I mentioned back in January that my father-in-law had found a dollhouse book that my mother-in-law had stored away, and had cut the pieces for a modern bungalow dollhouse for me, and a gypsy caravan dollhouse for my sister-in-law, as part of our Christmas gifts.
Christmas! That's how long its been sitting, in pieces. Shameful, but true.
So when Amy tipped me off to Emily Henderson's recently unveiled "I'm a Giant, Blog Challenge", I thought about it for an hour or two. Which, really, I needed to do, because there are always ten thousand other things to do, right? "Sorry girls, can't make it tonight, I'm really making headway on my dollhouse!"
Thinking of this challenge got me re-energized about putting this dollhouse together. I decided I would officially declare one day each week as dollhouse day, that will help me organize my time and be able to fit it in. Plus, I think it will be fun to nuture my creativity this way, it'll give me something completely different to focus on for a few hours.
I've spent all weekend looking at different websites and creating different decor ideas in my head (even though that's several steps away, its still fun to think about), and I'm a little all over the place about how I want to decorate it. So much dollhouse decor still has a very old fashioned feel to it, not exactly what I'm thinking (unless I'm willing to shell out more money, and I'm just not there yet). But in the wise craft DIY spirit, Emma and I are going to make as much as we can to go in it. Looking at the decor as a series of mini-DIY projects is helping me focus in a little more. The central theme of my decorating scheme is simple.
I'm just going to pretend that Peter wouldn't live there.
That's going to open up the flood gates and I just might get very girly! Check out the dollhouse wallpaper I secured-
I'll post the progress here and finally fill up that dollhouse category that's been sitting so lonely and empty. The first part of construction will be the hard hat part, lots of smelly glue and clamps, as I put up the walls. But after that its making, crafting, scoring the right furniture, making a teeny weeny quilt .
Anyone else doing a dollhouse?
