Thursday April 14, 2011

Life has been so busy around here lately, I am a cub leader for Scouts Canada, and this time of year is so busy between spring hikes, camps and the cub car rally. Two of our boys are in the scouting movement, one in cubs, and one in beavers. As for my minis, I have been working on making mini bean bag chairs for the childcare centre. Walmart had some cute spring material that is turning out to work well for the little chairs. I ama member of an online cross stitch club that puts out daily cross stitch patterns. I came across one the other day that had toys on it, so I am making a rug for one of the floors.

Also i ordered my dollhouse kit today. It should arrive the Tuesday after Easter, unless CANPAR can get it here before Easter. I ordered the corona Willow house kit from the Little Dollhouse Company in Toronto. So that should be a fun project.

In the meantime i will keep on working on the mini childcare centre.

 the chair needs a button to make it less poofy, so the dolls legs can touch the floor.

one of the dolls enjoying her new chair.

Well I hope everybody has a great day. bye for now

mini people

Monday April 11, 2011

Well I was able to get some of the people made that I had found patterns for. I think they tuned out really cute. Now all I have to make is some smaller ones to use as children for the child care centre. Also on the weekend I was able to finish off the little mini books that I made for the childcare centre, I also installed the yellow shelves in the playroom and made a few blue round tables for the children to sit and play at. Now all I have to do is make some little stools for the tables.

Here are the latest pictures.

 My three Early Childhood Educators all ready to teach some little minds. Now all they need is some children and the rest of the school built.

I show you some close ups of the books tomorrow, not really happy with the picture.

April 9, 2011

well the building is coming along nicely, the mainfloor has new wallpaper and tile looking flooring. the shelves are finished(but not installed yet. The brick work on the front stairs and the trim around the bottom of the building is done, and i must say it looks very sharp.

While I was surfing the net for patterns to make the dolls some new clothes, I came across lovely patterns to make dolls and their clothes out of felt. The dolls stand 6 inches tall. they are going to look so cute. And since i hav lots of felt on hand this project is deffinately going to save me some money. I resized the pattern to make smaller dolls and clothes. I will post pictures of these little cuties once completed.

 the new wallpaper, thesmaller room has bunnies on the wall and the otherside has clouds and suns with a blue sky. The floor is light blue tiles.

April 7, 2011

Good mornning,

Well I repainted the house, it was a two tone yellow, mustard colour with blue and white trim. It is now lavender with pink and white trim, I am going to add the brick paper on the bottom which was painted silver, I painted over it with white paint. When my 9 year old came home from school yesterday he saw the house and said it looked Eastery (if that is even a word). I think it looks ready for spring.

Here is a picture.

the trim above the door frame and the flower boxes is light yellow, the hearts on the shutters are light pink.

my creations

I could not find my camera, so I had my daughter show me how to use the webcam that is built into my laptop. So here they are:

the picture of the house is in its remodel stage(gutting stage) i am turning the house into a daycare centre that I am affectionately calling SunnyVille Child Care Centre. The rooms will be as follows First Floor: Room with big window will be an office and room to put the "cubbies" to hang jackets, store back packs, etc. it will also house a desk and file cabinet and such. Room with door will be a preschool playroom, Second floor: room with green walls will be toddler play room and the pink room will be a sleep room with five small cots and a bean bag chair for the daycare staff to sit and watch over the sleeping angels.

the picture of the two yellow shelves are for toy storage in the first floor playroom, I need to make some smaller ones for the second floor playroom,

the picture of the minis are things I have made over the last few weeks. I used Fimo to make some of the toys and food. Most of the food ideas came from Cafe World on Facebook.

I love how the miniature puppet theatre turned out. I even made some puppets for it as well, two are in the picture. Also the Mr. Potatohead turned out really cute.

 here is the house in the middle of the gutting stage

some of my mini creations., sorry they are a little bit blurry, I need to find my camera.most of these will end up in my Princess Anne dollhouse, the toys will go in the child care centre. talk to you tomorrow.

Monday april 4, 2011

Before I begin building my house I am going to remodel my daughter's 4 room dollhouse. I am going to take this house and turn it into a preschool building. I am currently working towards finishing my Early Childhood Education at  a local college and one day hope to work in a daycare setting or a kindergarten class alongside the teacher. Anyway, since my daughter's house is in desparate need of some TLC I am going to make some changes to her house, since she has lost complete interest in it.

Right now I am going to work on the toy shelves for one of the playrooms, they are going to be long rectangular shelves so they can be mounted along the walls.

I have found some great cheery wallpaper for the walls, which I think the children will love. I need to find my camera so I can get some pictures on here for all to see.

march 22, 2011

Well I have entered into a new dimension,theworld of blogging. I am choosing to use this blog to show off my love of miniatures. This little hobby of mine started when I was much younger. I remember as a child playing with dollhouses. I remember my first dollhouse was a Lunby house, and then I adentually moved up into building my houses from kits. My first "real" dollhouse was a small cottage like house with 4 rooms, evenually my dollhouse family outgrew that house and I bought them a much larger house with 6 rooms and an attc. I left the mini world for several years because my kids were small and I did not have the room one either. Two christmas' ago my daughter recieved a dollhouse kit for a gift so I helped her put it together and decorate it. Which she has since abandoned and now sitting on my work table. However my three year old really enjoys playing with it.

The main part of this blog will be the construction of my new dollhouse which my husband is purchasing for me. The dollhouse I have chosen is the Princess Anne. This should be an exciting adventure, since I live in Northern Ontario we do not have a dollhouse store or a craft store so i am limited in what i will be able to get to decorate and finish my house.

In the mean time I am working on making miniatures to place in my house. I will posts pictures of these so you ll can see what I am creating.

So I hope you can come along with me on this mini journey with me.