Monday, June 18, 2012

Pink and Green Mama explains how to organize the doll clothes

Do you want ideas on how to organize the doll clothes, shoes and accessories?

Pink and Green Mama has a tactic that takes a bit of time to set up, but it will be easy to keep up! Go see Getting Organized: Doll Clothes for the American Girl show and tell; and Getting Organized: Storing Barbie Doll Clothing for the fashion doll show and tell.

Friday, June 8, 2012

How to annoy your co-workers with just one Barbie doll

This just for fun post requires an explanation.

I live near Detroit and most of my co-workers are avid Detroit Tigers fans.

They have learned over the years that I root for Cleveland sports teams.

To make that point on a week in which Detroit Tigers and Cleveland Indians played each other in Major League Baseball, I posted this doll display at my desk.

Ooh, it's been quite a while since I've heard so many snarky comments about a doll display.

My comeback line is that if they can find me a Detroit Tigers doll outfit, I will happily play along and put that one on display sometime.

So far, we haven't found one.

This Cleveland Indians outfit came from a craft show in northeast Ohio about five years ago, and cost me only $1. It was one of several doll outfits I bought that day. Yes, one of the others was a Cleveland Browns dress.

It'll be traded out for a pageant doll soon enough. My pageant friends are in state competitions next week.

Finding furniture and accessories at the second-hand store

I'm documenting my dollhouse renovation on my main blog, Monroe on a Budget, because I'm explaining my frugal hacks along the way.

Do check out the latest episode in which I show how $4.50 worth of Barbie furniture and accessories are filling in some missing details in my dollhouse renovation!

What did I start with? This pile:


Monday, June 4, 2012

Dollhouse inspiration from A Girl and a Glue Gun

Would you like some DIY dollhouse inspiration?

A Girl and a Glue Gun has a show and tell of how she made a playscale 1:6 dollhouse for Barbie and friends to enjoy. She's using some of the same techniques I'm using on my dollhouse, but, all I have so far are some sneak peeks!