Bowie's Looking to Travel

So it seems the time has come that one of my girls must travel. I don't want to do it but it just has to happen. I am selling my custom Prima Dolly Aubrey with Simply Mango Scalp on Dolly Adoption on Facbook but I will accept inquiries from interested buyers here as well.

 I actually customized her myself and recently cut her hair into a smart little bob. Her make-up is pastel and her lips are only slightly carved. She has beautiful pearlescent green lids and beautiful long powder blue lashes that are black at the base. I don't remember where I found those lashes but I love them.

Except for her side facing stock blue chips the rest of her chips have been replaced by me. Bowie has freckles, custom pull strings and charms and her face plate is sealed with matte MSC.

She does have two marks near the top of her forehead which I'm sure can be removed with light sanding. Other than that, she's in pretty good used condition.

She's 225USD.
Domestic shipping is 8USD
WW is 20USD

All Gold Bear Hat

, a photo by Mine is clouds... on Flickr.

Now up for sale in Little Brown Blythe on etsy.

I made the mesh looser on this version by using a bigger hook. And although it may not be obvious the ears have been moved forward on the crown. I think for my next one I might try to move them even more forward. The yarn itself is very malleable when crocheted so the ears can flop forward or stand up as desired.

Some New LBB Blythe hats

Little known fact: I don't usually knit or crochet in the Summer.

Just looking at yarn in the summer makes me hot. I generally reserve knitting and crochet for the colder months and I'm normally very seasonal about what my Blythes wear in photographs. I wouldn't put them in ponchos in July, that sort of thing. But it occurs to me that Blythes don't care about wearing knits in the summer. They can wear whatever they want! LOL!

So I started making a few hats here and there a few weeks ago and it felt really good to get into that rhythm I usually don't experience until it's cold and I want to snuggle inside under a blanket with something warm to drink and a book and a crochet or knitting project. It really does feel good. The yarn I ordered last week was in the office Monday morning. I think I may have made two hats just sitting at my desk yesterday. It was oddly mellow for a Monday. This gold one, seen above on Hendrix was a suggestion made by my friend Paula. She even found the yarn for me on etsy which I was totally juiced about because I had been looking for yarn like this for ages!

It's very interesting to work with, very light and almost like a light chain mail when it's crocheted together.I've completed two in the gold so far. The one above is the first and it was basically just soI could see what it would look like. For the second (not seen here) I did a looser mesh stitch and moved the ears forward. I'm still not sure how I feel about it yet. The soft fluffy bear hat is now in the LBB shop. I have tons of fun using that yarn. It's so soft and fluffy and touchable. I'm sure I'll crank out a few more before the week is out so stay tuned for updates.

The Ikea Shelf Unit and My Blythe Brooklyn Weekend

Well the 4th of July Weekend is well passed us and though it's been some time, I still would like to share the fact that I made one major purchase at Ikea in Paramus that weekend. Many of us afflicted with a middling to large collection of Blythes and/or dolls know how hard it is to keep them in line when they're kind of just hanging out all over the place. It's a condition I've become used to but ever since the first time I saw this unit in person, I knew it would change things in my dolly life forever and that perhaps it was possible to see my bed again. After weeks of failed planning and unforeseen obstacles the moment was finally seized. I did want the white one but they were out of it so I settled for the light birch color. I was desperate. I just needed some order!

Ikea Expedit: Game changer

The first thing I felt once we has assembled the shelf and slid into the tiny bedroom was how strange it was to be able to see all my dolls in one place. I have a collection of several lines of dolls and nothing makes that more obvious than being able to look at them all at once. I felt a little crazy, I'll be honest. I felt like I was in the walk in closet of a teenager/artist. However, since that's not a new feeling for me, I've finally moved passed it. LOL!
I have plans to wallpaper a couple of the cubbies and perhaps, maybe furnish them but not too heavily. I am using a few for my own clothes. I'm pretty happy with is so far. I've been wanting it for so long it's almost hard to believe it's here. I'm still pretty excited about it.

Welcome to the Dollhouse

In other news I was in Brooklyn most of the weekend hanging out with good friends I really don't get to see often enough. One of them whom I've known since high school lives in a wonderful part of Brooklyn just a few feet away from where I grew up as a girl. I may have said this a million times before but this part of Brooklyn is very sentimental to me. I just had the best time growing up there and whenever I'm there I just feel so light, safe, calm, peaceful and inspired.

My friend and I were walking back to his apartment after vegging out at this amazing local ice cream store and we cut through a kids bday party along the way. I stopped to take a shot of my custom Black Blythe Neige by an open fire hydrant. As this was happening I could see we had attracted a small audience of one in the form of a young girl who was just prancing in the hydrant water. I'm usually really protective and super shy about taking photos of Blythe in public but for some reason I was totally receptive to this girl. Maybe because I could sense that she was respectful, keeping a reasonable distance but totally craning her head over to see what the heck was going on with this doll. Without hesitation I waved her over to get a closer look, let her hold Neige and then showed her how the eye colors changed with the pull string. The little girl totally dug it, lit up and smiled every time the eyes changed, took mental notes and trotted away saying goodbye. It was a great Brooklyn weekend.

Girl meets Blythe

Blythe Gift Exchange!

Hamsa portrait by Katie

We arrived in the city late in the evening last night and I won't even go into how miserable and unbearable the heat was and is in our tiny apartment. Suffice it to say that receiving a sweet gift in the mail from Katie AKA Blythechan helped to cheer me up considerably. She made this sweet little drawing above of Hamsa a few weeks ago as a part of a pay it forward project we announced we were doing this year.

How it works is that you just let people know that the first to respond to your offer will receive something handmade from you at some unknown time during the year. So far I have sent out one hat.This week I will send out a second. I also hope to do something like this here at Born to Blythe, perhaps a raffle of sorts. Stay tuned.

I crocheted my first bear hat!

I made the bear hat seen above for Katie this morning as she is one of the five who responded to my post. I whipped it up right at my desk. I've made tons of hats like this before but never with ears. Those ears really do make a difference and this yarn which we picked up at AC Moore this weekend is so soft and touchable. I hope she likes it! I will try and make one more for Little Brown Blythe this week.
Latas!

Middie on the bay again (EBAY That is...)

Middie FA

So I've decided to put my custom AA Middie, Mimi on the ebay once more. They thing is, although I adore her, I can't really afford to hold on to her. Having a Middie, at least for me, means having a whole mid sized wardrobe and there's really not much of a range of clothing for Middie, at least not in my opinion, at the moment. I like my girls to have a lot of options and Middie clothes that I do like just doen't fit into my budget at the moment so alas she is up for adoption.

If you're interested, check out her ebay listing over here.
Happy shopping!