heavy is the big ol' Blythe head?

My new hobby, at least while I'm still getting a kick out of them - flower crowns!

Here are Plummery and Beatrix's. Along with the fake flowers, they both feature acorns, quite remarkably small ones, that I picked up out of my yard. The process of making these is still in flux, but ideally I'd like to offer flower crowns for Blythe in my shop eventually. Right now I'm just experimenting with band styles and techniques and enjoying making one for each of my girls.

I'm still doing Gavin's, but it'll have to wait a few days, because I'm going on a weekend trip with my best friend since kindergarten, E (she knitted that fabulous mustard yellow dress above!), and we're going to have a marvelous time visiting her parents, checking out area shops, taking pictures, and probably being lazy and giggly. I'm... kinda taking all my Blythes with me. (!!!) I could not decide who to leave and I get weird separation anxiety, which I realize sounds really lame, but I always want to take at least one girl with me everywhere and for me this trip is too exciting to not tote them all along. So I've packed the girls for the trip and we'll be back next week!

Have a great weekend!!

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no regrets, just love

Today I've spent entirely too much money on things with which to make flower crowns for my girls! Fae wreaths? Woodland circlets? Floral laurels? Hahaha.

I made this one for Aury out of peachy-pink and gold flowers (fake, obviously) and little indescribable wheat-colored berry-ish baubles. What the heck are they?? I don't know. I just liked the color!

I attached a bit of ribbon at the back to help close the circle, although it was staying put fairly okay on its own. It's a process...

I'm having a lot of fun making different ones for all my girls. I'd love a circlet of my own, but I probably couldn't get away with it! So flower crowns for the girls it is!

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October and organization

Yay, it's October! It's the time of year when I want to watch the Addams Family movies, Sleepy Hollow, and The Rocky Horror Picture Show. It's getting cool outside. Soon it will be cowl weather...!!

Today is the first in a while I haven't been doing something with my hands. My wrists are a bit sore, so I'm resting them up. I undressed my girls to change their clothes, then I decided to take some pictures of my minimal Blythe wardrobe storage. I always like to see how people store their Blythes and their dolly clothes. I just keep all my stuff on my bookshelf in plastic boxes I got from Target.

One is a Snapware thing (I always accidentally say "Snapeware" for some unknown reason? Get out of my head, Harry Potter!) with three sections and the other is a shoebox-sized plastic box. I think it was from the section that pops up during the spring/summer intended for college students and their dorm rooms. It fits all their dresses with room for plenty more, because they could flatten more but are just loosely stacked.

That's all my girls' dresses, not including anything stock or separates. (There's also a furry bunny suit that stays in a plastic bag so it won't shed on any of the dresses.) I tend to stack them in the box grouped by color. How else would you stack 'em??

I have a couple more dresses floating around that need to be sold, so they've been set aside for a while. I want to get some more clothes sometime soon, especially socks and stockings.

The Snapware houses separates/free-roaming bits and bobs, stock, and shoes and socks.

Stock for Ice Rune, Simply Peppermint, Dear Lele Girl, and now Prima Dolly Paris! :)  Some of the stock is so usable (especially the headbands and hair things). I love DLG's legwarmers and lace headband.

The stock shoes go with the shoes in the bottom section:

Maybe one day I'll have to get another box, but this works great for me right now.

How do you store your dolly wardrobes? Tupperware, like me? Drawers? Do your dolls have their own dresser or closet?

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