IT'S THE FIFTH SO DOLL PHOTO DAY

 Yes it's already time for the fifth month's doll photos.

First up is this gorgeous photo from RoRoPo of the handsome young Otto, who is inspecting the apple blossom , all is looking good for a great harvest of apples. He can almost taste that apple crumble ! 

From Gill we have two sweet slate eyed Gotz girls, very interested in what mum is up to! Once Mum's finished , they get to use the camera and intend to do some voque-ing , I can even hear the music playing 

From up north we have a couple lads with their coke supply . . . . . naughty ! The drink coke.

I think these lads eyes maybe getting even tinier than normal, due to all the fizz they drink but 

they 'down' wit the crew in them baggy pants en it ! 

Ashley is waiting on Sienna to join her for a photo to show off their new Ginny  summer dresses but

Sienna has decided that she'd like a separate photo. But she'll have one with Ashley another time she says.

Sienna is wearing the second of the two new dresses in what the girls like to call the Audrey Hepburn

style. 

From across the pond we have Kaveh and Blake looking handsome in their sport shirts from Ginny's

While some of their sisters are showing off  their pretty pastel dresses. A beautiful line up of single fringe girls.

Thank you to everyone sending in their photos for us to enjoy. Still time to add yours, just send them in.

DECIDED

 

So finally I decided to paint the old dresser!

So then deciding on the colour , now the purple did appeal i have to confess but I thought it would be just too dark for this.

So I looked at my store of Farrow and Ball sample pots, singling out the blues and greens.

I settled on the colour Cooking Apple Green, a very pale green.

When I got near to the bottom on the first coat , I thought about whether to paint the inside. I decided I would as it would help brighten it up.

Not wanting to run out of paint, I decided to use one of the other greens, but when I started painting it inside I realised that it may be a better choice for the main colour.

So I checked it out by painting it inside the door detail. This one is called Breakfast Room green by FB, look at that depth of colour compared to the quite pale Cooking Apple ! Of course I then changed my plans and painted the inside with the cooking apple green.

So the final finish was Cooking Apple green inside the cupboard but also on the shelves and back of the dresser top and the Breakfast Room green on all the rest.

The back looks almost white, so I am assuming it's the inside of the cooking apple that have matched the colour to.

Then it's time to decide, do I change the handles, paint the existing handles, also do I leave the door panel's as is, paint a design in them or maybe find some dolls house paper to add? 

Well I thought I'd check out some plates on the newly painted dresser 

only to find I had got Paul to put the plate stays too far back and they could not go behind them ! This is because I was worried it would reduce space for other items to stand in front or between them. So now I have had to ask Paul to remove and reglue them, so will need to repaint the shelves once the glues set.

Typically once it was all painted I decided that the uneven top needed to be replaced . There I was sooo close but no just had to throw a spanner !

So wood was purchase and Paul was soon cut and carving a new piece to fit the top, then glued in place.

So the dresser is now finished , just need to put the other door handle back in place , along with the cup hooks I removed and then it can go back into the dolls kitchen and be re loaded up with China.

I do have plans for Paul to make me a wider one later in the year ( don't want him missing the Chat N Snap makes ) which if and when he does, I'll have to be good and sell this one on and not try and keep it.  What's that saying . . . . . Less is more . . . .  If only I believed lol