DOLLHOUSE - THE VAN BUREN - Thatching Van Buren's roof!

Thank you all for the lovely

comments that you have left to

me.
You are all wonderful, sweet

ladies!
 

A big WELCOME to all of my new

followers.
I hope you like my blog!

 
 

Am still sick on and off.
But I did manage to get

the roof thatched.

Boy what a mess!

I am in love with the Skylights though!
It has made a

big difference inside the dollhouse.
Which I will show you later.

 

 All that is left is to find plastic for the window panes,
door knobs

and all of the other little trivial stuff.

 

 The skylights are not glued in and I do

not think that I am gonna glue them in.

I wanna be able to take them in and out

when I need to so I can get inside to move

things around.
For now the thatch helps

hold the skylights in.

 

Thank you for visiting me!

Enjoy your evening.

Mini hugs and kisses,

Conny



DOLLHOUSE - THE VAN BUREN - Painting and Stucco

I would like to thank all of you

that are looking at my blog

and following me,

especially all of those that

are leaving me some sweet,

kind comments.
I wish that

I could reply to your comments,

sometimes blogger will not let me do

that.
Ain't that a bummer!!

 

Have still been sick off and on,

so please forgive me for not

visiting your blogs.
I mean well.

 

Anyway I wanted to show you

more of what has been done on

my Van Buren dollhouse.

 

Painting on the outside.
This could make

anyone sick when you have to keep painting

and painting to get it white from where the

wood is dried out!!!
So the windows

and the railings and the doors
are very pristine white now.
Those red chimneys are going

to change colors right

before your eyes in this post!!
Hehehehe
 

 

 This is the very top.
Remember there was an ugly door here.

Well that is gone!!
This is going to be a skylight!

And the deck will be painted a bright white.

I do not know what I will do with this area so if you

have some ideas - I sure could use some!
 

 

 Here is another skylight cut out.
This area is where the stairs where located at.

Another skylight on the right side - do you see that one?
 

 

 This is the skylight almost in front of the stairs and

is certainly in front of the bathroom door.
My hubby

is doing some work adjusting the fit.
 On this pic

you can see where some of the wood split.
I will have to fix that.

 

 Here is the other skylight.
 

 

 I sure am liking these skylights!!
You can see clear

to the other side and this is exactly what I wanted.

I will be able to look from one bedroom down the

little hall to the other bedroom.
Ain't that neat!!

Also I have cleaned up the mess.
 

 

 Here is what the outside looks like with a couple of

the windows fitted in.
They will not be permanently fixed in.

As you can see the exterior is stucco.
It made a mess!

It is on the windows

and doors and I got scared!
With just a little bit of water on a paper

towel, it removed the excess stucco.

 

 I started thinking about the front.

I decided to put more stucco on the

window frames.
A good way to hide a mess.
I also tried to

get rid of that ridge beneath the top floor window

and the second floor window.
Also you will see

where some of the stucco is clumped together.
 

Since this is a LARGE dollhouse I think it looks

okay.
At least I am happy with it.
To me it looks

like the house is old and some of the stucco is

falling off.
I liked that effect even if it was accidental.

Also I want to say that I mixed a lot of white paint

in with the stucco to lighten it.
I did not want the

stucco so dark to where it just looked like mud.

I was not trying to achieve perfection on this dollhouse.
But that did not happen, so I

am just having fun.
 

 

 This area does not look bad at all.
The balcony is

a bright white as is the doors.
More clump around

the windows to hide the moldings.
 

 

 This is my Van Buren dollhouse nearly completed.

My pics are probably not that good because in my

Kitchen I get a tremendous amount of light.
So it is

hard to take pics here in this area.
 

 

 I wanted you to see if you could see this picture

better with how the stucco is clumped up.

Remember, this is a large dollhouse so to

stucco it very daintily to me would not look

right. 
Also, see the chimney!
Both of them took me 3 days

just to stucco them.
Hubby and

I had to keep turning the dollhouse over and

over so the stucco would not fall off of

the chimney's until they stuck.
 

 

The last thing to do is the roof.

And that is coming next!!!

It will be thatched.

 

I wish you all well and to spend a lovely

evening with the one that you love.

Thank you for visiting me!

Many hugs and kisses,

Conny



TUTORIAL - MAKE AN IDEAL PETITIE PRINCESS VANITY SHABBY CHIC!!

MAKE A SHABBY CHIC VANITY
FROM A
IDEAL PRINCESS PETITE VANITY
FOR YOUR MINI DOLL

Thank you to my new followers.
 

I hope you find my ideas from my blog
helpful and easy to use.

 

Thank you all for the lovely comments

that you have left me.
You are all so sweet!!

 

Please bear with me as I have been sick again.

I thought that all was finished with shots but apparently not!

However I am still feeling

sickly with nausea and headache!
But still I have managed

to finish this vanity that I wanted to show you.

This is the 2nd vanity that I have made with
one of these Ideal Petit Princess Vanity's.
The First one being for the witch Permelia.

When looking for one of these to buy
look for ones with a good mirror!

When I started doing this, these
vanity's were cheap. The price has
gone up some since this posting.
 

Shabby Chic can be
all white, an off-white, ruffles or colors
or tattered, torn or aged. It is up to you.

As you can

see I have another apartment building
and this apartment will be

on the top floor.
 
I will show you the

new building in another posting.

I am looking for colors other than white to mix with the

clean white walls.
I need some perfumes and other

stuff to go on top of the vanity so I am looking to see

what I might have that will work.

This is the front.

 

 Sometimes ago I bought from the thrift
shop a pair

of baby shorts that had sewn
fabric pieces into a

shabby look. I feel in love with the muted colors.

However, the shorts were tiny and so there was not

much fabric to work with.
The little fabric I have left

I want to make a stool cover and make for a top for

the bed cover.
So as you can see I stopped at the back

but it does not matter - this piece will be to the back of the

wall.

This is what the back of mine looks like.
I ran out of fabric.
It is okay cause the back will be against the wall.
I just might add a strip of another fabric to hide
the white.

 

What to do first - is to strip off

the bad smelly skirt and toss it!

They can be ugly, smelly, or holy.

Wash the pieces if they are dirty.

 

Remove the mirror and I peeled

off the strip of plastic that was on the

top of the vanity cause mine was

in bad shape. It showed glue too.

Peeling that off of yours, is up to you.

I do not want this vanity to look old.

 

I painted  the mirror frame

white and that took several coats

to get the whiteness that I wanted.
 

This picture  below shows you what the vanity
top looks like after I peeled off that
plastic. The glue kind of looks good and I
contemplated keeping it like that,
but in the end I opted to paint it.
The vanity top took up to 10 coats of white

to hide the glue.
The top is very shiny now, much more to my liking!
Do not bother painting the legs.

 

Paint the back of the mirror frame like the front.

 

 Next, I dapped some pale pink paint
on a paper towel, wiped it on the mirror
frame and wiped off the excess.

After that had dried, I started on the vanity.

I cut corrugated cardboard

(sizes are shown below), to the height
that I wanted.
(SEE THE DIRECTIONS BELOW FOR THE CARDBOARD)
(USEGOOD STURDY CORRUGATED CARDBOARD)

Then painted the cardboard white with 2 coats
as shown below.

 

This is the back and I also painted it

with 2 coats of white paint. 

It kind of looks nice just like this!

You can glue lace on over this corrugated cardboard

for a different effect and it will look pretty.

My next one might be lacy!

 

Once I made the cardboard tube

I slipped the legs of the vanity inside of

the cardboard and glued the cardboard

to the edge of the vanity.

The legs help to stabilize the vanity so

leave them in there.
This is what it should look like with the legs inside.

 

You can see my measurement

written on the inside of the cardboard.

 This is the measurement that I used for the width.

You can go smaller but I would not recommend going

any higher than 2.5 inches in height.

 

For the circumference of the cardboard

tube - you will have to measure it,

but it should be about 10 inches.

  You will need some cardboard to overlap
so you can glue it together as you
see I have done already.

 

This is all there was to making these vanity

useful for our miniature dollhouse dolls.

I still have to make a stool to match because

I never got the matching Petit Princess stool.

Hope you decide to try this!

Thank you for visiting me!

Hopblogger

Apartment Daisy - Daisy's Blonde Wig

I dont know how this happened. It

was never expected.

But when

I took off Daisy's hair it remained in that

position.

It looked so cool that I thought

I should display it on top of her vanity.

I was thinking about painting the entire

face and head white but these days what I

think and what I actually do are 2 different

things in my head.

One minute I would like

to have it in a white color and the next minute

I like the face.

I hope it does not look too freaky.

So many decisions to make.

Maybe I should take another head and paint

it white to see if I will like it.

 I still cannot believe that I have

an entire wig that I made!
My first one ever!

 This is what the inside looks like. You
cannot even see the glue.

 To give the wig a good base I pulled out all

of the hair that belonged to this
little miniature doll head.
I wasn't using it and didn't need it.
I apologize for this blurry pic.

 The doll head had a little stick that was

stuck to the end of it. So all I did was stick

it into a piece of cork and then glue on flat

pale pink ribbon.
I think on the last posting, I said it was 
a toothpick. It was not. It is a head on 
a skinny stick. I still have some more of
these. Forgot where I got them.
These would be good in a haunted house!

Thank you for visiting me - come again!
Hopblogger

TUTORIAL - Witch Permelia's Vanity from an Ideal Petite Princess Vanity

Hello Everyone!

I would like to welcome my

new followers.
Thank you!!

 

If you want to know why I did

not post last week go to

www.remakeremixreuse.blogspot.com

and read why. I did not feel like

repeating all of it again. However I feel

much, much better now!!

I did not take any pics here on this Tutorial -
but I do have pics on the Shabby Chic Vanity!!

 

While looking at the VINTAGE IDEAL PETITE PRINCESS

VANITY'S an idea struck in my head.
Believe me

the Vanity that I bought did not look this good!

My Vanity's top was peeling off.
The mirror was

not anywhere near the beauty of this mirror.
The skirt was dirty and smelly.

And I did not even

receive a matching stool!
My Vanity was very

cheap and ugly for $2.99. But it is okay for a witch!!
I do not like to tear

up something like this but I do like a MAKE-OVER.

I like to remake, remix and reuse items
to make better use of them.

So if you do this then try to

buy the worst Vanity you can!

This is what these vanity's look like.
I originally bought one like this cause
I wanted the mirror.
However these vanity's are short.
If I had a doll that was sitting and her legs
were posed in such a way that her
legs were spread out - then I would need
to keep the vanity this short.
But I like a little height. That is my own
preference.

 

 When I made the witch Permelia's
vanity and mirror, it was trial and error.
I had to find something that was
relatively cheap to raise up
the height that I wanted.

I washed up the mirror frame and painted the

ugly gold frame black.
Then I peeled up that speckled

ugly top. I did not like it anyway.

Man!! was I surprised to see

the beautiful look that the glue had left on the vanity

top!!
It looked like woodgrain!
I did not paint this!!!

This gave me courage to finish what I

was doing. 
I threw away the white smelly skirt

and it's gold trim.

To make the Vanity

taller what I did was to cut
good sturdy corrugated cardboard

to the height that I wanted which was 2.5 inches.
I cut the length to about 10 inches.
After measuring around the vanity, making
sure that would fit, I then
glued it into a tube.

I painted the corrugated cardboard

black and glued black lace on top of that.
Funny how the cardboard looks like fabric!!

I did not cut off the

Vanity's short legs.
I did the opposite - I used them for support for the mirror.

Then I used Tacky Glue

to adhere the skirted cardboard to the Vanity.

This is easy to do, but it can be time consuming.

I must admit that

I had to hold the cardboard in place till the glue held!

And this took about 5 minutes I guess
because I used a lot of glue!
After the glue dried I glued on some white

trim and then some black trim to hide anything that

looked yucky.
Lastly,  I glued back on the mirror. I wish

I could show you the underside of the Vanity but I

cannot.
These were the only photo's that took.
I did not know that I could even make it work.
But it did work!

 

 The fun came while decorating the top.
I reduced some pics of witches

and then stuck them between the

cracks of the mirror and the frame.
On top I placed

a tall white resin witch.
I would paint it but I kind

of like it white! There are some perfumes and a

brush on top.
To top it off I hung Permelia's

Pink Witch Hat on the edge of the frame!

I hope you like it as much as I do.

This is a

great project!

I bought another UGLY, CHEAP

IDEAL PETITE PRINCESS VANITY to make

a SHABBY CHIC VANITY.

Look for that tutorial on the sidebar!

That Tutorial will be better than this one!

 Thank you for visiting me!

Hopblogger