As promised.....

I remember being a little girl, 

visiting grandma at the Farm (near West Concord).

Mom would make us dolls out of the flowers/buds from grandma's Hollyhocks

 Mom's beautiful Hollyhocks

 Upside down flower in my hand... mom preparing the bud 

which will be the dolls head

 poking the stem of the flower into one of the side holes on the bud

and there you have it 

 a Hollyhock doll

 Isn't she pretty

Sitting pretty!

The other cool thing mom used to make us kids while at the farm was "willow whistles" 

She would send us out to the willow tree to fetch a branch,

 then she would go to work making us kids each a whistle, they looked like this....

(Picture from google images)

Oh the things we did on the farm, those were the days, making toys out of nature, climbing trees, exploring the buildings, pure playing.

Childhood memories

Audrey's not sure what to think about this "dollie" that her Great-Grandma Mary made for her.

It's a beautiful little "flower doll" made from the bloom of a holly hock.
They are a delicate little doll and as you can see Audrey is about to pull her apart in the picture on the right.

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My mom used to make them for us at my Grandma's farm
we were always (and still are) amazed at the pretty little dainty Holly Hock dolls.

I wish I had a picture of the willow whistles mom used to make us at Grandma's farm too. They were the coolest ever whistles made out of a Willow tree branch.

This is a picture I found on the internet that is similar to the whistle that mom made, I cant tell you how cool of a process it is to make these, mom always did the carving but we got to help a bit with other parts of making them.

I gotta find me a willow branch and have mom make me one of these

Just like the good old days :)