Apartment #10 - MEET THE TAYLOR'S - Apartment Finished!

Hello yawl!!

How is everyone out there in blog land.

Sorry that it has taken me so long. I had 2 surgeries

and am feeling much better now.

Thank you so much for your sweet comments. They

are greatly appreciated.

 

There were quite a

few photo's that I wanted to post here for this

apartment. I hope you enjoy the photos!

 

Meet - the mother Delilah Kate Taylor and her

2 twin daughters Christy Rose and Misty Sue.

The girls are so sweet. Their hair matches the

color of their mother. The twins favor their mother.

I made Delilah Kate's pink dress.

However I did not paint her black shoes, just in case

I decide to put some dark clothing on her.

It is spring time and

they have all been outside hunting for

Easter eggs.

Delilah Kate and her husband are divorced.

They could not get along any longer so they

decided to call it quits. Thank goodness he

pays some child support. However it is still

hard for Delilah Kate to make ends meet. She

only works part-time because baby sitting

costs too much. When her girls go to school,

she will be able to work full-time Delilah

Kate works in the lunch room at the school.

She had to talk the landlady into renting her

this apartment. The landlady finally gave in

seeing that Delilah Kate could not afford

much more than this. The apartment is

small, perhaps too small for them, space

is at a premium. Every inch must contain

a piece of their life. How long they live

here is not known, however they could

be living here for a long time.

 

These dolls are new. I bought them especially for

the bunk beds. The bunk beds are only about 4 inches

long. I know they look big, but they are not. In

order for the dolls to fit on the beds, I had to make

sure that they were under 4 inches. And these were

the only ones that I could find that would

pass for 3 to 3.5 years old. Later I will

probably re-dress them into something else. These

little dolls had some cute pink boots. Hopefully

they were not too hot outside while looking for

their eggs.

 

This is what the dolls look like. They were called

Flower girls. I was really lucky that the seller

had only 2 of them left.

 

This is the back of Delilah Kate's dress.

 

This is what Delilah Kate originally

looked like when I bought her last

year. Her skirt was a thick navy blue

felt. She was dressed a little bit too

harsh for the apartment.

 

Whew! Delilah Kate sure is tired. She gets very

tired climbing up 9 flights of stairs. Exhausted, she

must sit down in her comfy little chair. A view from

her bay window.

 

The view in from the bay window looks into the

sitting area.

 

Inside the bay window, the ledge comes in handy to

display a few items. Later I will have to make an

Easter cake, but for now the chocolate cake with cookie

crumbles in it will have to do. Actually the cake is

an eraser, cut off at the ends and painted. The paint has

been on this cake for many years and still has not flaked

off. The cake sits on a little pink plastic thingy. I do not

know what it is called. When you buy a little doll in a

package these used to come with the doll so they

could stand up. I just turned it upside down and lightly

glued a piece of cloth on it, then glued on the chocolate cake.

In a moment after the excitement calms down they

all will drink some milk and have a piece of cake.

The 4 plates sit in a little Aida cloth (otherwise known

as Cross-Stitch fabric). I lined it with a piece of red

fabric and tied some floss around it so it would all

stay together. So far it has been holding up very well.

The little cloth is just a piece of the vintage curtain

runner that I made the curtains out of.

 

This is what the apartment looks like from here. This

is where the door will eventually go. However I am

seriously thinking about a sheet of plexi-glass. All

walls in all of these apartments pull out. None of them

are glued in. On the left is the bathroom. The tub, sink

and toilet used to be wood. Many years ago, I had

painted it cream. For this apartment I painted it

pink to match the kitchen and the wallpaper.

On the right are the bunk beds. The little girls bedroom.

 

Another view of the apartment with a different angle.

So I will be starting in the bathroom.

 

I left the inside of the tub and the sink, cream. Most of the time

a wash board sits inside the tub, unless someone

is taking a bath. Later I hope to put a stool in

front of the sink for the girls to stand on

to brush their hair and teeth. I still need some

pictures to put on the walls as they are a little

bare.

 

I need to make a few cleaning products and display

them on this shelf. You will notice that Delilah Kate's

pink robe is hanging beside the towels. And that in

the next photo, it is not there. That is only because

the next photo is an earlier photo.

 

When Delilah Kate washes clothes in the tub, she

hangs them on the hangers. This is the only way

that she can save some of her money. A little oblong

rug sits on the floor where the entrance into the

bathroom is. In this photo, a wall was removed so

I could get a better photo.

 

The wall beside the toilet is relatively bare. It needs

a few pictures. So far, I have not found anything

that I want to put there. The doorway looks into

the rest of the apartment.

 

I removed the closet to get a better view

into the bathroom. The side wall of the

bathroom has been slid back in.

 

I made the little dress that hangs on the

closet.

 

I had some fabric left over from the bed

and from re-covering the chair so I decided

to make a dress with it. A little pair of baby

pants with the feet in them go a long

way into making other things. I made

a dividing screen for this apartment, but

it was too big. It will go somewhere else.

This is the front of the little dress that

Delilah Kate made. It was just a skirt

with a pretty satin ribbon attached.

 

The back. Cute little pink ribbon

straps.

 

The closet was once brown. I painted it white and

changed it up a bit. I covered the back wall and the

inside of the little drawers with a cute

little pink print. The door with the cute little mirror,

used to be facing outwards when it was closed. The

door was supposed to open but it would not. I think

it was glued shut. After a lot of pushing, pulling and

with a knife trying to open it, it finally gave way

and opened. I turned the mirror so that it faces this way

as shown in the photo. Both doors are glued this way.

They will not open or shut anymore.

2 pretty pink dresses hang in the closet for Christy

Rose and Misty Sue. A mauve looking corset and

the pink dotted dress that Delilah Kate made.

 

On top of the closet is the lamp, mirror and the sewing

machine. A little plant also sits there.

 

The blue dress on the mannequin cost me only

$6.00 on eBay back in January. Such a good deal.

No one saw it!!

 UM - excuse me, Delilah Kate made this

dress for $6.00.
Why do I want to lie like that?

 

I am glad that I snapped this photo along with

many others before gluing on the bay window. You

can see things better. A view into the kitchen.

 

Delilah Kate was ironing her apron earlier. No room

here for any laundry basket. Delilah Kate is very

efficient. She washes and irons the clothes and then

puts them away. When she is done ironing, she then

folds up her ironing board and places it against the

kitchen wall. The iron after cooling is put away on

one of the shelves.

 

Look how good she irons - no wrinkles. Christy Rose

and Misty Sue love the cupcakes on their mothers

apron. Pink and brown go so well with each other.

 

Delilah Kate's bed is close at hand.

 

Delilah Kate made all of the bed linens in the apartment.

And she also made the canopy. The canopy is a cotton

handkerchief. It is still white and bright and is still in

great shape. All if did was  gather the top with thread

and a needle. I cinched it closed and tied a pink

ribbon around the stitching. Then with tacky wax,

just stuck it to the wall.

 

Her nightgown lays across the bed. It is also made

from a hanky.

 

Another view from the bay window area.

 

Here is what it looks like before the room

starts filling up. It looks so sweet.

 

A close-up view of the canopy.

 

A view of the bed from the

bathroom.

 

Once again, the bathroom wall is removed and some

of the furniture is removed to get some good pics.

 

Here is the fabric bolt that was made from a paper

towel. No curtains on the inside of the bay window.

I wanted it clear.

 

I hope that it does not look too bare because a

curtain is missing. But now you see why I only

made one curtain panel.

 

A close-up view of the items on top of the curtain.

There is still some more room to put more stuff

up there.

 

Another view from the bay window. Delilah Kate

hopes to sit down soon and rest her weary bones.

 

There were 8 eggs and each of the twins found 4

eggs. They were so happy. I debated whether to

make grass to put in the baskets. In the end I am

glad that I did not. I kind of like seeing the Easter

baskets a little bare. I also like how the eggs look

a little dirty.

 

This photo is here because I thought it was cool how

light was shining on her hair. The light bounced

off of the mirror that is on top of the closet and

bounced on her hair! How cool is that. You might

notice that on some of the pictures that the curtain

rod is leaning. I had to take everything out of the

apartment to fix it. It kept wanting to fall. It will

not fall now!

 

Delilah Kate does not have a jewelry box. She only

owns one necklace so she hangs it up beside the

flowered dress on the closet.

 

Here the twins are sitting in their chairs. Ready to

eat cake and drink a glass of milk.

 

In this view I have removed the bathroom wall and

the bunk beds.

 

The bunk beds are on the bathroom wall side. The

twins can hardly wait to eat those eggs!

 

The twins bedroom is very close by.

 

On the hamper is a little crown. When the girls were

playing, they forgot to put the crown inside the

basket.

 

I wanted to show you this robe. It is just like the

pink bear robes. Only the blue color is for boys,

but the girls can have blue also. I had 2 that

were pink and since they were twins, it seemed

to be much better that the robes matched in

color. These are stickers.

 

On the backside of the robe you can see

the long white strip which is a double

sided foam tape. Sometimes this strip

just peels off and sometimes it does

not. I have had some stickers that

took me days to get it all peeled off.

To me it is worth it, cause they are

so cute. And they are relatively

inexpensive. I bought them at

A.C. Moore crafts store. But I am

sure probably eBay would sell them.

 

The girls bedroom has a shelf on the

wall. To the far left is a little set of

suitcases that were inexpensive on

eBay. Perfect for little girls. The white

with blue trim was perfect for the colors

in the wallpaper. The robes are hung

up with tacky wax. Tacky wax is mostly

found in the candle sections of craft

stores.  Miss Pearl and the toys lay

beneath the robes.

 

A close-up view of the suitcases and the robes.

 

I hope you are able to see this photo. Can you see -

the inside of the robe? They are actual robes!

 

I found in my stash a set of apple bookends. They

are a little dark but they will do until I find something

more suitable.

 

Here are the toys beneath the robes.

 

The little play area - which is not big at all.

 

Here is where the play-clothes hamper is.

 

A little view on top of Christy Rose's bed.

 

See - not much room to play on the floor.

 

This is a tight apartment.

 

I do not know how this photo came to the end. There

must have been a glitch to put this photo here. I need

to make some clothes and put in the closet.

I hope you have enjoyed looking at apartment #8. I

had fun trying to make it all work.

Enjoy yourselves and take care. I will be visiting

your blogs soon!

 

Thanks for visiting me!

Hopblogger

 



Apartment #10 - The Taylor's Apartment - All Items Inside

Hello Yawl!!

 

Thank you for your sweet comments. I hope

that everyone has been well. Sorry that it

has taken me so long - but I have been

juggling surgery's while working on this

apartment.

 

WHEW!!

Finally apartment #10 is done!! I did not think that

I would ever get finished with this apartment.

 

I took over 400 pictures and have decided

that I will be splitting this apartment up into

2 posts. There are just so many pics.

 

So, on this first posting I will show you what

is going into the apartment. And the next posting

(after I finish with another surgery) will be the

final apartment. I still have to go thru those

pics and crop them of course. But the next

pics are coming.

 

 Yes - this apartment is small but has kids!!
I have carried this bear around forever! So I decided
it was going on the bunk bed!
The bear is adorable holding the little pink rabbit!
He is resin or clay, I do not know. He is attached
to this blanket.

This is the top of the white iron bunk-bed. Twin girl
sisters share this tiny space. Christy Rose loves dolls
and is the oldest twin - so she gets the top bunk by choice, of
course. I bought the little doll from a woman on eBay.
She was handmade by her mother many years ago.
The doll was so inexpensive that I could not pass her up.
She is darling and her name is Dixie. Christy Rose
names all of her dolls, which she does not have many.
Only what you see. The 2 raggedy Ann's were buttons
that I cut off the back shank. Christy Rose named them
because they were twins just like her and her sister.
The raggedy Ann's are named Mary and Carrie.

I have had nearly all of the furniture for all of my
apartments for years. Some things I have are at
least 9 or 10 years old. That is the case with this
bunk-bed set. I love the white color and could not
bring myself around to paint it. o I added ribbons
to spruce up the color.
The bottom bunk belongs to the younger twin sister
and her name is Misty Sue. Misty Sue loves bears!
The little bear that hold a rabbit always lays on her
bed. Misty Sue always names her animals as well.
The little bear holding the rabbit is named Charley.
The little pink rabbit is named wabbit!

Both of these beds have hanky's for bed linens.
Misty Sue's bear is a big bear and he is named
Hank. He sports a little yellow ribbon around
his neck and hangs on to the post of her bed.
She can always find him when she needs a hug.

I bought these little clothes a couple of months
back. So tiny they are as well as being inexpensive!
The twin girls do not wear these.
THESE ARE PLAY DRESS-UP CLOTHES.
I made the basket from Aida cloth to hold them.

Then I squashed the basket down many times,
so it would look like the girls have to really put their
bodies into the basket to take out the play clothes.
I wanted the basket to just look used.

Then I added ribbon around the top of the basket
and made a lid with a ribbon handle. No frills here.
Again I squashed down the basket with my hands.

There is only one armchair in the apartment.
No sofa.
So this is Delilah Kate's chair.
The girls do not mind sitting on the floor or
in their little chairs. In its
former life, Delilah's chair was an ordinary pink
checked chair. So cheap
looking they are, but they are cute when you fix them up.
I tried to
put 2 chairs in the apartment but it would
not work, so only one.
So this chair got
bulked up along with a slipcover that I made.
I want the chair to look clean and not dirty.
After all there are children in this apartment.
I have never slipcovered a chair before,
so I wanted this to be super easy.
While at the thrift store one day, I found
a cute pink with white dots NEW baby pants.
Stretchy!!! Size is about 6 months.
That is exactly what this is!! So, I bought
them, took them home and washed them.
I did not write down any directions
because I did not know if it would work.
But it did work!!
There was just enough fabric to upholster
the little chair.
SO LETS SEE IF I CAN GIVE YOU
SOME DIRECTIONS!!
What I did was, on one leg, from the tip
of the toe to about 6 inches up,
 I then
cut that piece off. I cut a long skinny
strip of the same for the tie.
I padded the
back of the seat with cotton balls that
comes out of medicine bottles.
I opened
up the cotton strips and pulled them
slightly apart to fit the chair.
I did the
same thing to the seat. Since the fabric
was stretchy - I stretched the foot of the
baby pants over the chair
carefully so
as not to disturb any of the cotton on
the chair. Make sure that
the heel is towards
the back. That way the front is smoothed.
Do not worry about sewing a hem
on the bottom of the chair,
just cut off any
excess and turn under.
No sewing on this project. Then take the long
strip that you cut and put it around
the front and tie in the back.
Make sure that it is even.
When I finished that, I made
a little cushion for the seat.
Stuffed with a cotton ball and then sewed on the sides.
The doily's with roses came from a
doily that I had.
I have collected doily's
and vintage fabrics for years.
So I cut the roses off and glued them
lightly to the chair arms and back.
I have used this same fabric in other
areas of the apartment as well.

This is one of the sides.

This is the other side.

This is the back. Not even a bow here,
just tied it in a knot. See the seam, that
is the bottom of the baby pants.

I know that I am late, but this apartment was
 suppose to be for Easter.
I bought something from eBay a long time
ago and these little Easter baskets
were in there.
There were 3 total, pink, blue and purple. I
 have only used these 2.
There was some old stuff in each of the
baskets to represent grass. Moss I think.
It took
me days to pick out all of that glue and moss.
It left the eggs looking dirty and I decided
that I liked that.
It looks like they were outside in an Easter egg hunt!
The blue bear is named Blob and the white bear is named
cissy.
Yea, these belong to Misty Sue.

Misty Sue also owns this bear.
She named her Miss Pearl. 
I worked on Miss Pearl for a few days.
I made her an umbrella and dressed her little body.

Miss Pearl is an old bear that I have had for ages. I
was surprised to see how
expensive they were on eBay. This little bear is
jointed and her head moves
from side to side.
Her little dress is lace and her collar
is a piece of the doily that I cut.
All bows are made from floss.

I made her panties from ribbon.
The little shoes took me an
entire day and then some to make.
There is cardboard
in the bottoms to help make her stand up on her own.

This little ironing board and iron belong to Christy
Rose. She enjoys ironing with her little playset. I
edged it with some pale pink trim.

I saw this little dolly on eBay. No one bid on
her so I was able to get her for 3 dollars. One of
these days I will make her a tiny, tiny bottle once
I figure out how.
She is waiting for one!
Anyway she is a little over a half inch.
Christy Rose named her Bonnie Blue after
"Gone with the Wind",
Scarlet's baby.
Because of her blue baby eyes!
One of these days I will put a skirt on her.

I saw this little crib. It is only 1 inch long!!!
It was only a dollar fifty. No way was I going to pass
that up.

So, I made a little blanket and pillow and put it
on the inside for Bonnie Blue to have some
comfort.

Bonnie Blue is so sweet!! I bought
her from getsixtysix on eBay.
Darling and tiny!

I had a mirror from a compact that I have had for
ages. I glued cardboard to
the back and trimmed it
with some of the stretchy pink and white dot baby
pants.
I like that it looks a little old.
The lamps was a brass color, I painted it white
and gave a ruffled
skirt to the plastic frame after gluing
on some pink
fabric to the top.
I did not hem it either.
I like the raw edges at the top.

This is a pic of the top.

I painted the white brass and some of the plastic so
as to make the bulb appear smaller.
Then I glued
the bottom of the skirt to the inside of the plastic
shade.

This is the curtain that will hang in front of the bay
window.
Notice that there are not 2 panels.
The reason for that is, is because on the
other side of the window
I want to be able to see the bed. And a panel
will hide that. So that's why there is not another
 panel here.
This curtain and valance are made from a vintage
table runner.
It had holes in it so I salvaged it to
go in here.
I still have more of this runner left that
I can work around but it will most likely go somewhere
else. It was hard to cut up this little table runner,
but it was not doing me any good setting there in
a box.
Better to use it.

These are the items that will be going on top of the
valance since I made it to hold items.
I made the
hat box and the little baskets from Aida cloth.
Edged them with ribbon and lace and
left one basket plain.
I used bottle caps for the bases and
glued the fabric on top.
The girls do color and write every now and
then, so I needed a basket to hold
their crayons and pencils.
Everything in that basket are Jolee's Stickers.
They are rounded on all sides except for one side
which is made flat to stick.
But other than that they do look real.

I decided to make a photo album.

This shows the inside.

There are old family pics of ancestors in this
album. I used a gold pen for the frame around each
photo.

I got this sewing box last year. It does not open up
any further than that. So it is just peeking.

This is the front of a little cami that is in the closet.
I got it for a steal on eBay also. It looks to be printed
on cotton fabric and then laced up the front. That is
all that I can tell about it. But it is cute.

Here is the back.

Sorry that this photo is blurry. This is a little
white iron patio table. I know you have seen them.
It comes with 2 white chairs. I needed for it be
higher.

So I stuck this hummingbird thing to the top with
tacky wax. So I can take it off if I choose later. This
adds lots of color to this apartment.

I have had this apron for a couple of years. It
comes from a FULL-SIZE APRON KIT. You
know the kind that you have to cut the apron out
and then just stitch around it. Well, on my
other blog - www.remakeremixreuse.blogspot.com
there is a full-size apron that I made and gave
to my sister Lori. This little apron is printed on
these sheets. All I did was cut it out put some
fray check on the sides so it would not ravel.
Then glue on some ribbons for the neck and
the waist. This apron has cupcakes on it. It is
identical to the one that Lori wears. Somewhere
around here is another kit for a full-size apron.
So when I find it then I will cut out the
blue one and do the same thing as I have done
here. So this little apron has been waiting
for a home for a couple of years now.

This is the back - no back!

These 2 little robes are so darling. Both of
them are from Jolee's stickers. I bought
these from A.C. Moore
crafts store about a year ago, just hoping to use them.
They had them in blue also for boys.
On the back of these robes are stickers,
so they will stick. I just peeled it off.
These are full robes!
See the teddy bear face.
These are adorable!!
The twins just had to have them.

This is (the mother) Delilah Kate's bed. I bought
this bed from  (I believe) Wal-Mart about 18
years ago. It was plain wood back then.
Since then I painted it blue. One coat and
sanded it off in some areas.
I love the hearts on the
headboard and the footboard.
This has been packed away
for years until this apartment.
So I am so glad that
it fits here in this apartment. This is a
single bed and
I do not think that you can buy this bed today??

Again I used the stretchy baby pants for the bedding.
I made 2 pillows and also stuffed them with cotton
balls from the medicine bottles. This way they can be
scrunched up or made to look like used pillows.
I have found that stretchy material allows you to have
more give. If you know what I mean. By lightly stuffing
them, it gives the pillows more movement and pliability.
So the front pillow is lightly stuffed and the back pillow
is more firmly stuffed. The white blanket is from a cotton
shirt. I love the knots or whatever it is on top. It helps
to give an old look to the bed. The blanket does have
a backing. The dust ruffle is lace as you can see.

A view from the top of the bed.

I am really excited to tell you about this purse.
I am sure that you can see that it is Petit-Purse.
A nice tutorial is on the internet. I have
forgotten
the lady's name that gave us this tutorial, but I just
love it. Thank you for sharing it
with us!! Anyway I made 4 of these. All of them
in different kinds of fabrics.
I do not know if you can guess what I made this
purse out of.
It is made with a button, floss as you can
see, but the fabric is not fabric.
It is a paper towel
and the plastic is a trash bag. I love using different
materials!!

A couple of years ago I bought these lovely shoes
from a lady on Etsy. I am sorry that I cannot remember
your name. I just had to buy them!

I made 3 fabric bolts. Two of them are from fabrics,
however the beige one is not fabric. Again I used
a paper towel that I tea dyed!!

You cannot even tell that it
is a paper towel.

 

Well, that's all I have for now. I hope that

you enjoy looking at the photo's. All of this

and then some is in apartment #10.

This apartment is stuffed.

Enjoy!

Hopblogger