Garage Sale Finds...Miniatures

Hey everyone, I hope you're all doing well.

I love spring and summer, not just for the weather but for all the garage sales. Every Saturday I go out for a couple of hours and hope to find little treasures. I found these really cute miniatures at a garage sale a few weeks ago. I'm finally getting around to posting the pics.

I found these all at one garage sale. I love them, especially the barbeque, perfect for the Polly family to enjoy outside grilling their food during the summer.

These miniatures are actually magnets.

The Polly's don't care if they are magnets, as long as they can grill their food.

Below is a blender and cappaccino machine, 

perfect for the new dollhouses I'm building.

I also love the gum ball machine, I think it would make a great addition to the lounge at Skull Academy.

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Lolas Mini Homes

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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More Jewellery Box Transformations.

Here is a couple more dollar store jewellery boxes transformations.

I keep forgetting to take pictures. The jewellery box below was natural and yes I covered up the carving on the top of the lid...I didn't want to but you can't even tell there is a carving there so why not. I covered a piece of sponge that I sized and glued it on top. Then I glued a chain around the box.

So these two jewellery boxes become seating and storage for the dorm rooms.

before

after

For this jewellery box, I added some wooden legs, added a seat, chain and some gems.

before

after

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Boys Dorm Room Furniture

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What do you think of the new dorm room? I have posted about the coffin bed and popsicle stick bunk bed, here is the before and after pics for the other furniture in the room.

the night table...

I got this little jewellery box from the dollar store, it's great as a night table for the dorm room.

I glued on some wooden feet...you can use beads as well, then stained it.

I love how it looks in the room and its perfect for storing little items.

the ottoman...

This is an old watch case, I had this and was very close to throwing it away, I was actually going to strip the material from it to use on something else like a chair seat, then I thought this would be perfect as an ottoman for the boys room. All I did was add some feet to it and voila, an ottoman...I might bling it up or add a chain later, but for now it looks good.

the dresser...

I got this jewellery box from Value Village.

Great to use as a dresser for the dolls.

 I painted the front silver and glued some zebra print paper on top and the sides.

I forgot to take pictures before I glued on the little alien...:)

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Night Tables Redone

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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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Awesome Fabric Find from Kijiji

I love Kijiji, but sometimes I forget its there, I'm looking around for cheap fabric, hard to find, plus I like to have good inventory of fabric because my decorating and fashion inspiration starts with the fabric.

 

 

Then I remembered, hey maybe someone on Kijiji is selling fabric, duh....and yes there was.
I met this very nice lady who had binders full of beautiful fabric, so I went through all of it and told myself to only pick 20. I don't really know what to use it for yet, but it will definitely be used. Maybe for some new fashions for the Monster High dolls and barbies, maybe some nice curtains or upholstery for the dollhouses. I can't wait to use them.


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How to Make a Doll Dressing Screen

Skull Academy's New Dorm Room...under construction 1

Hey ghouls, we started up our videos again, check out our channel for the new episodes 29 and 30.

I hope you all had a wonderful summer vacation and a great day back at school.

Skull Academy's classes start up soon and the academy is going through a few changes, see if you can spot the changes in our videos 29 and 30...

I am almost finshed the new dorm.
I will be posting a video tutorial on our channel when room is finished.
Below are some sneak peaks...

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monster high dorm room part 6 the vanity

This post will be the tutorial for the vanity...you can also check out the video version on our YouTube channel... http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xXuhDyySntE

Materials Needed...Cardboard, paper mache, paint, beads, mirror...

If you don't have a mirror like this one, this was an awesome garage sale find...both for $1.

Find a plain mirror and bling it up with beads and gems.

Don't forget the perfume bottles, just glue a big bead with a smaller bead.

And now the seat cushion, just glue a piece of fabric to some cardboard and glue it to seat.

My niece just bought another doll and she has no place to sleep...you know what that means, another dorm room. I am in the middle of paper mache the box and hopefully will start painting and wallpapering this weekend. Will post when I get some progress done.

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