Swap Day / Watering Can & Garden Hose by Kitty

My friend Kitty (from my Dutch onlineminiclub) has done these wonderful swap for me!

A garden hose and a watering can!!! It is just lovely!!!!

It is perfect for my Buttercup garden!!!

Danke wel Kitty!!!!

Enjoy!

Sonja

A day with Fred and Frieda / Emma's Birthday present

 

 

Tomorrow there is Emma's 5 birthday and so I have done

a special birthday present for my little niece.

I have written a little book about Fred and Frieda

(the old couple who live in my Buttercup dollshouse).

She always asks me about my dollshouses when she visits me.

My book has the titel "A day with Fred and Frieda".

I have written an English and a German version for her.

I have also done a little memory game for her.

For the game I took 24 different photos of my buttercup dollshouse.

Now she has to find the matching pair of cards.

 

Happy Birthday dear Emma!!!!

 

Hug

Sonja

 

A house for the pigeons

A little house for my pigeons...this was a special project by Sylvia Beuker(http://lutjeboudel.punt.nl) for our online dollshouse club. I think the little house is perfect for the garden of my Buttercup dollshouse.....
Pigeons by Jan van den Doel

Have a great day
Sonja

Buxus topiary bird

This was a little yellow ceramic bird......and now I have a buxus topiary bird.
I used some green (from the model railway)

I bought also a green tree for my Buttercup garden. Maybe I can paint it a little bit (I don't like the plastic). Any ideas? I like also a treebank but i am not a woodworm.
I have so many ideas for my little Buttercup (I tought it is only a little house = little project...now I know it is not so!!!!!)

garden tray

This is for my Buttercup dollshouse. I will add some garden printies so it looks more realistic.

Cottage Birdhouse

I finish my little country birdhouse for my Buttercup dollshouse. It is a laser kit by Karen Benson Miniatures. I hope to find some swallows or other little birds. Maybe I find them on the dollshouse fair 1zu12 in Germany.
Or do you know an online shop?
Please contact me. Here is my mailing address:
minisonja@gmx.de
Thank you for your help!

Pictures on the wall

Today I put all my pictures into the little Buttercup dollshouse. I found also a cheap metal milk churn in one of my plastc boxes and an old oval frame so I made 2 new kitchen minis.

Pictures for my Buttercup part 2

Some pictures & frames for my Buttercup dollshouse.
Sorry the photo is no really good.
I will produce more of them because I like little birdhouses & co.

A bedsidetable for my Buttercup

Today I finished my little bedside table for my Buttercup.
I bought the table for 0,50 € on a dollshouse fair and used some blue and brown paint.

The link for the lamp shades pattern:

http://www.printmini.com/printables/lamps/shadesptn.shtml

Some days ago I ordered some "false teeth"......but they are to big (made by Euromini)....so I have to put something on it. I found a little cross so I made a little bible.
The glasses was also in one of my boxes (I buy very often minis but I have no idea for which project! So I put them into boxes and bags...maybe one day I have a better system how I can find them.....I only found the sun glasses....I hope to find the reading glasses in the next days....
the rest are printies which I found on the internet.
Shaving brush, tray and cup made by Chrysnbon I added only some blue paint on the plastic minis.

Pictures & containers for my Buttercup part 1

I need some containers and pictures for my Buttercup dollshouse. So I searched for some printies on the internet. I found my printies on this page:
www.posters.com

I used following keywords:
country kitchen
Robin Betterley
roosters
cow

Tomorrow you can see my results.

Pelmet Workshop

Today I made a little pelmet for my buttercup. Here is the workshop. If you have a question just send me an e-mail to:

minisonja@gmx.de

In the internet I found this pattern for the palmet:

http://www.sonnhaus.at/seite/A/439//?fromnav=1

I used pattern H for my pelmet. I copied the pattern into ms-word and changed the size.



I glued the pattern on an old postcard. For my pelmet I used 2 wooden beads (each about 8 mm wide but you can also use a rest of balsa wood).
Cut the pattern plus 16 mm extra (2 x 8 mm).




Glue the fabric on both side of the pattern! It looks not nice if there is nothing on the backside of your pelmet (a lot of people forget that).
Than form the side of the pelmet and glue the beads on the fabric.



This is the frontside of your pelmet.



Now you can glue a ribbon on your pelmet and add some lace as a little curtain for your pelmet.



This is a photo of my Buttercup's living room. I had some problems to take a good photo of my new pelmet because it is a dormer window.

Timber work part 2

So here is an update of my Buttercup's bedroom.

Timber work

Today I made some woodwork for my Buttercup dollshouse. I used some balsa wood.
The bedroom looks now very rustic
Tomorrow you will see the result.

Country kitchen rack part 2

Today I will put my country rack into my Buttercup dollshouse. Normal (metall) canisters are to heavy for my paper rack so I decided to make some canisters from paper.




I made these canisters from paper.

Here you can find the pattern:

http://lasminisdepilar.blogspot.com/search/label/Tutoriales%3A%20Plantillas

I used little bird houses for my canisters. Here you can find them:

http://www.jennifersprintables.com/borders014.htm

Country Rooster Kitchen Rack

So here is my next little workshop. Today I made a little kitchen rack for my Buttercup dollshouse.
On the first photo you can see the material which you need for the rack.
I like to work with normal "things" which you can find in your household.
The Buttercup dollshouse is really small so I used a lid from a surprise egg of course you can use any oval form for your rack.



I cut 3 stripes from the postcard (each 3 mm wide) and glued them around the oval form (see photo).
Than I punched 4 little roosters also from the postcard (the number of roosters depends about the size of your oval form. You have to try it.)
Glue them on the paper stripe.



Take a little bit of wire and put them into one button (and made from both "ends" one - see photo.
I am not sure how I can describe this in English. Sorry).
My one is about 2,5 cm long.



Than put the wire into the second button and repeat it.
Glue one of the button on the top of your rack.
Make 4 little hooks from the wire and glue them.




I painted my rack with black emaile paint so it looks like a metall rack.
Tip: I glued my one in a little box so you have both hands "free".

New Minis for the Buttercup bedroom

So I have some new minis for my Buttercup bedroom. O.k. I have done nearly nothing.
The mirror is an old one by delprado (I added only some green colour)
the little laundry bag was a swap gift (I changed only the colour of the thread and put some paper in it)
I put some paint in the chamber pot (black tea is also o.k. but i am a coffee drinker)
the little picture is from Sonya's letter (last week). I made only a frame..I used some matches
the shirts were also a swap gift by Bärbel
So today I will search for some white fabric (I found only blue and pink but my dolls are to old for such towels..) I will add them next the bowl from Birmingham...

I wish everyone a nice sunny sunday

A carpet for my Buttercup dollshouse

Today I made a new carpet for my bedroom in the Buttercup dollshouse. The new blue/white carpet harmonizes better with the blue bed.
I put the old one into the living room.
Tomorrow I will post a little carpet workshop.

new wallpaper

Today I glued a little piece of white wallpaper in grandma's bedroom.
Here is a photo of grandma after a satisfied shopping tour in several D.I.Y. shops.

Bedroom Buttercup

So here are some photos of my Buttercup bedroom. I will put some new white wallpaper about the bed (as you can see I have done a mistake with the wallpaper and now the "old" wallppaer is empty..that's typical for me). I will take some photos of my dolls and put them on the new wallpaper. I added also the laundry basket in the Buttercup (my first idea was to put the basket in the Dutch canal house)and also the shoe rack (yes the rack was 0,5 cm to big for the floor). So now it is a rack for shirts and co.
Last year I bought the decorated table on a dollshouse fair in Arnhem. Here is a little list of minis which I will make for the bedroom:
a table lamp
books
new underwear for grandpa
slippers
alarm-clock
photos & pictures
curtain & curtain pole
more shirts for the rack
pillows
and these minis are on my shopping list:
false teeth
chamber pot
glasses

Shoe rack

For this little shoe rack you need some toothpicks and a wooden strip.
I made this instruction for the German dollshouse magazin 1zu12 some years ago.
Resin boots by Dollshouse Emporium (I used some old coffee for the dirt....)..and the leather boots are made by my friend Bärbel Epping.
I saw this original rack in an IKEA catalogue.

Here is a printie link for shoe polish and a shoe box:

https://dhnnu.powweb.com/images/archief/201103Uitknippagina.pdf

and here you can find more nice printies:

https://dhnnu.powweb.com//dhn.html

Every month you find here some new printies (all of them are free of charge) because it is the homepage of a Dutch dollshouse magazine. The name of the magazine is Dolls House Nederland.