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| CabinCreek-Kentucky |
Posted - Nov 11 2005 : 8:32:24 PM
Making 'home-made, hand-did primitive rag dolls has been a passion of mine for years .. (had a most wonderful Rag Doll Club for ten years when we lived in Maryland!) and always, my dollies come with 'a story' ... they are each adopted out from Sister Mercy's Foundlin' Home for Rag Chillun. Here's the story of Lula Mae Silver .. a recent rag chile that Sister Mercy saw ambling down the hill to the orphanage .. (stopping often to smell the flowers!)
(Lula Mae has found a loving home!)
Lula Mae Silver
Sister Mercy’s
Foundlin’ Home
for Rag Chillun
Green County, Kentucky
Lula Mae .. she be a chile ov God.
An’ her mos’ favrit place to be
is rat smack dab in the middle ov
a garden! Sister Mercy say she
hear her singin’ to the birds and
talkin’ to dem flutterbys whut
land on her shoulder whilst she sits
among the roses!
Lula Mae, she have a good heart and a
smile allus on her little brown face.
She be hopin’ thet effen she gets ‘dopted ..
thet her new fambly will take her to
Sunday-go-to-Singins’ an’ to Glory-Be
Prayer meetins each wensday nite.
Lula Mae don' be doin' much talkin' jus'
yet .. but she has been heered prayin'
to Jezuz to watch after her mammy and
pap who wuz took off to heaven by a band
of angels when there wuz a mos' unfortunate
mis-hap tween dere horse buggy an' a tractor
out onto de road whut leads to the Ebenezer
Glory Amen Baptist Church down the holler
near Chicken Neck, Kentucky.
Lula Mae Silver wuz hand-did by
Frannie Meshorer of Cabin Creek Farm,
Green County, Kentucky
In the year of our Lord 2005
and someday she be an antique doll
whut has lots of stories to tell to your
chilluns and gran-chilluns.
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| Julia |
Posted - Nov 12 2005 : 7:49:36 PM
How sweet! Can you post a picture of your dolls? I would love to see them. I am looking forward to grandgirls someday to make such dolls for them, and of course to have tea parties with when they come to Amma's to visit.
"...the setting sun is like going into the very presence of God." Elizabeth Von Arnim |
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