Category: Best Coloring Books

        Katy with her six glamorous skating fashions depicted in a printable below. Download and cut them out for personal fun at home or in the classroom. These are intended for students only… Restored Katy Keene, paper doll fashions!

        To make the following doll sized serving trays, you will need the following supplies: recycled cardboard juice can, mirrored paper, decorative scrapbook paper, white school glue and extra cardboard scraps for the arch shaped handles. Above the serving trays are stacked. Right, the plastic version is from a former 18″ doll set. Themirrored versions are handmade.        I made the serving trays by cutting out the end pieces of juice cans. Keep 1/2″ deep by cutting above the base using a craft knife or sharp scissors. Decoupage the outside and bottom of the paper […]

        I discovered this charming little oven at resale. It is just the right size for 18″ dolls. However, there was something strange about it; the door to the oven did not open, huh? It was screwed shut, like some factory worker had fallen asleep at his job and left this little misfit toy to despair, never to be played with properly. What child wants a toy oven that has a door that can not be opened for the necessary baking of plastic dinners? No child that I have ever met would tolerate such toy profanity! Left, […]

       The Christian festival of Christmas was introduced to Hawaii with the arrival of Protestant missionaries, and is believed to have started after 1820. Most of the traditions they currently celebrate come from the missionaries. Before the Hawaiians celebrated the Christmas people know today, they had a festival named Makahiki which lasted around four months and in which all wars were forbidden. The season still had the essence of “peace and goodwill to all men”, which is another thing people tend to associate with Christmas. 12 Days of Christmas, Hawaiian Style brought to you by iHula Hawaii. She demonstrates hand movements inher video!        The […]

        Every doll Diner serves the traditional fried foods of the 1950s. These include paper trays of onion rings and french fries. Below you can see that I cut our doll’s paper trays from recycled egg cartons. Left, are the paper food containers cut from egg cartons. Right are the finished deep fried, single servings of popular, Diner fast foods served in the 1950s.          After cutting out the egg carton parts, I then painted the interiors with white acrylic paints and decoupaged the exteriors with a printed scrapbook paper. The onion rings and French […]

       Turquoise, its cold blue aptly suggesting the snows of December, is one of the most ancient gems of which we have record. It has been highly prized throughout the ages, and indeed, is the only opaque semi-precious stone of today which can aspire to rank as a precious gem.        Turquoise is not of a crystalline structure. It is found in small masses, generally surrounded by a brown, flinty matrix. As pieces of the gem suitable for cutting are seldom procured in large size, big turquoises are almost unknown.        ”Turquoise matrix” is […]

       Bloodstone or heliotrope, is the most attractive of the green varieties of quartz known as jasper. This curious mineral contains spots of red jasper that resemble drops of blood, to which it owes its name.        Bloodstone is found in India, Australia, Brazil, and in unimportant quantities in Europe and Scotland. The finest specimens, however, come from India from whence the present-day supply is almost entirely derived.        Although bloodstone is a very beautiful and interesting mineral, it is not as widely used in modern jewelry as in the past. Aquamarine, the alternate […]

These plaid, coin purses will compliment any doll Chanel suit or 70s inspired shift dress… The leather straps and nickel platedclasps make them look like miniature versions of real handbags! Groovy, Op designs for all sorts of dolls will blend in nicelywith leisure suits, hip mini skirts and Go-go boots.        Originally, these small novelty purses were intended to protect lipsticks or hold coins inside of ladies handbags. However, I think they are better suited to fashionable 18″ doll outfits. Accessories like these will also look adorable inside of our doll’s boutique!        Why not fill your […]

Cosmetic compacts for a doll’s purse.        This doll makeup craft, an eye shadow compact, is one of the oldest like it on the web. I’ve made our own versions to stuff inside of our party handbag favors… Supply List: colorful papers white school glue toothpick(s) Mod Podge tiny rubber band(s) silver tape (optional) scrap cardboard mirror or ”reflective” paper (tin foil) cotton ball Step-by-Step Instructions: Cut small square, compact sized rectangles from scrap cardboard. Score them down the center on the outside of each compact. Cut tiny tabs of paper, glued ends together and paste on the […]

Samples of our handmade doll sized cell phones.         Cell phone – “A mobile phone, cellular phone, cell phone, cellphone or hand phone, sometimes shortened to simply mobile, cell or just phone, is a portable telephone that can make and receive calls over a radio frequency link while the user is moving within a telephone service area.”        To make your dolls cell phone simple cut tiny paper rectangles and layer these together using white school glue. Then take a photo of a real cell phone and print this slightly smaller than the paper version. […]