HAPPY 2012!

HAPPY 2012!, a photo by Zanalee on Flickr.

We wish you all the best out there for a safe, happy and prosperous NEW YEAR!!!!

Imma Bee

Imma Bee, a photo by nevraforever on Flickr.

I thought I was officially done with collecting the Monster High Dolls. And I was. But then they start with these "Create a Monster" kits and there's a bee and wigs and a chick with a third eye and all kinds of freaky fierceness! I'll be on the look out for her in Target this weekend.
Buzz buzz!

Avatar Freak

Have I ever mentioned that I am an avatar junky? Well I am. I have an entire collection of sets on my flickr account devoted to all my fave avatar fun times. Madmen, Doll Divine, Pet Society,  It Girl, Coco Girl. Basically if I can change make-up clothes and accessories, I'm obsessed for the most part. And I'm not sexist. If there's a dope avatar dress up game for dudes, I wanna know!

This recent dress up avatar which I found out about from Erica Duh is from Dream Selfy which is naturally Japanese. I'm afraid to even guess how many Japanese Doll games exist on the internet.  But since I am also a bit of a Japanophile this is like endless freaking junk food for me! Fortunately I've been through this before and so I'm limiting myself to only three of these adorable avatars for today since I am at work. I can't say what will happen when I get home.
LOL!

Whitney Before and After

The original release of the Hollywod Blythe Licca doll had a matte face I believe. And then the second release was shiny. Or vice versa? All I know is there are two versions and my Whitney is the shiny faced one. I adore her to pieces but whenever I see the matte HBs I just fall apart! I love them. Something about that matte surface enhances her soft pastel make-up, serious gaze and just makes her look even more fabulous.

So anyway, I'd been contemplating spray matting her with the MSC for a while but thought I would have to figure out how to take her apart first which I am terrified of doing. After seeing a couple of fabulous matte HBs in Joey and Ole's photostream I just said that's it! I'm going to just do this! I stuffed paper around her eyes, wrapped her body in plastic and her hair in paper towel. I sat her by the window an sprayed a few light layers over her. It was so easy and dried almost immediately! I didn't touch her until the next day though. I have to say, I love Mr Super Clear. It has worked so well for me so far and really does a great job sealing in color. And as I've mentioned before, the matte surface is a dream to photograph.

Someone's on their way to the UK!!!

Someone's on their way to the UK!!!, a photo by Zanalee on Flickr.

Congratulations to Lisa Mead in the UK! She placed the winning bid for Castaneda on Thursday afternoon!

Thanks to Melly Kay I was able to find the perfect shipping box for a Blythe box to fit into. It's called a Priority Shoe Box. I was stressed out about that. In fact I was stressed out most of the time about this. It's my very first custom sale and I only hope that the new owner is a happy one. I have no regrets about letting her go because she was always meant to travel. I had a lot fun and challenges making her and I am so happy she's found a new home.

I shipped her out yesterday morning on the last open day at my local post office until the holidays are done. The line was mercifully short and it wasn't busy at all. I couldn't ask for anything more.

Farewell Castaneda! Bon Voyage!

The Yarn Company

I visited the Yarn Company yesterday after work because I was desperate for some new yarn at a place that wasn't too far from midtown. The Yarn Company is located in 82nd and Broadway. I've passed it tons of times but this is the first time I've ever been inside. It is lovely, very warm with wood floors and tables and I believe a larger space in the back where they hold classes. The two women who were working there yesterday evening were very nice and really helpful. The yarn is on the pricey side but it's great quality and just lovely to look at.

I picked out two skeins of a brushed suri one in a powder blue and the other in plum. All you wanna do is just squeeze this stuff and hold it your face. It is insanely soft! I just love it. The yarn is spun very thin and I thought I would trouble crocheting with it but worked really well and I was just very careful to unravel it bit by bit as I worked. It looks just like cotton candy and I think that the combed mohair kept it from slipping off my hook too often. I made another puff stitch hat with the some of the blue skein last night. I haven't timed myself but I can whip one up in less than an hour for sure. It's just so much fun to see how each hat turns out using these different textures. Working with the suri last night I can see how almost anything that can be turned into string or rope or yarn can be be knit of crocheted, because the brushed suri seems so much like some kind of hair and I guess that's what a lot of yarn is, just hair, cotton, fiber of some kind spun into string, thread or yarn. That's just fascinating to me!

So anyway, I'll be making a few more of these hats for Blythe Warmers and maybe thinking about embellishing them a little bit as well. I'm kind of addicted right now an not really thinking about how much this is costing me. LOL! At some point I will need to slow down. I do want a couple more skeins of this brushes suri though to makes hats for a couple of people, maybe even myself!

Petite Holiday Gifts

EEeeee!!!!, a photo by Zanalee on Flickr.

So what's happened is I decided to have a bit of a Blythe shopping spree a while back. I do believe in a Blythe Christmas but I admit I may have gone a little overboard this year. There have been packages collecting on my bed since last month! And just when I think it's all done something else arrives that I forgot I ordered.

These adorable little mini garments arived in my mail this weekend! I commissioned them from Care AKA
obssesivelystitching/stitchwhipped on flickr and I am just so jazzed I cannot tell you! I was just seeing too many adorable petite clothes in her photostream that never made it to her etsy store! So I had to get her to make a few things for my petites who are often starved for custom made clothes. LOL!!

I cannot even tell you how perfect these teeny clothes are! At such a small scale, they leave nothing to chance! They are exceptionally well made teeny little clothes. Care is literally obsessivly stitching! I just love seeing the stuff in her photostream and how much she loves her large petite family. It's a real pleasure seeing how much "care" she takes in setting them up, styling them and just creating an atmosphere of fun and personality!

I can't wait to put these on my petite gang!
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