Pearl Cottage - Another Cinderella Moments Shabby Chic Custom Dollhouse

 This is Pearl Cottage.  I found this lantern in the scrapbook section!  It's battery operated.  I hid the 2 AA batteries under the house. To turn it on you just have to plug it in.

 I had to make little bees for this one. They are clay bees and a clay beehive.

 I just love this siding look on a dollhouse. It's very Swedish, very simple and super cute.

 The vines are Hobby Lobby regular floral department vines. They just get cut into small pieces to be mini sized.

 The interior lights have the switch and battery hidden in the chimney.

 The interior style is very tattered shabby chic. It's my absolute favorite style of decorating.

 I made all the furniture by hand.

 A cozy bed in the loft is so necessary!

 A little kitchen area to prepare snacks...

 I painted the rabbits above the mantel.  I saw this on Pinterest and decided to try it. It's the perfect fit here.

The bed is hand painted. And the linens are on there permanently.  This dollhouse is available in my Etsy shop. www.cinderellamoments.etsy.com
The pastel dollhouse is next for real this time! LOL! :)

Mrs. Gruyere and Vintage Tattered Style Dollhouse Furniture

This is Mrs. Gruyere.  She's my sister Sophie's latest creation.  A little mouse made out of clay. 

She looks very vintage. And that's the perfect look for my new pieces of furniture.

 I'm totally obsessed with Nina Hartmann's book Vintage by Nina.  I wanted a miniature dollhouse chair that looked completely tattered and shabby chic just like the ones in Nina's photos.  I hand dyed some cotton fabric with a brown/black watered down mix of acrylic paint in the sink.  Let dry. After I put the fabric on each piece of the chair I cut little rips here and there with a sharp blade.  I colored the rips and edges with a brown ink pad. Then I used the watered down brown/black to make more stains.  I used spindles for the feet of the chair. 

 This armoire was also made from scratch.  It's a very simple rectangle with 3 shelves, feet and a ornate topper.  I painted it with a coat of acrylic paint (the color is called linen).  I dry brushed it with white here and there. And again I used my brown ink pad to age galore!  Then I flicked my paint brush full of the watered down brown/black paint. It made very interesting stains like mildew.  The curtain panels are muslin sprayed stiff with hairspray(a trick I learned from LibertyBiberty)

 Here's some technical info.  The background is just a photo in a book by the way! Makes a great backdrop!  I'm also using a new light. It's an Ottlight with a pose-able goose neck.  It's really working well for my photos. Mimics daylight very well.  And my camera is a Canon T3i DSLR.  I've had a few questions about that and I thought I would share with all of you.

Mrs. Gruyere will be available in my Etsy shop next week. We're dealing with ice here in Texas and the streets are covered in it!  It rained, sleet and iced all night long. The trees are all bent with the weight. We'll see what kind of damage is done whenever this finally melts. Hoping to keep our power on! There will be no venturing out for me or my car this weekend. Hopefully, it will be gone Monday. Brrrrrrrrr!
Coming up next is a pastel themed dollhouse I'm building for Jennifer.  Until next time! Happy building!
hugs♥

Doris Moore Farmhouse

I had to pleasure of bringing to life Ms. Doris Moore's real farmhouse as  a birthday present from her Daughter and Son-in-Law.

Above is a photo of the real house. 

I put plenty of flowers and birdhouses because those are her favorite.

I hid the battery and switch behind this vine.

The wall looks blue in photographs for some reason. But it's actually a very, very pale green.

Thanks for taking a look! 

Lulu's Maison

This is Lulu's Maison completed.

This is a house I made for a little girl named Lulu. From what her mom told me she sounds like the sweetest girl!  She has a fantastic brother named Emmanuel.  But this dollhouse is just for her.

The vines all come from the floral department at Hobby Lobby. I just cut off the connected ends and hot glue them  on individually.

The roses are mulberry roses and the pink and light yellow flowers are Heathers from Hobby Lobby.

I put a little bird on the window box.  I made the window box from 5 pieces of leftover wood. The dots are hot glue. I painted it all white and aged it with a little gray paint and brown stamp ink.

I made the chandelier with 3 wire arms. Tutorial for chandelier is here: http://www.cinderellamoments.com/2011/11/chandelier-tutorial.html
 This house is electric. So there's a bulb in the middle of the fixture. To hide the center bulb I made some small roses.  Here's how I make these: http://www.cinderellamoments.com/2010/07/easiest-fastest-mini-paper-roses.html

The siding on this house is thin veneer. I used that same veneer to make the very simple shutters.  I wanted a very clean look like you see in Swedish country houses.  I stayed with a grey and white palette.

This is the kitchen window.  Anytime you see brown aging this is the brown ink pad for stamps. It's just a perfect way to easily age anything.

This side of the house has the little plug for electricity.

You can see the bedroom through here.

The interior is very sweet, girly and shabby chic.

I had to make the furniture a tad bit bigger because Lulu's doll is 7 1/2" tall. But I still kept it close enough to 1/12 scale so that she could use any dolls.

The kitchen island I made and had a tutorial for here: http://www.cinderellamoments.com/2013/02/quick-and-easy-dollhouse-kitchen.html

The sink cabinet I made from this tutorial:
http://1inchminisbykris.blogspot.com/2012/01/kitchen-cabinets-how-to-make.html

The front wallpaper is by Pip Studio. It's called Feeling Paper Good. Just do a quick image search on Google Image. Go to whatever site it shows. Save the full size picture. I like to print it out in 1/2 size because usually when you print full size it's blurry. The crackle wallpaper behind the stairs and the wainscoting paper underneath is from the scrapbook section of the craft store. These two came from Hobby Lobby.

I paint my rugs on book binding. It's a very thick and sturdy fabric. The chair covered with lace I make myself. I'll have to do a tutorial on those too!

Upstairs is the bedroom.  Here I wanted a very calm space for Miss Dolly. I only did one wall with pink and cream polka dot paper(scrapbook). The floors are white the curtains are very light pink tulle. All the curtains are stiffened into place. I use hairspray.  Some people are afraid it will yellow. But I would love if that happened! It would look so perfectly vintage. I have yet to see any of my fabrics turn yellow though.

I made the bed from veneer wood. I find all the veneer at Hobby Lobby.  I just draw out a design on paper, lay it on the wood and cut it out with a sharp box cutter/utility knife.

I made the doll out of air dry clay. She has twine hair and a hand dyed cotton dress.

The pillow on the chair is just a square of felt I embroidered.

I put a glitter house in this room too.  It can serve as a doll's dollhouse.

Thanks so much for coming by!  I'm so glad you all have such an incredible interest in our work. I can't believe I'm nearing 400,000 page views. Wow! Thank you!