Cardbored? Not Us...

With the wedding, then Christmas, then an amazing sale at Nine West, we were starting to feel a little boxed in (sorry, I couldn't help myself) by cardboard boxes. It felt like a waste to get rid of them all, so I started looking for ideas to repurpose them.

First, I took the shoeboxes from the shoes I bought at a Nine West store-closing clearance sale ($80 for four pairs of shoes, a purse, and a wallet). I glued them together, covered them with white contact paper, added a few little details, and voila -- a new dollhouse for Ava! It didn't turn out quite as nice as I'd hoped, but I think she'll have fun with it for a little while.

I found a bunch of other ideas online that I'm hoping to try out soon, like this oven and this puppet theatre. And I'm also thinking about making a little bulletin board or two.

By the way, this is what Ava was doing while I was working on the dollhouse: