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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 out more of her eyechips!


My bad cat, Tippy, popped in for a photo op at one point. My mom might have been the evil mastermind behind that.


Also, this little guy was out in the yard right when I stepped out. I always call rabbits "bun-buns" because that's what my dad calls them, and I think it's hilarious because he's just so... my dad!

Tonight I'm crocheting and watching The Tudors, which I've never seen before. I'm three episodes in, and I must say... it reminds me hilariously of Gossip Girl, only with more ye olde Englishy language and less vapid, pointless Nate Archibald. Does this make Jenny Humphrey a modern-day Anne Boleyn? I think so! Also, if Jonathan Rhys Meyers were an emoticon, he would be 8).

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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 an interesting pair of leggings with neon stripes...


I've been meaning to try and sew an apron for Plummery, because her tan dress really needs something with it, and also, that's just sort of her style! You may remember that my last sewing attempt was not very successful. This time, instead of trying to follow a pattern, I just looked at the way Dear LeLe Girl's stock apron was put together and tried to emulate it, going slowly by hand. I made everything extra-big because the last time everything shrank so enormously as I sewed it together. This time, I sewed one piece on backwards and had to cut the stitches out and re-attach it correctly, but otherwise it came together okay!


I don't have any kind of snaps or Velcro so for now these beads are on the back acting as loose fasteners, which makes it hang really loose and look crooked in these pics. It's not actually, and I wouldn't say that if it wasn't true!

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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 sometime soon. It is handy to have a family member who knows what she's doing with this type of thing, and who will indulge my obsessions. Any excuse for toadstools!!

Speaking of toadstools...


I ceremonially changed Plummery out of her stock dress and into one I got for $2 off of Plastic Paradise (awesome!) and took her outside to spend some time with her. I haven't really gotten to since I got her, since I've been preoccupied and klutzy. It felt so fun to see her out in the grass and take pictures of her, discover her anew. I took about a zillion pictures and tried not to put them all on Flickr.


She's such a beauty. I love the pink and coral spectrum on her. Anne of Green Gables will try to tell you that redheads can't wear pink, but that's so untrue!


Sometime soon I want to take a family portrait with all three of my girls! I don't know how some people manage to fit 20+ dolls in a picture, my hands are full with one, let alone three.

Tomorrow I'm doing double post office duty... I'm picking up some Blythe boots at one (far away from my house) and dropping off a package at another (close to my house)!

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