A room for Emily

This is one of the things I was working on last week. You may remember last Christmas I made a roombox for my niece Holly (you can see it here). Her best friend Emily (who is also her next door neighbour) has always desperately wanted a roombox too. Holly's mum asked me if I would make a roombox for Holly to give to Emily for her 9th birthday...so I did.

I was lucky enough to buy those cute bed ends off a man from another club who had made them himself. I had to make everything as quickly as possible (because I had so many other things to get done last week!) so I searched around the house for something to use as a bed base and I found a plastic box that was exactly the right size. I covered the box with fabric then glued the bed ends to it.

The pink chair is from a plastic outdoor set I bought at the $2 shop, it was bright yellow so I painted it. (Liberty hasn't noticed it's missing from the set yet, I'll be in trouble when she does, lol!) I love the 'Emily Rocks' poster!
This table also came from the $2 shop, unfortunately that range of furniture is becoming very hard to find, it's been very useful! Holly made her friend a card so I got her mum to scan it and send it to me so I could make a mini of it to go on the table. There's some badly made mini food on the plate, lol! It was my first attempt at fimo (since I was a kid). I made it last year.
This shelf was part of a funny little $2 shop dresser. The round painting is a button! The house is a printie from Jean Day's wonderful site, you can find the printie here. That's the wallpaper Jo sent me, it looks so lovely and fresh.

The 'Emily' sign above the bed is made from Sabiha's pasta (there isn't much of that pasta left as Liberty decided it would be a good idea to eat it raw the other day, yuk!) I made the little pink table, the photo on it is of Holly and Emily. The title of the book on the table is 'My Friend Emily'. I've put that little cat in the bag there so Emily will get a surprise when she looks in the bag.

I found as many books with 'Emily' in the title as I could! The Milly-Molly-Mandy books are some of my own all time favourites. 'Emily of New Moon' and 'Emily's Quest' are by LM Montgomery, more favourites of mine. There's a 'Hannah Montana' book because the girls love her and a book called 'Mercedes Ice' which is a very cute story and was given to me by a dear friend a long time ago.

I almost got the whole roombox finished last Monday. All day I just kept saying to myself 'Do it NOW'. So instead of starting something then putting it down to finish later I made each thing from start to finish right away! I totally surprised myself with what I achieved!

Today it was Emily's birthday, so somewhere out there across the other side of town there is one very happy nine year old!

Mercedes