Green is the Color...

Happy St. Patrick's Day

The beautiful Allegra Champagne poses for one more picture...I took this last week, when I was using her as my model exclusively, and now I will tell you why: I was trying to help a friend sell HER Allegra Champagne, and my plan was to take to most appealing pictures of her that I could manage, and to post them on Facebook, where my friend had her doll for sale. And it worked! A few days after I started posting pictures, the doll sold (although the newly-lowered price had something to do with it too, I'm sure.)

Picnic in the Park

When the weather is this nice, it would just be WRONG to stay inside!

These Blythe dolls are Ice Rune and Cousin Olivia.

Selfie Sunday

It's a beautiful day! Zelda grabbed her friends and headed to the park to enjoy the outdoors. Happy Selfie Sunday, everyone!

These Blythe dolls are, from left to right: Sadie Sprinkle (I call her Juliette), Blythe Adores Anna Sui (Zelda), and Allegra Champagne (Bridget).

Child of the Universe

"You are a child of the universe,
 no less than the trees and the stars;
 you have a right to be here." 
                               --from "The Desiderata" by Max Ehrmann

 

The quote, above, is from the poem called The Desiderata by Max Ehrmann. I remember hearing this poem when I was in high school, and I just re-read it--wow! It contains so much wisdom and good advice. I expect to use several more quotes from in to accompany doll pictures in the near future. (Click on the blue words to go to the full text.)

This lovely angel is Bridget, my Allegra Champagne Blythe doll.

Words of Wisdom

The only way to have a friend is to be one.
                                                     --Ralph Waldo Emerson

This is Mandy Cotton Candy; I call her Paisley. Her friend is a mini Lalaloopsy who came in one of the new "blind box" paint can packages. I love the surprise of blind boxes, and I love Lalaloopsies, so I was excited to get one, and I am very pleased with this little girl When I read the insert that came with the package, I had a second surprise: these Lala's are not unique to the paint cans; they seem to be nothing more than the regular Lalaloopsies, repackaged! I'm so glad I didn't get one I already have! The paint can is cute, and although the scale of it is a bit big for Blythe, I hope to find a way to use it with my dolls (after removing the label, of course!)

Natural Beauty

A flower does not think of competing with the flower next to it. It just blooms.  
                                                         --Zen Shin

Allegra Champagne, the 15th Anniversary Blythe doll.  She is especially beautiful because not only is she translucent, she also has a pearly finish to her face.

Poetry and Daffodils

I Wandered Lonely as a Cloud

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BY WILLIAM WORDSWORTH

I wandered lonely as a cloud 

That floats on high o'er vales and hills, 

When all at once I saw a crowd, 

A host, of golden daffodils; 

Beside the lake, beneath the trees, 

Fluttering and dancing in the breeze. 

Continuous as the stars that shine 

And twinkle on the milky way, 

They stretched in never-ending line 

Along the margin of a bay: 

Ten thousand saw I at a glance, 

Tossing their heads in sprightly dance. 

The waves beside them danced; but they 

Out-did the sparkling waves in glee: 

A poet could not but be gay, 

In such a jocund company: 

I gazed—and gazed—but little thought 

What wealth the show to me had brought: 

For oft, when on my couch I lie 

In vacant or in pensive mood, 

They flash upon that inward eye 

Which is the bliss of solitude; 

And then my heart with pleasure fills, 

And dances with the daffodils. 

This is Bridget, my Allegra Champagne Blythe doll. The daffodils in our front yard have been in bloom for almost two weeks now, and I wanted to capture a few of them before they go. I hope you didn't mind the long-ish poem, but it seemed to be just the right thing to accompany this photo.