Following the Frozen Doll Room I’ve made another doll room,
this time my favourite Disney Princess is getting a new café.
The second doll room I made was Tiana’s Café. In the movie
Tiana opened a restaurant – not a café – but with a little creative license I
decided to make a café instead. It was a nice little set when I made it but I
know that now I could do much better. I also felt like Tiana needed to move to
larger premises.
The first thing I made for Tiana’s Café was a kitchen, the
plan was to make this outside of the usual cereal box I make doll rooms in and
has it rest alongside the box. For this I took a piece of card from a calendar
insert which I cut to size and then covered with paper. Using a hot glue gun I
secured a shelf onto the wall, there’s also a small bottle cap glued to provide
extra support for the shelf. I then used items I’d either previously made or collected
to furnish the kitchen for Tiana.
As with many of doll rooms, the main part of the café
started out as a cereal box. I cut it to open up one side and then covered the
edges and the outside of the box with white paper to neaten it up. This step is
taken from My Froggy Stuff on YouTube.
With the box prepared I worked on the exterior of the café.
I used a green check scrapbook paper which I thought looked like tiles along
the front of the box. I stuck on a piece of wood print scrapbook paper with a
picture of a frame and a small handle added on for a door. For the sign I used
black paper and a white chalk marker.
For the interior walls I found this green patterned
scrapbook paper at a local craft store. I thought this would be perfect for
Tiana. Green is one of the core colours Disney use to market her, the pattern
reminded me of one of the patterns Disney sometimes uses for Tiana, and I also
felt that it had a bit of a 1920s feel to it.
The main walls have been completed so I could add in a
little extra detail. I glued in a picture from a Disneyland Paris travel
brochure which has been trimmed with white paper for a window. I used a
complimentary strip of scrapbook paper to give the room a skirting board and I
used a light wood print scrapbook paper for the flooring.
These pictures were on the wall in the old version of Tiana’s
Café but I decided that they were still useable and so I glued them into the
new one.
I wanted a little stand to display cakes on. I covered a
small box with gingham fabric and then hot glued a stand of bunting around it
to create a unit to display cakes that is inspired by the ‘Gingham Alter’ from
the Great British Bake Off.
The room was pretty much complete so I placed the café next
to the kitchen and then added in some furniture.
And that was how I made a new café for (one of) my Tiana dolls. I’m
pleased with how this project turned out, I feel like it is a massive
improvement from the more basic previous version.
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