December 7, 2020: Wake Up Call

 What a great way to wake up! And now, back to sleep.

This pretty girl is Sadie Sprinkle.

December 6, 2020: Color of the Season

 If you can’t decide between red or green, be like Playful Raindrops and just wear both!

December 5, 2020: Book Club

What do you do when your book club meets in an hour and you haven’t read the book? SKIM IT!

This picture started out looking Christmas-y...there was a green wrapping paper background, a red and green dress, and the book itself is “A Christmas Carol.” But as I worked on making the picture interesting, it seemed that the most impact was with a close up of Elegant Ellie, and all the holiday elements were lost.

I’ve never been in a book club, but my cousin is in one, and she says that some of the members (mostly the women with small children) don’t ever read the books—they just come for the wine and friendship!

December 4, 2020: Shop Til You...

 Have you ever shopped til you dropped? Patty Patch doesn’t recommend it! At least she got all her Christmas shopping done.

December 3, 2020: Merry Christmas From Paradise!

Mele Kalikimaka is the thing to say on a bright Hawaiian Christmas day
That's the island greeting that we send to you
From the land where palm trees sway
Here we know that Christmas will be green and bright
The sun will shine by day and all the stars at night
Mele Kalikimaka is Hawaii's way to say Merry Christmas to you

Cherry Beach Sunset is the perfect doll for the theme “living on a tropical island.” As I was putting the picture together, the phrase Mele Kalikimaka started running through my mind. The song was written in 1949 by Robert Alexander Andersen. Have you heard of it before? I must have heard it when I spent Christmas in Honolulu once when I was in college. My parents had moved there for my father’s job, so I had a great Christmas break, and returned to school with a head-turning tan!

December 2, 2020: Winter Sports

 Anyone can join in, but you have to pick a team: “Merry Christmas” or “Fresh Cut Trees”?

Can you name these four Blythe dolls? They are, from left to right: Picnic Al Fresco, Petit Dejeuner, Patty Patch, and Chocolat Blythe. I decided to do a snowball fight for the theme Winter sports (in the Blythe a Day group) even though it’s a game rather than a sport, because I have these cute buckets of snowballs ornaments from Target and I really wanted to use them in a doll picture!

December 1, 2020: View From My Window

After spending hours making the snowman, Cassis has her fingers crossed that the weather stays cold and cloudy for a while.

 I am so happy with this photo—it’s the best one I’ve taken of Prima Dolly Cassis. I also love how blurry and sparkly the snowman looks out the window. I’ve started using my iPhone for doll pictures and I really like it.