Silkies steal the dining room for their luncheon...

The Silkstones couldn't let the W club have all the fun, so they decided to ge acquainted with two ladies de-boxed for this photo- Plantation Belle and Market Day. I found Market Day last year in Tuesday Morning for about $24 and grabbed her. Someone had even thrown in a pair of extra shoes for her in the box! I was excited last year when I ordered Plantation Belle, as my aunt had had this same outfit in the 60's, but when I received her, she looked so pale. She had to grow on me a little before I let her out of the box!lol. But she looks ok now, and is a great part of my collection. I'm thinking her dress would look adorable on myr ed head Poppy Parker....So anyways, here are the Silkies living it up.












Penelope, Pretty In Pink, is the personal stylist to the W Club, and also to Agnes Von Weiss, who likes her style. Career Girl Barbara works in the administrative part, and moves the out of stock designer fashions & accessories on Ebay with her co-hort, Luchia. Market Day works for Penelope, who sends her out to pick up the designer duds for the W Club models. Highland Fling (Maeve) is a talented model who has trouble deciding what man she will date each week...and Plantation Belle is named Muffy, who is actually a debutante heiress who loves fashion and decided she wants her own fashion clothing company, and is learning the business from the 'ground up ' so to speak...but she's not really into working, that's what her best buddy Midge is for. Tweed Indeed is a colleague of Penelope's, and wishes she could be at the office instead of wasting time here at the luncheon, but networking is crucial.....so goes the saga of the Silkstone lifestyle in BarbieTown.....

Enjoy!~Lisa

Dining room done...

Well, the dining room for the dinner party is done. I had ordered one of those Gloria sets on Ebay that is $6 plus $9 of shipping- and finally finished the repaint. The only problem I can see wrong with the dining room set is that it is rather low for 1:6 scale dolls, the table will do, but the chair s will also. In the dollhouse, the drawing room doubles as the dining room, and it looked awesome when I was done. Here are the pics-






the crew is having a good time, Agnes is introducing her cousin Lady Agatha to everyone present-

she was really hoping Agatha could hold off on the chain smoking at dinner

Suzy Goose set accessoriezed!

Well, my repaint on the pieces is done. I decided to leave the wallpaper alone in the armoire- it is so awesome that the original paper is still in there intact. I had received my 2 barbie basics packs I bought from Barbie Collector .com so I wouldn't lost my reward, and used them and some other items to accessorize! The items now reside in the playscale dollhouse in the smaller bedroom- remember when Skipper was going to have her own room?? Yeah, I have the bunk bed set for Skipper, that is another repaint project waiting to happen!lol.

Currently, I am working on my 2nd project for a diorama I am planning, my dolls having dinner in the Grand dining room. I just received some ofhte Gloria furniture off of Ebay and only have a few more touchups to do on that, before I can get started on that story line with my dolls eating.

Enjoy the pictures!~Lisa

My new Yard sale find- Suzy Goosey set!

This morning I was in the mood to go to a few yard sales near my shop, since it was early on Saturday morning, and the weather was great. Driving to my old neighborhood near the elementary school- called Lakeside Elementary, was a very large garage/yard sale. I saw many things I had to pass up- but could not pass up this vintage Suzy Goose set- the armoire, vanity stool, and chest!










As you can see, it has alot of yellowing and staining on the exterior of hte armoire, yet the stool is in mint condition. I paid $15 for all three pieces! I figured that was about $5 per piece, no cracks or very bad staining, and I could afford to repaint the armoire at this price!

I posted the pics on Doll Divas message board, and Diva Details Audrey gave me some great tips, as did other board members on how they painted their pieces. Painting them wasn't the actual problem, but I hesitated because the original wallpaper in the armoire was intact, and it didn't seem like it was coming out. I may just sticky tack some miniature wallpaper over it, on a piece of posterboard, so the original paper is preserved.

I have been collecting items for a scene recently, for a storyline in the one sixth scale dollhouse- Luchia and Career girl Barbie have decided to team up and sell bags, purses, shoes on Ebay with their new laptop computer that came with the barbie basics sets I ordered! This armoire will probably be in the girls' dressing room (originally meant to be Skipper's bedroom!) & one of hte French tables will be used as a laptop desk. I have always wanted to do a shop scene with my dolls, but never had the time nor the props!

Will show more pics after the base coats are applied, and more pictures later. Enjoy!
~Lisa