Shabby Blythe Custom Dollhouse

I've completed my first Blythe dollhouse.  It's shabby chic style of course! This house is 1/6 scale or play scale.  And it will accommodate any 12" (30.48 cm)doll including the Blythe doll.

I built this house from wood I got at the hardware store. I just looked for the thinnest wood they had which was 1/4" is still pretty heavy. But at least this is a sturdy house.  I ordered the door and window from miniatures.com since I had never built this scale before. It was a great help to figure out the size this house needed to be.

My Blythe is still not done.  Her face is still shiny.  I had thought Brigitte(my first Blythe made over) would show this house. But she was adopted by her new family. So this girl will show us around!  I am starting to learn to make clothes. Such a hard task!  I don't know how you girls out there do it!  I need to practice.  You should see the top of these pants! LOL!! :D

This house is 23 1/4"(59cm) tall x 24 3/4"(62.87cm) deep x 19 3/4"(50.17 cm) across. It weighs about
 15 1/2 lbs.

There's a working chandelier on the porch.

This is an idea that I have been wanting to try out.  The pink hose and crystal drop are both ideas I saw from real life gardens on Pinterest. A dollhouse must have a pink hose! And the crystal drop coming out of the faucet was pure genius by whoever's garden that came from. LOVE! Had to miniaturize that too! 

The hose is electrical wire. You know the one with those metal wires in the middle. That way you can shape it into the perfect hanging hose. And the exterior is so easy to paint in whatever color you like.

There's some topiary planting going on here!

The dirt is coffee I glued on top of red clay with white glue.  I also glued some on the mat and spoon.

It's quite the mess!

Luckily there's a broom to clean that up.   :)

I painted a welcome mat. And the little package comes from my ex post office. Very useful to have already made packages to add to all my dollhouses!

The sides have vines from Hobby Lobby.  These are Ivy sold as a bunch(bush). Hobby Lobby is the only place I've ever found that sells small leaf fake plants. I hope they never decide to stop selling them.  :/

 I included all my favorite shabby chic things in here.

A teddy bear!  And a Louis bed is a must! I made it out of veneer wood and screen.

The fireplace has working lights in it to look like fire. It was very hard to catch them on. Everytime I took a shot they would be between flashes!  I love the brick wall! I thought I had made a mistake when I applied the brown ink to age the bricks. So I repainted them right away with out waiting for the brown to dry. And the effect is just perfect.

I painted this little pastry after having seen Pascal Cessou's La Religieuse.

I put the scissors under a glass dome. A nod to Restoration Hardware!  Everything they put under a cloche looks so good.

You've seen this chair before.  I sold my bendable Blythe body! So now I can't sit my doll. But a Blythe can sit in there.  Don't worry I ordered more bodies and Blythes to continue my new obsession. One Blythe has already arrived - "Nicky Lad".  She'll get a new everything including name. I'll share that make over with you.

I made a real chalkboard.  Seems you can buy chalkboard paper in the scrapbook section!  :)

I made paper pom pom balls! Don't ask how these things get into my head!

The interior chandelier has a 3 way switch - on, off, motion detector. It's battery operated. The batteries are hidden in the piece that attaches to the ceiling.

 

 

Well, that's my first Blythe dollhouse!  It's available in my Etsy shop: Cinderellamoments.etsy.com
Thanks so much for coming by and looking at it.  I hope you are all working on fun projects too!
 hugs♥,

Custom Gingerbread Dollhouse

It's 108 degrees outside. It's the perfect time for a Christmas project. And Deb, one of my Etsy customers and new owner of the 1920s dollhouse, contacted me about doing a gingerbread dollhouse.

First, I went shopping for fake candy, glitter that looks like sugar and snow(SnowTex). Then I doodled a little plan.

Very technical!!! 
This house is going to be a custom. I used the Primrose kit by Greenleaf. I use these kits to start with because they help me stay square and I have yet to find this type of thin wood in a store. The one I have found is thicker and hard to cut.

I  flipped the house around. So the side is now the front. I cut out a new door and windows.

This used to be the front. I had to close up the front door.

I made a new back section to support the roof.

I'm going to leave this wall off so I can work inside the house. This wall will eventually have a fireplace on it.

I plastered the inside. The walls will all have a different finish to look whimsical and very, very cozy.

The Blank Canvas Dollhouse

I created this dollhouse when a couple people contacted me to make a house that was decorator ready. They said they didn't have the time or space to make it. So here is the blank canvas Dollhouse!

I like it just the way it is all white. I'd move in here! I used the Greenleaf "Orchid" kit.

It seem that not everyone enjoys instruction manuals as much as I do.

The roof has a very light wash of gray on it.

This would be so easy to turn into a shabby chic/beach cottage. I must restrain myself!!!
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L'Assiette de Marie Provence Stone and Stucco Cottage Custom Dollhouse

I have had this idea of making this little cottage since I first saw it in the pages of Victoria Magazine in August 1998. This is L'assiette de Marie a restaurant in St. Remy, France in the Provence area.

 This one is the real one. The first picture is my version.

I made the sunflowers from cardstock paper and I bought artificial lavender. I tried to put real lavender, but the color was not strong enough. I think the artificial one will be stronger in any case.

I made this bicycle myself with different width wire and covered with vines.

Here's the real interior.

And mine.

real.

mine.

I made the chairs using Creer et Realiser's tutorial. But instead of using the larger toothpicks(I couldn't find them anywhere) I used popsicle sticks I cut to size with an Exacto knife.

Thanks for coming over!

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