How to Make a Doll Restaurant - the Walls

My niece's Monster High dolls needed somewhere to hang out and go out on dates. So I made her a restaurant and we're calling it Lola's Bistro. Their grand opening will be next week.

Materials Needed

• 22" x 14" x !4" cardboard box
• scraps of cardboard
• white glue
• paper mache
• styrofoam 
• paint
• wallpaper

Fold in the flaps of  your box, add more layers of cardboard to all sides, this will make it strong and when you add the paper mache, the cardboard won't warp, warping starts when the cardboard is really wet, so keep a fan on the box and don't make your paper mache mixture too watery.

I added a patio to the restaurant.

I added a back bench for seating in the restaurant.

Styrofoam and a long piece of cardboard for the back of the bench.

 

Now paper mache all of it.

Urgh, the patio warped...and it warped really bad...not useable, despite my best efforts it still warped, I think it was because it was a long piece of cardboard, I should have broken it up into smaller sections.


Solution:
I removed the patio by cutting if off with a knife, removed the flooring section and kept the side walls, I still have my patio and actually works out better because this will make it easier to store it. I will post pictures of the patio by the weekend.

 I like to paint everything white, more like a blank slate, then I try to get inspired on how to decorate by the things I find. Not sure what to do yet in this picture.

Then I found this awesome wallpaper. I wanted something simple. We want to hang viewers artwork in the restaurant, so we didn't want it to look too busy. We want the art to stand out.

Check out my post on the floors. I didn't paint it this time, I .... I'll tell you later :)
Got to go now, back to my real job.

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How to Bling UP your Old Barbie Car

The Vamp sisters Draculaura and Draculily got a big surprise this past week on our web show 'Skull Academy', a blinged up car from their father Dracula.

MATERIALS NEEDED:

• Barbie Car
• Gem stickers

I found this old Barbie car at Value Village for only $2. Perfect for the Monster High dolls.
But it wasn't fancy enough for the Vamp sisters Draculaura & Draculily, so I blinged it up.
I bought these awesome strips of gem stickers from Dollarama, $2 a pack. These are so easy to use but hard to find at all stores, they go really fast.

First I cut out a paper heart shape, taped it to the hood of the car and then surrounded it with the gems.
Once I had my heart shape I removed the paper heart and filled in the heart with more gems.

 Then I added more bling all around the car, I tried to balance it out so it looks evenly distributed with gems. I used bigger gems for headlights.

There is a crack in the window so I covered it with another heart of gems.

  

I wanted to remove anything that say's Barbie on the car, so I gave the sisters a personalized license plate.

Dracula, their father use to call them his 'little vamp's'.

 

 Please send us pics of your blinged up old cars and we would love to share them with our viewers.

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Monster High Dorm Room part 2 paper mache and painting

Now we'll do the paper mache, check out my other posts for directions on how to make paper mache mix...

now the really fun part
decorating

 next post the floors.........