tree-oh

It's so pleasant outside lately, I love to take the girls outside and take pictures of them. I could take hundreds.Aury and Plummery are such a curly-girl, naturey twosome...But Beatrix is really capturing my heart in her little green hedgehog dress (also from Plastic Paradise -- I love getting used Blythe clothes from there, I feel like they have a history of love) right now. I can't wait to switch...

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schuh-wing!

Picked up a package of CoolCat boots from the post office yesterday! Plummery's been barefoot since I got her because I hate her stock mules. I like for my Blythes' shoes to actually STAY ON, but that's just me. I bought two pairs (the other pair is slouchy and I'm sure I'll take pics someday) so I got two free gifts along with them, how cool! One's a really pretty pair of teal socks and the other's...

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these are a few of my favorite things

My mom and I are in the process of making cool little tags and cards to include with outgoing Etsy packages. My mom, wonder that she is, designed the cute little tag on the left and also put the border on the card on the right. I doodled that thing up in Photoshop this morning and we printed these off quickly so I could include them with a package, but I think we might get them printed off on cardstock...

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midnight crocheting

I haven't gotten to crochet in a while because A) I strained my right wrist and had to let it rest for a week, and B) I then proceeded to burn the crap out of my left hand with a pot of boiled water! But I hatted a little tonight while watching scandalous truTV programming.They're on my Etsy....

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turn around, bright eyes

I changed Beatrix's eyechips today :) I used the gluestick method, of course.It took like ten minutes! It was incredibly easy to do; the chips popped right out. The hardest part was scraping out the old glue, which I did with a little screwdriver I have on hand for the tiny screws on my glasses. I just did it slowly (indeed, most of the time it took to change the chips was spent scraping), gently,...

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big spenda

I've bought way too much in the way of Blythe stuff this month! I have a small income, so it's easy to buy "too much," and yet not really buy all that much at all. But really, I have three girls now and not enough clothes to go around, particularly because they all have distinct styles to me. This Is Blythe had free shipping on 4/20, though, so I went ahead and got this dress I've been wanting...

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dolly heaven

I got the biggest surprise ever on Friday! It felt like a dream!She fits in perfectly with my little Blythe family. I liked her so much in the first place because her stock is so beautiful and just my aesthetic style, her complexion is so pretty and her makeup so nice (her blue eyeshadow just kills me, it's so lovely with her gingery hair), and she somehow fills a gap I didn't know was there. Like,...

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That 70s Dress

Yesterday, I bought this fabulous 70s-ish plaid dress from sleepforever on Etsy. (The picture is from her shop, just cropped and color-corrected slightly by me.) It's so ugly it's cute, know what I mean? I'm excit...

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The Continuing Misadventures of Poor Beatrix

Beatrix's side-swept hair is holding up fairly well -- without a clip or something, it hangs down in front of her face, but that's miles better than snapping instantly back into a center-part! I may do another ironing session sometime in the near future to help set it extra-well.This morning I went through the terrifying process of CUTTING HER HAIR. I liked the way her shorter layers gave her this...

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sewing fail

Last night I determinedly sat down with some scrap fabric left over from a previous project and decided to attempt to sew a plain a-line dress for Beatrix. I asked my mom for help, because I have no sewing experience, and also trouble conceptualizing patterns, following and understanding them. After some thinking, I think this is a byproduct of having dyscalculia. (8 out of 11 of those symptoms...

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"go boil your head"

Dipped Beatrix's head in BOILING WATER (okay, I waited a minute, so it wasn't so FREAKY FOR ME) this morning.



Oh the trauma of a first time!! Hopefully this will aid me in my quest for side-swept bangs!

LATER:

Okay, okay! The boiling water was a good start to Beatrix's hair. It definitely swept the hair I had parted more to the side, but the roots were still adamantly bouncing the hair up off her scalp like she was Alicia Silverstone in clueless or something. AS IF!

So I decided to try ironing to force the hair down and set it further. very carefully wrapped her head with a strip of cotton fabric. This took FOR! EVER! It was so hard to get her hairs to stay in place when they wanted to bounce up off of her. But I finally prevailed and set about doing the scariest-sounding thing ever, even scarier than BOILING WATER + BELOVED DOLL. Yep. I ironed her head using that reliable bang-cutting method as seen here. My little sister took the pictures for me! :) Doesn't she look like a little prisoner being sent off to her execution?


It really wasn't hard, although it was very intimidating a thing to try... after the boiling water this morning, though, I was feeling ballsier. It really does get easier to try things once you get the ball rolling! I was so afraid I'd melt her forehead, but she's just fine! I think it worked pretty well, and I might do it again, if her bangs act like they want to snap back into a mid-part. Otherwise, this girl is well on her way to a DREAM HAIRCUT!

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pink is the word.

This morning I sat (in my new pink dress!) with my rat, Gryphon, out in the sunroom. I'm a bit cold at this time of the year because of air conditioning, but it was nice and warm out there in the morning light. My wrist is still quite sore, although it's better than it was, I think! So today I made a new layout for this blog instead of any crafting. I haven't gotten to do a willy-nilly "whatever...

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damn that radio for playing that song

Wrist still hurts, so I'm still out of commission on just about everything I want to do right now! :(I'm side-sweeping Beatrix's hair these days, just bobby-pinning a small amount of her front hair to the side. ( I'm a side-parter girl; I think side-part looks better 90% of the time, kind of like I also think glasses make anyone about 100x more attractive.) SP has a firm center part, you know, but...

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strain strain, go away

I seem to have strained my wrist crocheting and embroidering. It's cramping my style! Literally! Before I noticed that my wrist was actually hurting I made this light pink pixie hat, complete with pom-pons. (I forgot how fun pom-pons are to make!) It suits Aury's blushy complexion so well...A couple of photos in the backyard:Spring has sprung well and truly.I'm hoping my wrist will feel better...

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Spring in swing (ALSO: CANDY)

I both hid and hunted eggs this Easter! I am often the egg-hider these days (oh, I feel old!) but I'm also known to hunt now and then. I've been enjoying sugar hangovers these past couple of days. Instead of her bunny hat, Aury wore her new red dotty dress and a helmet with a toadstool on it to much!This dotty dress is a SugarMag one I got off eBay for $10 with free shipping. It's actually rather...

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"We live under this hill!"

Happy Easter!! Break out your bunny eared headbands!

Here's a pixie hat to mark the day!

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