Apartment Daisy - BATHTUB WATER

I had to search for this stuff, forgot

where I had put it.

Daisy's bathtub green water

was this gel stuff that I had bought.

at A.C.Moore craft store.

The black spiders are plastic.

It was cheap.

It came in 3 different colors. 

I used the green color for Daisy's tub

cause it matched.

It smelled like green apples!

All of these were scented.

I never opened up any of these,

so I do not know what they smelled like.

Thanks for stopping by!

Conny

Apartment Daisy - RE-DECORATED - WITH A BATHROOM

Hello Everyone!

Seems like it has been forever since

I last blogged. I sure do hope that

this Giveaway ends soon because I

have more things to get rid of!

First I would like to say to all of

the new followers.

Thank you for visiting me and

WELCOME TO ALL!

Also those that have not signed

up for the giveaway - SHOULD DO

SO!

And I also wanted to say:

HOW SUPRISED I WAS THAT

DOLLHOUSE WORLD

NOVEMBER 2012 , ISSUE 242

PUBLISHED MY APARTMENTS

AGAIN!!

I WAS SPEECHLESS AND SO

PROUD TO BE HONORED TO
BE SEEN IN THEIR MAGAZINE!!!

THANK YOU DOLLHOUSE WORLD.

Also I would like to say that I

can not find some of your blogs!

So please if I have not became your

follower yet - please leave a comment

so I can find you!

I have been so so busy! Please forgive

me for not visiting a lot of your

blogs. So sorry. I have been trying to

organize my sewing room...again!

Also I have been working on the

Van Buren Dollhouse as well as

Re-decorating ALL of the apartments

with WALLS, BATHROOMS and KITCHENS! 

As I get each apartment neared to completion

I will show them to you. 

Daisy's re-decorating was started first.
It

is finished, just lacks a few things.
Surprise! I did add some curtains!!

I did not want anything that was stuffy
to be in this apartment. 

This one bedroom apartment has a light

feel to it and I wanted to keep it that way.
After

all only Daisy lives here. And yes I have changed

Daisy again.
And no doubt I will change her

several more times until I am satisfied with her.

 I decided to start with the bedroom. I stole the

linen from Permelia's witch apartment.
It looked

better here with a quilt instead of with the witch.

The quilt I sewed together over 15

years ago.
Am still surprised that it has not

yellowed any.
Her vanity has a chair now instead

of a wicker wire stool.
And now there is a

mirror hanging above found from a cosmetic pack.
I want to decorate the

mirror but I am not quite sure how I want to

approach that.

 These curtains and the matching bedding were made

from my unused dinner napkins.
The curtains are

simple. NO HEMMING and NO SEWING.

All I did was cut tiny plastic
KNITTING NEEDLES

the size of the INSIDE of the window.
Most of these

knitting needles that I will now call rods stuck great

with tacky wax.

Anyway I cut each curtain panel a little longer

than the window from the napkin that had the hem.

I then frayed the edges to give it a fringe and just

draped it over the

curtain rod. So I can pull the
curtain panels up or

down by just pulling the fringed valance or the

bottom hem. I also used fray check
on the sides of

each panel so they would not fray.
Will look better for years to come
than using glue.

Fray check lasts a long time.

I do like how the light outside the windows give

a evening type of feel to the bedroom.

 Here is the curtains from the outside windows.

My pics are hard to take because so much light is

coming thru my bedroom windows.

 Here is the entire bedroom.

 The wall behind the bed is only a little higher

than the bed. I still like open-ness in the apartment

so I tried to keep that feel. The closet is not yet

completely stocked.

 This is a better view of Daisy's bed. Much more 
coordinated.

 The other side of the bedroom is Daisy's

living area. Still using her black petit point
rugs!

 The furniture was just moved aside to show the

area.  Just a few things on her mantel. 
Ooo there is her leather checkbook!
A little yellow plastic doll and a picture frame.

There will be no curtain here at this window.
I like it bare. Here is the

pink dress that I made that poor Daisy can not

wear!

 Here is Daisy with her new dress. Sorry that she

is not paying any attention to you! She has her

mind on something else.
I will take better pics of her later to show you.

Daisy got lonely and thought she

needed a companion. You might remember that

this cute little Bishon puppy was a gift from my

friend Catherine. Daisy named him Ami.

Ami is french for friend. Isn't he so cute!!
I named him that because my daughter named
her Bishon Ami and this is to represent him.

 Sweet Daisy has a new kitchen!
It fit so well in this space. She has cabinets

now. And there is still room to put more. Daisy did

not want to tell you but she does not enjoy messing

up her clean kitchen. So mostly she eats out!!
My grand daughter Elise spray painted this plastic
kitchen set for me. It came from a Barbie house.

I forgot where I acquired the pink framed
mirror at.

Its frame is plastic. It fit so good in this spot that

I hate to move it. Believe I will keep it forever.

I made the little circular dining table
from a toilet paper tube. I did not want

the table top to be too small so I used an orange

juice lid to make it bigger.
Then I covered it with pretty pink fabrics.
It will hold a few plates

and silverware on it. I want to make napkins and

maybe re-do those chairs or slipcover them.
But I

almost hate to because the red goes well in the

apartment.
Yet, the chairs are a little dark. Will change them
later.

 Here are the curtains behind the table and chairs.

The concept is the same as the bedroom cutains.

The only thing different is I have
added lace to both

edges of the panels.
These curtains will also slide

up or down on the rod.
The curtains match the tablecloth.

 For the kitchen window I wanted to make a

little type of greenhouse.
I have contemplated,

but can not make up my mind, if I want to keep

it like this, or pop out that window, and
make a

greenhouse on the outside of the window.

However I am not good at building so this little

fantasy might not materialize.
It might have

to stay like this. The metal doggy dish came from eBay.
Am glad that it is off of the floor so that
spider or bugs can not crawl

into his food or water bowls.

 This is the outside of the kitchen window.
Had to take a pic that was dark so you could
see the pots!

 This part is my fave!! Out of all of the tubs

I owned, this one looked the best. 
I want to put

some plants hanging down from the top of the window.

As of yet I do not know, what style of curtain,

that I will put here.
I pulled the kitchen out so

you could see the bathroom better. I wanted you

to see the bottom of the curtain.
The bathroom will be hard to see once the kitchen
is put back against the sink.
There is no wall here to divide the 
kitchen from the bath room.

This pic shows you the top of the curtain. It is

held in place to the ceiling with just

tacky wax. The canopy is a type of cheese-cloth

bag that I cut the bottom off.  I debated about

putting a door or a curtain.
But it is not needed. Daisy does not get much company.
Whichever I do

you will not be able to see in the bathroom

so for now I will just keep thinking about it.

 I keep turning the toilet to the wall

and then back again. Maybe I should

put a curtain here so that no one

peeks!
NAH!!

 The mirror hangs on the back of the

kitchen with tacky wax. I wonder if
Daisy knows that he razor is
in the sink? Sorry for the blur.

 This is the top part of the canopy on the

ceiling. That bag drapes so nicely! The

tub and canopy were made for this space.

 Yes, the tub has plastic draped over it for a reason.

Instead of bubbles, I just wanted the inside to

look like Daisy was filling the tub up with her

favorite bath salts called Green Apple.

Boy, it smells up the entire apartment with the

aroma of apples!!

I did not want the green stuff to dissolve away,

but I am sure that in a few months it will.
I enjoy looking at it!

 The little cubby between the sink and the

toilet is so cute.  Almost a secretive place.

I hope you liked Daisy's newly decorated

apartment.

Thank you for visiting me.

Please come again!

Many hugs and kisses to you all!

Conny



Apartment Widow Sarah - And Daughter Hannah Having Tea

It is always good for a Mother and a Daughter

to be close.

To spend time together.

Talk about things that are on their minds.

To bond ----- over a spot of tea.

Thanks for stopping in!

Hopblogger

TUTORIAL - Make SAMANTHA'S ROOM DIVIDER TO HOLD HER CLOTHES

Hello Everyone!!

Thought you would like to learn how I made 

Samantha's Room Divider.

Not sure how many viewers will have

seen her divider.

So thought I would put the tute here

anyway for it.

However it was only out of necessity

that prompted me to make it.

Sam was running out of room of where

to hang her clothes.

Pretty bad to think that your dolls

can outgrow her apartment or

dollhouse - but they do!!!

Remember the 2 french doors behind

Sam's nitestand - yea well I have

had these for the past 15 years or so

just waiting to use them for something.

Their frame that was around them broke

just leaving the french doors.

This idea would also work as a headboard

that is you have enough - not

sure if you would need  3 or 4 of them.

Finish these however you want as the choice

is yours. 

SUPER EASY!!!!

I read in a miniature dollhouse book where they used

ribbon for hinges.

So that is what I decided to try.

Can you see the ribbons being used

as a hinge between the 2 screens?

Use as many ribbons as you think you will

need cause I did.

I glued on 6 pieces of ribbon to make sure it
would stay sturdy. 

The only thing I will take credit for (is if in the 

book), there is no screw heads on the ribbon.

My thought/idea is to take a good 

ink pen and make dots on the ribbon so it
will look like nail/screw heads.
I will do that when I get time.

Before, this was a grey color and I painted it brown

before adding shelves to each screen. 

Only this side has the shelves.

Then I added a piece of (something) I cannot

remember what it was, I believe that they were
ends of something that I cut off and used. 
I want to hang up clothes

on this side of the screen. 

Some pretty door knobs would look lovely here!!
But if you use lovely door knobs chances are
is that it will only hold one item on it. 

This side of the screen was also grey, before I

painted it brown.

I left the strips between the windows brown.

I then painted white over all of 

the rest of the screen on this side.

Any smudges or drips - I left them

as you can see.
I was not going for a beat-up look, merely wanted
it to look like people just kept painting over
existing colors.
Like something you would find at a thrift store,
antique store or a salvage place.

Many thanks for stopping by!

Hopblogger

Apartment Widow Sarah - Hannah Drops by for a Visit

A key goes into the lock and the

door opens.

Hannah walks inside.

Her Mother still sits by the

window looking out.

Hannah calls to her, 'Hello Mother'.

She lays her hat off and places it

in her papa's dusty red chair.

The widow Sarah does not get up

but merely turns her head and says,

'Hello' to her one and only daughter.

Widow Sarah has a thyroid problem.

She doesn't own any energy.

Vitamin D doesn't do that much good

either.

Hannah looks around and sees that

the apartment has not been cleaned since

the last time she was here, which was

a month ago.

She gives her Mother a hug and a kiss

on her cheek.

Hannah walks over and looks towards the

beds. 

She thinks of how much room there could

be if Papa's bed was gone.

Widow Sarah intently watches Hannah.

So, Hannah goes back over beside her

Mother and sits down. 

They talk for a while until Hannah

tells her that she would like to take

home the fresco.

Her Mother tells her to take it and that it is

under the bed, but she could not

remember which one.

She thought, 'I will have to look under

both beds, so I just as well as to make

it easy for myself and pull it off out!

Emily first moved Papa's desk.

Everything was still in the same spot under

the bed, where

she had put it when she moved her Mother

in.

Hannah starts to work!

First, she hauls out all of the picture frames from under

the bed. 

They need hanging she thought. 

All of this filled up the top of Papa's bed!

Before she got back on the floor she saw, 

'The Pink Lady' and 'Blueboy'. 

Hannah loved these pictures even when she

was a child. 

She grew up with them.

Hannah decided that next time she comes over,

that she will take these pictures

home with her!

Still more stuff under the bed.

(I moved the bed to show you what else

was under Bernard's bed.)

Nope, the fresco is not here!

Must be under the other bed.

Under her Mother's bed at the foot are pictures

that still need framing.

One day she thought, those will have to get

framed.

Time to look under the other bed.

After much pulling and tugging she pulled out the

dollhouse that she had once had as a

child.

So many memories and joy the little dollhouse

brought to her.

And placed it on top of her Papa's bed.

Hannah said to her Mother, 'Mother, why don't 

you give the little girl downstairs my cute

little dollhouse'.

Widow Sarah ignored that.

Again, Hannah gets on her knees and looks under

the bed. She pulled out a wig in its box and

an empty wig box.

She thought, 'useless to keep these items'.

After putting these items on Papa's desk, she 

knelt again under her Mother's bed.

She took all of the quilts out and folded them up

better and placed each one on top of the bed.

There were 4 in all. 

Too pretty to keep under a bed.

One day she thought, 'I am going to take

these home'.

Some of the stuff under her Mother's bed after

the dollhouse and other things have been

removed.

Still some dishes and still more dishes in the

blue checked box.

Hannah took out some books!

Finally she found the frieze!!

'The Lord's Supper'.

It was lovely in white!!

Hannah asked her Mother where she had gotten

this Frieze.

Widow Sarah said that her Father had rescued it

out of an old house that was being torn down.

'Papa knew how much I wanted it', she said.

Hannah put everything else back under both beds.

Came and plopped down on the chair.

She needed to rest before she went home.

Thanks for stopping in!

Conny