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| Brooklyn Blythe Meet |
I finaly got to catch up and have a mini Blythe Meet with Brooklyn Pablita on Brooklyn on Saturday! It was really nice. We've met up in my work area a couple of times for lunch but it's always such a drag to have to run back to work again just when the conversation is getting really good. To date, she is my only friend who I see in person (In addition to Linda aka Hollychan) who is actually a true Blythe lover and collecter. It's so great to be able to talk to someone about all the intricacies, fun, craziness and various annoyances of Blythe collecting, crafting, customizing and the Blythe community in general. After I met her at the Brooklyn Botanical Garden we had a great dinner at a place on Franklin Ave and talked for quite a bit before whipping our girls out. From there we took a bunch of photos of them, next door in front of a cool looking record shop and across the street at this amazing looking Black owned candy shop called
The Candy Rush. Thanks to Paula who asked them before hand if we could take pics of the dolls there, we pretty much had the run of an empty candy store with an amazing painted mural wall at the entrance and an amazing wall of shelves with candy jars on the opposite wall For some reason all of our girls were dressed really colorfully that day and it made for some great shots. It was a lovely evening.
On Sunday, I finally got around to completeing my work on Castaneda. I replaced a part of her eye mech with the one in a new Blybe I purchased a while ago with that purpose in mind. It was at the suggestion of some clever person on flickr where I had expressed my frustration on my initial issues with her t-bar. Even after I got the right t-bar from donor my Blybe, her mech was still having issues with the eye change pull. Someone suggested I just transplant the whole thing and even though it's hard for me to explain what this means, it worked perfectly and was fairly easy to do as well. Practice practice! Blybes are cheap but I don't know if I'll ever do another custom with a Blybe again soon.
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I love Castaneda but she's been a work in progress now for almost a year. She's a true hybrid with Blybe face plates, Blythe Eye Balls and chips, and a pure neemon non-flection body which I adore. I sprayed her face plates with matte MSC so she has this velvety ebony sheen I'm just in love with and photographs terrifically. There are some scuffs near her neck from the movement of her head on the toggle of the neemo body and a couple of small scraped on her legs as well but other than that's she's great. I'm terrfified of touching up so more than likely, she will remain as she is. We'll see.
