Christmas Toy Shoppe Scenes by Barbara Antol

Barbara Antol has sent us pictures of her Toy Shop displays. She has used several of my books in the display.

Barbara writes:

"As promised, here are a few photos of my Toy Shoppe which includes several of your books. The first two photos show details of the inside. That's Gustav working on a little dollhouse. He "owns" the shoppe and lives upstairs. In front of his workbench, you'll see your fabric Noah's Ark book there beside the little ark. Additional books are on the shelf above the bay window, and on the bookcase shelves behind Gustav.

"The other two photos show the outside of the Toy Shoppe. It's currently decorated for Christmas. Somehow this year, I never got around to taking down the Christmas decorations in the Toy Shoppe. When it got to summertime, I figured I may as well leave them up and get a headstart on this year's decorating :-)

Toy Shoppe Scenes by Barbara Antol

Noah's Arc Teddies Cats, from my watercolours Three Bears, 1939 Three Bears, Victorian, 1899

Halloween Scenes by Barbara Antol

Barbara Antol has sent us pictures of her Halloween displays. She has used several of my books in the display.

Barbara writes:

"Attached are a few photos of my dollhouses decorated for Autumn/Halloween. Hope you enjoy them.

"The first three photos are my Tudor House (my biggest one and favorite). There's an inside shot of the dining room. You can see Elke (the mother bear) studying your Harvest Cookbook. And that's little Heike holding one of the little candy cone holders. Elke and Heike are from Romerhaus Bears. (The other members of the bear family are Arthur and Aunt Bea, who are both shown in the photo of the front porch, along with little Harmony Bunny who lives with them in the Tudor House.)

. "There are also a couple photos of the outside of the Tudor House.

"The other two photos are of "Teddy's" house. Teddy is one of my oldest bears. I got him from the gift shop at Teddy Roosevelt's estate in Sagamore Hill, Long Island, NY when I was about 8 years old. Teddy's rather well traveled. He's been to Europe and even to the North Pole. He loves Halloween. You can see he's enjoying one of your Halloween Activity books and planning his All Hallow's Eve party.

[The last picture is a] picture of Teddy sitting at the top of the world on the North Pole....My husband went on an expedition to the North Pole back in 1985. Little Teddy accompanied him.

Halloween Scenes by Barbara Antol

Halloween Activity Book 1 Pumpkins Black Cats For Halloween