Wednesday, September 23, 2009

The Laurel Doll's House

I wanted to share some pictures of the new doll's house. I have so many ideas I'd like to try out and the Laurel seemed perfect for my first attempt.
The window boxes are going to be fun making flowers for.
I decided to use paint instead of doing brick or siding.
My grandaughter April, who just turned three a few days ago, has been so excited too. She's always right there as soon as I start to work on it, offering her help with the "dolly houch", as she calls it. :)



















I thought of doing the main part green, and was lucky enough to find some in the boo boos section for only two dollars..how could I resist such a bargin for good quality paint? It's closer to an olive than what appears in these photos.



I like that this house will have a bay window.



This top pic was the first coat of paint on the railings. It's a light taupe, again a boo boo. Yep! I was realy realy lucky!!!


Notice the painted stir stix at the top of this last photo? April painted them while I was working on the second coat of the railings. She did a great job of it, too! Just how I will put them to use I have no idea yet..any suggestions for uses of paint stix? hmm..Furniture perhaps?

11 comments:

  1. Hi!
    Thank you for visiting at my blog! It`s so nice to find someone else also who has this beautiful dollhouse =) I`m looking forward your project too, so I`m going to stop by here many times in future =)

    Hugs, Susanne

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  2. Oh I'm so glad to hear that Susanne. I will be visiting you often too. It's funny, I wonder why we haven't found more people building this dollhouse? Maybe they are but just not blogging? I don't know...perhaps we will see more people building this one some time soon? Regardless.. It's sure nice to have found you!
    Hug :)

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  3. Hi Mary! Thanks for visiting my blog- it's really great to meet you! How fun that you are able to share this project with your grand-daughter-makes it so much more special. I look forward to seeing your progress :) Looks great so far!

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  4. Hi Mary! thank you very much for your sweet comment. I didnt know your blog but i'm already a fan!!well see each other around!!

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  5. Hi Kim. Welcome to my blog. Thank you for such lovely comments both here and on your blog. It's a pleasure to meet you. I'm looking forward to following your blog as well.
    Mary

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  6. Hi Begona. Welcome to my blog. It's a pleasure to meet you too. I'm glad to have come across your blog and look forward to following your projects. Yep! You bet!
    Mary

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  7. Hi Mary, Thanks for following my blog. Enjoy the house you've just bought. I look forward to seeing what you will make of it.
    Josje

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  8. PS: love the Dalai Lama quote below!
    Josje

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  9. Tengo un premio luz para ti por ser una seguidor@. Muchísimas gracias por estar hay y hacer que siga adelante con el blog.
    Espero verte pronto.
    Besujis!!!

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  10. Me ha encantado pasarme por tu blog, me gustan mucho tus trabajos.
    besitos ascension

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  11. Wow, can't believe you were able to pre-paint those budget wood dollhouse parts before you glued them on. Usually they warp because the wood is so thin.

    check out my budget wood dollhouse kit from Greenleaf called the Pierce

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