Join my Give-away, Win personalized T for your doll!

Check out my post below! Join our contest. It's fun even if you don't win, but you will have a good chance to win. See my post below  http://beachbabydoll.blogspot.com/2011/02/contest-about-my-new-photo-story-win.html

A contest about my new Photo Story! Win a personalized Doll T-shirt (to fit AG, Karito Kids, Best Friends Club dolls) sewn from a Liberty Jane pattern!

 

New Giveaway contest:
Read my new photo story click on the blue writing here:  "3 Girls go to the Hospital"

After you finish, return to this blog post and leave a comment with your suggestion for Peanut's real name AND how she lost her hair. It will be fun to see what everyone writes! 
THE PRIZE:  A fitted capsleeve T-shirt made with a Liberty Jane Pattern  and personally machine embroidered with the name of your doll or another short word or two. I can sew it for your American Girl Doll or similar size 18 in doll , Karito Kid or Best Friend Club doll. It will look similar to these shirts except, the name. I will give you a choice of colors. (You can request "Jesus <3 me" on it in place of a name if you wish).

Contest Rules:  You will have to be one of my visible followers to win so I can send you a private message that you won.  Contest will be over March 19, 2011.   Winner will be chosen by drawing your entry out of a hat. Every separate comment to this post is one chance to win. If you or your parent or adult relative  joins BeachBabyDoll's facebook fan page, you get an extra chance to win.This contest is designed for girls 14 years old and under but you can play at any age. Parents, grandparents, aunts can play for their children.  If you win and you're under 18, I will need you to send me the name and address of your parent who will be the official winner, so your parent has to know you entered, okay! I can't wait to read your entries!  

Happy Valentine's Day, Everyone!

I wish everyone the bestest Valentine's Day! Just remember that Jesus loves you SO much. See the verse of the day on this blog! (John 13: 34-45) Show someone you love them today!

Ku'uipo Outfit for Kanani

Ku'uipo means My Sweetheart in Hawaiian. That's why I think this little outfit is perfect to be shown near Valentine's Day. The Ku'uipo is specially embroidered so the O is a flower. The skirt is reversible to a cute tiny flower design on reddish material. The Tee shirt is fitted with cap sleeves. The flower is anchored to a small bobbi pin so your doll can wear it near her ear. Nicole Loves this outfit and doesn't want to give it up; but it will soon be for sale in Beach Baby Doll's etsy shop.I think we've raised  enough money for two younger children to go to Bible camp this summer with the sales from the shop since August. Praising the Lord for all He gives us! And thanking the generosity of our customers. Yay!!
Guess what? I loved "Blue Hawaii" the movie with Elvis. It was made when I was in high school, I think. That's where I first heard the word Ku'uipo so I'm sharing this video with you.



Lyrics | Elvis Presley - Ku-U-I-Po lyrics

A purse for American Girl Dolls out of Wall Covering!

 

Vinyl wall covering makes a great purse material. It sort of looks like leather. This is a purse I made.  I got an old wall covering sample book from the paint store for free. You can cut it easily and sew through it or use glue. This book had designs that are perfect for purses. I made the strap out of 3 kinds of yarn braided together.  To close the purse, I sewed on a shiny copper-look button and made a braided yarn loop. On the flap I used my scallop scizzors. Many paint stores throw their old books out, so just ask for one and thank them profusely. Fun! Put a real penny in it for your doll!

How to make a Sofa for your dolls from a Shoe Box

I originally posted this on the American Girl Fan Message Board today.
How to make a Shoe box Sofa:
You can make a sofa for your dolls: The back will be one long side of the shoe box. The seat will be the bottom of the shoe box. The ends of the shoe box will be the arm rests or high sides.
Here's how you do it:

1.  Get some fabric glue. and an adult size shoe box.
2.  Get some scraps of fabric: 4 rectangles. Read step 7 and 8. Get some stuffing like from an old pillow.
3.  Take off the top of the box [if it has a top] and set it aside.
4.  Cut one long side of the box completely off. You will now have a back attached to a seat and sides.
5. Measure the seat area of the box (That is the original bottom of the box.) Make a cloth bag by hand from a 2  rectangle pieces of material that are 3 inches longer and 2 inches wider than the size of the seat area .Sew the bag as follows;
6. With right sides of the materials facing each other, sew one short side and two long sides up. Leave one short side open . Now, turn bag right side out..
7.   Measure the side that you didn't cut off. (the back of the sofa) Make another cloth bag from 2  rectangle pieces of material that is 2 inches longer and wider than that side which is now the back of the sofa. Make the bag the same way you did for the back.
8.   Stuff the bags. Check to see if each little bag has too much or too little stuffing to make a nice seat bottom and back. Then hand stitch up the end.
9. Put the bottom seat cushion in the sofa first, then the back.
10. It should start to really look like a sofa now. The remainder of the instructions are IDEAS and aren't necessary.

• Using fabric glue, cover the back of the seat and arm rests on both side. Or you could use contact paper or paint or anything.  Felt works well if it co-ordinates with your little seat cushions. You don't have to cover the seat bottom because the seat cushion will be over it.
• You can raise the sofa off the floor by making legs out of  4 thread spools and glueing them to the bottom of the sofa. Or if the top of the shoe box that you set aside is sturdy, you can glue the outside of the old top to the outside of the bottom of the box which is now the seat.  This will raise the seat up a bit.
• Make little throw pillows by hand out of  4 or 5 in squares of  2 pieces of material sewn right sides together then turned so right side is out.  Just like you did the big cushions. Stuff. and  hand stitch closed.

This sofa will be either sitting on the floor with no legs or close to the floor with spool legs. The dolls will love it because their legs don't bend and they can sit well in it without a foot stool.

Enjoy, Have fun.

I must be thinking I want to go to a Luau

Isn't the ocean beautiful? Thanking God for it today!