The curtains are in, I will show you how easy it is to make curtains, and a picture for the wall. My Dollhouse

These are popsicle sticks that I used for the flat part for the curtains.  The stick when it's finished with the curtains gets hot glued over the windows on the window frames.  Cut the stick to the width of the top of the window add a little more so it overhangs the top.

This is the ribbon I will be using for the window topper. 

I hot glued the material to the stick.

This is what the stick looks like from the front.

I then added some trim to the bottom edge to give it a more decorative look.

I then picked out a curtain and cut out pieces that I wanted to attach to the back of the stick for the curtain.  New curtains for the dollhouse, you can use any fabric you want.  You may want to use clothing that belongs to one of your children that they no longer use.  It would make it more personal.

Here is what one of the bedrooms turned out to look like.  I added some curtains and pictures on the walls.

This is what the hallway/ babies room looks like.

This is the parlour area.

Here is the bathroom area.

This is the kitchen area.

I decided that I wanted a victorian looking picture in one of my rooms, so I took a cameo pin and broke off the pin on the back.  I also used a small victorian looking frame which I added some red velvet material to.  You will see in a moment what it turned out like.

This makes a beautiful picture for a wall in the dollhouse, you will see what it looks like on one of the walls.

Here we are, you can use any picture or item to make a beautful picture for on a wall.  You can even shrink down a picture that you have  and add it in the frame for a more personal look for your child.  I will be adding more pictures, I'm using pictures of both of my daughters wedding pictures and both me and my husband.  Use any picture make it UNIQUE.  Everyone will LOVE IT!!!

This is the front of my dollhouse, I added a piece from a nightlight over the top of the door to make it look like a light.  I also added a vase with flowers. I also added other items as well.  

This is also the front of the dollhouse, see how the curtains make the windows look.  At night I put solar lights on the inside to light up the rooms through the windows.

I added some vines and roses on the sides.  The trelis part was an old plastic barbie doll bed which I took apart, don't worry it was broken already. I just added a seat on top and also had my future son in law write a saying on each bench.

I added a little wreath on the top of the chimney.  This way I will be ready for the holidays.  I can't wait for the holidays I get to decorate the house again!

More pictures of the old farm house looking dollhouse I'm redoing

This is from the back of the dollhouse what it looks like at this point, I still need to add curtains.

This is the bedroom area.

This is the parlour area.

This is the babies room/ hallway area.

This is the bathroom area.

This is the kitchen area, I still haven't done the floor all the way yet, at the end of these photos you will see the finished floor.

This is the hallway coming in the front door.

This is the area that goes into the kitchen on the side.

This is the front of this home.

Another photo of the front of this home.

This is another view of the side door which goes into the kitchen area.

This is another view.

This is a closeup of the bedroom area.

This is also a view of the bedroom area.

Looks like the babies up, this is another view of the bedroom.  Who put the dog on the bed?

Another view of the babies room.  Notice Donald Duck on the wall over the dressing table.  This Donald Duck is a magnet.  It looks just like a framed photo on the wall.

This is a closeup inside the bathroom area.  You can make a bar of soap with a piece of wood paint it white and add a picture of the soap bar ( shrink the soap bars wrapper down to size on the printer and add it to the top of the wood)

This is another closeup of the bathroom.  The rug on the floor is a coaster.

This is a closeup of the kitchen area.

This is another closeup in the kitchen area.

This is another view of the kitchen area.

If you notice on the top of the wall is a shelf with wine bottles in it, this is a magnet.  Magnets work very good in a dollhouse they have all different kinds.

Here is another view of the hallway.

This is a closeup of the parlour area.

This is another view of the parlour.

Another view of the parlour area.

Another view of the parlour area.

This the front door of this home.

This is another view in the front of this home.

This is a view of the front leading to the side area.

This is a view of the kitchen floor, I used contact paper which I found at the dollar store, they have great contact paper that's good for dollhouses.  I will be posting just one more post on this dollhouse, when I put in the curtains and add two fake climbing rose bushes on trelises I made from a barbie doll bed and small clay pots.  I just added some benches on them.  You will see them in my last post on this house.

An old looking farm house dollhouse that I am restoring.

This is the dollhouse that I am restoring.  I purchased this dollhouse from a very nice woman, it was a gift to her when she was 10 years old.  I am now restoring this dollhouse for myself.  Follow me on my blog to see the transformation.  This is what it looked like when I bought it.

This is what the inside looked like.  It was missing wallpaper and flooring inside.  The only room that had wallpaper was the bathroom.  However, I went to a new store that just opened up in our area called Hobby Lobby and I found scrap booking paper that made beautiful wallpaper and cheaper too!  What I used as the wallpaper glue (Tacky glue mixed with some water which worked out great, if you use a paint brush you can put it right on the paper and hang it like real wallpaper)  Keep reading you will see what the paper looks like in the rooms.

This is what one of the sides of the dollhouse looked like.

This is the other side of the dollhouse.

After adding the wallpaper to the walls this is what it looked like.  I also put down some rugs in the doll house.  If you look at the kitchen floor I painted it white I'm going to be painting something on it, you will see it in a future blog as I do this house.

This is a closeup of one of the rooms.

This is another room.

In this picture you can see the hallway area on the second floor.

This is a close up of the hallway from the front door.  I love the way this paper looks.

This is the bathroom area, it already had wallpaper which I loved so it stayed!  It also had a fake tile floor which I loved so it also stayed!

This is the kitchen area, as you can see I painted the floor white for future painting details.  If you keep track of my blog you will get to see the floor.  I'll be posting pictures as I go along with this dollhouse.

A temple from India with solar lights to light up the windows and prayer garden at night

Well I had a woman stop at my home and ask me if I could make her a temple she was from India, I never made one before so here it is I thought I would share it with you.  This is the front of the temple she wanted it open in the front and a dome on top.  As you can see in the photo there are solar lights on the inside which you take out during the day to recharge them in the sunlight.

This is one of the sides of the temple the frames around the windows are picture frames and on both sides of the window I installed handles off kitchen cabinets which I painted black and gold.  I also installed some small blue tiles on the top of the wall with trim over top and under the tiles.  The dome in the middle is made of a bowl upside down with a piece off a lamp on top.  I spray painted the whole dome gold.  The corner pieces are small clay pots turned upside down with the dish part also upside down.  I installed some glass lights on top of them.

this is the other side of this temple.  As you can see I did the very same things.

This is the prayer garden.  The fence is made of solar light stakes with little light bulbs installed on top.  I made a bench out of wood and added some trim work.  I also have two green marble candle holder with little glasses on top with a solar light top installed.  The middle pieces are all pieces from lamps I had taken apart I also added some fake roses.

Here is a closeup of the prayer garden.

This is a closeup of the back wall on the inside.  I made little benches for under the windows and also I installed some round decorative mirrors on both sides of the window.  I installed a rug on the inside but I didn't decorate the inside the woman wants her son to decorate the inside on his own.  I never made a temple before but it goes to show you what you can do if you just try.