Look what the post man brought me this morning!!

We all get excited when the post man brings big parcles to our front door! Especially unexpected ones.

However, these parcels were expected and I am delighted with their contents.

Ernie the Milkman and Penny Black the post lady! Aren't they lovely?! I love Ernie's little pouch and Penny's uniform looks so vibrant and feels lovely. Their limbs bend which is great for when I place them outside of my Post Office and family house. They were both in the Dolls House Emporium's sale, and having wanted them for months now I snatched up the opportunity to save myself a few pound. Well worth it!

I also recieved all of the furniture in this bedroom! This wasn't from the Emporium, this was from My Tiny World. The quality is fabulous and all of the furniture matches, as with it being fairly cheap I was expecting one bed side cabinet to be a totally different shade to the other. Haha! You can just about see (if you squint) the two tiny ornaments on the dressing table. These are actually meant for the children's bedroom, but the furniture for that room hasn't arrived yet, so I've made use of them in here. They are two tiny rabbits! Also, on the bed is a dressing gown, this is meant for the bathroom - but that's the same story as the child's bedroom. And the teddy in the far left corner. He is so adorable! I have never felt something so soft and fluffy in my life, he really is a little treasure! (Also a bargain from the Emporium sales!) The bed covers were bought at our local fair in April and I'm pleased with how well they fit the bed!

I also managed to get myself these two beautiful vases and jar to go in my mini living room! They pick out the pink in the flowers on the wall paper which is mainly why I picked them. The lid on the jar doesn't seem to sit properly, so I've had to stick it down with some tacky wax. Although, I might find another use for the lid and use the jar as another vase. I also need to make myself some flowers for the vases!


And my last little item - the little gift the Emporium sent me! It's a Leo plate. The second of my Star Sign Plate collection so far! As you can see I already have the Aries one (which I was sent as a birthday gift) and the Grosvenor Hall plate which I recieved as a Christmas gift.


Well I must say I am delighted with my new furniture, dolls and miniature items! They are so cute and are really finishing off my dolls house quite nicely. I'll be on that bakery next month! *fingers crossed.*

I hope you've all had a wonderful day!!!

Wow, this is my first tutorial! I hope this can be of some use to you and I hope you find it pretty easy to follow! Enjoy.

Okay so today I’m putting a tiled floor into my kitchen.

So, step 1. Print off your desired printie. I’ve printed my flooring (pictured) from  http://www.mysmallobsession.com/home.html . It is called ‘tiles’ .

Step 2. Cut off the white edges from the edge of your printie – if there are any of course. I know that some printies fill the entire page, but this one leaves a small white border. You can then spray your printie with a fixer to stop the inks running. If you don’t have a fixer, you can use hairspray! This is what I use and it works very well.

Step 3. Take your piece of card. It doesn’t have to be very thick. Glue your printie to the piece of card. Make sure you use a decent amount of glue around the edges particularly, as you don’t want it to start peeling when you’ve got it in your dolls house. Try to keep bubbles to a minimum, but don’t worry too much if there are a few small ones, these will disappear when the glue dries. Then leave it to dry. I left mine for about an hour so it was very dry when I returned.

Step 4. (this is if your printie is tiled/wooden/brick so you can put in the embossed detail. If not – skip this step.) When your printie has dried to the card, take a small embossing tool. Mine is just a cheap one from my local craft store. You can buy these pretty cheap; mine was a set of 3 and cost me about £8. You can get some yourself from this online site:  http://www.polymerclaypit.co.uk/ProductGroup.asp?Level1=27&Level2=184&Level3=0&PID=10057&Action=&FromPage=1 

Run the embossing tool down all the straight edges and the grouting parts. Depending on your pattern this can either be a quick task, or a very long, slow and boring one. Mine was pretty slow as I had 3 sheets to do and it was a pretty complicated pattern to emboss.

Tip: Do not watch TV while doing your printie, it’ll distract you and then it’ll take you even longer. Also, putting on some quick paced music helped me and I embossed lines along with the beat! Haha.

Step 5. Once you’ve got the embossing done make sure that all the edges are still stuck to the card. If not just put a bit of glue where needed and leave to dry.
Now you can make sure your Printie fits your room! This can take a little while to figure out if you have a pretty big space to fill. You may need to cut pieces into squares/rectangles and fit it that way, just like a jigsaw.

Step 6. Now that you’ve gotten your Printie to fit your room you can fix it to the flooring.

I’m using doubled over cello tape because it’s likely that I’ll want to re-decorate one day and it’s easy to just pull it out. If you choose this option, don’t worry you don’t get bumpy bits where the tape is if you flatten it pretty well. And once you’ve got your furniture on the flooring it’ll stay flat.
You can also glue your printie to the floor if this suits you better!

 For more flooring printies, visit:
http://www.jennifersprintables.com/
http://www.printmini.com/printables/p1.shtml http://www.mysmallobsession.com/home.html

I hope this tutorial was helpful, if you have any question please don’t hesitate to ask.

A completely breath taking creation by Maddie Chambers

A few months ago now I was on the Dolls House Emporium website. On one of the blogs I noticed something that totally took my breath away. This item was Maddie Chambers hand made Hobbit Hole. My mom and I spent nearly a whole morning gazing at the photos with complete wonderment. See for yourself!

Maddie Chambers was about 10 years old when she read 'The Hobbit' for the first time. It sent her imagination flying and she was delighted when Bag End from the film Lord of the Rings matched her imagination almost exactly.


She took on the project as part of a college course, the task was to make a toy for children. At first, the plan was to make a A4 sized hill; but her plans grew and soon an almost replica of Bag End was born!

 Maddie made almost everything by hand, including the frame, the garden, the food and as much furniture as possible. She based some of the creation on the book, some on the movie and the rest on her imagination! By doing this project Maddie has found something that she really enjoys and truly captures her imagination!

If you look carefully in the pantry you will see all the food that was mentioned in the book when the dwarves and Gandalf visited. (beer, cakes, tea, seed cake, coffee, porter, scones, red wine, raspberry jam, apple tart, mince pies, cheese, pork pie salad, eggs, cold chicken, pickles and ham.) But note, that anything you cannot see is in the cupboard as not all of this food could fit on the shelves.


If you would like to buy some of these food items, visit Maddie's blog (link below) where she has details of how you can do this.

If you would like to visit Bag End, the Dolls House Emporium is showing it at their Ripley shop from September 1st 2010 till December. Visit Maddie’s blog for more details!


Maddie's Blog:  http://madshobbithole.wordpress.com/2010/01/18/my-hand-made-hobbit-hole-bag-end-from-lord-of-the-rings/

Wooo Followers!

I had a lovely little surprise this morning when I opened up my blog. I found 3 followers - my very first followers in fact.
So I'd like to welcome them;
Piiko, De and Thmini2 !!!
I hope you all find some content on here that you enjoy, once I've got more on it anyway and thank you again for visiting!


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