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

Crafty Little Christmas

About three weeks before Christmas my eight year old neice asked me if she could have one of my dollhouses. I said to her maybe she should ask Father Christmas for a dollhouse to which she replied,"Oh, I don't think Father Christmas could make anything that good". Well, that just melted my heart and I knew I had to make her something. But being so close to Christmas a whole house was out of the question so I decided to make a little girls bedroom for her in 1:12 scale.

It was a challenge finding things to fill it with. There are no shops here where you can just go and buy dollhouse miniatures and it was too late (and much too expensive!) to order anything online so I had to get making. I built the little bed from scratch and made all the bedding. The bedside cupboard I already had. I scanned a few books by her favourite authors and miniaturised their family photo. The poster above the bedside table and the framed picture by the bed came from a greeting card catalogue. The Spongebob on the shelf cam off a dangly pen.

The picture of the girl on the wall above the chair is one of my clever little sisters paintings made tiny. There's a High School Musical poster because that's what my niece is into. I made little Operation and Candyland games and some Barbie doll boxes. The white shelf was a non-opening cupboard from the two dollar shop which I modified.

The little pencils I made from toothpicks although they were a bit trickier than I expected because the toothpicks were actually too thick so I had to whittle them down.

The candycane, cake and cookie I made from modelling clay.The last time I used

modelling clay I was about 12 years old!

When my niece opened it she just sat there and said,"WOW"! and then she thanked me about a million times. Later on Christmas day she took it over to show her 8 year old friend next door. I saw her again on Boxing day and she had rearranged everything. Her little friend was there and she said, "Tell her what else she can make". Intrigued I asked what else I could make and my niece said, "Oh, she wants you to make one for her".

I hope you all had a Merry one!