If you follow dollhouse blogs and websites, you will see many things in this cabin that have been copied from various sources. I will try to give credit where credit is due if I can remember where I found everything!
The fireplace, as I said in my previous post, was made with cardboard and covered with caulk and egg carton "stones" then painted and topped with a stained piece of balsa wood. It has some logs in it that are just branches from my yard hot glued together and the Playmobile kettle which is hanging by a toothpick perched between the stones on the front. (Lucky accident.) The fireplace is not attached in case I decide to put the chimney on the other side of the house. Over the mantle is a deer head made from one of my daughter's plastic animals. ( I got permission to use it, I promise!) I think the idea came from this tutorial from
Dollhouse Minis. I also made a primitive fireplace like theirs in another dollhouse.
The washtub is a condiment cup painted silver with a pre-made wooden washboard and some cotton batting for bubbles and some fabric scraps.
The blanket chest upstairs is the bottom of a Michael's hutch painted in the style of
Grazhina as is the bench and a flower pot on the mantle. The bench is pieces of balsa wood that are precariously glued together ; )
The table is made of wood scraps and dowels cleverly disguised with a scrap of fabric. The log seats are pieces of a hickory branch from my yard. My husband makes his own hickory chips for the barbecue grill. I borrowed a couple of them : )
The Michael's hutch in the background is dressed with a piece of lace and some paper plates and a canister from
About.com
Complete details of how I made the antique pie safe is in another blog entry
hutch makeover.
I already had the loaf of bread that came with another dollhouse. I made the bread board from a piece of balsa and a jewelry finding that looks just like a knife. The rolling pin is made from two different sizes of wooden dowels.
The hurricane lamp on the upstairs side table (another piece of hickory and some dowels) is made from a bead and a piece of plastic tubing that came from a drinking straw or a pen or something.
The yarn rugs are one of the first things I ever made. It's just a piece of card stock cut into a circle or oval with some yarn glued around it.
The beds were made with foam and cardboard and dressed with quilts that were printed from
Jim's Printable Minis--a source I use again and again. The pillows are just batting and cloth with the seams hot glued together.
Some fabric scraps hang at the windows and there's a sweet little needlepoint (printie) picture that says Home Sweet Home.
Work resumed on Rapunzel's tower recently when I put the finishing touches on the bedroom. I wanted to make a canopy of some kind, but really did not have the right kind of fabric that would drape correctly. I found this Goldfinch sock feeder in my stash and decided it looked enough like mosquito netting to give it a go. Many trials and failures ensued, but behold! A canopy. I had these neat gold buttons with lions on them which made sort of a crest that I hung above the bed. She is a princess after all. Many books, a hairbrush, mirror, and a rug complete the scene.
All of the furniture was included in this kit, so everything had to be built. There is real tile in the kitchen. As you can see, there was a lot of old contact paper that needed to be removed.
Next, I made the veggies from Sculpey clay and baked it in the oven.
