Always Fresh

Claire loves to shop at the farmer's market at the park. The vegetables are always fresh, and best of all, there is no preposterous packaging!

Cousin Olivia is the salesperson and I Love You It's True is the shopper. The market stand is a Barbie toy. For the theme "Preposterous Packaging" in the Blythe a Day group on Flickr. 

As I was adding the above photo to the Flickr group, it I thought it might look better cropped to showcase the market stand, so here it is, cropped. I like the second version better (sorry Heidi/Cousin Olivia!), but it is starting to look grainy from being cropped so much. 

Fun and Games

Blythe a Day on Flickr Nov. 18, 2015
Games and Puzzles


Life is more fun when you take time to play games. (I should know! I play Words with Friends and Candy Crush every day, and I'm super happy!)

They are I Love You it's True, and Raspberry Sorbet.

What's That on your Face?

Blythe a Day July 18, 2015
There's Something On Your Face


At the same moment, Hope and Claire noticed a ladybug crawling on Lanie's face, and moved to swat it off. Silly girls! Neither of them realized they each had something much stranger on their own faces!

These girls are Hope (Simply Peppermint), Lanie (My Little Candy), and Claire (I Love You It's True).

As soon as I got My Little Candy, the name Candy just seemed right for her, and I've called her that ever since...until this photo. I happen to love this dress on her, but it has an "L" on the heart (my pink haired girl Prima Dolly London--whom I call "London"--usually wears it). I decided the only thing to do was to give Candy a new name, starting with "L", so Lanie it is!

Fish!

Blythe a Day July 16, 2015
Fish


Claire was surprised that on her very first try, she caught a fish! (But she's going to throw him back...he's too cute to eat!)

Claire is my I Love You It's True Blythe doll. The little dolly is a Lalaloopsy mini.

Haunted by the Past

Blythe a Day May 22, 2015
Ghosts

Despite her calm appearance, Claire often feels haunted by the ghosts of her past.

This "haunting" artwork was created by my daughter Jenna. Claire is my I Love You It's True Blythe doll.

Craft and Creating

Blythe-a-Day Feb 23, 2015

Claire and Eve catch up on their gossip while knitting sweaters to donate to the local homeless shelter. (Claire might need to do a little less talking if she wants that sweater to be wearable...)

Claire is an I Love You Its True Blythe doll (2004, SBL) and Eve is a Milky Way Sugar Blythe doll (2008, SBL).

Bookworm

Claire is such an avid reader!  She always has her nose in a book.

Currently, these are the books on her "to read" list:

1. The Amazing Adventures of Kavalier and Clay by Michael Chabon
2. Balzac and the Little Chinese Seamstress by Ina Rilke
3. The Bielski Brothers by Peter Duffy
4. Christine by Steven King
5. Ella Minnow Pea by Mark Dunn
6. A Heartbreaking Work of Staggering Genius by Dave Eggers
7. A Month of Sundays by Julie Mars
8. My Sister's Keeper by Jodi Picoult
9. Nervous System: Or, Losing My Mind in Literature by Jan Lars Jensen
10. Swimming With Giants by Anne Collett
11. Truth & Beauty by Ann Patchett
12. The Nanny Diaries by Emma McLaughlin
13. Girl Interrupted by Susanna Kaysen
14. Everything is Illuminated by Jonathan Safran Foer

Lucky for her, I've just used her list on my questionnaire in the book swap at Craftster; I will be receiving one of these from my partner, and hopefully I will get a partner who has one of these on her list that I can send to her (and read first--and share it with Claire!)