Slaton Christmas Blog: Christmas Dollhouse Indoors!

My Dollhouse Gingerbread Hutch

December 6, 2008

Tiffani and I worked for a long time this morning on the Christmas Dollhouse. Some of you who have been reading my blog for a while, may remember when I first started on the dollhouse a few months ago. I worked on the outside of it for a while, and got my furniture for the inside but didn't get much done on the inside. We got the Fall/Halloween house put away and got the Christmas one back out and it is on the kitchen island.

Tiffani worked today decorating the tree in the dollhouse living room, and we did garland on the fireplace, and even decorated a mini dollhouse that goes INSIDE the dollhouse! It was so fun doing it. We had a great time. Tiffani was so creative in helping me decorate it. She took mini ornaments and cut the hangers off of them and made them into knick-knacks for the nightstands, etc.

My favorite project of the day was the kitchen gingerbread hutch. I used a picture from Melody Howell, who runs Christmas To The Max Yahoo Group that I am a member, as my inspiration. She has a life-size hutch she puts gingerbread decorations on, and I wanted my miniature one to be full of Christmas like that. So I worked on it for a while adding things here and there until I was happy with it. I love how it turned out.

I'm not quite done yet, I've still got to decorate the 3 small rooms upstairs. One of them is a sewing room, one of them is kind of like another small living area, and another is an office type area, and I am going to put wrapping supplies on the table, etc. and make it like a crafting and wrapping room. Ryan's mom brought me several rolls of miniature wrapping paper a while back along with mini sleighs with Ryan and Heather written on them. I've got to put those on there, but for the most part I think I am close to being done with it for the 2008 season. I'm sure we will add lots more to it each year, but with it being my first dollhouse and first project, its taking me more time to find neat things I like for it and ideas on how to decorate it with a Christmas theme.

I would love to do for another project, a North Pole dollhouse. I think it would be os neat to do one compeltely whimsical and "magic" like. I think I'll add that to a 2009 list and be looking for items to do one thruout the next several months.

I know a lot of you reading do miniatures and dollhouses, so any tips you could give or anywhere that sells Christmas miniatures would be of great help!

Thanks for reading!

Keeping Christmas In My Heart,

*Heth*