Like I said before, the apple doesn't fall far, she now she has turned into an Interior Designer (one of those careers I thought of becoming years ago) I took a class through the city and loved it, I have always had a soft spot for interior design as my blog can testify. I can remember when I was little that decorating my Barbie's house was what I enjoyed most about playing with Barbie. I would use my imagination to invent all kinds of furniture for her house. I remember one time taking a plastic baggie and filling it with water to a make a water bed..(hey I was a girl growing up in the 70's). I thought I was so ingenious. Don't ask me next what Barbie and Ken did after I created the bed! Ha! Anyways I loved setting up Barbie's house and then I was done playing with her. I just liked the setting up the house part of playing with Barbie and as you can see, so does my little one...
she loves playing with her Polly Pockets (actually both girls do) in this 3 story Yellow farm house. It's been well loved as you can see from the missing shingles and porch rails and Mr. Incredible (that's my new name for my husband since he was moving the coffee table around while I was vacumming, he even has the theme song for the movie as his ringtone) sorry for the side track. OK..Mr. Incredible built the Yellow farmhouse from a kit years ago for the eldest daughter and they love it soo much. He recently started making some repairs to it,
as you can see lots of the railing needs to be reglued and lots of the shingles on the roof. Wouldn't you just love to have a house like this in real life? I would. I had one on a smaller scale while living in Hawai'i. It had the exact same porch but it was only one story. I use to have dinners out on the porch and you could hear the Hula Music from the Wailua river when we ate out on the porch. Boy..am I rambling today. Ok back to the point of this post. My youngest is such a Mini Me...not only has she been bitten by the decorating bug she has recently got addicted to the Garage Sale Hunting escapades as of late. A few weekends back we went out on the hunt and she found this cute Gumball Machine. I had the exact same one, even the same color.
above it he before and here is the after....
isn't it cute in Powder Pink...we got some Strawberry Whoopers from the 99cents store..which are very good, you gotta get some. It looks very cute in her pinkalicious room. On another comparison, the girl got a (youtube camera for her Birthday and hasn't stopped shooting since, the above photo of the yellow gumball machine is hers. You know I would not be showing the cracked tile and FAT CAT in the photo but it was the only one I got. Here is the camera she got....
and here is my Gilbert ....I thought I should name him since he is my constant companion.
S.O.S. On a sidenote...the Yearbook fiasco is not OVER...they called yesterday and they have to send some pages back for me to redo that they would print out cruddy so if any of my close by scrapper buds have some brick paper or MAMBI stickers like you see in the cover I would love to buy them off you. thanks..
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Ellie- you guys find such great stuff...maybe I should start garage saling...(is that a word?).
Love the house your DH made-
Posted by: shelley e | April 29, 2009 at 12:12 PM
That gumball machine is just too cute! I love the pink candy to go with it. They wouldn't last long in that machine though!
My how clean and organized her doll house is, does her room look like that?
I miss having a doll house...
Posted by: pam | April 30, 2009 at 03:55 PM
Oh, the gumball machine is just darling! Great job! This is so weird because I just posted about my gumball machine makeoever a little while ago. Here's what I did with mine: http://owcl.blogspot.com/2009/05/touch-of-delicious-whimsy.html
Do you mind if I blog about your gumball machine makeover this upcoming week? I just love how it looks in pink! So sweet!
Posted by: One Womans Cottage Life | May 08, 2009 at 07:38 AM
OMG that is great! I admire your work! Guess I am not as contemporaneous as your regular readers! I swear I have fallen in love with this blog... Breathtaking writing! You're an outstanding and talented person, keep up the individuality :)
Posted by: Bathroom Today | March 16, 2011 at 12:23 PM
I have two pedestals..how much are they worth??
Posted by: Ivory Rose | August 15, 2011 at 08:45 AM