Barbie fireplace

[chochiyo_sama]

Cynthia's barbie room 1, a photo by Pirate Queen ChoChiyo on Flickr.

My cousin Jim's daughter Cynthia came over to the house with a bag full of stuff and a heart full of desire to make a barbie house. I had saved the big box one of my mom's christmas presents came in because it was an ideal size for a Barbie room. In it there were a couple big chunks of styrofoam. I drew lines on the styrofoam with a sharpie and her little brother sawed through them and made this fireplace shape.

I drew a few rocks to give her the idea, then she drew the rest. She painted them with watercolor paints mixed up like paste so it would stick to the styrofoam.

I stapled a piece of black felt to the back; the kids gathered some sticks from the yard for "logs," and I cut red, yellow, and orange "flames" out of felt and glued them amongst the logs to look like a real "fire." We glued a pice of purple felt to the mantle and a scrap of gold braid along the top of the fireplace to finish it off. The "hearth" is a shiny white flap off the narrow end of the box.

We printed off a cute picture of a herd of "My Little Pony" critters and framed it with cardboard and colored computer paper. She decorated the frame with tiny sea shells, little fake pearls and tiny bed turtles.

I love the fireplace. I may have to make one for myself one day soon.