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So our daughter’s 5th birthday has past. Sort of. We like to celebrate things month long so we still sing “Happy Birthday” and come home with the occasional balloon etc.

But! How did the Felt Dollhouse finish up, finalize and go over…

So if you didn’t know our daughter has been hinting for sometime that she needed a dollhouse with a family. I spent a good amount of time online looking for ones I thought might work out but then I decided I wanted to make it. I made dollhouses with my mother’s help when I was a child and I thought this could be a nice mother/daughter experience for us too.

Turns out it was a great grandmother, mother, aunt, daughter experience.  We all got in on this one.

The Doll House:

Peanut and I had originally saved one of the boxes you get when you visit the warehouse clubs and were doing our best to make a dollhouse. We sort of lost steam and ideas mainly because we used it flat with the the divider down the middle only giving us two rooms.

In my browsing of Etsy to find felt food and patterns I landed upon a dollhouse felt pattern. I bought this not realizing it was a very small scale. The patterns were actually for a house about 11 inches tall. Too small. So….

We snuck the original flat house out of Peanut’s sight and my mother came over and helped me to revamp it to be upright and three stories. She added a roof which gave us an attic and shored up the side to enclose the house on both sides. I proceeded to cover the whole thing with felt and she flet tiled the roof. We wallpapered the ceilings.

The Furniture:

We started off with a Peanut activity trying to make paper mache bathroom and kitchen appliances. While it was fun everything ended up too big for the dollhouse.

Back to the patterns I bought from Etsy. I blew them up on the printer and sewed two beds, a tub, sink, toilet (complete with toilet paper), refrigerator, and stove/sink combo for the house. I fashioned a couch and a small table from odds and ends and a bit of felt and my aunt added some Michaels’ mini furniture she stained.

I did all of the sewing by hand and I was up many a night with a tiny needle and oodles of felt. I still have a few items I want to sew up and my husband has been making jokes about this being folk art and to make sure we sign it so years down the line it can bring a lot of money at auction (we’ve been watching  Antique Roadshow).

We add a family from Ryan’s Room.

How did it go over:

Well since I was the one bringing the dollhouse downstairs I did not notice the air pump little Peanut apparently gave. This was the gift she REALLY wanted. She’s been playing with it non-stop.

This house was made with complete love and was so much fun. We HAVE to add on to it but I have to finish up a few projects first and gardening calls too.

This is the front of the dollhouse. The picture isn't that great but after trying to make it better for so long I decided to post the bad pics anyway.

Here is the first floor of the house. Note the leaning sink/stove and the leaning fridge.

Here is the second floor. Bed with hand crochet throw, thread spool table. The sink and toilet paper in the bathroom are anchored to the wall.

P.S. -She’s asking for chairs and a chimney