pixie hat party

Recently I bought this easy peasy pixie helmet pattern so I could get to making some cute little hats for my girls!I've been crocheting for eight years and still barely know how to do anything! It's always a little struggle for me to make sense of how to do something, so often I just make up stuff as I go along. It's always worked for me and I've made lots of useful cozies this way! But when it...

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a good end for February

Simply Peppermint finally arrived today! Well, I guess it's technically yesterday, since it's pushed on into the AM, but she got here in Friday afternoon.IS THERE ANYTHING MORE EXCITING?She took my breath away with how cute she is! She's so pale and pristine, and while Aury has an impishness and an awakeness, an attentiveness, about her, Simply Peppermint -- to me -- looks more serene and shy. ...

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belated Valentines

I just got a belated Valentine's Day package from my friend L (hay gurl) that had these loooovely Valentiney-feeling dresses for my girls in it!So sweet! I've really been eyeballing that plummy one with the tweedy jacket (I just love tweed on a Blythe doll, it's so unexpected) for a while, too! THANK YOU, L!Today Aury is wearing the little pink dress. It's kind of country girl, kind of shabby chic,...

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lightbox

Today I was eyeing my pile of cardboard boxes (I'm a little bit of a box hoarder!) and decided to hack one of them to pieces in the name of Science, or rather, Blythe, to make a lightbox, as seen on We Play With Dolls. As it turns out, I didn't have an ideally-sized box, but after a run to the UPS Store to get a box and Hobby Lobby to get tracing paper, I was off and running.I would say this took...

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smurfette

Today I something that's been on my projects list for a couple of months done:SCULPEY TOADSTOOLS!These little critters have been a twinkle in my eye for a few months now. The tallest one is exactly an inch tall, and the rest are a lot shorter. I can hold all of them cupped in one hand. They're really quite small! And I hand-painted them all.They're pretty cute, but really quite labor-intensive...

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no, you can't handle my style

"New" dresses have been ordered from that lovely cesspool known as eBay:I think the left one will be for Aury and the right one will be for the yet-to-be-met (let alone named) Miss Mint, who should be arriving any day now. The wait, oh the wait!Meanwhile, I notice this bag that I've been eyeballing for several months on the Urban Outfitters website is almost half off!Do I dare?? I might just dare!...

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day out; new clothes

The other day I took Aury out and about for the first time!I had my friend J with me, and he really didn't want me to bring her into the restaurant where we grabbed breakfast. He didn't want people to stare at him, understandably. I didn't want to get Aury syrupy or anything either, so she waited patiently in the car.After that, we checked out an antique store, where a kind old woman asked me what...

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Ice and Peppermint

Gosh. Every day, every time I lay eyes on her, I love my doll Aury more and more. She's my first Blythe (and, uh, not my last...) and I'm sure every new Blythe owner feels that rush of amazement and excitement and feels like their doll is the most perfect, beautiful doll, like any new parent is obsessed with their kid. I'm a plain ol' total noob in comparison to a lot of the Blythe fen, or fandom,...

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