Friday 4 September 2015

Sold a little house :)

I've started working on my travel doll house again.  I wasn't feeling too great for a while but I'm feeling ok now so I've started work on my projects again :)  This week I also sold a little house I had for sale on my Etsy page.  It was this one.  It's on its way to the USA to its new home :)
Today is Lilah-Mai day here so we will be spending time with her and going for a coffee.  After this I will spend some time on my second travel doll house.  I'm hoping to finish this house this weekend and then start work on some quiet books :) I made 2 of these last year for one of my baby nephews and one of my baby nieces :)  I want to make one for Lilah-Mai and another for miss Dezi :)  Quiet books, or busy books as I call them, are very fun to make.  I'll share pictures of the ones I made last year in another post soon.  Now off to start making lunch :D

Wednesday 19 August 2015

Quick Post 6

I've not been feeling to great lately so I've not really worked on my projects for a couple of days.  I think I'll start in on them again next week.  I've been feeling so tired lately so I've sat looking at pinterest a lot.  My wife and I found out we will have a new baby niece early next year soooooo I was looking for cute baby dresses to make her :D  I ran across this very lovely site :) Olabelhe.  I fell in love with her sewing room.  I want it :D  There are several patterns on her site that I want :) I have found many other things I'd love to make her we will see what I pick :)

Sunday 16 August 2015

Doll House 2 and a Doll

Today my wife and I watched tv and had yummy things to eat :D I did start work on my second doll house but only cut felt pieces for different parts of the house. I'll start putting things together tomorrow.
This is what I got done today.

I also wanted to share with yall another one of my Christmas presents I made last year.  This was for our baby niece Dezi.  I decided to make her a small Waldorf inspired doll.  The little doll was around 10 inches tall and was made with my own pattern.  I made her with brown eyes and brown hair like miss Dezi.  Her little dress was made with a simplicity pattern I already had.   
Here she is!



Saturday 15 August 2015

Quick Post 5

Today my wife and I went into town and bought a few things we needed at home. I got a few things I needed for my second doll house and we had a coffee date :) Tomorrow I might start work on the 2nd doll house :)

Friday 14 August 2015

Fabric Doll House Number 1 Done :)

Today I finished my first doll house so 1 down 1 to go :D  I put the rest of the little house together and put a little strap with a snap button to close it.  Here are some pictures of the finished product :)
Here is the little house all finished.

This is how it looks when you open it up. There is the little doll watching tv :D

Here she is taking a cake out of the oven :D

Sitting at the table ready to eat cake :)

Now shes ready for a bath :D

You fold the part with the dining room and bathroom over and there is her bedroom.

Here she is taking her pjs out of the wardrobe.

Cozy in bed :)

Next day it is time for a picnic :)

This little house was very fun to make and I hope it will make my nieces happy little girls at Christmas time :) for links on the examples of take along fabric doll houses I liked see this post, take-along-fabric-doll-house.

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Thursday 13 August 2015

Little Doll For The Take Along Fabric Doll House

Today I worked more on the little doll I made for the doll house.  I made her 2 dresses and some pjs.  It was all a bit difficult for me because it is miniature and i had to do hand sewing which as I've said before isn't my forte.  I did use one pattern I found for the pink dress I made.  I got it from here, Aux Petits Bonheurs de Sophie.  She's got a good tutorial with pictures on there.  The other dress and the pjs I just made it up as I went.  Tomorrow I want to put the rest of the house together and then I'll be done with house number one :)  Here are some pictures of what I got done today.




Wednesday 12 August 2015

Quick Post 4

Today I did not feel to great so no work was done on the doll house or the little doll :( Tomorrow will hopefully be a better and productive day :)

Tuesday 11 August 2015

Continued Progress On Doll House

I took some pictures of what I did yesterday and today.  I'm happy with my progress so far :D  Yesterday I did the back of the house and added decoration to the front of the house.  I wanted the house to have a bit where there could be a picnic like in my Molly's house in this post, Little Fabric Doll House.  So I came up with a fold away garden bit with a picnic blanket. Today I put half of the house together with some decorative bias tape.  I also made the straps and put the little doll together.
The doll is about 5 inches tall :) I got the template for it from this page, diets.ru.  They have a good tutorial on there with pictures.  Links to examples of take along doll houses are in my take-along-fabric-doll-house post.  Tomorrow I'll make her some clothes and put the rest of the inside of the house together.  After that house number 1 will be done :D
Here are some pictures of my progress :)
This is the little doll :) I made her some under pants so she'd be ready for the picture :D 
The front of the house with hedges, flower box and butterfly :) You can see the straps were added.
 The back of the house with trees, bird house and hedges.
 The hedges unbutton to reveal a garden in the backyard perfect for a picnic :)  The flowers were done with my BIGkick machine.
 PB&J sandwiches and glasses of milk :)
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Monday 10 August 2015

Quick Post 3

Today I worked on the back of my doll house. I also added a few embellishments to the front of the house. As I stated in my last post, I tried out the idea I had for the back of the house. It worked out nicely I think. I'll share some pictures of what I did tomorrow. I will try and put it all together tomorrow and maybe start working on the little doll who will live in the doll house :)

Sunday 9 August 2015

Continuing With My Take Along Doll House

Well today I continued working on my doll house.  I got the bedroom finished and part of the outside of the front of the house :)  Tomorrow I'll finish the rest of the front of the house then work on the back.  I have an idea for the back of the house just hoping it'll work out :D
This is what I got done today.
 This is the bedroom.  The wardrobe's doors open and it has a pocket inside for the little dolls clothes.  The little doll and its clothes are not done yet.  The doll will be able to get in the bed and I'm going to make it a teddy bear as well :) 
This is the front of the house.  I still have a few more things to add to this. 

  

Saturday 8 August 2015

Take Along Fabric Doll House

Today I worked on one of  my bag houses :)  Well they are actually called take along fabric doll houses or travel doll houses.  I made the living room, kitchen, bathroom and dining room.  It was a combination of machine sewing, hand sewing and glue gunning.  I think my favorite room so far is the kitchen.  I was able to embellish the kitchen a lot.  The fridge, cabinets and oven door open. you can put dishes in the sink and there is a bowl on the counter that you can put a spoon in.  There is food in the fridge that you can take out and the dishes in the cabinets can be taken out as well :)  Tomorrow I'm going to start on the bedroom and then work on the outside of the house :)
I love the idea of a take along house :)  It's kind of like the fabric house I made and showed in this post, Little Fabric Doll House.  I found a lot of inspiration for travel doll houses on google. Here are some of my favorite ones :)
Country Kitty - really lovely little travel doll house :)  
pinterest picture - this is a picture of a bedroom for a take along house
craftjuice - cute take along house :)

We will see how I get on tomorrow with what's left to do on the house :)
Here are some pictures of what i did today :)
These are the dining room and the bathroom.

These are the kitchen and the living room.
 A more detailed view of the kitchen :)

Friday 7 August 2015

Progress On My Bag Houses :)

Today is Lilah-Mai day here as all Fridays are :D  So the day was spent in her lovely company.

After miss Lilah went home we had a nice pizza dinner then i got to working on cutting things out for the bag houses.  Tomorrow I'll do some sewing and glue gunning and hopefully have at least half of one of the houses done :) 
 My progress :)
We will see how I get on tomorrow.

Thursday 6 August 2015

quick post 2

Had a ladies night here at my house today :D It was my wife's mom and sister, Pauline my wife and me.  We had a lot of yummy things to eat like cheese, crackers, lovely seeded bread, dips, crisps, french fancies, scones with clotted cream and jam and bakewell tart.  We talked and laughed a lot all the way till after 10pm :) sooooo there was no time for sewing till tomorrow.  I went shopping during the day for supplies for my next project :)  Got some felt. glue sticks, batting and bias tape.  I've started cutting my bag house and will start sewing tomorrow maybe :) I'll share more about that tomorrow :)  

Wednesday 5 August 2015

The Car Caddy :)

Another project I worked on last year for my nephews were car caddies.  I made 3 of these and they were very very fun to make :) I googled car play mats to get ideas of what I could add to my car caddies and found a lot of very creative ideas :)  I liked the look of the car caddy on this page, The Imagination Station.  She's got a very good tutorial on there with pictures.  I made my own pattern for mine.  I made them into pouches with handles and personalised them with my nephews' names.  I made each with a different fabric and the play mat itself was done in felt.  I lost my pictures so only have pictures of one of them to show you.
This is how my car caddy looked when it was closed :)  It had a velcro fastener and the letters for my nephew's name were made out of felt with my handy dandy BIGkick machine. 

This is how it looked when it was half way opened. There are 3 velcro fasteners to keep it neatly closed.

This is the caddy when I was making it.  I hadn't yet added the street lines and hadn't finished adding the different buildings or the flap where the cars would be stored.

This is how the car caddy looked when I was finished.  The mat on the playing side was all done in felt.  It's a big piece of green felt for the background, black for the streets and other different colors for the buildings.  The street lines were made with yellow embroidery thread.  I also embellished the mat with little felt trees and street lights.

I made a police station which was sewn on the mat with the bottom left unsewn so the car could be put in.  The McDonald's  building is a drive thru :D  I sewed it on the mat on the top and bottom left the sides open so the cars could drive thru :)

There was a garage also with a gas and air pump and a car wash that was also a drive thru :)  
The school, hospital, fire station and HEB grocery shop all had the bottoms open so the cars could be driven in.

This is the flap where the cars are stored.  I decided to make it look like little houses where the cars live :D  The top of the houses was left open so the cars could drive out.

They were very fun to make and the boys liked them a lot.  A very good Christmas present idea :)
I'll share more of last years presents in another post and will also share my new project for the next set of Christmas presents for this year :)

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Tuesday 4 August 2015

The Coloring Book Carrier

Last year I decided I was going to make some of the presents we were going to take for our nephews and nieces in Texas.  There are 14 soon to be 15 kids in Texas and 1 here in the UK.  That's a lot of presents :D soooo I decided to make some of the presents last year and am doing the same this year :)
I wanted to share with you what I made for them last year.  I made 4 different projects.  The first project was the coloring book carrier.  I made 4 of these for 4 of our nieces.  They liked them :)  I got the idea from a picture I saw on pinterest.  The tutorial I used came from CRAZY little PROJECTS.  Her tutorial is great and has pictures.  I made mine for 24 crayons.  I took pictures of my 4 when I was finished but I can't find my pictures now :( only a couple of pictures of one of them.
Here it is.


They were fun to make. Was fun choosing all the different fabrics to use.  I decided to personalise each of them with the girl's names.  I embroidered their names on a piece of fabric which I then sewed onto the carrier and then embellished them with appliques I made with my BIGkick machine but since I lost y pictures I can't show you that.  We got crayola colors, coloring books and note pads to put in them.  When miss Lilah-Mai gets a bit older I'll be making her one of these :) 


Monday 3 August 2015

Quick post

I didn't start work on my next projects today.  I did go to the fabric shop and got a few things I needed to get going on them though.  I'm thinking of doing some bag houses :D I'll share more about this tomorrow.  My laptop just told me it is running out of battery so will post again tomorrow :)

Sunday 2 August 2015

Finished Doll Diaper Bags

Today I finally finished the doll diaper bags yay :)  I made the last bits to add which were the bibs.
Here they are :)
I used the template on this page Crafty Cupboard.  She's got a nice tutorial on there.  I used snap buttons on them and I made 2 flower appliques and a star one with my handy BIGkick machine.  I'm done with these 3 presents and now I'll start the next group of gifts :D 
Here are the diaper bags all done :)  The contents are a changing mat, diaper, wipes, baby powder, bottle, baby food, toy, bib and an extra change of clothes :) 






Saturday 1 August 2015

Doll Dress #3

Today was a coughing day for me :(  I thought I'd finish off my diaper bags but no.  I felt sickish so I had a little lay down and we also had some visitors.  I did finish the last little dress and bloomers set.  Tomorrow we go grocery shopping and if I don't feel too sick I'll finish off the diaper bags by making the bibs and putting some flower appliques, that I'll make with my lovely BIGkick machine, on the bags.  Then I'll start the next set of presents :D
Here is the little dress and bloomers set I made today.

Friday 31 July 2015

Little Dresses

Today I worked on the dresses that I'm gonna put in the diaper bags.  I made 2 out of the 3 today.
Here they are :)


I have one more dress and bloomers set to go.  After that I'll sew the 3 bibs. I think after the bibs and the dresses and bloomers I'll be done with the doll diaper bags.  That will be 3 Christmas presents done :D I will share some of last years Christmas presents soon :)
  

Thursday 30 July 2015

Continuing with Christmas in July

I continued today working on my doll diaper bags :) I made 3 baby food bottles with 3 spoons and 3 little toys.
These are the 3 baby food bottles with the spoons.  They are made from 3 plastic cylinders with glued on felt and little fruit appliques.  The spoons are just felt with the stiff interfacing which I now know the name for.  It is called Pelmet Vilene.  

The little toys I decided to make were felt animals :) I decided on a duck, bear and bunny.  I found the bear template here, the bunny here and for the duck I used this picture.  They fit on the palm of my hand and are hand sewn which is why the stitches are a bit messy. Hand sewing is not my forte :D I love the duck best of all :)

Tomorrow, if I don't feel too sick, I'll make the bibs and might start sewing the dresses and bloomers. 

Wednesday 29 July 2015

Today's Progress

Today I woke up sick :( so I didn't do very much.  I decorated my wipes cases and the changing mats.  I also made a small baby powder bottle :)
These are the wipes cases I made.  They are made out of felt and the wipes are made from soft diaper material.  I ironed interfacing to the felt to make it stiffer and so the slit on them doesn't get bigger.
 The changing pads are made with cotton material and printed knit material.  They have fasteners made of felt and they close with velcro.
 The baby powder bottle was fun to make.  I got a small piece of Styrofoam, felt, glue gun, and the top part of an empty baby powder bottle.  I covered the Styrofoam square with felt using my glue gun.  After that I glued the baby powder cap on the top of the felt covered Styrofoam square.  I then cut strips of the felt to glue around the bottom of the cap and the top of the square to secure it more.  I cut an oval out of white felt to sew on the words baby powder and glued it on to the front of the square and I had a small baby powder bottle :)  
The flowers and hearts were done using my lovely BIGkick machine.  We will see how I get on tomorrow :)

Tuesday 28 July 2015

Christmas Gifts Progress

Well as I said on my Christmas in July post, I was going to continue with my diaper bags today.  I made 3 wipes cases with 2 wipes in them, 3 changing mats and 3 baby bottles :)  I still need to embellish each thing with embroidered words and some appliques I'll make with my trusty BIGkick machine.  The baby bottles were fun to make and easier than I thought as well.  They are made of felt and stuffed with polyester stuffing.  I sewed a tube out of white felt and stuffed it.  I then cut out 2 circles out of white felt for the top and bottom of the tube and hand sewed them on.  I made a template for the nipple and cut it out of light brown felt.  I hand sewed that together and stuffed it.  After that I used my glue gun to glue the nipple to one end of the white tube.  I then cut a strip of pink felt and glued it around the top part of the white tube covering a bit of the tube and a bit of the nipple.  That's how I made my 3 bottles.

Tomorrow I will embellish the accessories I've made so far :)  I still need to make 3 bibs, sew the dresses and bloomers I cut out, make a baby toy of some sort and decide what else to put in my diaper bags :)

Monday 27 July 2015

Christmas in July

Today I decided to start making Christmas presents.  Last year I made Christmas presents for most of our nephews and nieces in Texas :)  I decided to do the same this year :) I'll share pictures of the things I made last year.  I'll also post about the stuff I'm making this year :)
This is what I did today.  I cut out 3 doll dresses and bloomers I got from my Simplicity patterns and I also cut out 3 diaper bags.  I made up the diaper bag pattern myself.  
Only things I sewed up today were the 3 diaper bags.
They are not finished though.  I need to add some flower appliques and make the accessories.  I think I want to make a wipes container with a few wipes, a changing mat, bib, a little felt bear and I want to make a baby bottle.  I'm not sure if I can do it but I'm going to give it a go.  I'm also going to add a diaper not sure if I'll make it or put in an actual newborn diaper as I have a few of those to hand.  They will each also have one of the dresses I'm going to make.  I'll add the appliques tomorrow and start making some of the accessories :)  I'll share what I get done.