Zeldy Pants,

Regarding the events of June 8th, 2008, we are most displeased with your uncooperation in what was supposed to be The Risk Heist of 2008. Despite all of our planning, you failed at the most crucial of steps—distracting the infantry while we acheive world domination; for this we have confiscated one butter bear. We are willing to negotiate an exchange.

Sincerely,

Aesop, Blanche and a reluctant Maddie

We had another Atlanta Blythe Meetup a few weekends ago. There were a bunch of cute, new dollies to oogle over. Afterwards Linda taught me how to make bead headbands and clay cupcakes, for Blythes of course! Below are my notes and shopping lists for making these myself… next time.

Atlanta February Meetup by the Numbers

• Over 30 dollies showed up
• Approximately 8 pirate swords… Arrrrg!
• 5 Blonde Blythes
• 2 attendees with human offspring (aka Moms)
• 1 Irwin Street Market

Blythe Bead Headbands
wire
wire cutters
pliers
plastic beads

Clay Food
clay in different colors
clay knife
latex gloves

To make the clay food all you have to do is mix the colors, shape the clay into your cute creation, and bake for 13 min @ 350. Beat that Martha!

Next time we are going to make Matchbox Dressers. And maybe the guys can play Risk. Sweet! I can’t wait.

Crafty desktops make me smile. Even though my crafting skills are near nil, looking at cute fuzzy animals or googly-eyed dolls brightens my day! The following are links to pages that contain Crafty Desktop images.

ForestPrints

Shawnimals

Komaneko

If you have any desktops on your website that you would like to share, please leave a comment so I can add your site to my list!

Blythe Desktops

HeyLittleGirl.com

FunnyBunny

Puchicollective

Squeakymonkey

Pomme-Pomme

I just finished my first Squidoo Lens; it is on Blythe Dolls. Ta Da!

1. KCP Blythe Exhibit
2. Blythe at Hong Kong Disneyland
3. Slide show of various customized dolls from Cherry Soda (no longer available)
4. 70’s Blythe commercial
5. Blythe in Crime
6. Japanese Commercial with Blythe
7. Cute Petite Blythe
8. Blythe on the News in Spanish
9. Blythe Shop on Japanese (?) TV
10. Blythe gets ready for the day
11. One cute petite Blythe baby
12. Seattle Blythe Meet: short, but some very neat dolls
13. Behind Blythe Exhibiton @ KCP
14. Toronoto Blythe Meet
15. And then there is ILoveBlythes and her videos.

How to make a cool t-shirt for your Blythe baby

The following pattern comes from Puchimadam:

t-shirt pattern here

So, total props to Melissa for helping out the rest of us budding Blythe lovers. I have previously made the sun dress from her site, and the pattern and instructions are very straight forward, just as the t-shirt pattern was. Just in case you want to read a bit more about what to do in creating the Blythe t-shirt before you get started, here are the steps I took:

Step1: Buy fabric and wash. I typically have some scraps from other sewing projects laying around that I can use. Get the ironing board out, and heat up the iron.

Step 2: Print and cut pattern out for regular printer paper.

Step 3: Place pattern on fabric. Align pattern on portion of fabric you want to display. On the fabric I just used, there was no need to center the fabric over some design in the pattern because the pattern was small. See picture below.

Step 4: Pin paper pattern to fabric.

Step 5: Cut pattern out of fabric, and take pins out. You should have something that looks like the piece on the left-hand side of this picture: Step 6: Fold the edges of sleeves and hem under one at a time, starching and ironing as you go. Sew down the edges that you have ironed down.

Step 7: Hem the neckline. Fold the neckline under and sew.

Step 8: Fold the two “wings” of the fabric over so that the raw edges meet for form a t-shirt looking thing.

Step 9: Sew the raw edges together.

Step 10: Turn the shirt inside out, and place on Blythe doll. Take note of how much you should hem the back of the t-shirt for the shirt to close properly (too much and you won’t be able to close the shirt; too little and you will have a bunch of fabric left over).

Step 11: Hem the back. Sew on velcro or snap buttons.

All done!