1 PLAN: This durable and lovely Traditional Dollhouse is made of 1/2" plywood. Someone with no background in woodworking is able to create a sturdy and beautiful Traditional Dollhouse that dreams are made of. This Easy To Build plan is designed for use with the Barbie Doll and other 11 1/2" fashion dolls. This Do-It-Yourself plan has step-by-step easy to follow instructions. A helpful and detailed materials list is included and is ideal to take to your local home center when purchasing materials. The only tools required are the simple easy to use hand tools of a jig saw, sander, drill, and hammer. The finished Traditional Dollhouse will reflect your individual decorating taste, provide years of enjoyment, and be passed on for generations. Enjoy! Note: This plan is included as 1 of 4 plans in the Barbie Dollhouse Plans Book

1 PLAN: My daughters would place Barbie on her plastic furniture and Barbie would fall over. Not much fun. I made wooden furniture that kept Barbie upright. The Furniture is made of 3/4," 1/2," and 3/8" plywood. Someone with no background in woodworking is able to create sturdy and beautiful Furniture that dreams are made of. This Easy To Build plan is designed for use with the Barbie Doll and other 11 1/2" fashion dolls. This Do-It-Yourself plan has step-by-step easy to follow instructions. A helpful and detailed materials list is included and is ideal to take to your local home center when purchasing materials. The only tools required are the simple easy to use hand tools of a jig saw, sander, drill, and hammer. The finished Furniture will reflect your individual decorating taste, provide years of enjoyment, and be passed on for generations. Enjoy! Note: This plan is included as 1 of 4 plans in the Barbie Dollhouse Plans Boo

1 PLAN: This durable and lovely Cottage Dollhouse is made of 1/2" plywood. Someone with no background in woodworking is able to create a sturdy and beautiful Cottage Dollhouse that dreams are made of. This Easy To Build plan is designed for use with the Barbie Doll and other 11 1/2" fashion dolls. This Do-It-Yourself plan has step-by-step easy to follow instructions. A helpful and detailed materials list is included and is ideal to take to your local home center when purchasing materials. The only tools required are the simple easy to use hand tools of a jig saw, sander, drill, and hammer. The finished Cottage Dollhouse will reflect your individual decorating taste, provide years of enjoyment, and be passed on for generations. Enjoy! Note: This plan is included as 1 of 4 plans in the Barbie Dollhouse Plans Book

1 PLAN: This durable and lovely Southern Mansion Dollhouse is made of 1/2" plywood. Someone with no background in woodworking is able to create a sturdy and beautiful Southern Mansion Dollhouse that dreams are made of. This Easy To Build plan is designed for use with the Barbie Doll and other 11 1/2" fashion dolls. This Do-It-Yourself plan has step-by-step easy to follow instructions. A helpful and detailed materials list is included and is ideal to take to your local home center when purchasing materials. The only tools required are the simple easy to use hand tools of a jig saw, sander, drill, and hammer. The finished Southern Mansion Dollhouse will reflect your individual decorating taste, provide years of enjoyment, and be passed on for generations. Enjoy! Note: This plan is included as 1 of 4 plans in the Barbie Dollhouse Plans Book

This New York Times bestselling book is filled with hundreds of fun, deceptively simple, budget-friendly ideas for sprucing up your home. With two home renovations under their (tool) belts and millions of hits per month on their blog YoungHouseLove.com, Sherry and John Petersik are home-improvement enthusiasts primed to pass on a slew of projects, tricks, and techniques to do-it-yourselfers of all levels. Packed with 243 tips and ideas—both classic and unexpected—and more than 400 photographs and illustrations, this is a book that readers will return to again and again for the creative projects and easy-to-follow instructions in the relatable voice the Petersiks are known for. Learn to trick out a thrift-store mirror, spice up plain old roller shades, "hack" your Ikea table to create three distinct looks, and so much more.

Never before has so much popular culture been produced about what it means to be a girl in today's society. From the first appearance of Nancy Drew in 1930, to Seventeen magazine in 1944 to the emergence of Bratz dolls in 2001, girl culture has been increasingly linked to popular culture and an escalating of commodities directed towards girls of all ages. Editors Claudia A. Mitchell and Jacqueline Reid-Walsh investigate the increasingly complex relationships, struggles, obsessions, and idols of American tween and teen girls who are growing up faster today than ever before. From pre-school to high school and beyond, Girl Culture tackles numerous hot-button issues, including the recent barrage of advertising geared toward very young girls emphasizing sexuality and extreme thinness. Nothing is off-limits: body image, peer pressure, cliques, gangs, and plastic surgery are among the over 250 in-depth entries highlighted. Comprehensive in its coverage of the twenty and twenty-first century trendsetters, fashion, literature, film, in-group rituals and hot-button issues that shape—and are shaped by—girl culture, this two-volume resource offers a wealth of information to help students, educators, and interested readers better understand the ongoing interplay between girls and mainstream culture.

Informed by the analytical practices of the interdisciplinary 'material turn' and social historical studies of childhood, Childhood By Design: Toys and the Material Culture of Childhood offers new approaches to the material world of childhood and design culture for children. This volume situates toys and design culture for children within broader narratives on history, art, design and the decorative arts, where toy design has traditionally been viewed as an aberration from more serious pursuits. The essays included treat toys not merely as unproblematic reflections of socio-cultural constructions of childhood but consider how design culture actively shaped, commodified and materialized shifting discursive constellations surrounding childhood and children. Focusing on the new array of material objects designed in response to the modern 'invention' of childhood-what we might refer to as objects for a childhood by design-Childhood by Design explores dynamic tensions between theory and practice, discursive constructions and lived experience as embodied in the material culture of childhood. Contributions from and between a variety of disciplinary perspectives (including history, art history, material cultural studies, decorative arts, design history, and childhood studies) are represented – critically linking historical discourses of childhood with close study of material objects and design culture. Chronologically, the volume spans the 18th century, which witnessed the invention of the toy as an educational plaything and a proliferation of new material artifacts designed expressly for children's use; through the 19th-century expansion of factory-based methods of toy production facilitating accuracy in miniaturization and a new vocabulary of design objects coinciding with the recognition of childhood innocence and physical separation within the household; towards the intersection of early 20th-century child-centered pedagogy and modernist approaches to nursery and furniture design; through the changing consumption and sales practices of the postwar period marketing directly to children through television, film and other digital media; and into the present, where the line between the material culture of childhood and adulthood is increasingly blurred.