THE EPIC BLYTHE CARRY BAG

Yesterday was the happiest day! My friend E brought Beatrix back from Eureka Springs, where she was staying with E's mom Margy to work as a model for the Epic Blythe Carry Bag. I first blogged about that here (it's about 80% of the way through the post). Margy is awesome... I grew up sleeping under quilts she made at sleepovers, and when my youngest sister was born, Margy made her the baby...

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caught in a landslide

Gosh, so, the Thanksgiving sale I had was a major success. I had no real idea if anything would happen with it, but all of my deer hats sold. In fact, more than I had on hand because frost hats were what people seemed to want, so I made a lot of frost hats on the fly by request. The woe of it all was that I had trouble finding the colorway of yarn I use for frost hats because it was all sold out...

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"mania" is the umbrella term

It has been crazytimes here. I have had so much work to do! For some crazy reason I thought I'd be done with my work by November 14 and I could just spend the week faffing around attaching antlers to everything in the universe and, I don't know, watching Pretty Little Liars. Don't they say, "If you want to make God laugh, tell him your plans"?

Beatrix is due back from her time away as a Blythe carry bag model after Thanksgiving and I can't wait to see her again. I looked at a bunch of pictures of her the other day and just wanted to kiss her shiny little forehead. I got a sleepforever dress I'm keeping aside for her to wear when she gets back and I'm also looking forward to dressing my girls up in red and green -- I guess I've already gotten started on the red part.

Man, am I going to goof off BIG-TIME in December. (I hope God does not read my blog.)

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on sale, with thanks!

A bunch of stuff in my Etsy shop is on sale for the next week, till midnight on Thanksgiving. All deer hats are $3 off the usual price, and yes, if you want, I'll put a strap on it for you instead! Some other little hats are on sale too. I have twelve deer hats within my line of sight just sitting here at my desk; it's getting stupid. Take 'em off my han...

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Vinter VTF

First thing's first: VINTER VHAT'S-HER-NAME. Some official pics finally came out. I'm... underwhelmed, I guess. Sometimes the art and the official pictures are both adorable -- I feel that way about Ice Rune and that's part of what pushed me to finally get a Blythe! Her official pics are some of the cutest ever! Sometimes the concept art looks so cute, but the girl doesn't excite me in pictures,...

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boots!!!

Got myself a pair of ankle-length boots that are kind of cowgirl-esque. Love ankle boots!! Also got this dress with Little Red Riding Hood on the fabric for my girls via BK. I'm pleas...

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elementary school teacher-approved

I know, I know, it's not Christmas time yet... so I promise I won't speak about it again till after Thanksgiving! But for now: Thanks to a couple of people talking about them on Twitter I was alerted to these cute $2 mini-sweater ornaments from Target that turned out to be pretty perfect for Blythe after a bit of altering! (I snipped where the collar was sewn together to open it up a bit more, whip-stitched...

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Blythe mail today, yay!

My cardigans and mittens from Fliss of Millie Made got here today! They're terribly sweet... So neat and well-made -- look at those tiny beads on the tiny flower corsages :) I highly recommend them if your girls are ever in need of lovely, layerable little card...

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knitwear-crazy

I have been making a lot of these little bear-eared beanies lately... they come together really quickly, so now I have a pile of them. I don't really love to crochet in the round, but frankly it took me forever to figure out that pattern! I'm so bad at figuring out what patterns are wanting me to do that I attempted this one three different times with three different yet equally poor results....

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November Rain

Blog makeover... how can I resist that pink-haired Vinter Arden/Garden? I'm seriously thinking she might join my Blythe family. With November here, I'm officially in Christmas mode (it happens to me very early in the year, just like it happens to stores everywhere, but especially because Thanksgiving is my least favorite holiday so I don't think very much about it). That means I'm a penny-pincher...

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