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My dollhouse-loving nieces have been visiting, and we've been making wonderful little houses.  One was a house made from a cardboard box and pictures cut out of catalogs, and the others were edible log cabins made of pretzels in the style of gingerbread houses - one for humans (with Nutella and candy and dried fruit), and one for birds to eat (with peanut butter, nuts, dried fruit, and berries.)

  


Cardboard house:



Natalie is very creative and a natural born miniaturist.


And of course they wanted the dollhouse to have a tiny dollhouse in it.  (And that's James Bond greeting us at the door.)






Edible houses:

This is Natalie (with red hair) and a friend.


This is me with Amelia, covered in peanut butter and chocolate.








linked at [livejournal.com profile] doll_houses  and [livejournal.com profile] little_world .

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Date: 2008-12-21 06:54 pm (UTC)
From: [identity profile] strainconductor.livejournal.com
This is too cute for words *3*

The pictures and the houses, are all so lovely!

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Date: 2008-12-21 07:43 pm (UTC)

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Date: 2008-12-21 06:54 pm (UTC)
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From: [personal profile] esteven
Your nieces are certainly talented ladies. So this love for dollhouses and miniatures must lie in the family. :D

I was glad to read that a very good time was had by all.

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Date: 2008-12-21 07:41 pm (UTC)
From: [identity profile] grace-poppy.livejournal.com
They certainly are, and it certainly does! In fact, I'll post a picture of my mom playing with her childhood dollhouse soon. My sisters and I grew up playing with it, and now these nieces have it, and I have my own house and roomboxes. We all love tiny things. :D

And yes, we've been having a marvelous time! Busy busy busy, but a lot of fun. We already celebrated Christmas last night, in fact, with the whole huge family. I'm kind of looking forward to Christmas day itself, when I'll be able to do nothing at all (or maybe clean up my messy house and wash dishes and things.)

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Date: 2008-12-21 08:19 pm (UTC)
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From: [personal profile] esteven
I hope you will have a lovely Christmas Day, on which you will also have time to relax.

Btw, Amelie resembles you a lot. :D

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Date: 2008-12-21 07:36 pm (UTC)
From: [identity profile] shipotl.livejournal.com
I would have never though of making one for the birds. Too cute!

Have a wonderful Christmas and happy New Year.

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Date: 2008-12-21 07:39 pm (UTC)
From: [identity profile] grace-poppy.livejournal.com
Thanks! Well I made a gingerbread house once before, and by the time we finally got around to eating it, it tasted kind of gross. :P I figured one house for people to eat would be enough.

Thank you! Same to you!

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Date: 2008-12-21 07:43 pm (UTC)
From: [identity profile] kiramowett.livejournal.com
So cute! Looks like you had fun.

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Date: 2008-12-21 07:45 pm (UTC)

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Date: 2008-12-21 08:00 pm (UTC)
From: [identity profile] linda-a.livejournal.com
These are all so cute! The cardboard house totally looks like a project I would have done when I was a little girl. :) And the food houses look yummy! :)

Looks like so much fun!

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Date: 2008-12-21 08:02 pm (UTC)
From: [identity profile] grace-poppy.livejournal.com
It was loads of fun!

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Date: 2008-12-21 08:24 pm (UTC)
From: [identity profile] visionari.livejournal.com
This is so adorable! And I love the edible house for the birds; I just might have to nick that idea from you. :)

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Date: 2008-12-25 07:19 pm (UTC)
From: [identity profile] grace-poppy.livejournal.com
Thank you! I wanted to do a gingerbreadish house, but I knew from experience that they're not much fun to eat, especially after sitting around for a few days. Plus I didn't want the kids to have to wait while cooking gingerbread etc. This worked out perfectly, and took the perfect amount of time and hands-on work for their attention spans.

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Date: 2008-12-21 08:36 pm (UTC)
From: [identity profile] ldhenson.livejournal.com
Love the idea of using magazine cutouts, and a birdhouse that's not for birds to live in but to eat is genius. Your nieces are cute too.

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Date: 2008-12-25 07:20 pm (UTC)
From: [identity profile] grace-poppy.livejournal.com
Thank you! (Yes, they are very cute.)

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Date: 2008-12-21 09:13 pm (UTC)
From: [identity profile] nightkate.livejournal.com
How great of you to provide such entertainment! I'd want to visit you all the time!

And cute nieces, they have the most beautiful hair.

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Date: 2008-12-25 07:20 pm (UTC)
From: [identity profile] grace-poppy.livejournal.com
It's fun being the artsy craftsy aunt! :D And yes, they DO have beautiful hair. It glows.

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Date: 2008-12-21 09:16 pm (UTC)
From: [identity profile] materia-indigo.livejournal.com
That cardboard box house is made of awesome! I love miniatures made from found items around the home. (My current room box was made out of painted cereal boxes.) The idea of using cutouts from catalogues to furnish it is brilliant. Good job!

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Date: 2008-12-25 07:22 pm (UTC)
From: [identity profile] grace-poppy.livejournal.com
I always loved making things from found items when I was little, and reading books like The Borrowers. I liked making little tables and chairs from empty spools of thread, and towers from cardboard tubes, etc. I definitely had as much fun as they did making this house.

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Date: 2008-12-21 09:17 pm (UTC)
From: [identity profile] obeliamedusa.livejournal.com
Hee! Adorable. :)

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Date: 2008-12-25 07:22 pm (UTC)
From: [identity profile] grace-poppy.livejournal.com
Thanks! Your snowmen house cake partly inspired me for the pretzel houses!

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Date: 2008-12-21 09:28 pm (UTC)
From: [identity profile] kindstar.livejournal.com
Lovely pics of lovely folk! The houses are adorable, and very creative, and so, obviously, are your nieces! Clearly they take after their aunt. Thanks for sharing. A very merry Christmas and wonderful New Year to you and yours!

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Date: 2008-12-25 07:22 pm (UTC)
From: [identity profile] grace-poppy.livejournal.com
Thank you! And the same wishes to you!

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Date: 2008-12-21 09:48 pm (UTC)
From: [identity profile] gothtique.livejournal.com
The cardboard box house is great!
When I saw the first picture, I thought it was a book shelf... but it could be.
Very Cool!

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Date: 2008-12-25 07:23 pm (UTC)
From: [identity profile] grace-poppy.livejournal.com
Thank you! I used to make book shelf houses too. :D

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Date: 2008-12-21 11:52 pm (UTC)
From: [identity profile] des-pudels-kern.livejournal.com
Naaaaawwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwww! So cute!

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Date: 2008-12-25 07:23 pm (UTC)
From: [identity profile] grace-poppy.livejournal.com
Hee, yes it was. (I always love that icon!)

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Date: 2008-12-22 03:04 am (UTC)
From: [identity profile] ladybugjo.livejournal.com
Oh Grace, you're so creative! And such a wonderful aunt!!!

I can't believe how big Natalie is.

Teeheehee, I love the James Bond in the dollhouse within a dollhouse, heeeee!

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Date: 2008-12-25 07:25 pm (UTC)
From: [identity profile] grace-poppy.livejournal.com
Hee! :D We had so much fun. (I know, she's 9! She was born our senior year!)

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Date: 2008-12-22 03:37 am (UTC)
From: [identity profile] mstallulahbelle.livejournal.com
Way cool!! You guys did such great jobs with those!

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Date: 2008-12-25 07:25 pm (UTC)
From: [identity profile] grace-poppy.livejournal.com
It was so much fun!

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Date: 2008-12-22 06:13 am (UTC)
From: [identity profile] anatase.livejournal.com
These are adorable! (houses and nieces).

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Date: 2008-12-25 07:25 pm (UTC)
From: [identity profile] grace-poppy.livejournal.com
Thanks! Yes they are.

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Date: 2008-12-22 07:48 am (UTC)
From: [identity profile] rum-inspector.livejournal.com
Aww... that's so cool! And a dollhouse with Bond in it inside a doll house :D We used to do cardboard box houses at a time for our my little ponies to live in... :P

What a great idea, a log cabin :D

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Date: 2008-12-25 07:26 pm (UTC)
From: [identity profile] grace-poppy.livejournal.com
Aww, I played with My Little Ponies too, LOVED them!