Lilly's Room in a Fun-kin Part 3 Lilly's Bed

Hello All!  You know.. sometimes you just gotta dig through your stash of craft supplies.  Lilly's little bed is very simple.  It's a mixture of leftover balsa wood, tiny wooden spools, buttons, little metal embellishments, and  rhinestones. 

In this picture the buttons and spools are not glued together yet.  The process was mainly choosing and stacking to get the right height for her.

Here you can really see the buttons and spools.

Once the glue was completely dry, I painted her bed white and gave it a little aging for depth.

Here you can see the blue rhinestones at the top of the bed posts.

I cant seem to find any pictures of making her bedding.  I used a small piece of half inch foam and folded fabric over and underneath the foam and glued it.  Then I added a piece of fabric for a sheet, a piece of furry pink fabric for her bedspread and a made a tiny pillow.  

And that's it!  Such a simply little bed for her sweet room.

Thanks for visiting!  I'll have one more post next week on accessories I made for Lilly's room.

If you like this series please let me know!  I have another room made in a faux pumpkin that is a lot different from this one!

XOXO

Miniature Vintage "Iron" Bed

 Most miniatures take a lot of patience.  This particular miniature, while it seems easy now that it's finished, took a lot of patience.  The beginning of it has been in the works in my head for months.  I wanted a vintage metal bed for my cottage.  The bedroom is an attic room and a normal sized bed is just too big and takes up the whole room.  I needed to make it.  I've tried on a few occasions to use glue, or fancy metal glue, and even once tried to get my husband to help fuse pieces together.  I felt like I was thinking too much about it.  So I let the project sit.  Until yesterday when a picture popped up on my Instagram feed and gave me the courage and the patience I needed to begin,,, again.  

For the metal head board and foot boards I used some wires left over from Chinese food take out boxes that my sister saved for me.   I used two wires for each end.  One of them the complete wire and the other I cut up into a second bar on the frame and three pieces as rungs.  

I am an avid Elmer's Wood Glue user so I got out my old faithful glue.  I don't know if it helped, but an IG mini-maker said once to sprinkle with baking soda also so I did that too.  Please see below.  Also, I didn't take a ton of pictures along the way because I truly didn't think it would work.  As Julia Child would say "I didn't have the courage of my convictions."

This picture also shows a piece of balsa wood that I wound up not using.  I instead used good old cardboard.  

Here is my piece.  Taped down, glued and powdered with baking soda.  I gave them plenty of time to dry (maybe an hour lol).  One of them wound up totally falling apart.  I knew I needed to use reinforcements... literally.

As you can see in the pic above, the wire has little feet.  I used a couple of layers of cardboard and stuck and glued the feet into the layers but not all the way through. 

I then used cross stitch floss where the metal was glued together.  I placed a dollop of glue then the end of a piece of floss and let it dry.  I then put more glue and carefully wound the string around and crisscross finally gluing the end of the string.  I let these dry and then began to paint.  So far they have held together well.

It's not perfect but that's the whole point.  I want this to look like a very old bed.  

I used brown and orange paint to make the frame look rusted and aged.  

  

I have one layer of lace trim for the dust ruffle here.

And here I have added another ruffle layer for depth and color.  And I also made a mattress this morning that I LOVE!

It's not totally complete yet.  But isn't it lovely???  The pink velvet throw needs work.  It might not stay unless I can tame it.  

If you like this bed semi-tutorial, please share to Pinterest below. 

Thanks so stopping by!!  XOXO