Barber Shop Room Box

This is the second room box I have created, I started it a while ago but never finished it. Since Father's Day was coming up, I decided to finish it and name it in honor of my dad. I hung one of my favorite photos of the two of us on the wall. The first was a dress shop I named after my mom. 

https://jocelynsdollhouse.blogspot.com/2017/01/juanitas-dress-shop-room-box.html

The design was inspired by my husband's fraternity. The furniture was a Christmas present from him few years ago. The barber doll was commissioned and he even came with a tiny pair  of working scissors!I  bought the rest of the grooming supplies on Etsy.

I used scrapbook paper for ceiling and walls. I used wood and stickers for the letters. I made the clock from a wooden appliqué that I painted with metallic acrylic paints. I used the regular dollhouse lights in the interior of the shop. I used plastic brick sheet in the inserts under the windows.

I made the barber post from paper, plastic tubing and wood caps. I with a marker I drew red and blue lines on a piece of paper and then stuffed it inside the tube. The post is it with a LED mega chip inside the plastic tube and that is connected to a battery. I cut a slit down the side of the tube to allow the thin wire of the LED to come out underneath the cap at the top. The exterior sides and back are unfinished for now. When I took these photos I had not run the wire through the small hole in the front of the building to conceal it yet. 

 I would like to thank Jodi over at My Miniature Madness Blog for the lovely vanity set!!!

http://my-miniaturemadness.blogspot.com/2020/06/meet-vera-and-virgil-and-lavender.html   

I still can't believe I won!!! Two of my favorite colors are lavender (which is also my favorite fragrance) and mint green. I already had a mint tub (a soap dish in its former life), so I guess it was meant to be!!!

MARIE LAVEAU The Voodoo Queen Doll by Soraya Merino

When I saw her I just felt that she wanted to come to my dollhouse. This doll is a likeness of a real person, Marie Laveau who was born a free woman of color in 1794 and died in 1881. She became the most famous and powerful Voodoo Queen in New Orleans. Marie was a devout Catholic and attended Mass daily. Voodoo in New Orleans was a blend of West African religion and Catholicism. Marie began as a hairdresser and later became a nurse during the Yellow Fever epidemics. She was an astute business woman and was the first commercial Voodoo Queen. She specialized in romance and finance. She was skilled in the practice of medicine and knew the healing qualities of indigenous herbs.  She would sit with the condemned in their last moments, sometimes serving them their last meal. But I just thought this was a beautiful doll and she resembles the maid doll I have already, so maybe it's her daughter who took over for her when she died.

Exterior Almost Finished

I recently discovered that I had not taken a full front view with the attached 4th floor and roof front, so I decided to make a post. This was a difficult shot because I had to take it sitting down, I've been having issues with my right foot since the summer, (Morton's Neuroma) which makes it painful for standing or walking. I needed to turn the whole table to back up far enough to get the front and the house and court yard are very heavy together. I have to finish my ferns, repair my rear balcony, glue handles I ordered for the french doors when they come in and glass inserts. The chimneys have been painted the same as the house but are unattached until I decide which roof treatment I am going with. I have narrowed it down to two.

DIY Hanging Metal Pot Rack

I have always wanted a hanging pot rack in a dollhouse. I have been thinking of how to create one from scratch for a while now. Michaels has great stuff for mason jar projects and I came across this object used to created floral arrangements inside the jars. I thought it would be great as base for the rack. I considered using the hooks I used to hang the sign in my coffee shop but I decided on a chain from an old necklace, jump rings and a small hook. I sprayed the whole thing with black spray paint used for touching up a BBQ grills.

 

I connected all of the chains to one jump ring which I hung over the hook

Here it is spray painted black