DIY: LPS Blythe Doll furniture and accessories

I am like a little kid in a sweet shop!

I am so excited as I designed and had the wood cut to make my daughter her first full-scale dolls house. I have wanted to for so long, I don't know why it has taken me so long to get there! (sorry baby, at least you will have it soon!).

As a little girl I always wanted a dolls house. It was my number one obsession. I remember lying under the lounge table with all my paraphernalia of assorted homemade (very badly diy stuff) furniture, dolls and being lost in my own little world for hours.

I never got to have my own dolls house, but instead grew up to own a life-size one complete with real working appliances! ha ha!

So this little project is a double joy. Something I can relive a bit of my childhood with and something I know she really wants. (what little girl doesn't?) We are going to build it this weekend with the help of hubby and it will hopefully be an on-going project to paint, decorate, and make things for it for a while to come still.

In the meantime, I made all her bedroom stuff today. It was super fun, in fact, so much fun that I left the housework, ignored the piles of laundry and unmade beds...

Here is her little doll in her make-shift "room" for now, I wanted to set it up for her as a surprise.

I made the bed (mostly thick cardboard). I made a headboard for it too.
Then I made the cushions and pillows, a mattress, quilt, sheet and crocheted blanket.

I love the little blanket.

 

Her little pillows, quilt and sheet are a mix of vintage and new fabrics

Here is the bed. top left: the base. I covered the cardboard with pretty card stock paper, and the base with a sweet little crocheted trim that came off my favorite pair of jeans of hers that she outgrew many years ago and I have hung onto like the sentimental silly I am.
top right: the mattress (just some batting covered with calico fabric)

bottom left: sheet made from vintage material
bottom right: the little quilt I made.

The dressing table wasn't as great as I wanted, later on I will redo it. I used foil for the mirror!
washi tape to hide the cardboard and a little ruffled skirt.

I made a tiny little book and little bedside cloth....

I couldn't think of what to use for a lamp and suddenly it came to me! Of course, a sweet little wooden spool! It was a hurried one as she was due to be fetched from school and time was ticking away....
But I think I will add some trim to it and try and make another or a few...

The rug...hexagons and I crocheted a trim for it.

and so the sweet little dolly can sleep peacefully in her nice new, warm bed tonight....

For some amazing talent, beautiful hand made dolls furniture (from wood, not cardboard!) have a look at lovejoy Bears blog. I only found her blog today, I fell in love with her sweet creations and amazing talent! 

And lati dolls??? I didn't know until today they exist. They are the most beautiful dolls I have ever seen! But so expensive!! I want them all. My daughter and I were drooling....

Does anyone have one? 

Have a great weekend everybody!