Watch the video here. As I was looking through some images online of Halloween decorations for real front porches I ran into several different designs of windsocks for the holiday. I remember how much fun the ghost one was that we made on the channel in the past so I decided to pick one and make it for this week’s tutorial. There were a lot of choices but the monster one was just so cute I had to go with him today. And besides it was a great excuse to play with some of the metallic paints I recently picked up. The main part of the windsock is just a strip of medium weight card-sto ..read more

  Watch the video here. I was checking out the Christmas craft aisle at my local Dollar Tree and found another box of holiday colored paints from Delta Ceramcoat on the shelf. I was actually looking for them this time after randomly finding the fall ones a couple of weeks ago. This time I got to the box before anyone else because the box was full! I found 6 colors of paint (3 metallic and 3 glitter) so I assume I missed a glitter color in the fall ones. I knew I had to grab one of each color and share them with all of you. The glitter paint colors are:     Starry Silver ..read more

  Watch the video here. This week I wanted to start making some Halloween decorations for the dollhouse so I spent some time looking at images of real size houses decorated fro the holiday. I kept seeing these huge spiders and I knew the dolls had to have one. I am in love with how he (she??) came out. I am sure after the dolls get past the nightmare view of the spider right outside their bedroom window they will love it too.   The body of the spider is simply half of a styrofoam ball. Mine was about 1 ½” in diameter and since we only need half the ball you could make a pair o ..read more

  Watch the video here. I was walking through the Dollar Tree and checking out the new things that were out for fall and Halloween. I happened to notice a box shoved in a corner of a lower shelf that was almost empty that contained bottles of acrylic paints. The firs thing I noticed was the bottles did not look like the normal ones I see at Dollar Tree on the craft aisle. And indeed, these were Delta brand Ceramcoat paints!! I immediately grabbed the box and dug through the few bottles in it. I was able to come away with 5 bottles of brand name paints in what appear to be special Hallow ..read more

  Watch the video here.   As I was walking through the Dollar Tree the other day I saw these pumpkins hanging on the wall. They caught my eye because of the size, they looked to be perfect for the dollhouse. The color however was way too bright to look like anything close to a real pumpkin. I knew I had to try to tone down that color and use some to decorate the dollhouse porch for the season though.     The first step was to remove the wire from the bottom of the pumpkins and replace it with a toothpick to use as a handle while painting. I have my little wooden bloc ..read more

  Watch the video here. Today we are making a fake neon sign for the dollhouse or a miniature business. I was looking through a very old notebook I have that I wrote all kinds of projects in way back when I was first starting to do minis. This was at least 30 or so years ago. Back then I would go the library and check out any books or magazines they had on miniatures and take them home and read everything cover to cover. Took a lot of notes about projects I thought I might want to try to do someday when I had an idea of how to do them. This project was one of those. When I read it the ..read more

  Watch the video here. This week I decided to cover a side of what I am calling my Exterior Siding Cube 2.0. I talked a while back about the fact that the original cube got damaged so I had to toss it. I really liked it so I decided I was going to do another one. I asked if you guys wanted to see me create the new one and I get enough positive responses to go ahead and share the process. I decided that I while some of the sides will be the same or similar to the old cube I will try to add some new ideas this time around also. I would love your input on what to add so if you have ideas ..read more

  Watch the video here.     This week while I was thinking about what to do for the Midweek Video I remembered that I had gotten some items in some blind bags a while back that I had set aside to do makeovers on. So I pulled out the container where they are and found this little unicorn. I immediately thought of a stuffed unicorn and decided to show how to do just that. Now this will work in any little plastic figurine, it doesn’t have to be the same as what I did. Look through your stash for any little figurine that you want to turn into a “stuffed” toy for the dollhouse ki ..read more

  Watch the video here. I was in the mood to do another paint test and this is one that has been roaming through my brain for a couple of weeks now so here we go. I do want to preface this by saying I really wanted to do this test with the acrylic paint form Dollar Tree but they were out of the black so I decided to do the test with the Prang Tempura paint also from Dollar Tree. I have another idea that I want to do with the Dollar Tree acrylic paint which also will need the black so I hope they get it in stock soon. So let’s start with the set up for the test. I am using a sheet o ..read more

Watch the video here.   I have another free pattern for you to download so you make the project. You can find the file here. In the download there are 3 files: a PDF for hand-cutting of the pieces, a PNG to use with your electronic cutting machine and a text file with handy hints and tips (and the sizing information) to use the PNG.   As with most of these projects I cut all the pieces from medium weight white card-stock, the kind used to make cards and such. This is way more economical than having to purchase a bunch of colors and in my experience the paint colors are a lot mo ..read more