Thawing Charlotte
Frozen!
A little girl appeared in the mailbox today – she’s come all the way from Kansas where there is an excessive heat warning of up to 105 degrees F expected this week! Here in Victoria we are waiting for summer to come back…poor Charlotte was not used to this chilly climate.
Bed
Prissy was quite concerned that Charlotte seemed frozen stiff, so she heaved her into a cradle,
Hot Water bottle
…ran for a hot water bottle…
Blanket
and borrowed a square from the current quilt scrap project.
Story
And in case her stiffness was due to shyness, Prissy decided to keep her company for a while, and read her a story.
This little 2 1/2 inch Frozen Charlotte is a gift from a Hitty friend. She is a replica doll similar to one which was found by archaeologists wrapped in a wool sock on the wreck of the Arabia. This steam-powered paddlewheel boat went down in 1856, after hitting or being hit by a snag on the Missouri River.
This is absolutely adorable! I bet Charlotte will be warm very soon, don’t you?? Billie
I think if Charlotte doesn’t warm up soon it is not for lack of trying, nor lack of warm hearts in the Hitty Cupboard! Thank you so much for sending her here!
The Arabia Museum is incredible! Hitty Jean has been there and can strongly recommend it!
It does look and sound fascinating! I am happy to have a tiny bit of the story in my very own Hitty cupboard! Did you go home with a “Charlotte” too?
Quaint, cute, cozy.
Thank you! We do enjoy ourselves here in the cupboard, and hope Charlotte will warm to us too!
A new member for this most welcoming family!!! Prissy knows how to spread the Quimper hospitality…before she knows it, Charlotte will feel right at home. Lovely cradle she picked for the newcomer…a perfect fit.
A friend sent the cradle to us, I’ve been trying to get up the nerve to paint it, perhaps in Rosemaling!
The Quimper Hitty blog itself testifies to the benefits of sock-wrapping for small dolls! I am sure Charlotte will be a fine tester for future Hitty sleeping bags…good to be assured of employment.
Excellent observation! The Quimper Hittys do think that all handmade human socks get to be test-driven as sleeping bags…and now they have an experienced sock-inhabitor amongst them I predict future sock mutinies…perhaps with Gráinne at the helm, poking our toes with her cutlass! Yikes!
I’d be careful to keep the Quimper Hitty Kitties at bay…this little one looks like she was made from milk.
…or perhaps Charlotte needs a little dose of feline therapy to warm the cockles of her heart!
Delightful…and this little replica is a sweetie. The whole story of the finding of the Arabia is fascinating. How lovely that this little one has traveled to your home. As for the heat…oh my goodness we are melting here in Missouri
My Hittys are using ice packs instead of hot water bottles!
I am glad you are keeping cool…we could use a little bit of your heat – we are not at all warm here 😦
p.s. I love the picture of little Prissy “reading” the book upside down!! Too cute!!!
Ha! Prissy does need to study an alphabet book I think!
Oh, your new Charlotte is very dear, and how sweet of Prissy to take such good care of her! I have loved Frozen Charlottes since I was a child and regret that the one I owned then vanished many years ago.
We are going to love this little one, poor little chilly thing that she is!