Yesterday I finished the bedroom, that I was making for my Paola Reina dolls. I was verry happy that I was finallyn done and content with the result. I have been working on it for a long time, and the progress have been slow.
The room was made on a cheap shelf without sides, so I found some cheap leftover wood in a store and my boyfrtiend made it into walls. We allso used a cheap blanket for a carpet. The only furniture at this point was a small dresser from a crafts store, that I had painted green and purple. And two pillows that I had made for my dolls to sit on.
Then my wonderful boyfriend made me a great clothing rack for myd dolls, because I really needed a place to put their clothes. Now I could hang their dresses on the clothing rack, and I was storing underwear, stockings and headbands in the dresser.
I had asked my boyfriend to make a bed for my dolls, but we didnt really have that many options. Until we were out looking at toys, and my boyfriend found a verry cheap dolls bed. The bed were a pink princess bed for 50 cm dolls, but my boyfriend said that he could make it shorter. And so he did, he made it shorter both in lenght and it height, so now it fits my small dolls much better.
After my boyfriend had modified the bed, I had to paint it so it could looks nice again. It would have been obvious to paint it white, except that the walls and carpet are white so white furniture would just blend in. I decided that I would choose a theme, I wanted something girly and cute but I did not want it to be pink princess themed. I decided on a fairy theme, so I painted the bed lavendar, and I decided to paint the clothing rack to match.
But now the dresser didn't match, and I started to think I might look better in a play room.
Oh and I had found this small fake plant, to put on top of the dresser.
I quess I could just have repainted the dresser, but I allso wanted a something that looked diffrent. I had a hard time finding what I wanted in stores, but then I found the perfect little dresser in an online craft store. I knew I coulden't just paint this dresser the same color as the other furniture, that would be too much purple. I was torn between light blue and light green. I ended up decided on the latter, and im pretty happy with how that turned out. I think this dresser are super cute with those white pearl knobs, and everything fit nicely into it.
The finishing touch was decoratimng the walls with fairy stickers from my schleich bayala advent calendar. I have been thinking about making them new bedding, but I dont feel like sewing. Right now they are just useing what originally came with the bed, and I think that is fine.
So the room is finished!! and im pretty happy about it. My dolls seems to like it too, they look great in this room and I think it really look like a little girls bedroom.
I have not had verry much mental energi. for my dolls lately. They havent gotten that much attention, but offcors I had to get them a few new things annyways.
These first things is actually something I got them this august.
I have not wanted any of these accesory packs before, because I thought they coudlent be of much use to my Liv dolls. But after I had gotten my Barbie dolls, I atarted thinking that thse packs are prettyy nice, since they come with two pairs of shoes and some jewelry. I choose this one because i like the gold sandals and because I like the purple color.
I still really lilke those golden sandals, I allready iused them on my doll Kira. But im not sure taht I will get much use out of teh other utems, since I dont like the purple shoes and the necklace. I like the purple bracelet, but right now it dosent match any of my dolls outfits. I allso dont see m yself useing that bag, its a really nice bag but I dont really use bags with my dolls.
I went to a store I dont uselly go to with my botfriend, I was hoping to find some tressures that I acnt find in toys r us. And so I did, I found the two pretty dresses for a verry nice price. I havent liked any of the single fashion that I had seen so far, so I was happily surprised to find some that I liked.
I really like the rose print on this dress, it goes all the way around, and I even like how the light blue color looks with black. Kira looks great in this dress, and im verry happy that she got some more clothes . Im not too happy about the silver waistband though, I think it would look less jarring if it was black.
I gave the other dress to Shina, since I though that the purple would look great on her. I like the checkered pattern, but Im not sure it really fits her and I think it might be too much. Maybe the skirt should have been a solid color instead so only the bodice was patterned.
Last week I was in toys r us, and saw that they has new Barbie fashion packs. I was super happy since it has been quite a while, since they have had any of those. I choose this pack because I really like that yellow blouse with the pretty red vest, and that cream colored dress looked verry elegant. I liked that tghe new packs are in thick plastic bags, instead of thick plastic shells. But there used to be a pcture on the back, of dolls wearing the clothes, i miss that.
I put the cream dress on Leia, and im verry happy that it suits her, since I have had trouble figuring out what clothes was right for her. Nia got the otehr outfit, and its perfect for her, I really like it. But I was a little dissapointed, that the pattern on the vest dosent contiue onto the back.
Oh and I got Leia a pretty schleich cat. i couldn't find it in any store, but i was lucky that I could find it online, since it had to be THAT cat.
Michelle got the pink boots that came with the fashion pack, they match her fall outfit. It is a shame that leia cant fit into them, since she liked them and they looked great with the dress.
That is all the things my dolls have gotten lately, hopefully there will be more soon. Im hoping to finish a project with my Paola Reina dolls in the near future.
