The Tampa resident has fond memories of helping his mother, Mary Elizabeth Peltonen, make some of these porcelain dolls, a ...

She was a sewing teacher and worked in the garment industry in the 1970s. ... Houchen began sculpting her own 27-inch-tall porcelain fashion dolls in 1979.

All dolls are then signed and numbered to mark their uniqueness. “Florodora” is handmade, made of porcelain, and believed to have been crafted sometime around 1983. How “Florodora” ended ...