So, the official deadline of the dollhouse challenge organized by Emily Henderson is tomorrow, Dec 15th. As you can tell from the photo below, my dollhouse needs a wee bit more work, more than I could possibly finish in 24 hours. Luckily for me, my true deadline is Christmas morning so I’ve got a couple of weeks to wrap things up.
Here’s the current status of things …
Decorating a dollhouse is messy work and it’s hard to keep it all hidden. I won’t be surprised at all if Jenna walks down the stairs on Christmas morning and asks if I’m giving my dollhouse, the one I’ve been playing with in my office for the past 3 months, to her for Christmas. Jason has already found one of his presents (which I hid in a bag, on the kitchen counter), so it’s clear that I completely underestimate them in this area.
The living room is almost complete but is still without any flooring. I love the sofa and chair that I purchased. I made the toothpick mirror, lamp and table, and I’m still hoping to find a furry rug. And speaking of furry, yes, that is my cat in the picture. He is fascinated by the dollhouse and tries to get in all of the pictures.
The kitchen is pretty much complete but I might add some pictures on the wall – or I might draw something on the right wall which is covered in chalkboard paper. I purchased the furniture set here.
The bedroom furniture arrived last week so the only thing remaining for this room is the bedding, which I plan to make myself. I still have 2 weeks, right?
The biggest missing piece is the upstairs, which I had planned to divide into 2 rooms: a child’s room and a bathroom. I decided that was too complicated, so now I’m going to use the space as an artist studio.
Anyone else participating in the challenge? I’d love to see your dollhouse – share a link below.
Here are my other dollhouse-related posts.
Haha OMG this is so totes adorbs! I abs luv it darls! (Darling)
-Haleigh <3
How I suddenly wish, I had a girl. It would look kind of strange, if I made a doll house for myself, I guess
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so cute, and i love how you made it so child friendly. LOVE the toothpick mirror and the crystal lamp (did you make that too?)
here’s mine so far:
http://fadeintobleu.blogspot.com/search/label/dollhouse
Thank you, Lydia. Yep, I made the crystal lamp too (using the same technique as in the tutorial I posted). Your dollhouse is amazing! Thanks for sharing.
Love your wallpapers! And the mirror is fantastic too. Mine isn’t done yet either: http://littlevictorian.blogspot.com
You’ll definitely have to look at ours…you and I used the same dollhouse base. I got mine half off for $15 and bought two. Knocked out one of the floors, built my furniture from jewelry boxes, pillows from pocket linings…well, come see!:
http://www.wordplayhouse.com/2011/12/dollhouse.html
I had so much fun visiting yours. -heather
What a great idea. Maybe we’ll add on to ours … someday. I’ll go check yours out now. Thanks!!!
I love the art work in your house–where did you get it? One of my rooms is papered in a similar wallpaper.
http://www.sillyeaglebooks.com/2011/12/cardboard-box-dollhouse-reveal-im-giant.html
It’s so much fun seeing everyone’s work! Beautiful job.
vanessa
I made the painting in the living room and the bedroom picture is paper that I bought at Paper-Source and decoupaged onto a piece of wood. I have a post about the art here:http://warmhotchocolate.com/2011/12/06/inspired-by-gray-white-pink/
Thanks for visiting!
This is so precious. I wish I had a good reason to refurbish a dollhouse!
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Hi, love your doll house. I was wondering where did you get these dolls? What are they called? Thankssss
Evi
Hi Evi,
The dolls are a remake of the Blythe dolls (from the 70s, I think) and they’re available as part of the Littlest Pet Shop collection by Hasbro. They are very cute!
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