a.muse: Tag dolls

if you ever want to see your precious, little butter bear again...

Jessica — Mon, 09 Jun 2008 19:20:00 -0400

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

cute cupcakes come as camel-colored, carmel culinary confections

Jessica — Thu, 20 Mar 2008 21:32:00 -0400

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.

Craft Desktops

Jessica — Thu, 07 Dec 2006 21:54:00 -0500

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

Blythe Squidoo Lens

Jessica — Sun, 19 Nov 2006 02:10:00 -0500

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

Blythe on YouTube

Jessica — Sun, 20 Aug 2006 22:46:00 -0400

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

UPDATE:

Some videos from Hey Little Girl and SqueakyMoneky

How to open an EBL head

Stay Cute, Dollface!

Enjoy!

T-shirt for Blythe

Jessica — Sun, 13 Aug 2006 15:10:00 -0400

Check out my Squidoo Lens on Blythe for more sewing patterns!!

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!