Ballerina Cottage Custom Electric Dollhouse

Here's Ballerina Cottage Dollhouse!

For the front door I left the little light bulb plain. I tried a little light fixture but there was just something about the light bulb I loved!

 The top window in the roof is a bit angled so that when the house is set on a tabletop you can see directly inside.

All the walls are aged with a little mahogany colored stain. It's the perfect combination of red and black to give that vintage feel.

 On the floor, a forgotten cup of tea, a ballet instructor application, a ballet book and program. I also made a bouquet of a dozen red roses out of paper wrapped in plastic  and pink tissue paper with a note.

These tutu are from the scrapbooking isle. Perfect size.

 The Audrey Hepburn photo is a must for a ballerina!

All the embellishments including these white shabby chic frames are by Melissa Francis. They look like plaster but are actually resin.

 This house is electric. It has a transformer.

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Next is the little craft studio!

Ballerina Cottage Custom Dollhouse

Before I update you on Ballerina Cottage I have to say thank you to Deb of Zur Designs for featuring Sprinkled With Love Dollhouse on her blog.

Thanks so much Deb!
 Ballerina Cottage got it's coat of concrete.

I just butter it on...

Then I used a brush with 3 teeth and pulled it through the concrete while it's wet and I get a design.

After all the sides were done I started painting.

I used a golden brown. It's a little bright right now. I will do some aging later on.

Inside, I added some little details.

The dresses are from the scrapbook section in the craft store. I printed out some pictures and photos from the internet using the contact sheet setting on the printer. It shrinks things down to a good size.

I used varnish on the photos for a glossy finish.

I also put this teacup with some old tea and a teabag like the ballerina left it there a couple days ago and hasn't had time to clean it up.  I just used some water based stain and let it dry in there. It kind of looks like chocolate. But I think if you left your teabag in a cup for a couple of days it would look this dark.  There's a ballet book, a ballet program and a ballet instructor application next to the cup. Our ballerina is thinking about teaching ballet!

Cinderella Moments Featured in 2 Blogs

I'm so honored to have my work featured on 2 blogs!
First, I got word Friday that a dollhouse would be featured on Charming Ink. 

Thanks Charming Ink for such a sweet post!

Then Tracie Dean  of  Dean Designs contacted me with the same news. I'm super excited!!

And what a post that is! I'm truly touched by the generous words. 
The encouragement I get from fellow bloggers delights me beyond words. Thank you both so much!

Ballerina Cottage Dollhouse

I'm now concentrating on Ballerina Cottage.

The interior is plastered and painted. All the decorative accents like the roses you see here are from Artistic Supplies.

 I finished the chandelier with clear and teal Swarovski crystals.

The aged mirror was pretty  hard to do. The first 4 mirrors had a red painted back. I was able to strip the paint off of those easily. But I wanted one big piece of glass. So I went to Lowe's and bought some mirror tiles. They have a gray backing. I had to apply the paint stripping 3 times to get it off. This mirror in the above picture has some striped marks. I like them for this space, but they are not the traditional old mirror aging.

I actually thought it was wong until I went to a shabby chic store and saw a table with that same look. So I'm using it. The spots are made by leaving Clorox drops on the exposed silver back for about 5 minutes. You can then paint the back of the mirror with a black and silver mix. 

For the ballet bar I used 3 picture hangers and 2 bamboo strips I got from an old placemat. I had used the placemats as matchstick blinds in the 1920s dollhouse.

Pretty convincing right?

The mirror will get a framing next.
I'm also working on another little project.

This is a tiny little workshop. You know the kind we all dream of having. Just a weeny place where you can create at your hearts content.

My inspiration was one piece of furniture I picked up at Hobby Lobby.

It started it's life all brown. I stripped the paint off since I had the stuff out! And painted it blue outside, cream inside. I'm going to fill it with crafting stuff.

See this place is tiny. I'm going to squeeze in some sort of table/desk and shelves. This place will be all filled up when I'm done with it. The last time I did that was for the Artist's Cottage.