Apartment Samantha - Gauzy Bedding and Bed Canopy Using Barbie Dress and Cheesecloth

This is the ruffled tulle from a

Barbie wedding dress.

It is suspended from the ceiling with a

little hook.

All of the little strings are knotted

at the top.

The knot hangs on the hook.

Samantha's Bedding and Canopy was

very easy to make.

Check the tutorial section on how to

make the canopy's!

The bedding was simple also.

In prior pics before the make-over

of Samantha's apartment - her bed

used to be flat.

Since I did not have any foam seat padding

the obvious solution was to wrap

cheesecloth or gauze around the existing

mattress. 

Check out the tutorial on how to make

my mini mattresses.

To make the bedding, without making a

new mattress - just take the existing mattress

and make sure that the cheesecloth/gauze

is larger than the mattress.

Use cheesecloth/gauze that is wide enough

to extend past both ends of the mattress,

so that all of that excess cheesecloth

can be turned under at the head and foot

area of the mattress after you finish.

Begin by using 2 layers of cheesecloth/gauze

and start at either the back or front of the

mattress and wrap the cheesecloth all around

the mattress as many times as you want/need to

get the desired fluff.

When finished wrapping, cut the cheesecloth.

Tape or pin the cheesecloth down.

(I did not tape or pin the cheesecloth down).

Pick up the large gauzy mattress from the sides.

Gently turn under the top to the backside,

and repeat for the bottom.

Place into the bed frame.

Go around the bed frame and make sure

the mattress is even and straight and that

all raw edges are tucked neatly under.

DONE!!

Instead of a bed pillow - all I did was roll

up a thick piece of gauze to the width of the

little bed.

To keep it together cut some of the

gauze and on both ends tie it around the bolster

into a knot and a bow.

The little pillow in front of the bolster is one of

the little pillows from the prior bedding from about

15 years ago.

Somehow I had lost the other bed pillow.

 Here is the another tulle/netting cut off from a

Barbie dress.
I can not hang it the same way as I hung

the other one.
Right now this little netting is just

hanging there on its own, untl I figure out a way to

hang it.

It is draped around an old bed that

I got recently from an estate sale.
The little bed is in

bad shape. It is dirty and needs new bedding.
I am not sure how old this piece is.

Its a shame that it has to be re-done.

The bed needs a make-over!
Maybe something with purple in it to match
the purple in the canopy.

 Just another view of the bed and the netting. This

little bed fits nice in this little space.

Not bad is it.

Thanks for stopping by to see us!

Have a good day!

Conny