CHRISTMAS with MY GIRLS ... 2011

Merry Christmas Season !!!

So many MAGICAL things have been happening this year ! I would like to HOPE that I had at least a part of the * magic * that is happening, in that, I have been WORKING my a** off, all year ... not only at my job, but at my ultimate goal of getting to a point where I have enough inventory of items to open my etsy shop!

WHICH I DID ... in November :)

I opened my shop with my awesome TURKEY DRESSES FOR BLYTHE ... which no one purchased.

For some reason, I am not going to take this personally ... I mean, these people don't even know me  ... YET ... and I must be patient, and just keep plugging away, little by little .... Keep in contact with as many as possible on etsy ... on this blog ... on flickr ... and maybe some day, I will list just that "right" fashion that will catch on ... THEN, I can re-offer my little Turkey dresses ...  I did not offer them for SALE, at a reduced price, because I worked really hard on them, and .... there is always Thanksgiving 2012 ...

I then listed my CHRISTMAS FASHIONS .... Little Santa Dresses with full ice-skating dress type skirts, and little belts in black shiny pleather, with gold or rhinestone buckles ... and little Santa Coat styles ... and Angel Dresses with real white feather wings (which I made into PINS, because I thought if I attached them to the dress ... the customer would not be able to wash the dress, OR be able to use the dress again, and SINCE the Angel Dresses are ALL WHITE ... again, using the basic dress over and over again, adorned with any sort of Holiday colors, the possibilities are endless.

I think that would be the attraction of ALL my fashions ... my little TULLE BOW dresses, can have so many different possibilities AFTER they receive them!  They can put ribbon through the buckles, and different colors of tulle ... I even offer them to the customers ...

Made a couple of visits back to PALM SPRINGS, to visit my Mom ... who had complete knee replacement surgery!  She is such a trooper,and I am proud to be her daughter, coming from such strong stock and resilient genes!  Our other sister had brought her a Christmas Tree, a small but beautiful flocked one, SO, I took advantage of that photo opportunity,and posed a few of my girls "under the tree" ...

 L. to R.  Nenetl Nenetl;  Lena LaRosse;  Bertha Belle;  Hollister Harmonica
ALL wearing SWAN LOVE DESIGN dresses
Knee-Thigh socks and lace ankle-socks:  from ebay
Hollister is wearing a special little Holiday Mini-Dress I made:  Angel Face Dress with Angel Wings on back;  Her lacy leggings are made by me :)
All shoes are also "made" by me:  Stock mary-janes, painted and/or glittered;  Stock Barbie boots that I attached fur trim and white satin ribbon/bows.

Hollister Harmonica, my ADG Pleasant Peasant

 Nenetl Nenetl (ADG Aztec Arrival) and Bertha Belle (my Little Big Eyes) ... wearing their CHRISTMAS RED Party Dresses :)

LOVE these little LACE EDGE SOCKS, and the Ruby Slippers I made :)

Little BERTHA BELLE and HOLLISTER HARMONICA 

PALM SPRINGS VACATION; Summer 2011 with my GIRLS

MY BIRTHDAY is in JULY, so I LOVE SUMMER ...

Took my GIRLS ... all of them ... on a ROAD TRIP to PALM SPRINGS, CALIFORNIA !!!

ROAD TRIP !!!

I made all my girls "matching" ... but different" sundresses JUST for this trip to PALM SPRINGS

I had little toddler size sun-dresses that I got at the dollar store, in GREEN, BLUE, and ORANGE,

So I made each of them in different styles ...

Just some fun photo shoots we had ... Granted, at this time, I had not studied as much about the photography of my specific camera  ... Canon G10 ... so these shots are just not that great ...  Plus the fact that I felt "rushed" and hurried for these shoots ... and I do not like the way they look like "dolls" ... just stiff-limbed items placed in a frame.


HOPEFULLY when it comes time to sell my fashions, I will be able to do a better job :)

ENTERING PALM SPRINGS ... There is an awesome PALM SPRINGS sign
I just had to stop ....
even though it was about 110 degrees!
And of COURSE all the girls kept falling over ... It was quite horrible actually
but I HAD TO GET THAT PICTURE !!!

TOO, this is on the MAIN HIGHWAY with all the traffic going by ... !!!

My Little NENETL ...

PHOTO SHOOT

I took pics of all the girls together in their Summer White crochet dresses

and each one separately ...

This is my ADG Aztec Arrival Blythe:  NENETL

After her major hair cut, too.

I TRIED to get the "yellow tint" out of this pic ... but NOPE ...

This is MOLLY

(my Little Big Eyes; Grape hair doll)

This is KIRSTYN; 

She is wearing Barbie pearly-white ankle boots

My little LENA

in her new Disney Fairy body

(that is why her dress looks so huge on her ...)

 

BERTHA BELLE:

Little Big Eyes Lemon Hair Doll

EmAly EriKa:

At least I LIKE the way she is posed in this pic ...

(she is my 2nd Little Big Eyes Grape hair doll;

now wearing her ash-blonde extensions)

AshLeigh: 

Wearing a crochet mini-dress,

 over a tube skirt (which is actually a dime-store tube-headband, that I cut to size)

Jay~Anna:

Her hair looks SO BRIGHT in this pic ..

she, too, has her NEW Disney Fairy body.

She is wearing one of the "Bridesmaids" dresses I am working on;

re-purposed from a white lacy knit top; I added crochet at top and scallopped edging at bottom)

CAYLEE CAMRYN CANE:

She has the Blybe body now; 

I replaced her spindly limb body (CCE)

She is also wearing one of my "Bridesmaid" dresses

I am working on ...

 

MY GIRLS:

WHAT a weird picture ...

I was RUSHED at this time, trying to hurry and place them all...

I simply do NOT like the way they all look dis-jointed,

I have SO MUCH to learn !!!

 

AshLeigh

(with resin bulldog)

 

KIRSTYN

 

BERTHA BELLE

 

EmAly EriKa

 

LENA

 

NENETL

There was a cool TREE outside,

so I attempted more photo shoots ...

MOST of the photos I do not like, so am only posting a few ...

This one is JAY~ANNA

 

THE GREEN SERIES:

(I made all the girls little "matching" sundresses for this trip ...)

 

LENA ...

PERSONALITY PLUS

DO YOUR GIRLS HAVE THEIR OWN PERSONALITIES???

OF COURSE THEY DO !

But .... HOW is this possible ????


When I first discovered Blythe ... and the "eye changing dolls" ... I had to "laugh" at all the folks I kept seeing on flickr, who were talking "for" their girls, acting as it ....

but then ... WAIT a second ...

From the VERY MOMENT when I received my very first LBE .... she DEFINITELY had a mood ... and attitude ... even on the auction site ad where I purchased her ... and I KNEW RIGHT THEN I had to have her!

Fast-forward to having LBE dolls with the SAME color hair (2 lemon; 2 jet black; 2 grape ...) and THEY ARE EACH SOOOOO DIFFERENT!!!!!

ADD to that, their little expressions AFTER I carved them, added their own INDIVIDUALLY HAND-MADE EYE CHIPS ... and well ...

They DO HAVE THEIR OWN PERSONALITIES !!!  THAT is why I believe the Blythe world is so huge, and so STRONG!


I made little PERSONALITY POSTERS of my GIRLS:

She was actually NAMED after a VERY SCHOLARLY YOUNG LADY,

who was attending USC

I had no idea when I braided her hair for her boil perms,

that I would LOVE HER IN THIS HAIRSTYLE SO MUCH,

that I would KEEP HER THIS WAY ...

she always looks SO SPORTY ...

Camryn is now:

CAYLEE CAMRYN CANE

.....named after that poor, dear, sweet FL girl who will be

FOREVER  A  LITTLE  BABY .....

She truly IS ... our little GHOST ... as she did come back from the "dead"

(I committed accidental dolly-cide on her,

but then RESURRECTED HER into this GHOST ... )

DOES SHE or DOES SHE NOT ... look JUST LIKE A DEBUTANTE ?????

Perfect as GRACE KELLY as well ...

"SOMETHING" about her RASPBERRY HAIR ...

Makes you think of love, Love, LOVE .....

MAYBE its the eye make-up I put on her ....

PLUS she is named after the ULTIMATE FLIRT EVER ....

YEP, just look at her SWEET LITTLE FACE !!!

(my 2nd lemon hair LBE ... yet oh, SO DIFFERENT .....)

SOMETHING about the way I carved her mouth into a shape

that every time I look at her,

she looks like MISCHIEF ..... A LITTLE "IMP" .....

MY VERY FIRST REAL BLYTHE ...

THE TRUE MEANING OF "INGENUE" .....

YOUNG, FRESH, INNOCENT ...

THIS IS ONLY THE BEGINNING .....

LITTLE BIG EYES DOLLS: Eye Changing BUTTONS

Little Big Eyes Dolls have a HUGE push button on the back of their heads, and it actually comes with a sticker saying "PUSH HERE".  really.

This button on the back of their heads, is INSTEAD OF a "string" like the real Blythe dolls have.

I decided to remove those labels from my seven LBE dolls, and give them a little "bling" on their buttons :)

Bertha:  PINK THEME

LENA:  SKY BLUE AND LEMON YELLOW (to match her hair)
(That is a MIRROR CIRCLE in the middle)

I chose this HUGE PURPLE RHINESTONE STAR for Molly,
to match her Grape color hair

AshLeigh has long jet black hair, so I chose
Ebony and Turquoise for her

DRYING TIME !!!

For EmAly I chose a "confetti" bright color scheme
(Since this pic, I have added tinier rhinestones to fill in those blanks)

CLOSE-UP of Lena's button

To complement JAY~ANNA'S awesome RASPBERRY HAIR,
I started with a LARGE raspberry rhinestone STAR for the center
and filled in the rest with OPALESCENT rhinestones in several sizes

Kirstyn also has jet black locks,
so for her, a nice classic RED, BLACK, and WHITE theme

ALL 7 of them, ALL DONE !  These will only be visible if they have "up-do's", so they are ready for their glamourous nights on the town, in any event ...



I used flatback rhinestone shapes, and a layer of craft glue, and let them set for a few days ... I just LOVE the way they all turned out :)