Doll Size Breakfast Sandwiches

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This week I thought I would make the dolls a quick breakfast they could grab and eat on the run. After all I'm sure they are just as busy as the rest of us at this time of year.

The sandwich starts with a quick and easy English muffin made of an off white color clay. I used Original Sculpey but any off white clay will do.

For the Canadian Bacon/ham slice I used the darkest of the bacon color clays from the bacon tutorial (you can find it here)

For the egg layer you have 2 choices, for the fried egg I used a 50/50 mix of white and translucent clay. For the scrambled layer I used the clay leftover from our scrambled egg tutorial (here)

For the cheese just use a mix of yellow and orange to give a “cheesy color”

I used Translucent Liquid Sculpey to glue the layers together because we were combining baked and un-baked clay and the TLS acts like a glue to make sure the layers stay together.

Doll Size Scrambled Eggs

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This week I thought we should give an egg alternative for the dolls that like theirs scrambled. This project is so easy and really fun to do. You can keep chopping the clay until you get just the look you want.

We are using the same clays we used for the fried eggs from a few weeks ago. And these are even easier and a lot quicker to make than those.

If you missed the fried eggs tutorial you can find it here.

Doll Size Snake Plant

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This week I decided to do something a bit different for our project. I love how houseplants in the real world make a room feel more lived in and comfortable. I love to add plants to my dollhouse miniature scenes so I thought it was time we started adding some simple plants to our 18” doll scenes.

The snake plant is one of my favorite plants to show how to make because it is so simple to make it look realistic. Also it is one of the few houseplants that I have much luck with. You see as much as I love plants I am famous for killing my plants. At least the snake plant has a chance of survival under my care.

In order to make this project really easy for you to make I created a PDF pattern sheet (actually 2 sheets) and you can find the page 1 here and page 2 here. You can download the files to your computer and print them to use for the project. Be sure to print them at 100% and to check that the test square measures 1”.

You will need something to use as a plant pot, I used one of those disposable condiment cups from the dollar store.

Some foam to fill the cup, I used the builder's foam I have on hand but styrofoam or floral foam would also work.

Dried coffee grounds.

Tacky Glue

Mod Podge

Dark green paint

A medium or light greyish green paint

A yellow paint

A brown paint

Paint brushes

18 ga floral wire

Wire cutters

Toothpicks

Ceramic tile (or other surface to work on)

Scissors

Wet Wipes

Plain white printer paper

Spray Matte sealer

Something to hold the leaves while they dry

The drying rack that I used to hold my leaves while they dried is one I made a few years ago I have a video on how to make it if you would like to make one too. You can find that video on my dollhouse miniatures channel here.

I like to use a spray sealer on my projects like this to make them look more finished, the one I used is a matte finish and can be found with the craft paint at the craft store. Just be sure to use it outside and read the instructions on the label.

Doll Size Mugs

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This week I decided to adapt a recent project from my dollhouse miniatures channel and make it for the 18” dolls. So today we are making the dolls some mugs and we aren't even looking at our clay, we are using scrapbook/ cardmaking cardstock. Yes, that's right we are making the dolls some really sturdy mugs out of cardstock. And they will look like they are made of ceramic when we are done.

On camera I made just a basic mug but I have been making mugs for a few days using this method and have made a small variety of mugs so I will share the variations here on this blog.

All the mugs require the same basic materials/tools to make them.

We need some heavy cardstock, the kind you would make cards out of that measures 12”. The piece I used in the video came from one of those books of cardstock that you can get that have a bunch of sheets that all coordinate for projects.

You will need a dowel or something similar to form your mug on, in the video I used a piece of 1” diameter dowel that is just a couple of inches long. It is covered with a strip of parchment paper to keep the mugs from sticking. You could also cover it with plastic wrap of waxed paper.

You will need a good glue stick as well as tacky glue.

Something to cut your cardstock accurately, I like to use a straightedge, craft knife and self-healing mat.

The best clear finish to give the “ceramic” finish to our paper in this scale is Triple Thick, you will need the brush on variety.

A soft paint brush.

Optional: embellishments (stickers, etc)

For most of my mugs I cut my strip of cardstock 1 ¼” x 12” this gives a good height and thickness for the mugs.

Mug #1 (the one from the video) is just a basic mug and you saw how it went together.

Mug #2 Again just a basic mug, the handle is slightly different is about all.

Mug #3 This one is taller and thinner, and was inspired by my favorite mug for tea. The cardstock strip was cut 1 ½” x 12” and it was formed over a ¾” dowel. It is decorated with some stickers to give it a bit of a different look.

Mug #4 For this one I again cut the strip of cardstock at 1 ½” x 12” but I used the same 1” dowel that I used for the rest. This gives a nice oversize mug. My youngest son has several mugs like this in real life and he loves them.

Mug #5 For this mug I actually used plain white cardstock for the mug and added a single layer of a lightweight scrapbook paper. The lighter paper was cut at 1 ¼” tall by just enough length to go around the base mug. It was glued on with glue stick.

Mug #6 This is a basic mug but before I glued it around the dowel I drew straight lines ¼” from each long edge. Then I cut 2 strips of the cardstock that were ¼” by 12” and using glue stick I glued them to the mug base while it was still on the dowel using the lines I had drawn to guide me. I then glued both ends of the handle to the strips. I had intended to leave the mug like that but when I was going through my stickers I had the perfect silver strips to glue on and I just had to do it.

Mug #7 This one is short and I think it is cute with the others. It is made exactly like the basic mug except I cut the cardstock strip at 1” x 12” and then used the same 1” dowel. I also formed the handle slightly different.

As you can see the variations are probably endless, I can think of a dozen more variations just sitting here.

A couple of things in closing:

If you have stickers you want to use, be sure to test them with the Triple Thick, I had a couple that the ink ran. So test first so you don't ruin your project.

And secondly check for loose brush hairs as you work. I found out too late that one of my brushes was shedding and I now have hairs stuck in the finish of some of my mugs. Hopefully I can get them out without destroying my work.