For my daughter's 11th birthday on Saturday, we're having a sleepover with 10 girls. To entertain them, we're going to have a paper doll fashion show, featuring dolls whose fashions are made from various kinds of paper. The kids trace stencils of outfits onto scrap book and paper rescued from my many paper sample books and get to decorate the clothes.

So anyway, my sisters says ... "hey make a stage for the show". So I'm hunting around the house for a box.. and I see this pizza box in the recycling bin that already has a big half oval cut out of the front.. and with the aid of staples and hot glue plus some scrap fabric and beads... we have a stage for the fashion DIVAS! The bottom of the box is the base of the stage. The curtain is the former top of the box, with the existing enlarged cut out as the stage entrance.

Silly, I know, but a D.I.Y. mom that's broke has gotta make do!