I'm a Giant Challenge- Doll House Do-Up #11 (The christmas special)

A week to go, a year's worth of doll housing to do!

You get the idea where I'm going from this photo. But it's going to take a while to get there. And a lot more glue. We will have shelves, cupboard doors that open, and a wee curtain to screen under the sink.

Little sticky velcro dots for burners. A chopped up bit of op-shopped randomness for dials.

and a hinged oven door that actually opens is the plan.

Another excuse for fimo food (turkey!)

I tracked down an actual doll-house shop in Christchurch this week, in someones garage. Sadly it was full of pretty naff Victorian stuff, though I quite liked this pottery vase and mini wooden spoons.

I went there looking for a fridge. The woman offered me a brown cupboard and while I ummed and ahhed and then politely declined I was thinking "that thing? Even I could make a better fridge than that thing!"

And the cool thing is, it's no idle boast now, I know I can, and I will!

(Just not right now. I have a year or so until Claud get this monster, and I have a birthday and Christmas to plan, and a small child who thinks they don't have to go nigh-nighs until it's dark ie 10.30pm most nights this week)

The quilt is also a work in progress. I might have finished it by now had I not mistaken the required size of 'yoyo'. The maker I got is way too small, but instead of buying another I've decided, in the interest of thrift to just persevere. So this too is going to take a long while. The wee size also demanded an ultra fine fabric, so I've used an opped silk shirt (red) and pillow case (white).

ps I know a yoyo is supposed to have a hole in the middle, and be round, but they're too tiny to be easily manipulated, so we will have, eventually, a quilt of puckered-up-monkey-bums iced-gems instead!

It's nothing if not unique this dolly house I tell you!

The only other real progress is in the bathroom

                                 Yes, still waiting for the modeling clay to dry. But I got a teeny tiny rubber duckie!

                    So yes, not a lot happened here. Thought I'd fob you off a Christmas special instead.
                   Just because the doll house is unfinished, we can't let the girls miss out on Christmas can we?

Christmas lunch anyone?

Tree and nativity? Check.

Warm hearth

With stylish Christmas/all year around deco above the mantel piece a mini version of Emily Henderson's awesome one!

Front door

and best of all?

Presents!

Merry Christmas Roz!

Ok, ok, I'll try and achieve something by the 15th, the challenge end date.

(And then I'll have a go at finishing it sometime in the 2012...)

See thee next week x