What did Laura Ingalls get for Christmas?

Laura's strongest life-long hobby was reading, and perhaps after that, writing poetry. The writing of her famous books she did not look at as a hobby, she saw that differently.

Laura also collected dishware. Two of the designs she collected were rose chintz and blue willow.

She became an expert in raising laying hens and wrote her advice in a journal titled The Missourian Ruralist. Other articles regarding farm-life followed.