Madelon's Fantastic Friday Finds! A Beach Bag For Your Dolls...

Today Madelon shares a fun find that is in stores right now! Check out this pencil bag she has reused as a dolly beach bag!

"I found this $3 pencil case at Target to use as a beach or travel bag"

This is a really Great Idea Madelon! I love how much room there is in this little bag!
Find yours in store at Target now!
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Adorable Etsy Finds- Dolly Gardens

Todays post is inspired by the Garden Dress Fabric Panel ! I love the cut of this dress and the gardening theme so today we look at some wonderful dolly gardening items on Etsy.

This fabric panel offers doll lovers the opportunity to create a great dress and matching bag! Click here for this easy to follow fabric panel kit. 

Our Friends over at Lemon Bay Doll Company have a great Dolly Accessory set offered in their shop. The right sized tools for the project and an apron I wish I had in my own size. Click here for shop and listing.

I also love the Lemon Bay Doll Co pattern for the felt vegetables! Click here for this one you won't want to miss this if you are putting together a playset for sure!

Gleefullbambino's Etsy Shop has a fun printable listing for dolly gardeners and it is priced at $2. 
Click here to learn more about this shop and listing.

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Get Your Craft On With Brandy! DIY Dolly Sized Mason Jar Drinking Glasses

Keeping with Trends and making things as realistic for doll play as she can is a specialty of Brandy's! Today I am sharing her craft for doll sized Mason Jar Drinking Glasses!

This is apart of a fun and exciting doll play craft tutorial... 

To see how Brandy made these and how you can Get Your Craft on With Brandy of Brandy's Happy Home by clicking here.

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Hitting The Books with Karen Happy 4th of July! Barbie Books I love!

I have to tell you that I was a huge Barbie fan growing up. I still love this iconic doll and I had not seen this book before and would love to have it! So today I am sharing some of my most favorite Barbie books that you may also love as well.  The World of Barbie was put out in celebration of 50 years of Barbie books! You can find this book on The Book Depository by clicking here. 

One of my most favorite memories were of Barbie and her pets growing up and I love this modern book on Barbie, her sisters and the kittens you can find this book on The Book Depository by clicking here.

I love the Step into reading series and this one is a great one! Click here for Barbie I can be A Horse Rider!

This is a great book from my personal collection  and though I could not find it on The Book Depository  you can find it on Amazon.com by clicking here

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Mommy Monday Moment with Jenny

Man! I feel like I am always telling my kids "be careful", "watch out", "be safe".  Those have been my catch phrases for the past 14 years.  Hence no broken bones, no sprains, no surgeries, and some no bee stings.  Everything they do - I follow up with a "be careful guys!"  Natalie is now able to finish my sentences, "be..."  "CAREFUL", "take your..." "TIME", "yes..." "MA'AM",  and the best "be..." "PATIENT".  Why is it every time you tell your little ones that the Pyrex dish, you just placed on the counter, from the 400 degree oven, is hot, and yet they still feel tempted to make sure your not lying?  That reminds me, never put your 375 degree Pyrex under water, especially in the garbage disposal side of the sink - lets talk about shrapnel.  That was an interesting 12 o'clock in the morning, making oven baked doll food for an order, setting off all eight smoke detectors, four of them in the kids' bedrooms.  The oven was smoking and the "food" was done!.  No one woke up - which is actually a little alarming, I guess you can have the best fire prevention plan in the world, nine hard-wired smoke detectors, but if your kids don't hear the alarm you've got bigger problems, yet the baby can hear the softest of sniffles during a nap. 

  Anyway, I digress  Recently, I was with a friend, another "cool mom" of five, and I heard her just shoot the one word DANGER, as her little guy was toddling toward the baseball field.  Perfect! Brilliant, I thought.  Perhaps my language is jumbled and is processed in a confused manner when Natty translates it, or maybe she just doesn't care and likes to push buttons.  I'd have to side with the latter.  She is for sure a button pusher, but in the cutest of ways.  Danger just about covers all situations: stairs, parking lots, open waters, general walking, playgrounds, door locks, standing on your chair, flushing diapers down the potty, running on the sidewalk, hot cheese on pizza (when you still take a bite and regret it for days).  It's easy, simple, and can be modeled through play.  Even better!  So, I grabbed out Emmy the baby doll.  Natty and I headed for the play kitchen.  I really wanted to show her that playing around hot ovens and stove tops =  DANGER.  I'm pretty sure she understands that I don't want her to touch these things, but I believe she struggles with what the end result could be if she does touch hot objects, since she has never been hurt by something hot - she may just be curious what "hot" and "no" together really mean, since it receives a lot of attention in the kitchen.  Emmy, the doll, will be a perfect guinea pig for this lesson. 

 We pretended to cook our dinner, being oh so very careful, using our play oven mitts and pot holders.  I started walking Emmy around and had Natalie tell her - DANGER.  After about 20 minutes of thoughtful, meaningful play, and after bandaging up Emmy a few times with the doctor kit, the big girls: Abby, Kate, and Natty loaded up to get our summer hair cuts.  Hhhhmmm, maybe now would be the appropriate time to talk about scissors and hair, because she will be "that" kid.  See you next Monday - as Kate and I explore sewing our first doll dress together.

Thank you Jenny for sharing your Monday Mommy Moment with us today!

Check out Jenny's latest creations in her Etsy shop Rita Pita Boutique by clicking here. 

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Sunday Yarn Craft Spectacular Suggested Dolly Fun! Creatively Homemade's 18 inch Flip Flops!

Years ago a wonderful crafter I know posted this fantastic idea and today I knew I had to share it with you. Making your own flip flops for dolls using plastic canvas and yarn!

Jen of Creatively Homemade. Com has a great tutorial for you that is timeless and perfect for summer! Click here for her tutorial! 

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Jessica T's Saturday Sewing Suggestions! Happy Canada Day! Skirts Week 2!

Happy Canada Day from all of us to all of you celebrating today! 

Week two of Jessica T's Summer Sewing Suggestions and we continue with simple skirts and Doll Tag Clothing's Simply a Skirt pattern which is a free download on PixieFaire.com 

Click here for the link on the pattern website for your fee downloadable pattern! 

We love that you can make them for the Disney Animator Dolls too! 

Thank you for this great suggestion Jessica T and thank you all for joining us today. We would love to hear from you so please leave us a comment here or email us at karenmowen@gmail.com