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Wednesday, September 4, 2019
The Life of A Wooden Doll by Lewis Saxby, 1903
Make a Halloween Sticker Wreath for Your Doll House
This simple Halloween wreath project takes only a few seconds to put together and costs only two dollars to make if you purchase your supplies from a dollar store! |
- small Halloween stickers
- wire garland, orange and black for Halloween
- small wire hook (Christmas ornament hooks)
- If you purchase your wire garland from the dollar store like me, you may need to trim this back a bit in order to get a uniform looking garland that is small enough for a doll sized door or wall. Whether you do this or not has much to do with where you wish to hang it.
- Twist the garland into a round shape and wire it in place with a few Christmas ornament hooks.
- Choose tiny stickers with a Halloween theme to decorate the wreath with. I just stuck mine in place without adding any extra glue. However, you may wish to add extra glue if you think the stickers might fall off.
- Now you can twist on an extra wire hook, in order to hang your doll's wreath on your dollhouse wall or front door.
How to Cut Paper Spider Webs...
Above spider webs are cut from white typing paper using an old paper cutting technique. This fold is the same for cutting Christmas snowflakes. |
Left, are the steps used to make paper spider webs. Right is a drawing of how the web cuts should look. |
Paint a Miniature Black Cat Planter for A Doll's Garden
- miniature terracotta pot(s)
- acrylic paints: black, blue, pink, white
- black yarn
- one cotton ball
- black construction paper
- hot glue and hot glue gun
- artificial flowers from
- aluminum foil
- green felt
- First paint the outside of your miniature terracotta pot with black acrylic paint. Let it dry.
- Crush aluminum foil to fill the inside of the miniature pot. Poke holes into this foil in order to support the faux, flowers.
- Remove the flowers after determining where these will go.
- Next, cut up small pieces of green felt to cover the foil showing at the top of the pot. Hot glue this felt around the holes made for the flowers.
- Cut two, small black triangles from the black construction paper. Glue these onto the pot for cat's ears. (see picture above)
- Paint a smaller white furry triangle inside the black ears to mimic a cat's ear.
- Paint a cat's face onto your Halloween planter using white, blue and pink acrylic paints. (see photo)
- Hot glue a piece of black yarn directly onto the surface of the pot and curl it around the side to look like a tail.
- I wrapped a small piece of cotton on the end of my cat's tail with a bit of glue.
- Now poke the artificial flowers back inside the pot's holes at the top of the planter. Now you can display a cut Halloween cat in your doll's garden!
DIY Doll Sized Candied Apples
These faux candied apples are approximately one inch in diameter; perfectly sized for our 18" American Girl dolls. |
Left, small 1" diameter wooden apples with flat bamboo skewers glued into the top where stems would originate from. Right, I've painted half of my apples green and the other half red. |
Left, apples drying upside down inside of a plastic egg carton. Right, apples dry on top of brown paper. |
Left, Caramel Candied Apples. See a real recipe here. Right, Jolly Rancher or Red Hots Candied Apples. See a real recipe here. |
Left, White Chocolate Dipped Apples with Drizzle. See a real recipe here. Right, Chocolate Dipped Apples. See a real recipe here. |
Craft Cute Bottle Cap Puddings for Halloween
Top, Spider Puddin' Pies for the doll's Halloween Fun! Bottom, Jack-O-Lantern Puddin' Pies the size of a nickel. |
Supply List:
- discarded, clean bottle caps
- puff paints: black, white
- orange glitter glue
- Sculpey or any oven bake clay
- tan acrylic paint (for the pie crusts)
- tiny paint brushes
- First, remove the sticky plastic liners from the under side of the bottle caps. This can be difficult to do if you are very young. Ask an adult to help you.
- Take a small bit of oven-bake clay and press it into the lip of the bottle cap and bake at 275 degree oven for five to seven minutes. (see photo below)
- Let the bottle caps cool completely and then squeeze black and/or orange puffy paints into the middle of the caps. This will be your doll's pudding.
- It may take several days for the puffy paints to dry depending upon the weather or where you live. After this paint has hardened, use a small amount of tan acrylic paint to cover the edges of your pie crusts.
- If you wish to paint the spider webs, use two colors of puffy paints to make these tiny marks. I chose a transparent sparkly white and a regular white for my painted webs. Be careful about squeezing the paints out of their bottles; work slowly. (see photo above)
- Use black puffy paint to make the faces on top of the pumpkin puddings.
Nun Dolls Dressed in Habits
A Nun doll collection represented the Cloistered Order Of St. Bridget from River Michigan Shrine. |
See More Examples of Nun Dolls:
- The Doll Museum at The National Shrine of the Cross in the Woods
- Nun Doll Accessories
- How to make Catholic nun, peg dolls for children
- Crochet nun's habit for peg doll by Irene Duquette
- Sew habits from Little Sisters of the Heart - Number 1011 for 18" dolls
Chicago magazine advertisement for "Our Little Sister" dolls from 1938. |
Upper Left, "Nun Doll. 13 inches tall. Composition head; painted features. Full composition body, moving arms and legs. Dressed in black cotton regulation Nun outfit. Complete with beads. Each in box. N. 36N136. Per dozen .....8.50."
Upper Center, "Our Little Sister Doll. This doll has a distinctive quality which endows it with universal sales appeal. Actually the vestments symbolize the real-life Sister Orders. Crucifixes, Rosary Beads, and a handsomely bound Miniature Prayer book are included with each doll. This doll will add prestige to any dealer's line and will offer continuous profit possibilities. These dolls are 13 inches high, all composition, with jointed arms and legs. They have painted eyes and beautiful facial colorings. Packed each in box. No. 36N139. Per dozen ......16.50 Each...1.50"
Upper Right, "Our Little Sister" Doll. 17 1/2 inches high. All composition, and have moving eyes with beautiful long lashes. Lips are parted showing tiny white teeth. Stately in appearance, they are realistically garbed in neatly tailored robes of the finest materials. The miniature prayer book which is included, is completely printed and beautifully bound in simulated black leather. No 36N140. Per dozen.....40.00 Each......3.50"