• Tea cups and saucers, tea infuser, silver and crystal serving pieces, silver trays, silver tongs for sugar cubes, porcelain tea set, silver tea set, teapots, lace doilies, napkin ring holders, napkins, assorted teas, sugar cubes, cookies, mints, apron for serving, invitations for a Tea Party, a gift certificate to Adams Mark for High Tea—always the most delightful outing during the Christmas holidays
• Lace handkerchiefs, lace gloves, beaded and velvet evening bags, purse size comb and engraved mirror, hat boxes, pretty hats, and pretty hair accessories
• Perfume, scented lotions and dusting powders, purse size hand creams, and purse size cologne atomizers
• Pretty mirrored dresser tray, glass perfume bottles, mirror, brush and comb dresser set, silver-lidded dusting powder holder, and jewelry box
• Pretty dresser, pretty dresser lamp, crystal vases and votives, and gold gilded mirror for above dresser
• Floral garlands and pretty fabric for over doorways and windows
• Lovely books, personalized embosser (which can be used for envelopes and stationery, too), glass or ceramic bookends, reading lamp, and a plump chair
• Desk accessories, personalized stationery and labels, and pretty pen
• Rubber stamps, stamp pads, glitter, special note cards, paper, envelope kit for making varied sized envelopes, sealing wax, and personalized embosser
• Craft kits to make dolls, jewelry, soaps….
• Bath salts, bath balls, sponges, special shampoos, bath gels, candles, plump towels, pretty gowns, robe, and slippers
• Pretty bedspread, sheet sets, flannel sheets, pretty pillows, lace bed caddy for books and glasses, and a breakfast tray
• Christmas ornaments, Christmas ceramic village, and other holiday decorations
• Cookbooks and recipe box or book for favorite family recipes
• Sonia loves Mary Engelbreit’s art, so I gave her a subscription to Mary’s Home Companion magazine. So far it has been delightful, and, of course, Sonia really enjoys receiving her very own magazine. To order a subscription, call 800-826-3382.
• Cover walls with wallpaper from wallpaper sample books, wrapping paper, or contact paper.
• Cover floors with carpet, samples or left over from your room, contact paper, wallpaper, or linoleum tiles.
• Buy windows from hobby shop and gather fabric for drapes.
• Use a shampoo or lotion pop-up lid as a trash can.
• Take pretty material and cut out a rectangle or square with pinking shears to make a rug.
• Take earrings that look like lamps and use as wall sconces. Heather received a pair of earrings that were translucent pink roses. She cut off the backing and hung on wall as rose wall sconces.
• Fill miniature baskets with miniature dried flowers for arrangements around the house.
• Decorate a miniature Christmas tree with little bows, tiny colored glass balls, and other ornaments. Wrap small pieces of styrofoam with colorful foil and tie with gold twine for Christmas packages to be placed under the tree. You can use beads for Christmas lights.
• Make miniature food out of modeling clay.
• Cut out miniature pictures from gift catalogs, glue to posterboard for added strength and use as pictures to be hung on the wall or as books or magazines to be placed on the coffee table.
• The black bottom of the Oil of Olay night cream can be used as a pot for a plant (a leaf or branch from a silk arrangement) or for a dried flower arrangement.
• Use scraps of material to make simple pillows and bedspreads. You can use eyelet or lace to go around bedspread.
• For a clock, cut out picture of a clock from a gift catalog, glue to posterboard and hang on wall.
• Use miniature ceramic dogs and cats and place around house as pets.
• A small pocket mirror can be framed or bordered with ribbon and hung on the wall.
• Furniture was purchased from shops all over St. Louis. Ask the relatives to consider dollhouse furniture when making gift selections.
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