Making

Making. Bracelets and bling

cecily — Thu, 26 Nov 2009 08:28:19 +0000

How sweet are these gorgeous bracelets? They are knitted out of wire by my friend Gill. She made these for her nieces for Christmas, but she's willing to take orders. $25 plus postage will get you one. Drop me a line to order.

Making. Christmas cushions giveaway

cecily — Sun, 22 Nov 2009 08:11:45 +0000

Here's something fun. Sophie's made cushions and she's giving them away. Enter at her blog to win them...

Making. Christmas is coming

cecily — Thu, 29 Oct 2009 09:06:39 +0000

It's so unfortunate that all my Christmas present giv-ees read my blog. It means I can't post pictures of the things I'm making them for Christmas. I'll have to wait until late December and share it all then.

*Sigh*

Making. Itty Bitty Dress

cecily — Mon, 19 Oct 2009 00:40:46 +0000

My sister in law loved this poppy fabric from my new stash, so I made her toddler a dress from it. I found the pattern at Made By Rae and with no fastening or buttons it is really really easy.

Dollshouse. Decorating is done

cecily — Wed, 14 Oct 2009 09:07:55 +0000

Welcome to my new house. It's been built and decorated, and is just waiting for its furniture to arrive. Come in and I'll give you the tour.

Here we are, approaching the front of the house. The windows are in and the paintwork has come up well.

The 'front door' was just for show. This is how you really get into it.

It's all done. I'm very pleased with it, and now I've just got to save up to buy some furniture for it. (What's there is borrowed from my daughter.)

Making. Windfall

cecily — Sun, 11 Oct 2009 09:26:57 +0000

I was given for free (!!!) this enormous box of quilting fabric yesterday. It came from AP's quilting aunt who obviously has maintained a HUGE stash over the years. I unpacked it and felt like I was drowning in riches. I could quilt for the next ten years and not run out. If you want any, just yell...

Making. Dollshouse front is on

cecily — Mon, 05 Oct 2009 08:45:31 +0000

The inside is not quite finished (still waiting on kitchen panelling) but I decided to put the front and the roof on anyway.

Now I need to paper the inside of the new walls and fix in the remaining windows.

Making. Dollshouse kitchen and bathroom

cecily — Mon, 28 Sep 2009 09:55:39 +0000

I gave up on my terracotta tiles. It was too hard to get them perfect and as I am not a perfectionist, I did not have it in me. So we bought tile sheets from the local dollshouse shop which look fantastic. I especially like the bathroom and laundry ones.

The bathroom decoration elicited this comment from my husband: "This is why I don't let you have a free rein in decorating our real house." It's true. He's the decorating nazi and usually wins the arguments. Perhaps this is why I am so excited to have my own tiny house that I can do with what I want.

So that's the bathroom, and behind it is the laundry.

The kitchen is nearly done. I used blue tiles for the floor and then found it hard to match wallpaper to get the french look I wanted. Oh well. Timber panels with patchwork border are just as nice. I was able to stick in the staircase once I did this part of the wall.

I covered the stairs with a print-out of pine floorboards that I found on the net. The panelling is made from big paddlepop sticks - tongue depressors - stained with coffee and cut to the right size. The wallpaper border came from a real wallpaper border site. I guess I can admit to pinching the image and reproducing it in publisher. Will anyone sue me? It's personal use and I never could have bought it at 1/12 the size.

Dollshouse. Lounge room

cecily — Thu, 17 Sep 2009 09:38:42 +0000

I would never, never decorate a room of my own house with red, but it's fun for a dollshouse. I really like the way the floorboards came up in this room, and the working door, complete with tiny hinges is rather fun.

Dollshouse. Attic rooms

cecily — Mon, 14 Sep 2009 11:26:10 +0000

Tah dah. I've finished decorating the two attic rooms.

This is the children's bedroom. It has polished wood floorboards (paddle pop sticks, dyed with coffee and painted with varnish, green gingham wallpaper and a pink floral border. So far, inside the room is a bought and painted over $2 rocking chair, sized for a child, a home-made white bookshelf (made from tongue depressors) and a dollshouse, painted in the same colours as the actual dollshouse. Sadly, I just couldn't make it so it opened up...

Next door to the bedroom is the study. I've gone for a more formal look with the dark green stripes in the wallpaper. AP was very disappointed by the floor staining and wanted me to fix it, but I figure in an attic, nothing is going to be perfect, so it adds to the character. The table is a $2 job from go-lo.