new baby furniture

I made some new baby furniture for the nursery. I made a baby complete with outfits and diaper, changing table and a peter rabbit toy box. I still have to make the changing table pad. I will be away from the computer for a few days while my husband and I take our youngest son to see his eye surgeon in Mississagua. I should be back on Thursday morning. I am taking my felt and some patterns with me so i can make soe minis while i am away. I am also going to go to Michaels to pick up some clay so I can make some more clay food. Here is a picture of the baby and the nursery furniture.

almost done

The Willow is almost structurally complete, We have the siding up and painted, the roof is on, all that is left is to finish the outside trim and add  the front door and glue on the chimneys. So today I was playing around with some mini furniture. I painted the counch and two arm chairs and made cushions in a yellow fabric to make them look more comfortable. I plan on adding throw cushions in green to ofset the yellow and brown. So the house is starting to look like a home.

Saturdaypril 30, 2011

Well today is the last day of April, and it is finally starting to warm up a little bit. I  now have two sides of the Willow sided with only the large front to do. In between I have started to work on some of the little pieces of furniture. I went back to the dollarstore and picked up another nursery set because I really liked how the toddler bed turned out. So I painted one pink and the other blue and I mod podged clipart on the ends to match the room decor. The little girls room is done in pinks with butterflies and fairies and the little boys room is all done in zoo animals. I also put together and painted the cradle for the baby, this I painted brown and I found a peter rabbit clip art picture for the foot of the cradle. I also added the handle to the doll pram, all that is left of these four pieces is to add the fabric mattresses  and bedding to them (time to dig out the sewing machine).

willow house outside

Today I have been working on more of the exterior trim on the willow today The window trims are done to the point of putting up the shutters, which I have yet to punch out and paint them, all 22 of them. Right now I a trying to get the trim put on over the front door. While paint was drying I found a pattern on line for a little wooden doll pram. So out of the left over wood from the dollhouse (when you do not put in stairs you have some large pieces of wood) so I cut out  the pieces and painted them a leaf green, I did change a few things on the pram, I used black coloured Fimo for the wheels, I just have to add a handle and add some fabric for the mattress.

What a cute pram, When I was a baby my mother had a pram for my sister and I and it was a green silvercross pram all the way from England. Actually I still have my English doll pram, it is a chocolate brown colour, so it is only fitting that my dolls should have a doll pram.

Big Things

Well the new house is up, and wallpapered, interior pretty much finished. The wall that has the built in bookcase/fireplace was such a pain to put in the house. It was such a snug fit it did not even need to be glued into place. So now I am onto painting and installing the windows and window casings. I did not realize how big the house really was.I am really falling in love how this house is turning out. On Saturday while I was picking up a few things at the dollarstore I found little wooden dollhouse furniture kits, the ones that  ou punch out and paint then glue them together. I found the nursery and livingroom sets. So that will be the next project after the house is complete. I really like the little nursery pieces wich include a cradle, highchair, rocking horse and a toddler bed. The livingroom set has a couch, 2 chairs, side table and a coffee table.

The large brown objects on the third floor are the two chimneys that attach onto each of the side. Inside the house there is a fireplace and they are not on the same wall, so there are two chimneys.

I hope everybody had a great Easter weekend, I can not wait until tomorrow, thekids go back to school.

Good Friday

Well today is Good Friday, I have been very busy, I have pretty much finished the interior of the mini preschool, It kind of worked out perfectly because guess what arrived yesterday. My house!!!! So on to this big project. The house i ordered was the Willow, man this house is large. So I have sanded all of the large pieces and I am waiting for them to dry. Know I have to figure out wallpaper and start printing off the sheets. The kitchen is going to have a cherry pattern wallpaper and the baby nursery is going to have peter rabbit, but that is as far as I have gotten.

Here is some pictures of the mini preschool and my new house in progress.

Monday April 18, 2011

Well it has been a crazy weekend, Friday we had my son's birthday party he turned 10. Then on saturday i spent all day at the mall for our annual Cub Car races which saw the cub pack from Bar River take home the big trophy. And then yesterday I started working on some of my minis but did not get as far as I wanted so I was able to finish them off this morning.

work I completed this morning was the 4 little dolls for the preschool. I made 2 girls and 2 boys. I think they turned out really well. I also finished off the bean bag chair and made a to shelf for the upstairs playroom. Oh and I made a partial new outfit for the one larger size doll, I was not happpy with the way the skirt she was wearing turned out so I made her a pair of tan coloured pants, she looks much better now. I also made four small cushions for the children to sit on at storytime.

 Here are the two little boy dolls

And here are the two little girl dolls.