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Creative Design Studio (RKR4CDS)We had a free day to put anything out a few months ago on our garbage pick-up day—Spring Clean Up—another to come in the Fall, and someone put out this perfectly nice little doll's high chair.
While I cannot use it for my work, I have another idea for it.
I don't know the name of the brand - no labels - it has a cute beribboned rabbit on the seat pad and on the upright side of the chair back.
But for the Moms out there with their finger on the pulse of the current brand names, I'm sure at least one of you know; can you tell me if this is a recognized brand-name that's being sold, or something that's 27 years (my luck...) passé but not yet vintage.
TIA!
About 18" tall -
The decal on the reverse side - 
The print on the seat pad - 
Back Road BearsI'm not a mom and know next to nothing about high chairs.
BUT... I just had to do a little poking... curiosity always gets me!!!
I found only one place with photos of highchairs that look anything like yours. I found the shape of the back and foot rest and simple straight legs almost identical to the chair you have! Nothing about a namebrand, in fact, these are likely handmade. But thought you might like to see what they sell for!! LOL!
http://www.threelittleziglets.com/shopb … chair.html
BTW - did you get my email in response to yours from last weekend?
EJ's CraftsThis is a great little chair. I looked at the website. I can't believe that they want that much for doll chairs. I was going to see if I could find a chair for one of the dolls are I am working on right now.....I don't think I can afford one! I may have to see if one of the doll chairs I have now will work. I only paid a couple of dollars at an yard sale last year for a rocker and a small chair.
Creative Design Studio (RKR4CDS)OMG! YES YES!!! This town does have its ritzy bits... More dollars than sense/cents. Can you hear me HARUMPHING!!! That site is Ridiculous!!!! To create a conspicuous consumerism in this day like that is criminal.
'Gently spot clean..." "Wipe with a dampened cloth..."
COME ON ppl - these are for kids and they're gonna beat the tar outta them! That's why this one's missing the tray. The owner probably tried to sit in it herself - - or put her baby brother in it.
The following was what I first wrote, before I looked at the whole site you gave, Daphne. I feel no mercy now! It's on the parents' heads.
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The swing-over tray was missing so that's prob why it was out for the garbage. I was actually feeling a bit guilty before that, thinking that a little girl may have been being punished for something..
Mom: "OK, if you won't take care of your things and you're not cleaning up this mess then I'm putting your doll's high chair out on the curb!" and then before there was time to retrieve it (there was no other stuff out on this curb yet at this house, along comes Bobbie...)
Everything is disposable for too many ppl, some of my own kids included!!!
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It reminds me of our recent power loss, the late 40-Somethings next door, who are well on their way to a 3rd finished basement in 5 years.
They built one of the McMansions that fills every allowable inch of their property; way over-powering these suburban lots laid out 150 years ago.
6 months later came the first outage and sump pump failure caused everything to be stripped out in the finished basement and replaced: carpets, walls, furniture, the works.
A year later, same thing. That time they called in Don to help them with their new generator, as we were all sharing power from our generators to keep everyone's freezers & frigs going. Don cautioned him on how to treat it in after-care, to make sure it would be ready for the next time he'd need it.
Sure enough, last month we got blasted again with a sudden 25° temp rise overnight and Mr 40-something comes knocking "Can you help me get the generator going?"
Don sees that nothing was done to clear the lines last time or whatever you have to do to get it ready for the next time: he shows him how to give it a spritz of ether to jump start it now ... while Mr stands there sipping a COLD bottle of water chatting with another neighbor Don's helped (Don, who's now down on his hands & knees, the Sr citizen here who has had his back fused with rods & screws over 5 vertebrae) and says, "Do you think you should bend down here again to see what I'm doing so you can carry on?"
As Mr continues sipping and chatting, Don hands the almost empty can of ether to his pre-teen son and says "Good Luck, guys, I've got to go check on my own freezer now."
Never so blind as those who will not see.
It's just too easy to think of everything as replaceable instead of 'what do we need to do to preserve what we've got?' So that high chair is mine, with no regrets!
I know I know, I'm sounding like the stodgy old lady I've become. And I'll never earn bucco bucks nor will/did Don as a union hourly worker. But we put in our time and were happy to give our bosses an honest days' work for the $ we were paid. We didn't think in terms of replacing the same furnishing at least 3 times, especially after someone was nice enough to show us how to stop it from happening again after the first time. I wonder what is happening to the initiative of many of the young families today....
I got your e but it was a crazy week, Daphne. On top of everything else, like making applesauce for the freezer and installing an oak floor in the bedroom, I took a header into a door frame and dinged up several body parts: I'm getting too old to do this (ALL of it!)
Must learn to get my feet under me before I go charging off....
Next week is better. I'll e my phone # and email pix of suggestions for a 3 hour and a 5 - 6 hour.
Wed or Fri afternoons best to talk. Looking forward to it!!!!
EJ's CraftsLove the story of the 40 something neighbor. Now they are raising their kids to be the same. We have two grandsons who have just graduated from college and they would not even think of working for minimum wage, they feel like "we have an education so we deserve a big salary". They don't seem to understand that the economy is bad and any job is better than no job.
My husband and I married young, that was the way it was in the 1950's, and had 3 kids in 6 years and struggled with keeping our heads above water. We never took unemployment and always found a job, no matter what it was just to be working. Everything we had we worked hard for and never replaced until it wore out beyond use and didn't always have new as old was just as funtional.
Today it seems like everyone has to have the biggest and the newest and then they don't take care of it and go "oh well I will replace it". Core values seem to be missing in so many of the young.
