Dress up and Valentines.....

First of all, I have to say that I have answered every OWOH post and I am all caught up! I am feeling proud about this, it was quite an undertaking..now if I can just stay on top of it.

I joined another monthly challenge...I know, I know...I couldn't help it, it is all about paper dresses which I love. I loved cutting out paper dolls and clothes when I was a kid, so it must be somehow related! All you do is make one dress a month and a little wardrobe or box to store them in. Then you post it on the hostess's blog...You should play, it is fun, like a big paper doll party...Margaret is the wonderful hostess and her blog is http://aliceandcamilla.blogspot.com
Here is the outside of my little wardrobe...(cigar box)

I would have collaged it vertically, but at the time I did it, I was using it for quilting safety pins...out went the pins and I painted the inside and sides tonight....My January dress (yes, I know it is February) I wanted to do in primarily white..I am a huge, HUGE Project Runway fan and they had a newspaper challenge where that is what they used to make a garment...This is my newspaper dress...the only other ingredient is a piece of lace..even the ruffles are the cartoon page from the newspaper...

Here it is hanging in it's little wardrobe...

When I was a kid I had a pink Barbie amoire and dressing table from the 60's, so the inside had to be pink...I loved that play set soooo much....
I also finished the last of three "teacher" Valentines for a friend....The background is selvages and the front are pieces appliqued on. This one will be from a boy so I didn't use pink and the applique is a boy...I painted his hair brown, cause it was yellow and he has dark hair.. .When I was done with that I made a little heart potholder that I had a kit for ... It is sooooo easy, well, until I put on the binding.....I should've made the binding wider I think...I am good at squares and even circles but I kind of lost control with the heart shape...so don't look at the binding, look at the pretty red silk ribbon....Made you look didn't I?