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building a treehouse

  • Posted on June 2, 2012 at 7:51 pm

i have several large bushes with severe die-back from a storm, and that combined with this picture from a japanese mook, treehouse 1inspired me to make a treehouse for my tinies.

of course being me i’m not sure the house will be recognizable by the time it’s done and it has already grown from just fitting my realpukis to being big enough for my pukifees and littlefees to play in. i promised the rps a smaller one later. anyhow i thought it might be interesting to chronicle how i made it as possible inspiration for someone else or just for my own interest 😉

i found some great flat frames at the dollar store to use as the floor and roof supports, and flat bamboo skewers to use as planking.
treehouse 2
i glued them down in sections, periodically checking that they are staying reasonably straight, the skewers themselves aren’t perfectly straight – though i did discard the really warped ones – so i’m planning to make it look as though a child helped build it.

here is the floor laid down and glued in sections (just ’cause my weights are too small to do it all at once.) i’ll be cutting the points off later
treehouse 5

last picture today is of the “weights” holding the wood as flat as possible t omake good contact while the glue dries
treehouse 7

amber and crystal travel to drumheller

  • Posted on June 1, 2012 at 10:24 am

amber and crystal went exploring in drumheller on the weekend. they found a cave, but decided it was a bit too dark and scary so they sat in front to “admire the view”
amber and crystal in drumheller

amber was disgusted to find out the popcorn mud is used to make the base of toothpaste
amber in drumheller

crystal did a bit of exploring on her own so missed the toothpaste conversation
crystal in drumheller

house hunting

  • Posted on May 12, 2012 at 6:51 pm

smidge went house hunting this week and found a lovely fairy house. she tried very hard to like it, but in the end, the annoyance of constantly hitting her head on the door frame made her decide to keep looking

the house that wasn't

noah

  • Posted on May 11, 2012 at 9:46 pm

noah finally got some clothes. he raided amberglas’ closet and made off with a dino t-shirt and jeans. then celebrated his “new clothes” by climbing up and down trees. something he had found impossible while wearing a paper towel toga 😆
noah

noah evergreen1

(he asks that you kindly ignore the frilly neck on his t-shirt, but says he got really tired of waiting for me to make him one of his own!)

introducing noah

  • Posted on April 24, 2012 at 10:25 am

the weather was finally warm enough yesterday to do faceups. of the three i started only one got done. i have to wipe the other two down and start over, i sprayed to thickly and got bubbles. i have another girl who’s faceup also needs redoing. it doesn’t have any flaws really, i just don’t like it. it just leaves me cold.

anyway, my pukifee boy noah came out perfectly. he is just as i’d imagined. even the hair ended up right, inspite of a few mishaps. i tried him first in a carrot red synthetic wig. the color was great but i couldn’t get the hair short enough without getting bald spots. (kind of like my first attempts at cutting my barbie’s hair when i was a kid :lol:)

next i tried the two mohair wigs i’d picked up or him. with some judicious cutting (read hacking randomly with scissors ;)) i got the styles i liked, but the color was all wrong. the first one , which was supposed to be auburn, arrived as a dark brown with a slight reddish tinge in bright sunlight. very cute but definitely did not go with his red eyebrows and freckles. the other wig was blonde, and i had planned to dye it carrot red. which is what i proceeded to do…

unfortunately it was late, and i was tired, so i wasn’t thinking clearly and vigorously rubbed the dye in, and then just as vigorously rinsed it out – forgetting the mohair felts! i picked at it a bit then gave up and left it overnight to dry.

this morning it didn’t look much better, but with nothing else working, i figured i’d plunk it on noah’s head and use it till i could figure out a replacement. to my shock, and pleased surprise it was perfect, or almost so. i turned under the elastic band, which showed up to clearly now that the wig was darker and voila, noah arrived!
noah

now my only problem is i only planned to have girls this size, so i have no clothes for him, hence the paper towel toga 😆

in like a lion

  • Posted on April 21, 2012 at 3:56 pm

tiera lion hat 2
tiera lion hat 3
my shy little girl looks more like the cowardly lion i think. at any rate, no one could be scared of her 😉

if it looks like a duck…

  • Posted on April 14, 2012 at 6:10 pm

this is actually a pukifee hat, but i think tiera looks cute in it
tiera duck hat 2

if it looks like a duck, walks like a duck and quacks like a duck….put it back in the oven!

reality

  • Posted on April 7, 2012 at 12:09 pm

crystal is still waiting for her prince. she says the prince should have to kiss the toads not the princess…. toads are yucky! 😆

crystalorn frog hat

reality is merely an illusion, albeit a very persistent one,
albert einstein

a day at the park

  • Posted on April 4, 2012 at 9:37 pm

amber went with me to the park last week, and i’m just now getting the pictures uploaded from my camera. she is wearing her favorite purple hat
amber at the park

glamour challenge

  • Posted on March 1, 2012 at 12:57 pm

at the last minute i decided i didn’t like the way the skirt was going so remade the fabric and started over. the bodice was right but i changed the skirt ruffles around
short dress
and i redid the underskirt as well to give it an airier and less substantial feel
front view i had major problems convincing ember to pose properly. she looks very awkward when standing.
i learned how to make a collage in photoshop to focus in on the details
detail collage
and since she hated standing we did her glamour shot sitting down, which i think was particularly effective
pretty lady big