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Old Folk Art Doll House of Cardboard Collection Jim Linderman



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Featuring a complete bathroom with a toilet paper roll, two tiny soap holders with soap, comfortable miniature beds with ticking and enough seating for the whole neighborhood!  Corrugated life is seldom as comfortable.  The heavily painted miniature craftsman is twenty inches long and a foot high, and features actual screen windows,  two porches, numerous rooms and a Christmas wreath on the front door!  Dated 1951…if you slather cardboard with house paint, it will last a long time.

The toilet seat is less than an inch wide.  Better practice your aim.  The soap is tweezer size.     

Delineated bricks,  well-worn front steps, and the entire living space slides out like a drawer…unlike most dollhouses the roof is stable. 

Yes, there is a light, yes it plugs in and yes it works…after 60 years.  I am not sure some of the houses being built today will last as long.

Handmade Cardboard House Model, 1951 Collection Jim Linderman

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Yarn Bomb Bikini for the Dishes (!) A Poem and a Homemade Dish Wash Product for the Home




You can probably start looking for these on Etsy (or Yarn Bombed all over town, that being the latest hipster doofus graffiti art form...now that I think of it, a nice bikini around the corner telephone pole would be nice. If any followers find (or DO) one themselves send a pic and I promise to run it. ONE! I don't want to see graffiti swimming suits all over town, especially when it is zero degrees.)

Anyway, here is the poem neatly typed over the navel by our artisan.

If you don't look good in a bikini
You are either too fat or too skinny
So swim in whatever suits your wishes
But take me apart and wash your dishes.

Other famous crochet artists include Bettie Page (who made some of her own posing costumes) and...Okay I don't KNOW any more. But there are some. This is a wonderful way to present your product at the local craft fair, by the way. Make a human cardboard torso, hang boob and butt dishwashers on it and watch the money roll in.


18" tall crochet bikini mounted on human torso holder with original poem circa 1960 Anon. Proudly collected and displayed in his home office by Jim Linderman



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"TAKE YOUR TIME"... "That looks nice son"... "Well, that was a short birthday"... Pressman Toys was founded in 1922. As unlikely as it may seem from this astoundingly underwhelming toy, they remain in business today.
Nail-O-Gram Box and finished product c. 1930 Collection Jim Linderman