Crafts Unleashed

Building a Dollhouse: Adding Shingles

Adding dollhouse shingles can be difficult and a rather slow process.  Before even beginning you must read the dollhouse manual instructions, thoroughly.  Though it looks like you have a lot of shingles to work with – if you start to make mistakes with your angles and cuts you may not have enough wooden shingles to [...]

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Building a Dollhouse: Eave Trim Pieces

I am having such a wonderful time building a dollhouse for my granddaughter.   After a long day at work it is nice to spend the evenings relaxing and working on the dollhouse.  I have made huge amounts of progress and I have really enjoyed the time spent designing it for her.  Today I will share [...]

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Building a Dollhouse: Designing Easy Door Knobs and Handles

If you have been following along you know that I am in the process of putting together the Victorian Dollhouse Farm Kit.  Almost all of the outside of the dollhouse house is assembled except for some finishing touches, like trim pieces and railings.  As the outside of house starts to take shape I noticed that [...]

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Building a Dollhouse: Beginning Assembling

Assembling a dollhouse from a kit is a wonderful “life” lesson in patience and order.  I often like to make my own order and skip ahead to something that looks creative or interesting.  However, I can not stress enough that the dollhouse has to be built in order; step-by-step. To begin with I first gathered [...]

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