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Paul’s grandmother’s house. Ginger
made the cushions for the kitchen
chairs that Paul made along with the
kitchen table. Toothpicks from
Cracker Barrel were used for the
chair spindles, while spindles that
appear on the bed were turned on
Paul’s small lathe. His first piece of
furniture is also his favorite piece, a
Lear table.
The 1940’s era decorated doll-
house takes up permanent space in
a side window of the Cook home
after it’s years of travel to and from
Germany (twice in fact). It has
adorned the bay window of an an-
tiques store in Glendale, Kentucky Paul made the baby cradle so it would rock. It resides in the master bedroom of the
where Paul made full-size furniture tiny home.
to order. It also was proudly on dis- Ginger Cook holds a photo of her mother, Ginger adds the tiny homemade to a pond with a fairy garden nearby.
play at the Wayne Public Library the original dollhouse kit owner, while touches that make a house a home- Paul has a Model A and a Boat Tail
about three years ago. curtains, bedspreads, chair cush- Speedster on a 1931 frame he is
Ginger compares the dollhouse Paul stands with her. ions, and rugs made from tapestry building. They recently showed the
to a Pandora bracelet, always adding a wrecked dollhouse in someone’s fabric. She says her mom did do one Model A at a Greenfield Village car
to it and keeping it. Although they trash along the street that is being thing for the dollhouse: she cro- festival. The very creative Cooks
love dollhouses, none of their four fixed up for a little girl at their cheted pillows. The Cook’s don’t keep moving and making while Gin-
children, the youngest being 49, have church. They also found another seem to rest. They have a butterfly ger’s mother looks on from heaven.
had dollhouses. Ginger had a metal dollhouse kit in a box on the shelf at garden in their backyard and Ginger Perhaps her spirit roams the minia-
one when she was small. Value World that they have slowly also raises butterflies from butterfly ture house made with love by Ginger
As if one dollhouse could not been tackling. eggs left on the plants. Paul has a and Paul that she was able to see
keep them busy enough, they found Paul crafts the furniture while dulcimer that he built. They attend completed before her death.

12 · November 2019 · The Wayne Dispatch