Update on the vintage dollhouse

It has been so long since I blogged here. And when I checked, it has been an even longer time since I blogged about my vintage thrift find, the dollhouse I am going to be decorating for Annabelle and Marie Terese, my French Fashion reproduction dolls. 

So here are some photos I took over the weekend, with my camera. 

The whole house

Annabelle & Marie Terese in the kitchen

Marie Terese in the kitchen

Kitchen & dining room

Annabelle in the parlor

Marie Terese in her bedroom

Annabelle in her bedroom.

I have found two beds on ebay that I am currently hoping to get, just have to save up the funds for them right now. My problem in finding suitable beds was size for the dolls and to fit the rooms, and also period correct. 

I have had alot of inspiration on my backstory of this house. 

Marie-Terese is the little sister of Annabelle. I haven't decided on their last name as of yet. Since I live in the South, I am thinking of making them live in their family home/plantation farm named Queensfield, after a plantation near me here in King William County. It received a charter from King William and Queen Mary ll and looks like a large brick farmhouse with dairy barns, etc. I think I might have the story they inherited the home from their parents who died during the war of fever or perhaps their mother died when Marie Terese was small and Father died just recently after being an invalid. 

I have been neglecting the house lately, I purchased it about two or three months ago. It sits in my garage since it is so large, on a table behind my desk. Since it is beginning to get warmer now I will be able to add furniture and pictures on the walls. Suitable chairs for the dining room will be difficult, but I have a couple in mind. The rooms are small so I cannot put too much in them. 

I am hoping to get in the future, a beau/gentleman doll that will be Annabelle's beau or husband and possibly a doll that can be a maid or housekeeper. You can't have too many french fashion dolls! lol. Right now I am attempting to find the time to sew some new clothes for them for a picnic challenge for the French Fashion Doll group I belong to. We are creating picnic outfits and doing scenes with our dolls for them. I would love to do an adorable red and white striped dress for Mare Terese with a butterfly net and a nice white lace dress for Annabelle with a straw hat. So much sewing!!!

I am currently working on a small quilt, just for fun. Lately it takes forever for me to finish projects, so hopefully it will be done in time. 

We are having some very bad weather- it has been pouring here in the county where I live so I was unable to go to my fashion doll club meeting yesterday. The roads were so flooded it was unsafe. 

Hopefully that will clear up soon. Enjoy the pics! Lisa