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Very Vicky is adorable with class, fashioning a classic style with a tad of Gothic sensibilities, everybody admires her immensely.
What gives her the impression of an aristocratic mademoiselle?
We would like to point out her skirt and top as two separate pieces.
Her top and skirt uses a calm dark green fabric with a tint of blue.
Her puff sleeve blouse has a an off white section for her chest area and is detailed with care.
On the center of her small stand color a black satin ribbon is tied to it with 3 black beads button on the bottom.
With 3 pin tacks on the left and the right we were able to gracefully decorate the blouse with laces.

The skirt has a simple A line.
Her waist section is gathered together to have a soft silhouette.
The bottom of the skirt is detailed with intricate laces and it matches the blouse very well.
Vicky’s long hair and her small straw hat looks great together.
Her hat also has a similar motif with the laces and is very chic.
Be sure to put her gold comb in the back of hair too.

For her feet she has black tights and strap shoes coordinated to match her outfit.
Her slightly permed light brown hair goes down to her knees and her hair is parted in the from to the side.
Her eye shadow is a bluish grey and her lips and cheeks are both pink.
Her cheek is on the thicker side in the center in a circular shape accentuating cute expression.
Her beauty mark under her right eye is also another charm point!
We also used light green, a special color, for her eyes looking to the right.
Her face type is Fairest and her face color is Natural.

[ Face Type ] Fairest
[ Skin Type ] Natural
[ Make-up ] Eye shadow- blue grey, Lips- pink, Blush- pink
[ Eye Color ] Blue (front) / green (left) / orange (front) / light green (right-special color)
[ Hair Color ] Light brown
[ The set includes ] Doll, blouse, skirt, tights, earrings, strap shoes, straw hat, underwear, and stand.

Scheduled Release Date: August 27, 2010
Suggested Retail Price: 14,490 yen

Tags: 2010, August, new, release, Very Vicky

The 3rd Simply series come from the clouds above with their cute skate shoes! Their names are: Simply Bubble Boom, Simply Thumpty Thump and Simply Sparkly Spark! They always help Marabelle Melody when the odds are stacked against her and Tora Unpappa toots her magical horn for help!

Simply Thumpty Thump wears a purple dress with a heart pattern inspired by a skate costume. The flared mini skirt is double-layered and the dark purple under skirt is cutely shown from the bottom. For shoes, she wears black tights and purple skate shoes. Her hair style is a bob that reaches her shoulder with bangs, and her hair color is slightly pinkish purple like berries. She decorates her hair with a black headband. Her makeup is a light purple eye shadow with coral pink lips and blush. Her face type is Fairest (shiny surface), and skin type is Fair.

Scheduled Release Date: August 2010
Suggested Retail Price: 10,290 yen
Limited edition of 1500 dolls

Tags: blythe, FBL, heart, new, purple, release, simply, thump, thumpty

So, 2 of my favorite dolly personalities had birthday’s this past month and on the same day nonetheless !

Squirrel celebrated her 2nd birthday with her best friend Bea and most of the Flickr community. As usual, Rebecca’s photos are both inspiring and heart-warming.

Picture by: Squirrel Junkie

There was lots of celebration @ Tia’s as it was Oz’s first birthday !

*Picture by Tia

Not only did Rebecca and Tia celebrate but both girls were sent gifts from other dolly friends across the community. And of course lots of birthday wishes and cheer was spread throughout.

When I first started collecting Blythe, I thought the remembrance of their “birthdays” and “arrival days” and this is the day I got her her first ButtonArcade dresses were kinda.. silly ! Like it was a little bit of overdoing it.

But since I’ve been in this hobby, and anyone else who actually gets involved. You soon realize that collecting Blythe is not only about having a collectible doll. There’s these whole other aspects to it that surprise you. Among Flickr and forum communities, you totally just build this little bond with your doll. And then it’s amplified when you share in little things with others who also collect these “magical” dolls.

I’m not saying you will remember the day every doll arrived with you. Nor would your life probably allow you the time to involve yourself with each of them and every dolly friends dollies birthdays. But when you actually do find a doll that captures your heart like this and you can share as we’ve seen Rebecca and Tia share, it totally just puts a smile on your face.

I have to admit that I don’t think I would have stayed in the hobby this long (as nothing holds my attention!) if it wasn’t for the actual friendships I’ve build beyond my dolls. In fact, seeing things like this inspired me so much I made my first 2 official tees for “Little Sheep Eep” for Squirrel and Oz as birthday presents for them.

So, find a special reason to celebrate with your favorite dolly ! Have a little party ! Celebrate your hobby. Give your neighbors a reason to stare ! You might find the creative outlet was just what you needed for yourself too !

Tags: "Ask Oz", birthday, blythe, celebration, Squirrel, squirrel junkie, tia

Today I am announcing that I am going back into selling Blythe tees !

In early 2009 I started a line of tees in my shop then known as “Commonly Cute”. I had several designs, some were really popular. But I honestly messed up more tees than I sold. haha !

*Some of the original designs.

I also sold other Blythe related products like eye-chips, pull-rings and other Blythe related things. Due to the economy and my family coming on some hard times, I had to close the shop.

Since that time I have always wished that there was some way I could get back into it and with a new and improved method of creating the tees and the designs on them. For over a year, I’ve scribbled in a journal my mom bought me to keep “creative ideas” in and finally, it is all coming together.

With the help of my sister one night, the name of the shop came about ~ Little Sheep Eep. “Eep” is my childhood nickname from my sissy and she still calls me it to this day. The sheep has many different symbols for me – from religion background to just loving on lambs and sheep. My favorite designer, Katie over @ smile-recipe is helping us with the graphics for the shop.

Finding “Eep” ~ our dolly spokesperson to promote the shop came a little easier than I expected.. although she was an unlikely candidate. For months I’ve been hating on the FBL Blythe mold saying that I found it totally ugly and being a total meanie saying that I wasn’t going to buy anymore Blythe girls that went beyond the RBL mold.

I had gotten an EBL Skate Date to be “Eep” and when I opened her up, she just wasn’t “Eep”. I just wasn’t feeling it ~ Which is surprising because SD is a beauty !

Anyhow, after that I realized I should research some dolls more on Flickr and try to find a girl that I think will look good in any tee while rocking a sheep hat. I stumbled across Luna & Happibug Paris girls and I fell in love.

As total luck would have it, A dolly friend (Carmen) offered a trade for her Paris for my SD and the rest is history. Little “Eep” has been with me a few weeks, already attending a Blythe meet in Alabama.

*That’s my little Eep on the top left

She is a magical dolly and the perfect dolly spokesperson for the shop. She is currently visiting with the talented Squirrel Junkie to be customized to be a true ~ Little Sheep Eep !

Anyhow, to get back to the topic at hand.. I am so excited to announce that I will once again be creating Blythe tees. And in unique and new ways.

~ a little sneak peek ~

I will not only be doing silk-screen and iron-on designs, but now I’ll be doing rhinestone tees and tees with a combination of the 2 for some really unique looks. I also plan on offering custom tees with your girls name across it with a small icon. There’s lots of things in store ! I truly hope this is the beginning of something fun and new !

I plan to have a cool Blytheblog contest to win a special tee ! So stay tuned for that

Tags: announce, blythe, Little Sheep Eep, LSE, new, shop, tees

I started this group ADAM (a doll a month) and just finished my first month with Phoenix. My custom FTS by Morgan Orton.

As someone who has previously failed the 365 group challenge on more than one occasion, it was fun and refreshing to actually complete a set. I actually felt a sense of accomplishment !

I do very much plan on doing a complete 365 run when I find the girl that I think will last the year with me. But until then, I am enjoying the low-key casual approach of ADAM. You can choose whether to do the full month 1 picture a day or just 1 picture for the month. I think for July I will just choose 1 photo and give myself a little break.

With all of the fun Flickr groups out there, You are sure to find a challenge to participate in with your favorite Blythe girl.

Tags: ADAM, custom, june, Morgan Orton, Phoenix

June Poll Results: Do you craft for your Blythe?

Total votes: 19

Yes, I sew – 1 vote (5.3%)

Yes, I knit – 2 votes (10.5%)

Yes, I crochet – 2 votes (10.5%)

Yes, I do a mixture of things – 10 votes (52.6%)

No, that’s what Etsy is for – 2 votes (10.5%)

Tags: 2010, do you craft for your blythe, june, poll, results

Bohemian Peace loves to sing about love and peace with her ukulele.
Her style is romantic bohemian filled with cute lace and patterns.

She is wearing a white camisole slip and a blue paisley tunic on top.
The orange and gold rickrack on the sleeves and neck add a lovely accent to the tunic.
The long vest on the dress is made of romantic beige lace.
The hem of the vest has a sophisticated, rounded edge.
Underneath she wears brown leggings that reach to her calves and 2-color sandals.
Her hair style is long reddish brown hair parted in the center.
She wear a lace ribbon headband with faux leather flower motif on it.
She has special wine red eye chips gazing toward right.
Her face type is Radiance, and her skin type is Regular.

[ Face Type ] Radiance
[ Skin Type ] Regular
[ Make-up ] Eye shadow- brown, Lips- orange, Blush- orange
[ Eye Color ] Blue (center) / Wine red (left-special color) / orange　(center) / green right)
[ Hair Color ] Reddish dark brown
[ The set includes ] Doll, cami dress, tunic, vest, hair accessory, leggings, sandals, underwear, and stand.

Scheduled release date: July 23, 2010
Suggested retail price: 14,490 JPY

We are happy to finally be able to introduce the 9th anniversary Neo Blythe “Marabelle Melody,” following the Petite Blythe “Tora Unpappa”!
Check out her fashion which perfectly fits this year’s anniversary theme, “Manga Girls Inspiration”.

She wears casual manga-inspired fashion and elegant mini dress.
For her casual fashion she coordinates a lot of fun colors to match the vivid red dress!
The dress is low-waisted and has a cute plated skirt.
Under the dress she wears a bluish green top with white dots.
Her top has cute puff full length sleeves.
She also wears yellow and orange striped socks and navy blue boots.
To complete the look, she carries a pink magic compact with a gold chain around her shoulder.
For her casual look, she loves to tie her hair into ponytail with her favorite star-shaped elastic bands!

For the elegant fashion, she chose a romantic dusty pink dress.
It has a lot of frills with gold stitches at the bottom and a big ribbon on the back.
The outer dress is split at the center to show a lovely inner dress with musical note print!
The print is coated with glitter to make the dress special and sparkly.
She wears a beige frilly collar on her dress that she can take off and put on.
She matches white socks with ribbons and strap shoes to go with the dress.
Her animal ear headband and pearl earrings add a cute and romantic accent!
With her magical wand, she rings a beautiful melody to make everyone happy!
Her hair style is a long wavy blond hair with bangs.
Her makeup is a brown eye shadow with pink lips and blush.
Her eyelashes are special shapes and eyelids are brown to match the eye shadow.
Eye colors are all special.
The blue gray eye chips gazing toward the center have a hologram sheet underneath.
Her face type is Radiance, and skin type is Natural.

Scheduled release date: Beginning of September, 2010
Suggested retail price: 27,300 JPY
Limited edition of 2010 dolls

Tags: 2010, anniversary, Bohemian Peace, July, Marabelle Melody, new, release, September