Taswegian1957

Home For Christmas


Our Shirley Temple comes home.
Our Shirley Temple comes home. Photo by Naomi Bovill

Here is a photo Naomi sent me this afternoon of our Shirley Temple doll after she collected her from the shop this afternoon. We wanted to have Shirley home for Christmas and she will be joining us on Christmas Eve at my house. Shirley looks pretty pleased about that.

Published by Taswegian1957

I was born in England in 1957 and lived there until our family came to Australia in 1966. I grew up in Adelaide, South Australia, where I met and married my husband, David. We came together over a mutual love of trains. Both of us worked for the railways for many years, his job was with Australian National Railways, while I spent 12 years working for the STA, later TransAdelaide the Adelaide city transit system. After leaving that job I worked in hospitality until 2008. We moved to Tasmania in 2002 to live in the beautiful Huon Valley. In 2015 David became ill and passed away in October of that year. I currently co-write two blogs on WordPress.com with my sister Naomi. Our doll blog "Dolls, Dolls, Dolls", and "Our Other Blog" which is about everything else but with a focus on photographs and places in Tasmania. In November 2019 I began a new life in the house that Naomi and I intend to make our retirement home at Sisters Beach in Tasmania's northwest. Currently we have five pets between us. Naomi's two dogs Toby and Teddy and cats, Tigerwoods and Panther and my cat Polly. My dog Cindy passed away aged 16 in April 2022.

2 comments

  1. I know this is a while after the post, but if you can find a soft makeup brush (or possibly a paint brush, like for acrylics) the same color as Shirley’s eyelashes, you can possibly fix the missing ones. I did this with a vintage Chatty Cathy, and you can’t tell the difference. Found the instructions online, somewhere.

    Your Shirley is lovely. I have two 15″ vintage vinyl Shirley dolls, but no compo ones (other than a “look alike” doll I’ve had for many years.

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