Crafts and Dolls: Water Mill Bakery - A Weekend Project

It's another long weekend since today is Victoria Day.  I love having long weekends because it gives me enough time to work on my hobby...  

It's been a year and months since we moved in another country, I've been missing my miniatures so I decided to put up, again, the only one set I was able to bring...  The Water Mill Bakery.   The Water Mill Bakery is a play set from the cute critters Sylvanian Families.  It is one of my favorites because of its nice details and I also love displaying miniatures about food especially the ones that were gifted by friends and those I made.  Each piece reminds me of a good memory.

On the first day, I cleaned the structure and added wallpapers and lined the counters with patterned papers.  I like adding personal touch to my sets because for me it looks nicer.

Then, I made an undercounter rack out of fuse beads for additional storage.  It's a good way to save me from buying a ready made one.

Here is the finished setup with my Petite Blythes' Emma Jane and Jasmine...

I hope everyone a great week and thanks again for reading!

Crafts: Sylvanian Country Boutique and Pastry Shop Project

This past few days I've been working on updating my Sylvanian collection. I made two makeshift shop projects for this collection.

Here is the first one...

I turned an empty Sylvanian Clinic into a Country Boutique last weekend. It is pre-loved and I got it without the clinic accessories. Instead of trying to complete the clinic accessories I decided to turn it into a dress shop. More details of this here.

...and the second one...

Yesterday I re-decorated the Starter House. It used to house my Country Boutique but since I moved the dress shop into a new home, I decided to make it into a Pastry shop and Shoe shop on top. I stripped off the previous wallpaper and changed it with a new and vibrant color scheme. The furniture and accessories are combination of collected Sylvanian pieces, Re-ments, Carni Castle miniatures and clay miniatures by a friend. More about this here.

Thanks for reading!

Crafts: Decorating White Board Backing and more

I did a quick project using materials from my stash to decorate the back face of white boards that we'll be using on a game for the pre-Valentine's day party of our organization.

The original design of the back part is for kids. I decided to re-decorate it to match the event.

Just an update of my doll collection, I have adopted three dolls - (2) Licca-chan doll and (1) Little Pullip doll. Here they are...

Licca-chan in Cutely Chu Chu dress and Licca-chan in Uniform Renewal

More about Licca-chan here, http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Licca-chan and http://licca.takaratomy.co.jp/ (Japanese)

Little Pullip Doll Fanatica a.k.a. Scarlet

I adopted her from her previous mom, Doreen. She is just about 4.5"high with fixed eyes and a body not as detailed as her full-sized version. Nevertheless, she can be customized. For me, she is very cute and pretty in punk. I still need to learn more on how to take care of her. More about Pullips here, http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pullip and http://pullipstyle.com/

Then, I did a couple of sewing projects for my Sylvanian friends.

A family outfit for home and outdoors

Swimwear for a beach vacation

Tuxedo for a romantic evening

A gown fit for a prom queen

Garden hats for sisters

and headdresses for mothers

More of my hobby and crafts on my facebook page, https://www.facebook.com/thecraftyladybug

Thanks for reading and have a great weekend! As for me, I have to go back with my sewing projects :)

Handmade Card and Dolls: Christmas Card and more of Sylvanian Families

I made a Christmas card last Thursday for a friend. We did a little gift giving, in advance, yesterday after her work. She'll be spending her whole Christmas break in the province while my family will be busy with my sister coming home for the holidays.

It was a simple and quick card. I have prepared the image way back in November so that it would be easy for me to assemble a card every time I need to make it for someone.

She also collects Sylvanian Families and I thought a handmade accessory for her collection would be a nice present for her. I made her a sleeping bag for couple Sylvanian figures.

Before I go, here are some sewing projects I did for Sylvanian Families...

A friend asked me to make baby jumpers for her little Sylvanian babies. It was a real challenge because the measurement is too small and every part is made by hand.

Then, I have started to make a country family outfit for another friend. Here is for the Sylvanian mother figure. I'll be making the rest soon. I hope I can squeeze everything this month.

Last night, I set-up my makeshift outdoor Pizzeria in-between the Country Market and The Hamburger Shop. The oven and counter was from a swap and the accessories are from Carni Castle Miniatures and Sylvanian Families Birthday Party Set.

Have a Merry Christmas! :)

Early Christmas

Christmas is approaching and my family have started decorating our home. I know it's a bit early but it means that we'll be enjoying the decorations for a long time... Aside from that, I also started making cards for Christmas.

I'm preparing first the hand-stamped images before making the actual cards. I got these lovely images from a swap. I did a little camera play with my Sylvanians, Mother Savannah and Baby Brother Peanut, as if they are helping me with my cards.

Then, I got a chance to meet a collector of Sylvanian Families. Her name is Beng. We've met in PH Sylvanian Families, a group on Facebook. We thought it would be nice to meet and have a little fun with our collection, after all, I miss doing this ever since my friend Ails went back to her hometown for good... We did a little hunting or I should say shopping...

She bought play sets while I got a baby pram. On top of the box are stamps for my cards, I did a little craft shopping, too.

Then we sat on a cafe to relax and play...

I gave her the gift card I did last weekend. Inside is the baker's outfit I made for her since she loves playing dress-up with her collection. I just though it would be a nice welcome present for her.

She did a little set-up for our figures. Katrina Whiskers having a nice afternoon barbecue with Savannah Trunk while the babies, Mallory Whiskers, Peanut Trunk and Nana Trunk, were busy playing.

Before we parted, she surprised me with a welcome present, too... It's an SF Sheep Baby with Tricycle set. I really love it!

I really had great time and we hope to do this again, soon...

Thanks, Everyone, and have great weekend!