nun doll – Ruth E. Hendricks Photography

Today after school I went to visit my friend Donna. She had commented that she had a doll collection when she saw the post of Barbara’s dolls last week. I asked her if I could come over and photograph her collection.

Here’s a painting of her Grandmother – Anna Kugler, born in Germany est. 1884 according to the 1940 census I was able to find. The artist is Donna’s Uncle Francis, Anna’s son. There are two more paintings he painted. The snowy back yard with the bird feeder is Donna’s parents backyard.

1940 Census found online.

No identification of who this might be

Donna’s Parents Backyard

Painted by Francis Kugler

Donna’s Aunt , Sister Evarista, created this nun doll c. 1950. The clothes are made from an acutal whipple and habit from the Order of St. Joseph.

Uncle Charles Goodall, Donna’s father’s brother, brought back the Koala bear from Australia in WW II.

Bride Doll used at showers for decoration

January 27, 2015January 27, 2015 by Ruth Categories: PhotographyTags: bride doll, childhood, collections, crochet, doll, doll collection, grandmother, Koala Bear, nun doll, Order of St Joseph, photography, postaday, WWII 10 Comments

It was Janet of Sustainabilitea blog, ( This,that and the other thing/ Looking at life through writing and photography) who wrote in a comment “these photos would make great puzzles”.

She was right. Thanks, Janet, for the super idea. (original post of the doll collection was just January 6th).

I went down the hill to give my friend the early birthday present and it was a cool surprise. Waiting until the actual birthday on the 29th was too long. Barb was really thrilled with the origianl idea and I told her how a fellow blogger suggested making the photo into a puzzle. Her husband thought the photo below would make a cool document of the idea come to fruition.

Here my friend Barb’s husband Rich holds up the puzzle I ordered from the photo of her doll collection.

It came in a lovely tin. Ravensburger USA in New Hampshire did a super job.

How much fun it would be to photograph collections to be made into jigsaw puzzles.

January 24, 2015January 25, 2015 by Ruth Categories: PhotographyTags: birthday present, blogging community, collection, doll collection, friendship, jigsaw puzzle, nun doll, photo, photography, postaday, puzzle, Ravensburger USA, Sustainabilitea blog, Toodles, writing 15 Comments

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Donna’s Grandmother Anna b. 1884 Crocheted a Doll’s Dress and Donna Crocheted a July 4th Doll

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