Doll Furniture Self Challenge- (Ch.7- page 17)

[Salli]

This thread is amazing!  *stalks*... I think I may attempt to join, only I'm thinking of doing pony sized furniture instead... maybe Barbie stuff for my daughter... but I have some pony plans. 

Please do the more the merrier

Also, I hate my Absinthe Room. I am starting over on it. I have nothing to show for the past 2 weeks  but we will start on beds anyway

So, challenge 8 is a bed. It could also be a sleeping bag if you want. Just give your doll a place to sleep. A blanket and pillow would be nice. The nice thing about doll beds is that you can just cover a box and voila! instant bed! Good luck everyone!

plush doll bed http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-GUpQkvqhzY&feature=related
easy doll bed http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=z-PN4E7cukg&feature=relmfu
12" doll bed http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OrpJbtjd7D8&feature=relmfu

[Argentum-Zeena]

Everyone's furniture is so awesome I may have to join in, if you guys don't mind.
I've actually been working on a desk for my dolls. I'm not done yet, but it's coming along nicely.

[sabathamk]

Well, this currently doesn't really fit into any of the categories/challenges, unless you count it as a chair for my daughter's kitty (I kinda tried to make it for her littlest pet shop kitty as well), but here's a 'cat bed' I made.  I kinda made it chairlike with a back as well.  I thought it turned out pretty good for my first 'recycled' project in years!  My daughter is thrilled with it!

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I wanted to get a pic with the littlest pet shop kitty, but couldnt find her anywhere.  Ah well. 
I can't wait to get started on the actual challenges!  I think I'll try to go in order... or not, lol.  Maybe I'll start with the walls/backdrop so I have a place to put everything! 

[Salli]

Everyone is more than welcome to share their furniture-making conquests here We all just kind of feed off of each other's creativity and motivation

sabathamk, cute kitty bed! What did you use for your base?

This person's doll rooms are so cute, a bit too mid-century for my taste, but they give me ideas! http://www.maryannroy.com/portfolio.htm

[sabathamk]

Well... funny thing... I used a tuna tin can for the base, lol.  Kitty approves!
I really love those pics!  Ooh, the I Love Lucy styled stuff is so neat!  Actually, I like them all, haha.  I think my hardest decision is going to be picking a theme for the barbies and sticking to it.  Maybe that's why I want to start with my ponies.  Generally, all things relatively frilly and Victorian in style seem to suit them... for some reason or other.  Except G4s... I want to make things like in the show!  Hhahaha

[Salli]

Dug out stuff for a bed, got new stuff for wallpaper for my Absinthe room.

[Salli]

This customized Bratz mansion is so cute!

http://mail.heat.net/store/Monster-High-OOAK-House-w-Furniture-1600-Party-for-Draculaura,-lots-of-fun-_300671268397.html

[TexasGal]

Yay!  Saba is here!  =D

[bewilderness]

That mansion!  *dies* I want it!

Today was a good day for dolly stuff.  I got some little custards in the mail that I've been waiting on for awhile.  At the thrift store I found this strand of battery-operated orange lights; they can blink off and on too and they were only $1.  I'm not sure yet what I'll do with them but they're really neat and perfectly dollhouse-sized.  At Dollar General, I picked up some wood-patterned contact paper for making a floor and the table and benches for Great Hall scenes.  They also had a pack of four 2" tall plastic cauldrons, which I bought.  And I also picked up a pack of 3 battery-operated orange tealight "candles" which will make a great light source. And the pack of candles and cauldrons were only $1 each!

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I forgot to include my little string of lights though.

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I picked up this small lion vase thing a couple of weeks ago at the thrift store.  I want to make a column to stand it on and a little matching square piece to go around the top to hide the candle, so that it'll look sort of like the torch stands in the Hogwarts hallways in the movies.

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Minerva Midnight is enjoying her new cauldron!  I've got one of the tealight "candles" placed in the stack of wood.

[Salli]

I LOVE it! AGH! That little Lion urn makes me jealous And my witch doll wants to come play spellcasting

I know, that mansion is super cute. I am holding out for one of those new disney princess castles to show up at a yard sale or something someday to customize. Wouldn't it make a cute Hogwarts? I think I am just going to do a non-specific castle.
http://www.target.com/p/disney-princess-quintessential-castle/-/A-13445968?ref=tgt_adv_XSC10001&AFID=shopping_df&LNM=|13445968&CPNG=toys&ci_src=13736960&ci_sku=13445968&

And how cute is this chair?
http://www.etsy.com/listing/72728991/black-skull-print-small-doll-chair

[bewilderness]

That castle is glorious!  It'd make a perfect Hogwarts. 

[sabathamk]

Yay!  Saba is here!  =D

   Aww, thanks!   

Bewilderness, I love the lion vase!  I just found a cute candle holder for 15cents at the local thrift that is perfect for my ponies!  I'll have to take a pic yet.  And yay for little light strings!  I've been hoping to find some for myself!  I want to decorate for Christmas with them... and I'm hoping to build a dollhouse for then (for my childhood Calico Critters set).  That dollhouse pic is so neat!  I just wish I could see the furniture and the inside!

So, I've decided I'm going to build a dollhouse.  Yup.  From scratch.  I'm not sure how this is going to work, lol.  it's going to be very simple (flat, kinda like a bookshelf) but I want to design the interior to look very miniature... realistic if I can.  I'm making a bed for my Mr and Mrs Fieldmouse, but my sewing machine quit on me.  It looks like I'll have to take it in (darn) for servicing.  I can't for the life of me figure out why it won't work.  I've cleaned it, taken the presser foot area apart, checked the needle... the thread keeps hooking on the bobbin... thing... gah, I don't know what it is called.  You use it to place the bobbin into the machine.  I felt it and cant find anything it would hook on, but it is staying on there and then winds multiple times.  I think a service is all I can do for it now.

Anyway, the bed frame is made, and I just need to make a mattress, blanket and pillows.  It's made from twigs.  No joke.  I figure, mice could have twig beds!  It just made sense to me, haha.  I'll probably hand sew the stuffs and then take pics when it's all done.

Ooh!  I'm done the bed!  Here are pics!
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Here is the bed!  it's made of twigs, wire to hold them before I used hot glue, and fabric scraps.  It's a scant 4" cube.
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Mr. Fieldmouse is testing the cusions, and Mrs Fieldmouse is securing the curtians.
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Awww.  Looks like they like their new bed!

[Salli]

Yay!!! What a cute bed!

[bewilderness]

That bed is soooo adorable.

[sabathamk]

Thank you!!  I gotta make beds for the kiddo mice now... but not from twigs, haha.