Tour Grace's Bakery with a Senior Product Designer
at American Girl, Mattel.
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| Left, a set of wooden shelves set into a faux cast iron display unit, perfect for stacking fresh baked, artisan loaves of French bread and buns. Center, a faux wrought iron, hanging shelf made originally for displaying keys will now be used to hang cooking utensils, pots and pans, aprons etc... Right, this pencil caddy will be painted black and filled up with plated sweets inside of our French bakery. |
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| One of our 18inch dolls stands next to a jewelry display modeled reminiscent of the Eiffel tower. Pieces similar to this one are often sold in resale shops in my area. Here you can see how tall the tower is compared with the doll standing next to it. I will use this piece to display shopping bags and more merchandise inside of my version of Grace's Bakery. |
Some of my favorite design features inside of the original French bakery are: the faux cast iron bracket, shop sign and the painted Eiffel tower with shelf.
It was easy to find items that reminded me of these features at resale and they will certainly be fun to fill with all kinds of baked goods and baking accessories inside of our version of Grace's French bakery.
I've photographed these faux items along side one of our 18inch dolls so that you can imagine how the bent wire furnishings will look once we incorporate them into our doll bakery.
If you would like to collect and craft along with me to make your own eighteen inch doll sized bakery, I will be posting all of my craft ideas and fun bakery finds, prior to the upcoming holidays.
You may also wish to acquire a large plastic storage bin to collect all of the items included in your doll bakery. This will help keep things neat and tidy around the house when little ones are not playing with their dolls. Storage bins also insure minimal damage to furniture and minimal loss of tiny accessories. Pack a similar version to ours, wrap it with a large bow and give it to a very happy grandchild this Christmas; you will be the most popular grandparent/parent in the universe for certain!
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| I think this display unit was originally made to display jewelry on top of a dresser, however, I will use it to display merchandise inside of a doll shop of some kind, not necessarily Grace's bakery. I've included here so that readers can get more ideas about the sorts of things that they might collect for doll displays. |
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