For some time I've been looking for a way to display a very old doll that belonged to my mother, because why have a thing like that if it's going to sit around in a box on a top shelf. A few weeks ago I saw an old display case, made around 1900, in an antique store a few minutes from my house. It looked like just the thing, but I didn't buy it right then because it was probably not going anywhere and it was pretty big and kind of spendy, so I wanted to make sure I really wanted it and knew where I'd put it and all.

So I got to where I was thinking I'd go buy it the next chance I got to get over to that store. But Saturday morning, which was my birthday, I got up and went downstairs, and there was my display case on the dining room table with a big orange bow on top.

Here it is with the doll, and also my most coolest piece of Victorian majolica--both on display and safe from cats!