79/365 ~ Must Love Dogs!!

79/365 ~ Must Love Dogs!!, a photo by Voodoolady ♎ on Flickr.

I love this photo by Voodoolady! I wonder how she is holding her Goldie up? I really need to take my girls outside more. This should be another New Year's resolution for me.

My dolly project has been put on hold a little this week since it is my first week back to teaching and I am still getting accustomed to my new semester's schedule, but I plan to do a bunch this weekend and I already have a dolly playdate scheduled for the coming week! I am very excited.

In other news, I found a vintage Playmates fashion doll while thrifting the other day. Obviously she is not quite as cool as, say, a Kenner, but she is very pretty and I look forward to making her some new outfits.

♥ her Wittle Teeth!...*Ribena**

♥ her Wittle Teeth!...*Ribena**, a photo by ♥ Elly Jelly ♥ on Flickr.

I love Ribena's hair colour!

I think that one of the reasons that I love playing with and making things for Blythe is that she can wear and and look so wild and whimsical while I have to at least pretend to fit into normal human society...

In other news, I have finished crocheting the hat and skirt for my Ice Princess doll costume. I am surprised at how quickly it went once I got started. I have also gotten some silly plastic swizzle sticks to use for her staff and to which I will glue some plastic beads that look like ice crystals. I have crocheted her bodice out of snowy white yarn, and I intend to partially cover it in glittery white beads. I think I may also make her a shield. Ice princesses can have shields, right? I mostly just want the opportunity to embellish a shield. I hope to post pictures soon.

Bl♥ved 16/365

Bl♥ved 16/365, a photo by Fenneki on Flickr.

This is the gorgeous photo by Fenneki on Flickr that inspired my elemental goddess project.

Found my challenge!

http://www.flickr.com/photos/fenneki/6675068885/in/faves-91524358@N00/

It was due in part to this fabulous and inspiring photo by Fenneki on flickr and the huge blizzard that we are still having that made me decide yesterday to challenge myself to make each of my Blythes an elemental goddess costume. I first thought of the usual water, earth, air and fire, but since I have so many dolls I will have to make up some other ones as well. I am going to start by making Andromeda, my Sparkly Spark, an ice princess/goddess costume. Given the weather, it seems a propos. I can't wait to get started.

I need a new dolly project!

Just before the holidays, and before being in the thick of my end of term grading, I decided I needed a dolly challenge. Encouraged by how well my attempts at crocheting teeny clothes for my growing collection of LPS Blythes had turned out, I challenged myself to crochet a hat for each of my full-size Blythes by New Year's Day. I finished the last hat a couple of hours before midnight on New Year's Eve ( I realize how nerdy that sounds). Here are the results:



The thing is, now I need a new dolly project. Lately I have been feeling very inspired and sort of "creatively itchy," but I don't know what to work on next. Any suggestions?

Welcome!

I have wanted to work on a Blythe doll blog for years but have never had the courage to start one before.

I have been a Blythe lover since I read about Gina Garan in Bust Magazine way back in 2004, but at first it took me a little time to warm up to her. I found Gina's pictures lovely, but Blythe had an unnerving stare that I wasn't sure about. I thought that I was more interested in the Topper Dawn dolls and the BJDs that were also featured in the article, but, more and more, I found myself looking at those unnerving photos--really, they were hauntingly beautiful--and, before I knew it, I was in love with Blythe.

I'm cheap. I'll admit it, and so it was a while, perhaps two years, before I was psychologically ready to buy my first Blythe (Gwen, an ILYIT). I couldn't imagine spending that much on a doll, but I knew someone with an Asian connection who was able to help me find my first Blythe. It wasn't long before I had 5, and now I have 18. My newest dolly is Andromeda, a Sparkly Spark, that I got just in time for Christmas.

Through Blythe I have met a lot of lovely friends, both online and in person, and I am always amazed and delighted by the creativity that Blythe brings out in her fans. I love looking at custom dolls and perusing etsy for handmade dolly clothes. I myself love to crochet, needle felt, and sew for my own dolls, and I hope, one day, to make my own custom Blythe.

I am not entirely sure what shape this Blythe blog will take. I hope at some point that there will be stories and/or interviews, but there will definitely be lots of pictures of my own dolly adventures.