Bedroom #1

Not much to say about the mini bedroom. I do love the Lalaloopsie bed here. Who wouldn't want to sleep in this bed? It has candles for bedposts- how cool is that? The circle window was already there in the box, so we just went with it. And Shea picked the furniture, vase and flowers, and assorted decorations from magazines.

Living Room

First thing we have to have, obviously, is a living room. I brought some supplies with me, a couple magazines, a few ribbons, a stack of assorted felt (invaluable), some art paper. How many times did I wish I'd brought my glue gun? About 7637 times- but who counted.
We scavenged some Styrofoam. I used a Veranda magazine and picked some room backgrounds. Shea had a good time looking through some magazines for furniture bits and pieces and the gluing began.
The couch- way too long for the room, but we were just getting out feet wet here- out of the scavenged Styrofoam (from packing material I believe) and we chose a lovely orange felt and cut and glued and covered.
Shea used a campfire- something left from a Barbie? Moxie Girls? Bratz? camp set as an open pit fire place. And in this picture we have a blue smooshy chair- about Barbie size. She also added a cute little Lalaloopsie table. Our dollhouse is absolutely not built to scale. We aren't picky, we choose from all girl toy groups.

First pictures

So I learn to say box in Spanish (caja) and the very nice man in the office smiles and gives me paper boxes- the lovely useful, sturdy kind with a lid. And so it began.

Should have started sooner...

So, I've decided to create a blog about the dollhouse that Shea and I are slowly creating- mostly for Annie Ertel. We've had such a good time doing creating this doll house, and it has been such a hit with all Shea's friends, that I want to have a place to show it off. I'm a show-off, plain and simple. Plus Annie wants to see pictures. And I want to make Annie happy.
We started this project about 6 months ago when we moved to Columbia for a two year stint teaching. I promised Shea then, when faced with the dilemma of what toys to pack when we needed space for other things, that we would create this dollhouse. She left behind various and assorted Barbie houses, Fairy houses, Little Pet Shop Sets, My Little Pony sets- the big things simply couldn't come. Not when we needed sheets. The idea, we'd make this dollhouse out of things that were available, and just pitch it when it was time to come back to the States.
Therefore we searched her room for things that were small and would work for furnishings, packed some Pets, and Barbies, and a LaLaLoopsie or two, and away we went. After a week or two we were ready to start...