68,762 hours later I am (mostly) finished!!!!!!! So my friend Amy H. sent me a few links of things on her "to do" list. I don't know if I should love her or hate her for it. ;) One of them was a link to this. I thought it was SO cute, I loved it. Initially I scoffed at the idea of actually taking on such a huge project with my minimal skills. I talked about it for days and then finally cuteness won out. I took some of Jill's ideas and also ideas from playhouses found on etsy. I am so incredibly slow at crafting. I've been working on it bit by bit over the last month. I can't work on it with the little ones around. Too many pins! I lose them and (painfully) find them later as I'm crawling around. Do people really use thimbles? So you don't stab yourself? I just assumed that's what they're for. You can laugh at me at will. I need me one of those. Maybe ten. The playhouse has some interactive parts instead of soley decorative pieces. The mailbox opens but I haven't yet made letters for it. The flowers in the front planter are removable and have bendy stems. The apples, tomatoes, lettuce and squash can be picked.(They have velcro.) The carrots and onions can be "unburied" and the British Robin can be on the nest or birdhouse. I think it's about 42 inches wide, 52 long and 46 tall, give or take. I wanted it to be big enough for both girls to play in. The etsy playhouses are made to fit over cardtables which would be really convenient but kinda little for an almost 6 year old. Mira is getting a kitchen set for her birthday that will go in it. There's probably a big problem with it though. I'm fairly certain it's not going to hold up to Mira grabbing on to it to steady her walking so I might have to hide it for a while. We shall see, we shall see. =) I'm so excited to be doneish. I kinda want to put some things on the inside walls with stitch witchery like a fireplace and endtable and such but I want to be done more at this point! I do like working with felt but with all the effort it took I kinda wish I had just applied felt decorations to a really sturdy material background.
I have been in a super crafty mood. I think it was a good time for a change from my video game junkie mood. ;)
8 comments:
Oh. My. Word. Melissa, I am speechless! I am SO impressed! First of all, I have looked into making one of these (you know for the future) and I have seen a lot of them , yours absolutely tops them ALL in cuteness!!! SO much detail! I can't believe it, I am so impressed!!! Your girls are going to LOVE it!!! Oh man, I'm going to be thinking about this for awhile...well done!!! You should enter that into some kind of I don't know contest of sorts, you would in. for sure. Wow. GOOD JOB!!!!
Seriously?!?!?!? YOU DID SUCH A GOOD JOB!!!!!!!!
I am so impressed and your girls will love it!! Way to go!!c
I wish I had your skills!
Holy moly!! You have mad skills!! That is amazing. I second everything Courtenay said! So much detail and very cute! :)
so very impressed! I love it! We cheated and bought a playhouse for rachel but its not as cute!
Looks awesome!! Congrats on finishing it! I want to come pay too!
AMAZING!!!!!!!
Holy CRAP!!! I can't believe you made that!!! I am so amazed. Really, truly amazed. I could never be so ambitious. I just can't take anymore of you crafties!!!! It makes me feel like I'm not doing enough!!! Every time I look at a blog, some woman just sewed something. Oh well, we all have our talents and skills, mine just don't apply in that department. Bravo, bravo to you. I really am so impressed and I would feel like the coolest kid in the world if that was mine to play in.
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