Articles for tag: Doll House, Needlework, Room Box

Doll House Scales: Getting it Done Right

One of the trickiest things to get down when you first start miniature work is scale. What do all those numbers mean, and more importantly how can you decorate your house or room box without it all being out of proportion? First, let’s define the common scales and their doll house ratio to the real ...

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Henrik Ibsen’s The Doll’s House: Victorian Novel

In the play, The Doll’s House, the author Henrik Ibsen establishes a sense with the reader that Nora and her lifestyle symbolize a doll or dollhouse. During this era of a Victorian society, women were expected to love and obey their husbands, work at home, and take care of their children. It is evident throughout ...

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What You Need to Know About Vintage Barbie Doll Houses

Vintage Barbie Doll Houses were hard to find during the 1980’s when collectors had to comb estate auctions, yard sales, thrift stores, flee markets and their neighbor’s basements for these time-worn treasures. Often, it took years to find enough of the right parts to call your vintage Barbie Doll house complete. Times changed during the ...

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Top Ten Toys for Toddler Girls

I have a little two-year-old girlie-girl daughter, so I am fairly familiar with the toys that make her happy to be playing in her room or the tub. Not all of her favorite toys are especially girlie, some are gender neutral, but they’re all still part of our top 10. Listed here are our top ...

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Toy Review: Fisher-Price’s My First Dollhouse

When my daughter visits her grandma once or twice a year, she spends hours playing with her aunt’s doll house from the 90s. Because of her fascination with the doll house, her daddy and I gave her a toddler doll house for her second birthday; the one we chose is called the Fisher-Price My First ...

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Henrik Ibsen’s A Doll’s House as Social Commentary

The Play A Doll’s House by Henrik Ibsen expresses many social conventions through the play’s dramatic conventions. Ibsen makes a commentary on the convention of marriage in the 1800’s as well as the conventions of the relationship between a husband and wife in relation to expected roles and duties of each. Not only is Ibsen ...

How to Build a Doll House for Your Little Princess

Sometimes it is just easier just to go to a local retail store and buy your little princess a doll house, but which do you think she would treasure more? The plastic one you bought at Wal-Mart? Or the doll house you yourself spent time building and painting for her? Every little girl imagines a ...

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The Easiest Way to Light Up Your Doll House

I enjoy building doll houses on the side. Whenever I have some spare time I will put together a doll house, paint it, and add some furniture. These doll houses either go away to a family member, or I sell them whenever we have a yard sale. These doll houses though are always put together ...