days of our day care

So.. maybe I'm taking this Barbie house thing a little too far but it seems like all I want to do is make stuff for the Barbie house.  I even found a FANTASTIC channel on youtube that makes their own dollhouse stuff out of regular things.  It is amazing.  I had already started making my kitchen sink and refrigerator before I found her or it could have been a lot simpler.  Not that what I made was hard for me to do.  Hers just seems easier.  I've made a couple of things so far from watching her videos.

You can find her channel on youtube HERE.

And here's what I've been working on for our new Barbie house.

A refrigerator from a business card mailing box with chalkboard contact paper on the front and three shelves glued inside.

A kitchen cabinet with a sink.

Trying to make a couple of cakes from a tutorial on the youtube channel.
They are taking forever to dry so I'm not sure I did them exactly right.
If they turn out, one of them will be painted like chocolate cake and the other pink strawberry.

I made the purple pillow from another tutorial.

I made the bead chandelier from my own mind.

I think the copper sink and painted marble countertop add some fancy!

potting sink redo

My ever fantastic potting sink just got a little sassier!  The sink came out of the same house that my claw foot tub came from... a house bought by my sister and her husband as rental property.  I originally wanted to put the sink in our spare bathroom but that idea got shot down so my loving Father built me a heavy duty stand to hold the heavy duty old sink.  Before now, it's never been painted or stained and I got a squirrely hair to paint it a sassy color and plant some trailing petunias in the sink.  My sister Mary Evelyn and I browsed through her spare paint and grabbed a color, came to my house and slapped it on.  I must admit it is pretty bright but for sure in a shabby chic kind of way!

We had to create a barrier with junk to keep Kate from being blue too!  She was in the mood to play.  She's staring at her frisbee willing it to move here.

I promise I helped.

The finished product!  I added one more petunia plant to thicken the pink color and also an asparagus fern potted in an old colander.