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Doll Bunk Beds
Have you ever been close to someone that has had great skills that you have taken for granted? I have. My father was blessed with many talents that he did not talk about or display, but they were there. He was a quiet man that worked very hard. He ran a dairy farm as well as worked outside the home full time in a factory. He was involved in church activities and was involved in a civic organization. He was older when I was born so by the time I was twelve he had sold the dairy cattle and rented out the farm land to another farmer to use for crops. He worked his job and then spent time in his workshop.
One of the things he did in this workshop was make different wooden toys. My sisters were a great deal older than I was so they had their children when I was very young. I was five years old when I was a niece for the first time. My father made different wooden toys for the grandchildren. He did not talk about making them and did not make a big production out of giving them the toys. I had a large dollhouse that my grandfather had made for my sisters and I to play with. My sisters had it for several years before I came along so many of the pieces of furniture were broken or worn. One day when I was cleaning up the playroom my dad looked in on me.
He started looking at the dollhouse. He asked what happened to the doll bunk beds that had been in it. I told him that there had not been any that I remembered. A few days later when I went into the playroom there were doll bunk beds sitting in the dollhouse. When I went and thanked him for them my mother asked what I was talking about. I told her that dad had made new doll bunk beds for the dollhouse. She came to see them and was surprised at the details that he had included. He put small bedposts on them as well as both headboards and footboards. My mother is always involved in doing many different crafts. She started encouraging my father to make the different pieces of furniture for dollhouses and selling them at the different craft shows she went to.
At first my dad thought this was a dumb idea, but he did start making several pieces of furniture. Soon he was going with her to the different craft shows to help her set up. He enjoyed talking to the others husbands and crafters. In their retirement years they traveled around the five state area attending different shows and selling their handiwork.
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