New Dollhouse Contest

I'm so excited, The Undersized Urbanite Dollhouse Contest has started. I have given myself a crazy challenge. Build 2 dollhouse before May 2014. I haven't even started yet, just in the planning stage

now, this is what I have planned so far. I want to dollhouses to look like dollhouses, but I also

need to make it easy for filming a new doll series we're creating. Wish me luck :)

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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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The Classroom at Skull Academy

Hey everyone, below is the tour of the classroom inside Skull Academy.

As you can see, this room was going to be the kitchen, but then we decided to turn the dollhouse into a school house. Its taken awhile to complete this room but it is now finally finished.

The finished Classroom

I added the teachers desk and chair, and a new set of shelves under the white board.

Plus I added the school name to the classroom.

 I love how the classroom looks now.

 Thank you for stopping by, the next room will be the school lounge.

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School House Dorm Room 2

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

Here is another dorm room we made a few changes too... 

When I started this house a year ago, my goal was to get it done quickly, Lola was anxious to start playing with it...so I wanted to make it livable for the dolls, it has gone through some changes this past year, and I think I can finally say it's done. 

 BEFORE - FEBRUARY 2012

It was not easy getting this room decorated because of the spiral staircase, I don't regret the staircase because I love how it turned out. If I were to start making this now, knowing what I know now, I probably would have added the staircase outside the box...but make it look like it was in the box, did that make sense? The great thing about using cardboard is I can add little sections to it, do cut outs etc... 

I will be start working on a new dollhouse for a couple of the characters that may have a spin-off show on our YouTube channel, and it will be a lot brighter, more wooden furniture (aka popsicle sticks) etc... I can't wait to start working on that one. It will most like be my last Monster High Doll project. 

I try to make each room look different, instead of adding wallpaper (aka gift wrap) to the full wall, I did half the wall and cut up strips of black paper for the stripes. 

The curtains were very simple, I cut up a piece of cardboard, as long as the window and about 1/2" wide, then wrapped black velvet material around it, and glued the curtains to the back of it. 

AFTER - FEBRUARY 2013

I didn't like leaving the side walls blank, so to improve the room I painted strips of paper pink, like the back wall and glued the pieces to the walls. 

The black velvet frames is a piece of cardboard covered with velvet then I glued my old earrings to them.

I love how they turned out. I can't wait for garage sale season so I can find old earrings to do more of these little pieces of artwork.  I also made the mirror on the side wall, I used a small mirror some silver long beads then painted some small sticks pink.

I bought this old pink furry hat at the thrift store, so I cut a couple of pieces to use as rugs. The silver frame was also from the thrift store, I painted the frame silver. We are encouraging our viewers to email us their works of art so we can replace the paintings in the frames. The round box was also found at the thrift store, I added some bling bling to it, its used for their clothing and as extra seating.

On our next post we will show you the first of two boys dorm room.

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Jewellery boxes turned into doll dressers...

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before...I bought this from Value Village for only 99 cents...you can also find these at dollar stores.

I painted it first with silver craft paint...I love silver and black so I use those colours a lot.

I painted the top and sides black, I used a ruler to mark my lines, then just painted it.

Then I painted the front of the dresser with a giraffe print.

The boys dresser.

before...also purchased this at Value Village for only 99 cents.

I painted it silver as well then for the sides I used scrap paper. I liked the dresser I painted above so I did the same with this one, I love how it looks in the boys dorm room.

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Monster High School (before & after) Renos

How to Make a Doll Lamp & Night Table

Hi everyone, I want to welcome my new subscribers and friends, thank you so much for joining my blog.

I made a few changes at Skull Academy, did you spot them?

One is the night tables and lamps. Here is a quick tutorial on how to make it.

grap some beads you like...

I took apart an umbrella and got these pieces that are perfect for the lamp, and it fits through the beads...

before

before

before

I used building blocks and clothespin hangers as legs painted them black and silver. The legs are not that sturdy so I may have to cut the tip off and glue again. I have also added handles. Great thing about these clothespins is you could face them different ways to get different looks.

after

after...I added a handle to all tables

after

 I will update pics in a few days, I have added handles. Plus take pics of the renovated rooms.
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