Happy Leap Year Day!

Here’s hoping that your Leap Year Day 2024 is perfectly perfect!

This Blythe doll is the perfectly pink Snowflake Sonata.

Chicks

The baby chicks have hatched! Everyone is invited to interact with them at the petting zoo in the park. Here a chick, there a chick, everywhere a chick chick!

This Blythe doll is Pow Wow Poncho, wearing a dress by an unknown maker. I always reach for her when I need a doll to look down, because she is one of a handful of Blythes who have a downward gaze.

Unicorns are REAL!

While gathering wildflowers in the woods, Cassis made a shocking scientific discovery: unicorns are REAL!

This Blythe doll is Prima Dolly Cassis. The large unicorn is from Breyer; the small one is from Schleich.

Pink!

“We like all the colors but pink just looks so good on us!” (line from the song “Pink” in The Barbie Movie)

These Blythe dolls are Simply Guava, Snowflake Sonata, and Ichigo Heaven. The background is a jigsaw puzzle 

Bloom

It’s almost spring! Hooray!

This Blythe doll is Tokyo Bright.

Unicorn Dreams

Have a great day—we insist!

This Blythe doll is Lovely Katherine’s Corner. Her horse is Maximus from the animated movie “Tangled”. The background is a jigsaw puzzle.

Happy

Have a happy day!

This Middie Blythe doll is Yellow Marshmallow. This flat lay is for the theme “Animal Kingdom” in the Blythe Pure and Simple group on Facebook.

Twice as Nice

“You’re always with yourself, so you might as well enjoy the company.” —Diane Von Furstenberg 

These Blythe dolls are my Candy Carnival twins, wearing their stock dresses. As you can see, one came out of the box with shorter bangs than the other one did. The background is a jigsaw puzzle. It was rather difficult, but I’m glad I stuck with it and finished it, because it looks great!

Dream Big

“If one advances confidently in the direction of his dreams, and endeavors to live the life which he has imagined, he will meet with a success unexpected in common hours.” ~Henry David Thoreau 

This Blythe doll is Prima Dolly Cassis wearing Juno Estella’s stock dress and crown. The background is a photographers backdrop. 

Butterfly

“Despite the forecast, live like it’s spring.” —Lily Pulitzer

This Blythe doll is Devi Delacour, wearing a dress and fascinator that I made. 

Natural Beauty

Beauty is all around us.

This Blythe doll is Cinema Princess, wearing a dress I made. The background is scrapbooking paper. Have a nice day!

Exquisite Beauty

This is the perfect quote for Blythe dolls! Collectors see their exquisite beauty, but people who are seeing them for the first time are usually struck by their strangeness.

This Blythe doll is Aurella Amphitrite wearing a dress I made. Her piggy friend is a Sonny Angel.

What’s One More Cat?

"There are two means of refuge from the miseries of life: music and cats." ~ Albert Schweitzer

This Blythe doll is Ichigo Heaven, wearing Hello Again Junie Moonie Cutie’s stock dress. The piano came from an antique mall. The cats are from various sources. The background is a jigsaw puzzle (the same one as yesterday! I love it!) This picture is for the theme “Animal Kingdom” in the Blythe Pure and Simple group on Facebook. 

Gathering

“This is the power of gathering: it inspires us—delightfully—to be more hopeful, more joyful, more thoughtful: in a word, more alive.   -Alice Waters

This Blythe doll is Ice Rune. The girl in the cat costume is a Momiji doll. The black cat is a Littlest Pet Shop critter. The background is a super fun jigsaw puzzle I recently completed; it features cat postage stamps from around the world. This picture is for the theme “Animal kingdom” in the Blythe Pure and Simple group on Facebook.

 

Birdwatching

“In order to see birds, it is necessary to become part of the silence.” -Robert Lynd

This Blythe doll is Suri Sustainable, wearing a Dear Darling coat from Junie Moon, and a big slouchy hat I knitted myself.

Fairer

O, thou art fairer than the evening air clad in the beauty of a thousand stars.    

—Christopher Marlowe      

Happy Valentine’s Day! This Blythe doll is Spring Hope.     

My Valentine

This verse is from an antique Valentine.

This Blythe doll is Aurella Amphitrite, wearing her stock dress. I haven’t photographed her much since she arrived six months ago, because her light purple hair tends to look gray in pictures if I’m not very careful with the color of her clothing and surroundings.

Marching

This is my newest Blythe doll, Plaid Parade. I love her stock outfit and I’m glad I found a silly pun that makes it work for Valentine’s Day.

Moustache

"Love is the master key that opens the gates of happiness." ~ Oliver Wendell Holmes Sr. 

This Blythe doll is Lovely Katherine’s Corner. This moustache prop was in my goody bag from BlytheCon NY in 2013.

My Love

Have you ever tried PicCollage? I use it when I have a picture that needs something, but I don’t know what. I was unhappy with the background I used in the first picture, so I played with it in PicCollage, and I came up with these two cool variations.

This sweet verse is from an antique Valentine. This Blythe doll is Quintessential Journey, wearing June Moonie Cutie’s stock dress. 

Apple

"I love her and that's the beginning and end of everything." ~ F. Scott Fitzgerald

This is my new Middie Blythe doll, Apple Jamlicious. Her jam lid hat is so cute!

Be a Dear

You’re a “deer”, Valentine!

This Blythe doll is Dear Forest Deer, playing with some woodland friends.

Bowl

Please “SPARE” my heart!

Let’s never “SPLIT”!

And most of all, “You “BOWL” me over!

Okay, that’s it, I’m all out of bowling-related puns.

This Blythe doll is Spring Hope, wearing Cloud 9 Bowl’s stock outfit. The background is a jigsaw puzzle.

I Carry Your Heart

here is the deepest secret nobody knows

(here is the root of the root and the bud of the bud and

     the sky of the sky of a tree called life; which grows

higher than the soul can hope or mind can hide)

and this is the wonder that’s keeping the stars apart

i carry your heart (i carry it in my heart)

—e.e. cummings 

This Blythe doll is My Melody. Her little friend is a Lala Loopsy mini doll.

Berry

You are “berry” sweet!

This Blythe doll is Angellica Nurse of Compassion, wearing a vintage Skipper dress. 

With Love

 "You are the finest, loveliest, tenderest, and most beautiful person I have ever known—and even that is an understatement." — F. Scott Fitzgerald

This fine, lovely, etc., Blythe doll is Leading Lady Lucy. I came across this dress with hearts on the pocket, which I made several years ago, and wanted to try to make it work for a Valentine-themed picture, even though there’s no red or pink on it. That explains this unusual color scheme!

Sending My Love

“You have bewitched me, body and soul, and I love, I love, I love you. I never wish to be parted from you from this day on.”   —“Pride and Prejudice”

This Blythe doll is Devi Delacour. The background is half of a big jigsaw puzzle…I hope to use the other half in  another picture soon.

Perfect!

No “kitten” about it!

This Blythe doll is Prima Dolly Peony, wearing Meowsy Wowsy’s stock outfit.

Frankly

It’s time again for silly Valentine’s Day puns! This Blythe doll is Simply Guava. The background is a jigsaw puzzle.