Ideal – Dolls, Dolls, Dolls

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Fashion Doll Friday – Ideal Posin’ Misty 1965

April 1, 2017April 1, 2017Taswegian1957

Dolls House Furniture – Part One

January 27, 2017January 26, 2017Taswegian1957

Fashion Doll Friday – Ideal Pepper

Compositon Shirley Temple doll by Ideal c 1930s.

December 27, 2016May 22, 2017Taswegian1957

Shirley Temple is a Star

December 2, 2016December 2, 2016Taswegian1957

Fashion Doll Friday – Ideal Tammy’s Dad

September 6, 2016September 15, 2016Taswegian1957

Vintage Visitors – If It’s Tuesday It Must Be Ideal

I came to Australia with my mother and sister Vanda in 1966 from the UK aboard the Sitmar liner Castel Felice. We settled in South Australia I lived in the western suburbs of Adelaide for most of my life. I became very interested in retro items in my twenties. It was always a dream of mine to have an old house and fill it with retro items. I have done it twice now. My main interest is collecting old things. They do not have to be valuable, only interesting. There is something reassuring about old retro items. I have all sorts of things including doll related items. My other interests are my beautiful pets, art and going for drives to who knows where. I also enjoy board games or doing a scenic jig saw puzzle on a wintry afternoon by the fire. My goal is to travel a bit more as there are some places I would love to see

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Taswegian1957

Born in England in 1957 my 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. David passed away in 2015 and I'm here on my own now but I have Cindy the dog and Polly the cat to keep me company. I currently write two Wordpress blogs. My doll blog "Dolls, Dolls, Dolls", which I co-edit with my sister Naomi; and "My Other Blog" which is about everything else but with a focus on photographs and places in Tasmania.

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Share Your World 2017 – Week #20

Sharing My World This Week What one thing have you not done that you really want to do? One thing that I have always wanted to do is to travel on the Indian Pacific train from Sydney to Perth. It is one of the trips that David and I did not get around to doing […]

Plastic Toys and Green Shield Stamps

Times Past: Consumerism Baby Boomer:Town, UK When I was a child in the early 1960’s mum would often take my sister and I with her to the shops in the Romford town centre. Sometimes that meant a visit to Romford Market which was always interesting but we also visited the department stores. The one I […]

Snapshot Sunday – Paparazzi Dog and Marilyn Rabbit

Fellow Blogger Julz who lives in Melbourne recently did a post entitled “Dog Boy and Rabbit Girl” featuring bronze sculptures in St Kilda, Melbourne. It turns out that there are a series of these popping up in cities all over the place. This one is the Hobart version. https://gillieandmarc.com/