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A small open house

I am happy to be able to (finally) show the interior of the doll house, with its spiffy new paint job. I tell you, painting a doll house sure goes faster and is much more satisfying than painting a full size house! In the spirit of use what you have, I opted for the same aqua as the studio walls, and the floor is the blue paint from the base of the work table.

I shudder to remember how awful it looked before the redo, pretty sad:

I primed it a long time ago and it had been like this for ages:

But this weekend I got bit by the redecorating bug and whipped it together fairly quickly.

The windows needed some help, so I cut frames from white fun foam (I love that stuff) and hot glued them in place.  Looks much better now.

Next up... window treatments and then in comes the furniture! I hope to have it set up by the time my Club Little House package arrives!

Cheers,

Jenny

Catch you on the flip flop

Well, since Alicia and Vicky both let the cats out of their bags, I can show you what I made for Club Little House. I came very close to making the same thing Vicky made, and even something similar to Alicia's little creation, but went another direction. I went to the beach!

I had this image in my head of twelve cute little beach bags all in different colors and fabrics, and managed to get them to turn out (almost) exactly how I pictured them, despite my uncooperative sewing machine. Thank heavens for fusable web!

But I couldn't stop there, I wanted there to be something in the bags, so I came up with this:

Teensy flip flops! I should have put a penny next to these so you could get an idea of the scale. Let's just say they are small enough to have been a beast to make. See, twelve pairs is 24 shoes, each of which are made from two layers of foam, so I had to cut out 48 little foot shaped thingies. And here they are, stretching off into the distance:

and with their bags:

The whole crew was wrapped, tagged and Fedexed out, so Amy should get it sometime tomorrow. I am itching to see what everyone else made!

So now it is onward to the next adventure...

Cheers,

Jenny

I've got a thing for scotties

Well, that's really not shocking news, is it?

This little guy has come to live with me! Adopted via eBay. Lately I have this love/hate thing going with eBay. I find things I like, and plan to bid on them later, but forget and off they go to someone else. And I have developed an extreme dislike of "snipers" who outbid you in literally the final seconds of the auction. They must use some sneaky program to do that, and I think its really low. Unfortunately, there is a scotty fanatic out there who does this with a lot of the auctions for the most interesting scotty dog items. Just my luck. I don't feel like its really fair somehow, although I'm not sure why. But anyhow... they didn't seem to want this little fellow, so now he will sit on my desk and hold pencils or crochet hooks or lollipops or something, since he's also a planter! Woof!

Cheers,

Jenny

Itty bitty bunny - WIP

For WIP Friday, a teensy felt bunny I started a while back. It is based on the mini bunny doodle in the wallpaper design on my blog. Eventually it will have a little red and white polka dotted frock, or maybe a tiny romper. Maybe both!

Cheers,

Jenny