Reddiker Woodes

My Own Space

My sister made me a beautiful blanket for the pink scrap booking room, and I just had to get a picture of it.  It goes perfectly with the bed and is so nice and warm.  The green's are the perfect color to pick up the greens in the vines and the curtains.

Priscilla Pink Room

Yeah, internet is back up and my pink room is now Priscilla Pink.

I love this color.  It would be so great in a little girls nursery.  Very light, not to petobismoly like.  White crisp ceiling and baseboards.  Even the closet is pink. :)  Here are the pictures of just the basic essentials in the room; bed, (still need the mattress), table, not white, but that will be fixed with a white skirt, shelves back in the closet, fuschia chair (love the container store), nine cube bookcase that will house all of the tea sets and sundries, white door cabinet that holds the printer and computer stuff, and sweet rose curtains.  What a dramatic change from the ugly brown, sad tree paint. I might not have a girl, but I've got a girly room.  Now to merchandise :)

Bare Walls

Well, today the painter is coming to do the Pink room, and I'm so excited.  Won't have internet access for most of the day, so I'm not sure if I'll have a break down or not.  We'll see.  Here is the room how it use to be.  OH MY GOD, SO MUCH STUFF in one room.  What was I thinking.

Looking in from hallway. Old doll cabinets.

Looking from window out to hallway. Old doll cabinets and scrap booking supplies in closet.

Same looks, no stuff from hallway.  So big so spacious.  I'll be so happy to get rid of that stupid tree that was in the house when we first moved in.

 

From window, no stuff. So clean.

Office's, Dollhouse's, Paint, Oh My Pt4

Now to start the task of not only moving everything over from the other room, but ALL of the "rooms" will need to be decorated, lighted and made pretty first.  One thing that I've decided to do this time around is make some things easy on myself.  On our weekly trips out to Home Depot/Lowes, I found contact paper in a huge roll for under $20.00 that was simulated wood grain.  We figured that this would be fantastic as "wood floors" for ALL of the rooms.  It's easy to cut, can be removed if needed, and looks uniform.

Office's, Dollhouse's, Paint, Oh My Pt3

With having Little Man in the house, he loves to come into any room that we are in, and I've been letting him in more and more. Well the other night, him and his daddy came in and decided to check out the new cabinets and see just how sturdy they really are.

I think I've got the approval from Little Man to start decorating.

Office's, Dollhouse's, Paint, Oh My Pt2

Okay, so it's been a few weeks, and the room has finally been cleared out and painted.
These first two pictures are of the completely empty room.  It was so odd with all of FireHoths stuff out of it.  Almost reminded us of when we first moved into to the house.
The papers that are on the floor were of how the new cabinets were going to go in.  It's a good thing that I checked it, because I had to actually move one of the cabinets to the back wall.

These pictures are of the room finally painted in Marine Blue and Crisp White on the ceiling and trims. I already had switched out the white shears for the new pink ones, and started to bring in some of my dolly props and boxes in the closet.  Firehoth and I had already put up the Elfa shelving and brought in the Evil Stage before the cabinets came in.

Last Monday the cabinets actually came in, and are beautiful. I can't say enough about the company that did them, and they had came in way less expensive than any other ones that I called and checked.

On the left hand side of the room, is the main Reddiker Woodes gang, and the Two Sprites Pub.  On the right hand side of the room is Hyacinth Cottage, Haydens Grotto and both stages, along with the Alice group.

Room from the back of the window out to door and better picture of the right side.  It looks like a tight space, but the room in between both sides is actually quite nice.  Big enough for Little Man to do many somersaults in.

Close ups of some of the "rooms".

Office's, Dollhouse's, Paint, Oh My Pt1

As most of you know, I'm extremely organized.  Well, I guess organized isn't quite the right word, but anal, and obsessive compulsive is.  Since I have had my dolls my office has undergone many, and I mean many transformations.  It's housed a full size one inch scale doll house that was bigger than my first apartment.  It has had several tons of trash thrown out, and considering this room is roughly 12x12 if that, I wonder exactly where has all of this trash come from and where does it reside?  I should have taken stock in Glad Trash bags.  Needless to say, it gets a seasonal clearing.  Well this last time, I seriously had to make room for more of my scrap booking supplies.  Not only does Little Man have several scrap books and memory holders, so do my dolls, or they will.

Just before Christmas, I decided to throw out stuff from my top shelves in the closest and boy, what a hull I found.  I still had ceramic supplies left around from at least 10 years ago.  Box of feathers from when I first made my first craft project of hand done masks.  I haven't touched a feather or a mask in at least eight years.  And just numerous boxes of useless materials.  Buttons, divided in colors, stuck in little bags, and labeled even.  I CAN'T SEW, SO WHAT THE HELL DO I HAVE EVERY COLOR OF THE RAINBOW OF BUTTONS FOR?????

With taking this latest load of five trash bags down to the garage, I walked past FireHoths room.  The door to this room has been closed for at least eight months.  How peculiar.  On my way back up to my room, I took the chance and opened the door.  I wasn't quite sure what I would find; horse head, bodies, stash of money, porn, the list is endless.  But what I found was just his fetish of collecting coins.  Lots of coins and lots of sci-fi books, but strewn all over the room. Hello, do you remember who you live with.  Hence the door being closed.  Both rooms are the same size, and we've been here for the same amount of time, and yet my room has gone through hundreds of transformation.  I started to think what it would be like to have TWO ROOMS, or one big room for my dolls, and scrap booking supplies, which is starting to look like Archivers, (hint, hint, my favorite store, next to the doll store).

Well, while thinking about this, I had come downstairs to go and start bringing up the Christmas decorations from the basement.  Now the basement is nice. Completely done and with a bedroom and bathroom.  But since it is the basement, underground basically, it's friggen cold down there.  Now in the summertime, that's not a bad thing, but in the winter, we'd have to run the heater 24/7 at 75 degrees to make it at least 68/69 degrees.  Yeah, I don't see that happening anytime soon.  But the bedroom that is down there, is lovely. Huge closet, two huge windows with pretty good light, and lots, and LOTS OF ROOM.  HMMMM, my mind started to wander, go figure.  Could I use the basement bedroom as my new office??? Well, yeah of course. But the main problem here is that it's in the basement.  I can't hear anything that goes on down there.  When I'm upstairs, I can hear when someone is walking around down two flights of steps, but down there, I can't here what Little Man might be up to, and by the time I'd have to run up both flights of steps, I could very well die of a coronary.  So the best and most practice thing to do is, let FireHoth have the basement, and it can be a complete MAN CAVE, and I take the two upstairs rooms as mine.

Now this would be all simple if that's all that had to be done.  But NOOOOOO, the basement must be cleared out first.  That means getting rid of or at least scaling down a lot of Little Man's items.  This is sad, because this means that any brother or sister coming in the near future has been put on hold.  SO EVERYONE WHO KEEPS ASKING US, CAN NOW STOP. My need for organization is more important than giving him a sibling.  Then all of FireHoth's stuff needs to be moved down.  This would be easy also, if there wasn't so much stuff; books, coins, books, more books, more coins.  Then that room needs to get painted. DONE, already got the quote.  Yeah for me.  Then new bookcase need to come into play, got quotes for those also, AAGGGHHH banging head on walls.  Then they need to be decorated, all of my dolly stuff moved over, then my old room cleared out, and on and on and on.  So I'm pretty sure this will take up till at least March to get done.  I just love a good clean out.

Before/during shot of my room, looking towards the window, then from window towards door.  And same in FireHoth's room.

Monday: Updated pictures.

More Goodies for Room

So, out the other day, more goodies for the big office re-do.

I was at Jo-Anns on Thursday and they have all of their floral picks on sale.  I saw these and figured they be great for outside in the fairy garden, to take place of the fall picks that are there, but after looking at them, I think they will be great in the "pink room", in a nice white or teal vase.

You can always repurpose things and Valentines day is perfect for that.  This cute little wreath will go great just sitting around and it was on sale also.

Another pink heart wreath, but this time made out of feathers.  And apparently, some decided to take off.

I'm a sucker for new paper, especially paper stacks.  This new line will go great for maybe the dolly notebook, but it's just so cute.  They have a boy one also.  This is just the 4x6 pack, and they also have the 8x8 and 12x12 sets.

The closet curtains came in, and are a pretty cream with tiny flowers and matching rose tiebacks.

A really cute find from the grocery store over the weekend yeiled me yet another tea mug.  This one though reminds me so much of my Alice in Wonderland stuff.

A Few Of My Favorite Things 2

So, some more little goodies have made their way into the house for the new and improved room.  These are mostly for the "Pinq" room.  I still need a better name for it, so for now that's what it'll be called, "Le Pinq Room".  I'm going to have to go and research. :)
In the room there will be an all white crib, turned into a day bed. I figured on a crib instead of an actual twin size bed, because one, somewhat cheaper, and two, the bedding is just going to be so cute.  All I need in there is just a place to sit and relax, not so much to sleep.  And as short as what I am, it'll be big enough for me to sleep in if I fall asleep. So while at Target over the weekend, I found a cheap, half price bedding set.  All pink, including the sheet, bumper pad, dust ruffle, and quilt.  This will do for now, and it's actually really cute looking.

Along with the crib bedding I found on sale a Shabby Chic pillow.  It's huge and nice and fluffy and will make a great addition to the bed.

I've got on order four sets of cream/pink/rose shower curtains coming in, and I needed shower hooks to go along with them.  Target had these four sets and will go perfect with the curtains.

The window curtains that I have up now are a cream sheer and I wanted something that was more with the room, so I found for $8.00 a pair, pink sheers to go on the windows.  Now I just need to find the right valance to tie it all in.

This little guy, I've been looking at for a while on line and finally just broke down to buy him.  He is actually suppose to be in the bathroom, but with a good regular paper roll will be great in the office to use to take notes on.  I think I'll have to name him.

From Miles Kimball, I ordered a personalized letter box.  More pink.

Lowes has this nine cube shelf, that I had seen, and it's going to probably be decorated in some sort of pretty paper, but it's going to house all of my tea sets.  I have about seven of them all throughout the house and boxed up and now, I'll finally have them sitting out.

This box is actually pretty old.  I've had it sitting around for a while, to redo for Little Man's tooth fairy box, but it's painted so well, and will match in the new room.  He will get a new box, and I'm going to keep this one for me.  I think to make it really interesting, I'll find some animal teeth to put in it.  I've got to keep some of my Gothicness around me.

And last for the day, while at Joanns last week, I found this Laura Ashley desk set on sale, and couldn't pass it up.

A Few of my Favorite Things

A couple of weekends ago we had gone to one of the antique stores that we frequent a lot and wasn't really looking for anything in particular, but found some goodies.  Since I'm redoing my offices, one of the things I really wanted to do is make it extremely girly and have that shabby chic atmosphere to it.  A faux cake came in from Pink Rose Pastries.  These are fantastic and just the sweetest thing ever.  While at the antique store I actually found a cake stand to put it on.  I have a feeling that many of these might be coming into the room.

This next piece is very shabby, but very cute.  It's going to go on the crib/daybed for the room.

In many of the catalogs I get I've been seeing a bunch of Wreath Hangers and dried wreaths for them.  This one is only about a foot or so tall and can hold mini wreaths.  this one is a lavender heart. 

For the dollies, especially Constance, I found this great little foot stool.  For her it can be a bench/seat.  I plan on reupholstering it in something newer and painting the legs.

I got a huge package from Dollmore last week also, and some new seating came in for the new palour.  I got two of these chairs, and the other one Minnie Paws is using on my nightstand.

I had been debating about getting a new couch for the bigger guys, and really wanted the big one from Volks, which still might come into the house, but for the same amount I was able to get more seating and this pink leather sofa.  When I redo the room, the walls are going to be cream with pink trims, so the new seating will be very candy like in the room.
Gustave decided to test it first.

Claudia and Bethany even got better softer seating.  These little fabric chairs are jewelery boxes, but fit the MSD size great.

Dollmore is a great company, and they put in a lot of little free gifts that I was totally shocked about.  A little felt bag, tons of postcards, and little gold spoons, bracelets and neck laces.  They also sent a pair of black wings.  WOW.

Onto evilBay now, I found a cute little lunch box for Constance, that is Hello Kitty, with items inside.

For the new room I plan on keeping a little feather tree decorated.  I've been looking for one from Bethany Lowell for the longest time and found a sweet little white one, along with bulbs and garland in blues, pinks, greens.

From American Girl I got an email about there end of the year sale and decided to look around and found the little Sweet shop set up. One side is pink shelving and the other in white.  The table itself is a little big for the SD dolls, but the props in it are fantastic and I plan on just having it set up with lots of faux cakes and re-ment goodies.  more or less storage.  I have a little pink ice cream seating and table set coming, but it's on back order till the end of February.

And finally the last thing.  With the VDES head that came in I got a little shopping cart from LUTS.  I figured Izzy, Battina or Sophia could use it.