Moving

Well our life has kind of been in a whirlwind lately :)!
We are moving! We have been leasing our home for the past 6 years and our landlord decided to sell :)! We had planned on saving for about 2 more years and then were going to bulid or buy a new home.
They gave us notice for the 31st of Dec. but who wants to move the week after Christmas so we lucked into another home (It is bigger and has a lot more storage space!~~ We all know that women who love to craft and make things need lots of space~~ LOL!! Well this girl does for sure!). Anyhow since we are moving next week the dollhouse stuff has been put on hold temporarily!
I will be back soon though!
I figure if she doesn't get it for Christmas, then we'll get it for her birthday in February!

Hugs and off to packing...
I really don't like packing lol!

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Doll House Items Round #2

Yep I have been at it again :)! My daughter is in school 2 days a week so I have a very limited window of time that I can work on these items. (Since she NEVER seems to sleep Please keep in mind these items are not finished! This is the "rough draft" so to speak :)!
Anyhow, here is a photo of her bed made from Popsicle sticks :)!



Can you guess what these are going to be?
Keep in mind these are upside down!





They're going to be chandeliers :)!

Can you guess what I am going to make out of this???


Well it's going to be a fireplace ! Check back to see it finished :)!

Thanks so much for taking this journey with me :)! Off to painting on her fireplace!!

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Dollhouse items so far!

Well as promised I am doing more updating :)! Hopefully it will continue!
Here are a few of the items I have been working on for my daughter's dollhouse so far.

Keep in mind I am just now putting them together and I still have a looonnnnnnggg way to go!
First is a photo of her bathroom sink :)! I used an old heart shaped wooden bowl and glued it on top of a wooden candlestick. It still wasn't quite tall enough so I then glued it on top of one of my dad's old English Leather cologne bottle lids!

To the left of the "sink" is a lamp I made out of several things :)! I took a sample perfume bottle, washed it out really well, let it dry, and filled it with different colored seed beads I had. Then I glued some little round plastic balls to it for the shaft of the lamp. Finally I took one of the lids my mom had brought from her old perfume and used it as the "shade".

Next is a closer view of the lamp :)! It's not as crooked as it appears in the photo :)!

Ok next we have her bathtub :)! It's not finished yet but here it is! I took some wooden globe looking things and glued them to one of those hospitial things (Don't worry this one is my mom's and she didn't use it :) )!

I still have to add the handles and the shower!
Oh and everything has to be painted and finished of course :)!
I will tell you I am REALLY struggling with making a potty! I just may have to break down and buy one of those :)!

Well that's it for now! I will hopefully post some pictures of her bedroom items within the next few days :)!

Thanks so much for taking the time to look!

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This Blog

Well I have kind of let this blog go along with everything else in my life as of late but I am slowly getting back on track. Once you lose a loved one it just seems like the everyday life "happenings" aren't as important. For example, we had company come over last night and normally I would have been cleaning until the moment they arrived.
Well not last night, I didn't clean! Why should I spend my Friday cleaning for visitors? If I were going to clean like that I should do it for the people that are here all the time :)!

Anyhow, I have recently closed my website until the beginning of the new year. I want to start off fresh with new beginnings and I have decided to focus on the most important things in my life for the Holidays, which are my family members!
I have several items I want to make for family members and they have always gotten put on the back burner this time of year. Not this year :)! I have started to make my daughter a Barbie dollhouse and I will try to post pictures with some of the progress :)!
It has been so much fun! My mother has been helping me with it and it seems like it is , in an odd way, helping us to heal!
We are not going out and buying a bunch of expensive furniture (I have bought a few wooden pieces but none of them have cost over $3.50). We have ideas to re-purpose items into lamps, living room furniture, and bedroom furniture! I have made a few of the lamps so far and we are having a blast!

Anyhow, I just wanted to give a quick update and I hope to do more updating on a regular basis!

Hugs!

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