Doll-A-DAy 2023 #236: Remco Mr. and Mrs. Mouse House

   You saw the Remco Elly and Andy Baby Mouse Twins 3 Story Treehouse  in one of my posts on my friend Lori's childhood Christmas presents. Today we're looking at the Mr. and Mrs. Mouse House. This is the smaller house, also made by Remco. Why do the kids have a bigger house than the grown ups?

Notice the Tv antenna on the roof! Those were the days of only 3 channels, or 4 when PBS came along.

The house was made in 1966. it includes Mr. and Mrs. Mouse, dressed for bed, bunk beds, and a table with two chairs.

They have their names on their nightgowns.

  Mr. Mouse has dark hair, but Mrs. Mouse's hair is fire engine red! Both mice are about six inches tall. They have moveable arms and legs, so they can sit at their table and...wave or whatever.

  I have a weakness for mouse toys. I would have liked these when I was a kid. 

  That's it for today. Tomorrow we'll have a very long, and I hope, not boring, post about what I've been up to with all those projects lately, and we'll catch up with the August Doll Book of the Month. See you then.

Doll-A-Day 2023 # 175: A Pair of Mice from Haworth

   If you read today's Grand Tour post, you will have seen that we went to Haworth while we were in England. It's a small village in the Pennines in the West Riding of Yorkshire. It was home to the Bronte family, which included sisters Emily, author of "Wuthering Heights", (and nothing else. Talk about your one hit wonders.), Charlotte, who wrote "Jane Eyre", and Ann, author of "The Tenant of Wildfell Hall", and their sometimes artist brother Branwell.

  While we were there, shopping the pretty little shops, I bought these mice. I never could resist cute mice.

The little white mouse is felted, and sold by a company called Shoeless Joe.

The lady mouse isn't hand made or felted, but she is cute.

She's a 'Norse Mice standing', made by Shudehill.

  They're both about 4 or 5 inches tall. They were in the bag they were put in at the shop, in a small plastic tub with the lid mostly off, in our bedroom. The one side of the tub got a bit sooty, but the mice survived unscathed.

  Those are the dolls for today. See you again tomorrow.

Doll-A-Day 2017 #226:Mr. and Mrs. Mouse

  Today's dolls are from my yard saling the weekend before last. Their a mouse couple.

I have a weakness for anthropomorphic mice.I always have.I always loved the kid's stories and cartoons with the little mice in the matchbox bed, etc. I love Brambly Hedge.So when I found these two at a church sale I couldn't resist. I want to make them a mouse house.
They were made by Russ Berrie.

They stand just 6" tall.

Mr. Mouse has a cone shaped body with tiny stub feet.

Mrs. Mouse fares even worse:

She has no feet at all!

They have floppy arms though.

And Mrs. Mouse has a basket of,uhh...apples and peaches?

I have a mouse just like these guys, only in skiing gear, that I've had since the 80's. I'm guessing these two must be from around the same time. That makes them over 30 years old.

Well, don't get your whiskers out of joint.

See you tomorrow for another doll.