BARBIE SKIRT

Craftiness Is Not an Option posted a tutorial on how to make the above Barbie skirt out of a piece of 12" x 3.5 inch fabric for the skirt and another piece that is 1.25" x 5 for the waistband and a piece of sew on velcro.  I plan on making a few of these some time to go in the box for future grandchildren.

For the complete tutorial click here.

Photo:  Craftiness Is Not an Option

Miniature Sponge Cake and Pie for Barbie Dolls

These are totally amazing! Alas, my great niece Mia will only be a year old and too young to play with these if I make them now, so putting this on the back burner for when she is older (or if I make them find a place to store them around here for the next few years).

The following blog has a tutorial on how to make the above with sponges.

http://cathiefilian.blogspot.com/2009/03/make-it-miniature-sponge-cake-pie.html?showComment=1237956720000#c8849612870659454409

"Miniature Sponge Cake Materials

• Flat, expandable sponges, yellow and pink
• pen
• quarter
• scissors
• white craft paint
• craft glue
• mini ribbons
• mini beads
• large button"

You use the bottom of the paint bottle as a template to cut the sponges into circle, glue them togetherthen cut up a wedge wet them then let them dry. After that paint the the top, bottom and side (everything except the wedge) white, glue the ribbon around the outer bottom edge and glue the beads in a design on the top. Looks like the button was used to make the cake riser, but is also look like the button is on top of a bottle cap and both are painted/decorated.

"Miniature Pie Materials:

• Bottle caps
• Tan felt
• Red seed beads (or color to match fruit of choice)
• Quick Hold craft glue

The bottle caps are the pie pan, you line them around the edge with tan felt, glue the seed beads in to represent the "fruit" then cover with little strips of tan felt for the top of the pie.

(Clipart from http://www.designedtoat.com/)

Mini Dress Form Jewelry Stand

I found the gem of a tutorial over at Craftchi.

http://craftchi.com/blog/?p=943

It involves making a jewelry stand out of a Barbie type doll, fimo/sculpey clay and a wire hanger and it is very retro awesome cool.

Instead of using the doll as the base itself, I think I will either make a duct tape form of the doll or mold it in the clay or mold it on the clay on the duct tape form. Decisions, decisions.

Also, instead of candle holder, I think maybe an old thread spool glued to a base (maybe of clay also) would be cooler.