snipurl.com/kebay

Kalera Stratton wrote:
WOW that is soooo cool! I want to see the dollhouse.

-Kalera
http://www.beadwife.com
http://www.snipurl.com/kebay