Fireworks In the Night Garden

"Against a dark sky all flowers look like fireworks."  

                                --G.K. Chesterton

Just to be different, we are celebrating the 4th of July with flowers instead of fireworks this year! This stunning Blythe doll is Asha Alvira wearing a new-to-us dress by Endangered Sissy. 

May Day

"Sweet May hath come to love us,
Flowers, trees, their blossoms don;
And through the blue heavens above us
The very clouds move on."
                                --Heinrich Heine, Book of Songs

Ichigo Heaven and Yellow Marshmallow wish you a Happy May Day!

Be Happy

It's a great day to be happy right where you are. 

Prima Dolly Amaryllis: nothing can compare to that bright green hair. This is a chalkboard flat lay. I drew the flower design with liquid chalk markers. 

Beauty

"The most beautiful face in the world? It's yours!"

                                                              --Estee Lauder

This beautiful face belongs to Lady Camellia (I call her Emiko.) I recently found this pretty dress on eBay; it's from a maker in Ireland. It suits Emiko very well, I think. Even though I can (and do) make clothes for my dolls, I like to add things made by others to my collection, for more variety in my photos, and so I can see what techniques someone else used in their sewing. Since I am mostly self-taught, it helps me learn and grow as a sewist. (You'll notice I didn't say "sewer" because that could be misread as the place where waste water goes!)

We Love Spring Flowers

For flowers that bloom about our feet;
For tender grass, so fresh, so sweet;
For song of bird, and hum of bee;
For all things fair we hear or see; 
Father in heaven, we thank Thee!

                      --Ralph Waldo Emerson

This is Jill, my Home Sweet Home Blythe doll. This picture is for the theme "I Love ___" in the Blythe a Day group on Flickr. 

The Flower of Sweetest Smell

She loves to gaze upon a crystal river--
Diaphanous because it travels slowly;
Soft is the music that would charm for ever;
The flower of sweetest smell is shy and lowly.

              --from "Not Love, Not War, Nor the Tumultuous Swell" by William Wordsworth (1823)

I recently saw someone dress their Stella Serendipitous doll in pale pink, and she looked lovely--and completely different than she does in her stock dress that is bright red and black. Now that I know she looks so good in soft pastel colors, I expect to photograph her a lot more, because I couldn't think of what to put on her before; she's been wearing a silvery-grey dress for ages!  Here, she is wearing the stock dress from Jane LeFroy. I bought it in a Facebook group several months ago because I think it is beautiful, but I haven't been inspired to dress any of my dolls in it, until now. Isn't it perfect on her?

Flowers

There is no better compliment to natural beauty than flowers. 

This is Cinema Princess, wearing Stella Serendipitous' stock dress. She is posing for the theme "Flowers". The background is a painting my daughter did in high school. 

Spring Flowers

Blythe a Day May 7, 2015
Spring Flowers


The buttercups are in bloom! Fleur can't resist relaxing in the midst of them.

Fleur is my Charlotte des Fleurs Blythe doll.

That's One Big Flower

Blythe a Day April 26 2015
Flowers


Citrine was amazed that her first attempt at gardening produced such a huge, beautiful flower.

Citrine is my Ice Rune Blythe doll.

Forest

Blythe-a-Day March 21, 2015 Forest or Tree

Faith discovers a clearing full of wildflowers as she walks through the forest to her grandmother's house.

Faith is my Pow Wow Poncho Blythe doll.

Embroidered Flowers

My embroidered Blythe panties have been selling very well on Etsy! I try to come up with new embroidery designs frequently, so my shop will always have something new an interesting in it. The one pattern that I keep repeating, however, is a trio of flowers; I consider it my signature design, because it is the only one that I do free-hand (for all the others, I trace the image onto the fabric and then embroider over the marked lines).

I've been offering the flower trio in blue, purple, and pink and this week I had a special order for yellow and cream (she also ordered a blue). Here's the special order:

...and the pink:

...and the purple:

I love embroidery, so making these tiny panties is really a pleasure!