White

White...is not a mere absence of colour; it is a shining and affirmative thing, as fierce as red, as definite as black...God paints in many colours; but He never paints so gorgeously, I had almost said so gaudily, as when He paints in white.
--G. K. Chesterton

This is Blythe doll is Leading Lady Lucy. I've finally taken her out of her stock outfit! Doesn't she look lovely in white? This picture is for the theme "White" in the Blythe a Day group on Flickr. 

Make Mine Black

"Women who wear black lead colorful lives."   
                                    --Neiman Marcus

This Blythe doll is Bow Wow Trad, posing for the theme "Black" in the Blythe a Day group on Flickr. The dress she is wearing is by Kookanoid (I don't think she is making doll clothes any more); the two shorter dresses are stock (Prima Dolly London, and UFO A Gogo); I made the paw print dress. I loved doing this color-focused picture; it was fun to go through the doll clothes and see what we have that is black and white. It made me realize something too--we need more head wear options! 

October 2018 Calendar Page

With Halloween at the end of the month, it was the obvious choice as the theme for October's calendar page. I didn't want the picture to be full-on ghosts, goblins, and jack-o-lanterns, however; I wanted it to be more subtle; so I avoided the temptation to put a witch hat on Anna Sui! 

 This is designed to be used as wallpaper on your cell phone--feel free to use it if you like it, or the full-color version which follows. 

Below, you can see what the picture looks like in full color. When I completed it, I was playing around with it and discovered that in PicMonkey (the picture editor that I use), when I used the black and white edit, the color of the calendar overlay stayed orange--and I loved that and wanted to keep it. I added orange to the pumpkin to give it a bit more zing, and voila! A picture I am very pleased with for the season. 

You can see how it looks on my cell phone, below. Happy October, everyone!

Black and White

This is Bow Wow Trad, posing for today's theme "black and white" in the Blythe A Day group on Flickr. She's wearing UFO A Go Go's stock dress.

Still Life with Doll #1 (and #2)

Blythe a Day April 15 2015
Black and White


I love how this photo came out! Usually I try to make the dolls look like they are alive and involved in some activity; this time, the doll is clearly seen as a doll--what a concept! I hope to do many more still lifes, so I'm calling this one #1.

And, here's how the photo looked before PicMonkey helped me change it to black and white. I think I prefer this one...but the theme for the day was "black and white", so the first one is the "official" photo for today. So okay, I'm calling this one Still Life With Doll #2.

This is Eve (not Ellie!--I haven't made her a white dress yet, but I wanted white for this photo--and I wanted to use her, because of her black hair), my Milky Way Sugar Blythe doll.