The Room is Finished!

Here it is! I am so happy about the way it turned out. 

I had the little table and chair, but spray-painted them white. I sewed the seat cushion.

I made the blotter, computer, picture frames, pencil, and tissue box.  The cell phone came with the backpack in the previous picture.

I love this! The bulletin board is probably my favorite part of the room. It is cork board in a spray-painted 4x6 wooden frame. I strung ribbon across it and secured it with tiny flower-shaped brads. I made the postcards (Colonial Williamsburg and Walt Disney World - my two favorite vacation spots), movie tickets, picture, and blue ribbon on my computer. The envelope and valentine came with the AG bed and breakfast set.

I sewed the beanbag chair and made the iPod out of foam. The wall decorations are 3D scrapbooking stickers.

The shelf I painted. The bed is the kind that you get when you stay at a hotel near an AG Store. Since it was short, I set it on top of boxes. But you cannot tell because of the bedsheets. I sewed the pillows, canopy, and bedspread. I also made the gamboxes on the shelf.

I hope you enjoyed the tour! My dolls love their new room.

Sneak Peak of New Bedroom

Yesterday I sewed a lot to get some things ready for the new modern bedroom. Today I am spray painting some old doll furniture and also doing another craft. Here is a sneak peek of what I have been up to!



New Electronics

On some other blogs and sites I saw some cute computers and mp3 players.  Since I did not want to have to buy one, I was inspired to make my own!

The laptop and ipod are out of foam

The earbuds are embroidery thread and tiny pompoms

COMING UP:

Up til now I have had strictly historical settings in my dollhouse. Now I am adding new room - a modern bedroom! I should have it up in a few days. My goal is to use what I have and make as much as I can instead of buying new things (like this craft).

The Food is Painted!

I had a great time a few days ago painting the now-dried clay food items!  (See Clay Project to see how they used to look.)  Unfortunately the butter dish and one set of peas did not survive... the butter dish got stuck to the plate while it was drying and ripped when I tried to get it off : ( I am going to make a new one this weekend when I finish some of the other sandwhich-makings.  As for the peas, they kind of fell apart as I was painting them.  Oh well.
Anyway, here is what is done so far!

Pizza

Cinnamon rolls, crescent rolls, donuts, pancakes

Peas, corn on the cob, eggs sunny side up

Dice (not for eating, of course), lemon, orange, pear

Stick of butter, strawberry, eggs

Clay Project

I bought some modeling clay at Hobby Lobby on Saturday, and I can't wait to show you what I made!  My mom and even my brothers joined in.  I made all kinds of doll food!  As soon as everything is dry, we are going to paint them.

Butter, a butter dish, lemon, strawberry, eggs, pear, dice, pizza, and an orange

Pancakes, eggs (sunny side up), peas, bacon, cinnamon rolls, donuts, and crescent dinner rolls

Lasagna, tomato pieces, bread pieces, and corn on the cob

I am still lacking 2 strawberries and some sandwhich makings (cheese, another bread slice, and lettuce), but hopefully those can be made this weekend : )

Kitchen Craft

I really love my new Kit's Holiday Baking Set!  I decided to make more boxes like the flour and sugar ones that came with it.  I made a powdered sugar, a cake mix, and a hot chocolate box.  Also, some more recipe cards (I googled recipes for doll food I have) and a recipe card holder.

Just like the Banquet Table... but not :)

I really like Cecile and Marie-Grace's Banquet Table, but since it was so expensive, I thought I would make my own!  I put two doll-sized tables together with a canopy I made for Lissie's bed for the tablecloth.  For the food, I just used what I had.  I think it turned out nice :) I will have to use it in a photostory soon...

Cake

My little brother made this cake for my dolls today.  Isn't it sweet?  Sometimes his Build-a-Bears come over to play with the dolls.

Pencils!

I found a craft on Doll Diaries (here is the link http://dolldiaries.com/doll-craft-make-your-own-doll-school-supplies/) about how to make pencils for American Girl Dolls.  I tried it, and I thought I would show you how it turned out!

Here is the finished pencil.  Doesn't it look real?

I made a whole set of colored pencils, too.  For a pencil holder, I used a tiny Altoids box.

Here is Kit holding her new pencil.  Now she can really be a reporter.

Mini Mag

I went through all of my American Girl Magazines last night and cut out all of the mini mags.

This is my stack of magazines.  They date back to the September/October 2003 issue, when I first subscribed.  It's sad that the newer issues don't have mini mags anymore.



Here are all the mini mags once I put them all together.

For comparison, I put two side by side.

Devon decided to prop up and read some : )

Now their new magazines go with their other books in the bookcase in the parlor.