Home Sweet Drawer

Ever had a dresser with only two decent drawers that you wanted to salvage somehow.  Here’s a totally cute solution, make a doll house.  Here’s a tutorial from Nice Girl Notes showing a truly brilliant way to make a doll house from castoff drawers.  And I thought the only use for old drawers was as under-bed storage. ...

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List and Library: Completed

I said I would take my time on my list, and spending two days to finish everything on it is sort of taking my time.    First up, here are the head bands before I redid them.  The one on the right looks exactly like one I already had, boring.  The other one isn’t very flattering on me.  Midnight seemed interested in them though. Here’s the after, much better.  For the one on the left,...

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Pretty in Purple

I had meant to post this yesterday, but never got around to it.  I got sidetracked from my list (again) and made another one of my dresses and wore it to church. I started to experiment with lacing for this one, sort of like a corset.  I did start to panic while making it, it started to look to much like a bad Halloween costume to me.  I guess it came out okay, I got a lot of compliments about it...

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Another Thrifting Experience

I went to Goodwill today for their 1/2 off sale, it was a blast.  I found plenty of goodies to mess around with at great prices. I saw the pretty fabric on the left about a week ago and I was surprised it was still there.  I’m not sure yet what I want to do with it.  I also found a baggie full of different types of lace, a major lifesaver since I’ve been out of lace.  The best is the huge spool of...

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Study Hard and Don’t Fall Over

A library needs a quiet place to sit and study, so of course the doll house library needed one too.  A simple “wooden” table and a sturdy chair does the trick.  They seem fine, but I think I got the proportions slightly skewed.  The chair looks too short even though its a perfect fit.  I kind of like it like that though, it is amusing to look at to say the least.  Makes me want to paint the...

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It’s Cat Day Again

Today is Midnight’s birthday, yay!  She is now 6 years old, and totally oblivious to it.   I wish cats were more aware of these things, although it does makes surprising them easier.  I started the day with dressing her up and attempting to take her picture.  Not a lot of luck with that, I only got two pictures of her holding still.  This one wasn’t too bad I guess.   ...

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Bring on the Books

It took a few days to do it, but I finally got the books for the doll house library done.  I had a little trouble finding the supplies I needed. As you can see, I made a ton of books and some magazines too.  I made the books with strips of folded paper glued together.  I cut out pictures of book covers from ads for book clubs, it makes them look so real.   I did the same thing for the magazines...

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Defend the Blocks

Here’s another great creation from What I Made, a cute cardboard Lego fort with an escape hatch.  Why would a Lego person need an escape hatch?  Read the cute drawings to find that out, they’re hilarious.  I hope he writes a book someday, it would have the best illustrations of any craft book. ...

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Before the Books

When working on a library for a doll house, the first thing to start on is probably shelves for all the books. Here I whipped up three in various sizes, and of course like all the other furnishings, I made them with corrugated cardboard.  What a surprise.  I started to paint them dark brown, but inspiration struck.  I made the insides of each shelf sky blue because I thought it would look more interesting...

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Big to Small

As the title says, I took something huge and made it into something small and cute. Before it was this rather large sized t-shirt I had gotten at a thrift store.  It came with several other items for a grand total of $1.  I liked the flower stitching on the front, but the stain at the shoulder was a problem and it was too big for anyone in my family.  That’s what scissors are for, right? After some major...

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Redecorating?

I have been wondering something about this blog, namely the layout and appearance.  I have been using the same blogger template for over a year and wonder if it might be too boring.  I didn’t give it much thought when I chose it to begin with except to tweak some of the colors a bit, that part isn’t very noticeable actually.  And I do still like it, but I have seen several blogs with the same template.  That’s just too strange.  Should I change things up a bit?  Not sure where...

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As Seen On TV

Remember that one stretchy hair thing that was advertised on TV?  The beaded one with combs that you were suppose to do all kinds of updos and stuff with?  I think they sold for about $10 plus shipping and handling, I can beat that.  Now so can you, I found this tutorial for something similar on abigailscraftshowto.com.  It is pretty simple to do, and this way you can have one in any color or design you want.  If I remember correctly, the one from TV only came in 2 or 3 colors that...

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Tin Decor

While checking out other blog, I found this great tutorial.  It’s for tin can tea light holder.  It caught my eye mainly because I have recently developed a thing for candles, I just picked of a couple today at Family Dollar.  Anyway, this looks really pretty for being made from something that most people throw away, and a major perk is the instructions for it.  They are all drawn out by hand, the style is very fun to read.  Same goes for the rest of blog which is why I subscribed....

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1, 2, 3….

I said I was going to take my time getting through the list, but that doesn’t seem to be possible for me.  I have finished three projects and I’m still going. First up, I had some leftover fabric from the dresses I have been making lately, so I thought I would make a pretty bag to match.  It is lined with a fabric in a lighter shade of pink, and I used batting to give it some shape. It came out with a sort...

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Back to Our Regular Programming

It’s been a nice break the last few weeks, but I can’t stand it any longer.  I have to have a list for my projects in order to function correctly, I see that very well now.  So to make up for the long absence, I prepared a very long list of fun.  Here it is: Craft Project List #11 Bag Cuffs Bookshelves Books Magazines Poncho Table Desk chair Chair End table Lamps Capelet...

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