SURVEY :: Your favorite era

What is your favorite Lundby era? Please take a moment to think it over and answer the survey in the right-hand column.

Here are your choices:

Earliest Lundby and 1960s – photo from 1966 catalog

1970s – photo from 1977 catalog

1980s – photo from 1985 catalog

1990s – photo from 1993 catalog

Modern Lundby – photo from 2006 catalog

Or maybe you find it too hard to choose? You can also answer that you love them all!

I have a hard time choosing but find myself most drawn to 1970s Lundby, as that's what I had as a kid.

What makes your favorite era so special to you? Feel free to leave a comment below!



Mini dollhouses

I'm fascinated by dollhouses for the dollhouse. My small collection includes the Lundby mini dollhouse (one of the few surviving pieces from my childhood collection) and a tiny replica of my very first dollhouse (now long gone). It's a Fisher Price handmade by a very clever Etsy seller in Wisconsin, USA:

Thanks to my friend Linda, I've expanded my collection with several vintage Sylvanian Families mini homes, some with their own minuscule furniture. That's a mini treehouse to the right of the middle house: 

  

The Fisher Price and Sylvanian houses pictured above are about the right scale for the Lundby folks. But this Sylvanian house (thank you, Linda!) is about double in scale:

The front hinges open to reveal the cozy furnished interior, complete with a fuzzy rabbit inhabitant:

Do you have any mini houses in your collection? I'd love to hear about them.

Friends

One of the best things about collecting Lundby is the new friends I've made, from near and far. It has also been fun sharing my hobby with old friends and family.

As kids my best friend Carolin and I used to make and trade dollhouse items with each other. A couple years ago she was kind enough to sell me her childhood collection. It sure brought back memories! The tiny drum, Bodo Hennig sailboat, and red Lego cabinet in my kids' room were hers:

The colorful books are also Bodo Hennig:

The jointed pewter teddy bear, made by Hantel in Scotland, is from my good friend Stacy. And the little rug is a vintage fabric scrap from my super stylish friend Pinky:

My dear friend Linda gave me a very special birthday present this year--a working Caroline's Home washing machine!

Her skilled hubby rigged it with a little motor that makes the drum turn:

This Lisa fireplace--perfect in my Lisa dollhouse livingroom--is from my thoughtful and generous friend Siegi:

Here's to a great year of dollhouse fun and friendship for us all!