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twenty years ago, on a random stop at a tiny doll’s house shop Cindy Coons fell in love with a glorious Queen Anne Victorian doll’s house that stood at the front of the store. The Queen was not decorated, but she imagined the fun she could have as she scoped out the shop.
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She was suddenly in miniature nirvana, a place she had only dreamt about as a child. There stood a doll’s house she thought could never exist except in dreams. That Christmas, her husband, Ray, surprised her with The Queen in the form of two extraordinarily large boxes. She wondered, was this his idea of a joke? She was surprised and thrilled at the same time. She had wanted the actual beautiful pink doll’s house from the window of the tiny doll’s house store, not the kit! As reality set in, she heard Ray say: “It will mean so much more to you if you build it yourself.” Who knew then that what he said then was so smart?
The Queen is truly a part of Cindy’s heart and soul today. I can fully relate to this feeling, as the current owner of my daughter’s doll’s house that was made by my husband in 1976 over a seven-month period on the cusp of our little Jenny’s fifth birthday.