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        Blue Ball Mason canning jars clip art for imaginative paper doll crafting. Students may download and print these on their home computers for personal crafts. This clip art would also make fun recipe cards for gifting a special, heirloom recipes to a friend or family member from your own kitchen. The clip art should not be distributed from alternative websites.  For personal crafts only.

        Below is a mini paper doll of Dolly Dingle and her three bedroom dollhouse in color. Students will have fun cutting these out! Wherever you see dotted lines, make a little slit for the Dolly Dingle paper doll to fit through. Dolly’s dollhouse includes: an upstairs bedroom with a four poster bed, chair, mirror and table and open window. Below stairs is her dining area and kitchen with a table, a chair, dish rack and stove. Dolly put the kettle on so she’ll have tea. 

Left, the curtains are pulled back so that our dolls may easily hang up their clothes and store their shoes on the top shelf. Right, here you see the curtains pulled shut to keep doll clothes dust free!          This version of a doll’s clothing storage was built using a recycled wine crate that I found discarded by the side of the road. It looked clean and adaptable and was just the right size for the following doll closet craft. Alternatively, one could make the same craft using a sturdy cardboard box if there is no wooden […]

        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 […]