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Mama was an exceptional seamstress able to make anything from our frilly little dresses to ruffled country curtains and fancy toss pillows. A shopping trip for Mama would be to go "window" shopping. She would see something she liked and would go home and make the identical dress for a fraction of the cost of the ready made one. She would make Nancy and me look alike dresses full of ruffles and lace. She would get us all dressed up and make us wear a "can-can" (sometimes two) to make them stand out. If we sat very long, when we would get up the "can-cans" would be embedded on the backs of our legs not to mention when we sat down our dresses would nearly go over our heads. Do you remember "can-cans"? And,
today at the age of 74, Mama is still making babies.
That’s right! Her granddaughter, April, makes the lifelike baby dolls and Mama loves to
help her by sewing the doll bodies.
April then stuffs the bodies and does her magic on them. |