Thursday, September 13, 2012

Dollhouse Update & A Giveaway!

First things first..... A giveaway.  As most of you know; I love designing, creating and crafting just about anything I can get my hands on so I have accumulated a lof of product.  After spending an entire weekend organizing and cleaning up both my scrap room and sewing room I have decided that I have too much "stuff" and I should have a giveaway.
If you're not already a follower of my blog, become a follower and leave me a comment telling me what your favorite crafting project is.
I'll pick a random winner at the end of the month and send them this sweet package.
And... As promised, a few pics of the inside of my dollhouse rooms now that I have them partially furnished.
I still have a few larger pieces that I want to buy, a piano for the living room and some more items for the kitchen, but it's getting there and I'm loving the search for trinkets and treasures to add to my house.
I bought a few miniature picture frames, just need to get some photos in them and hang them on the walls.
My favorite room, the master bedroom..... Probably because it's PINK.




The nursery would have to be my second favorite room.  
The adorable shoes on the dresser.
 Notice the cute teddy bear slippers on the floor.
The kitchen with the tiffany hanging light and teapot clock on the wall

 Love the UK door mat
The adorable sewing machine (notice the thread and bolts of fabric)
and ironing board with miniature iron

The living room with the old RCA television


 The front porch with the delivery of milk and the cute little wellies
 The stairway from the kitchen to the upstairs bedrooms
 The stairway from the upstairs down to the main floor. 
 This is going to be the bathroom as soon as I can figure out a way to section it off.
I hope you have enjoyed this little tour of my dollhouse.  Don't forget to leave a comment to be entered into the giveaway.

Tuesday, September 4, 2012

Canvas Wreath

A 14" styrofoam ring, .5m of canvas fabric, some canvas flowers and you have an easy wreath for the front door.
I tore the canvas into 2" strips to get the frayed look, inked the edges with Tim Holtz Frayed Burlap distress ink and wrapped the strips around the styrofoam ring.  Then I inked up a few pre-purchased canvas flowers and added some extra pearls to the centres and pinned them into the ring.

 A close-up of the flowers.
And...... Viola... in 1/2 an hour I had a nice wreath to decorate the front door.
I used some heavy burlap and lace for this one and love how it turned out.