One Great Big Happy Doll Family!

One of my favorite collections, hobbies, okay, OBSESSIONS, is dolls.

As I've written before on this blog, my love of dolls goes way back to childhood but it's something I've never outgrown, (nor hope to outgrow.)

Perhaps it's the happy inner child inside of me that persuades me to buy another doll, when my collection is already bursting at the seams, but I cannot silence her. That little inner child wins every single battle when it comes to dolls.

Have you heard of Matryoshka dolls? Well, you probably don't know them by that name. They are Russian "nesting" dolls. The biggest doll opens up and there's another doll inside. Open that one up and there's a smaller one inside her until the tiniest of tiny dolls finally surfaces. Once I read that the tiniest doll of one set was the size of a grain of rice! Now that is small. The name "Matryoshka" has Latin roots and means "mater" or "mother."




I have a couple sets of nesting dolls but I love the one with a bright red outfit and sweet little painted face the best. There are five dolls in the set.

A friend of mine who collects very expensive dolls gave me an Asian looking baby that I just love. She sits in a chair in the hallway outside our bedroom. She has a mane of black hair and bangs and is just adorable. She's very well-behaved, too, like all the Asian students I've ever met.

There's a sweet black baby who has a beautiful face. She wears a turquoise dress that's a tad too big but I've never found a smaller size.





Actually, come to think of it, my collection of dolls is very much like a small United Nations! They come in all shapes, sizes, colors, and outfits.

Once, I remember hearing about a woman who had a fabulous doll collection. She spent hundreds and hundreds of dollars on her dolls. They were all over her house. Some of them looked like real children. Then, one day, the woman gathered up all her dolls, brought them to a social service agency, and gave them all away! I'm sure that agency got a pretty penny after the sale of those dolls. Still, hearing about that shocked the "bazookers" out of me. Guess I'm still too doll crazy to ever think about giving away my babies. Maybe someday I will but not in the near future
How about you? Do you have a favorite doll?