Dollhouse Materials

Hey everyone, I am excited about starting my new projects in the new year. Two dollhouses, one for a Monster High doll Family and the other for a Barbie family. They are going to be the backdrop of a new show we're creating, a spin-off of Skull Academy. The Monster High doll house will be dark and scary, the barbie house will be pretty and bright. Not sure if I will work on both at the same time, or do one at a time. I guess I'll see how I feel when I start. I am entering both houses in the Undersized Urbanite dollhouse contest due in May 2014. Five months should be plenty of time to finish. If you want to check out their website or join yourself check out the link on the right hand side of this page.

If you want to follow along and make your own dollhouse, follow us here for progress pictures. I will list tell you what you need so you can start collecting materials before January. Christmas is a great time to find items, from your present package...so before you throw it away, look at it and decide if you can use it to build your dollhouse.

For the base boxes I like to buy new ones, you can buy boxes at a moving or packaging company.

Check our yellow page listings for ones near you... the bigger box 24 x 15 x 15 cost be just over $2

and the smaller one 15 x 15 x 15 cost me just over $1.

Collect lots of scrap pieces of cardboard for layering. Layering the cardboard

is one of the most important steps to make it strong and durable. You can 

also find cardboard boxes at your grocery store or ask stores if you can 

go through their recyclables. The packaging company I go to lets me

go through all their recyclable cardboard and take what I need for free!

Styrofoam...you can find styrofoam in a lot of gift packages.

Gift-wrap paper rolls, perfect for adding support to the dollhouse, plus

one of the houses, I will be creating another spiral staircase...the roll

is perfect for the stairs. 

You will also need lots of glue...

paint, scrap paper or gift wrap paper for decorating etc...

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reply as soon as I can.

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School House Tour - The Lounge

Hey everyone, I hope you're all having fun on your March break. Here is another tour of one of the rooms inside Skull Academy. This is one of my favourite rooms.

The Lounge (before)

Here are pictures of the cardboard state of the school house, I wish I took more pictures but these are the only ones I got until I started decorating it. This was suppose to be a living room at first until we decided to make it a school house instead of a dollhouse.

When I made this school house, we always thought about making movies, but here and there, we never thought Skull Academy would come this far with almost 70 episodes done already, it has become more like a soap opera. We are so grateful to all our viewers who watch, rate, share and comment on our videos. 

So if I was making the house now, knowing about the Skull Academy show, I would have made a few changes to the school house. One change that I could change without causing a whole lot of mess is removing this paper towel pole, lets call it the pillar. It got in the way of a lot of the scenes we were filming for the show. So I removed it from the lounge and the classroom. It made a big gap in the floor, so I paper mached and painted it again to fix it, and you can't even notice something was there.

I crossed my fingers the whole house wouldn't fall a part...just kidding, I made sure I tested it before removing the pillars. And it looks so much better. If you're making this and are using two boxes on top of each other instead of strips of cardboard then don't worry about adding the pillar.

                                       (after)

So a few things changed in this room, I continued with the wallpaper and stripes on both side walls, new rug, plus new legs on the coffee table. I also added a little skeleton head on a piece of  wood and glued it to the wall. Can you see the outside background. That was the background I made for the show scenes, and it works great as a background to the schoolhouse, plus its the parking lot and park...who know's maybe a few of the characters will go camping too. 

The vase was a spray bottle lid, I wrapped scrap paper around it and a black piece of pipe cleaner around the rim. The coffee table is a piece of cardboard and I added craft sticks all around it, painted it silver and added clothes pins I took apart as legs for the table, a lot more sturdy.

 

The couch was made with sponges, cardboard and the material you see covering it. The cushion is a flower. I wanted to soften up the room. The lighting is a pine cone I painted white. I love how it looks.

Thank you for stopping by...the next rooms on our tour will be the new dorms. The rooms are fairly new but have already gone through a lot of changes.

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Night Tables Redone

Hello, I hope everyone is doing well. We are giving away our laptop tomorrow and will be contacting and posting the winners here and on our Skull Academy blog. We are working on another giveaway with more winners and more chances to win. Stay tuned :)

I made these night tables for the dorm rooms awhile ago and used clothes pins for the legs, I used the narrow point to glue it to the block but it was really flimsy so I had to come up with something else.

before

after

I found these great little plastic forks at a discount dollar store, I don't have many silver ones left. I went back to the store to buy more, but there was no stock...I hope they re-order, I haven't found anything better to use for legs and decorating. Crossing my fingers :)

after

I used the clothes pins again but this time I glued them on the side of the block instead of under it.
It should hold alot better, so far so good. I may have to use the clothes pins for the restaurant chairs, can't find anything better and easy. The clothespins are the perfect size and are already cut, I just need to take them apart and paint them.

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Lola's Fashion File no.1

 

 This outfit was made out of old leather gloves for the top and some fabric

we got from the dollar store plus tulle under the skirt. Very easy to make. 

We use velcro at the back to fasten the top and skirt.

 

 This outfit was made out of a pencil case I bought at Dollarama. Just cut holes for arms and 

added velcro to the back. A black ribbon for the belt.

 These two outfits were made from yarn and crocheted. I am no expert in crochet, only know of few knots and definitely not enough to give a tutorial on it. Draculaura's dress is from an old pair of jeans, with ribbon as a belt and beads to adorn it.

 Nefera's outfit - the vest is crochet with grey wool, the top is velvet and the skirt is from 

an old purse. Nothing is safe here I cut up purses, umbrellas, whatever I can find and destroy to make fashions for my nieces dolls or to use in the dollhouses as curtains, rugs, upholstery etc...

 

Draculily's outfit is one of our favourites, she'll probably be wearing this for awhile.

The skirt is material I found at a garage sale, I added tulle, ribbon and a bow to it, we love it.

The top is the bathing suit she came with, the vest is crochet yarn that I made, and the necklace is from my jewellery box, I will have to borrow it from her when I need it.

 

I got this beautiful boa from the dollar store, it was actually part of a dog toy. Can you believe it.

I go to the dollar store and walk the aisle and I try to think 'outside the box' and find items for the dolls and dollhouses. 

This is another favourite..Draculaura's white dress, crochet...I used an old fake diamond stud as a broach and a small piece of ribbon as the belt.

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monster high dorm room part 5 chandelier

The dorm room is almost finished, now for the chandeliers, they don't work but they look pretty.

Materials needed: styrofoam ball, chain, wire, beads and card stock.

Cut the styrofoam ball in half...

After your beads are on the wire, cut the cardstock or decorative paper, I used a notebook cover.
Wrap it around the styrofoam and glue it.

Now poke the wire with the beads through the styrofoam and then wrap the chain on the base of the chandelier. Voila finished...well not quite, I do want to add more bling to it, already planning a room makeover.

Thank you to my new friends for joining. Please join and subscribe so you don't miss the rest of the tutorials. Plus I will be making another dorm room, more students have arrived at Skull Academy and a new hangout for the ghouls. You will love it. Thank you :)