BlytheCon Brooklyn, Here We Come!

Tomorrow, Oct 22nd, is when BlytheCon Brooklyn happens!

I've decided to travel light: one doll (Gidget, my Cherry Beach Sunset), one bag (to carry tickets, a map, snacks, and money), and most importantly, my very helpful husband, who will be instrumental in getting me to the Con. We will leave our house in Virginia shortly after 4:00 a.m. tomorrow, and, since the train doesn't leave Williamsburg early enough in the morning, we will drive to Union Station in Washington DC and from there, catch a train to New York City. Then we will take the subway to Brooklyn, arriving at the venue around noon. When everything is over at the end of the day, we will travel back to Virginia, arriving home around 1:00 a.m. It will be a long day, but a fun one! In the coming week I'm looking forward to posting a lot of pictures from the event.

Getting Ready

Preparing for a trip is half the fun!

Gidget is preparing to come with me to BlytheCon Brooklyn on Sunday October 22nd. I bought tickets many months ago, even though I wasn't sure if we would actually go...but everything has fallen into place, so my husband and I will be on the train bright and early that Sunday morning, heading for Brooklyn! Gidget (Cherry Beach Sunset) is the obvious choice to come with us, since the theme doll for the Con is "tan dolls". There is room in my doll carrier for one more, so I may also bring my most special girl, my Kenner, Jane. 

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Pets

Love isn't love until you give it away. 

This is Veronica, my Bow Wow Trad Blythe doll. Her dog is Gidget, a McDonald's Happy Meal toy from the movie "The Secret Life of Pets".

Beach Girl

Gidget submitted the wining slogan for the new clothing 
company, Mango Season, and she won a modeling contract! 

This ad, from her first photo shoot, will soon be in all the fashion magazines. 

This photo is for the theme "shirts with words on them."

My friend Sara Ricer made the outfit as part of a swap we did a few years ago. She made up her own brand (Mango Season), and carved a rubber stamp to put the logo on the shirt and bag. She also made the cute denim skirt with a frayed hem and colorful patches. 

Gidget (Cherry Beach Sunset) is wearing her stock hairband--which was surprisingly difficult to put on in such a way that it would stay in place and look okay!

Cherries

According to Gidget, life is just a bowl of cherries!
Yesterday, my sweet husband brought me a big bag of beautiful cherries--my favorite fruit! My first thought was that I needed to take a dolly picture some of with them before I ate them. Yes, I am doll obsessed!

Perhaps you noticed the cherry theme in this photo? Cherry Beach Sunset, wearing a cherry dress, hair bow and boots, sitting beside a bowl of cherries.

Chocolate Brown

Blythe a Day on Flickr 1/27/16
Brown


I've never been a fan of the color brown.  I must admit though, that there are lots of  brown things that I love...like chocolate. And tanned Blythes!

This is my first tanned girl, Cherry Beach Sunset. I call her Gidget.

Cherry Beach Sunset

Snow White

Blythe a Day on Flickr, 1/2/16


Gidget fears that if she doesn't sunbathe every day, she will lose her tan and become as pale as her sister Jane, whom she secretly refers to as "Snow White".

Jane is my new Kenner Blythe; Gidget is Cherry Beach Sunset.