iliad's arrival

so here is the first blythe of 2009 - she's a prima dolly aubrina. it's my first time seeing a rbl in person and it's really striking how different she is from my sbl girls. now, she will be a full custom with mohair. i have her eyes ordered and her hair picked out and i have had her sketched for a while now. it was hard to stay committed because when i saw her i fell in love BUT to help i called her iliad from the beginning and i took her out shot a video of her first eye click, just like the other two, and then i decided to cut her hair. why not? i have been wanting to try only not on my girls so i figured i should give it a go on a scalp that was to be fully re-rooted anyway. problem? OF COURSE! she came out wonderfully and looks so cute! i decided to pull out a few eye chips - i did it with out the head open so that i can do rj and ever if i want to.

did i say that?

omg, i can't believe that i thought i could give up blythe. i even put my darling babies up for sale at one point. thank God the buyer flaked on me. i can't believe that i thought that i could stop at two. (actually i think i quite knew i'd be buying more, i just wanted to think i could control it.) what i realized is that this is going WAY past rj and ever. this is doll love. i played with dolls all my life and i realize now it's always going to be that way. so here it is, a list of my 2009 doll goals: to fully customize the aurbrina doll i have coming, to add two more girls (hopefully an asian butterfly and a goldie) to my blythe family, to get another rbl girl to customize, to take more pictures of all my dolls!

*deep breath* i have big plans for my first custom blythe and i am just itching to get started. i have to catch up with my scrap booking first and i have ?four? i think, layouts to go! i received my sponges and my mr. super clear and a few other things i have ordered. i feel like a child dancing away waiting for Christmas to roll around.

they love the new house!

rj was on the counter chillin' for like a week - just LOVIN' the new house!

they are so sweet

so at first we were worried that ever and rj would not get along, they are so different - but they are so sweet. the absolutely love each other!

rj at home

she's a bit of a conspiracy theorist - but isn't she cute!

by the way:

rj - april 7th

meet rj - the new (and probably last) addition to my blythe family. (though i may die if i never get an asian butterfly or goldie.) rj is my twin blythe, my tiny-little-big-eyed-blythe mirror (if you will.) she is an aries, full of fire and life. brave, sassy, thoughtful and bursting with creativity! she's got the best style and i am just so madly in love. the sad thing is that i feel so wretched today i am not going to open her. i feel badly about that but i really want to enjoy her opening and playing with all of her little special things! so for now:

oh, and just an f.y.i. - rj is a natasha moore!

she's so cool!

ever has really been a lot of fun lately. she is getting much more comfortable and actually likes having her picture taken now. (and she is fruit for new clothes!) we just got back from a trip to alabama and we won a lot of shoes and clothes on ebay. not much of it fits but it was cheap and well worth having all the clothes to go through! she loves the outift in the picture below! such a cutie-pie hippie chick!

above: faux fur jacket (ever is lucky that roughly a year ago barbie was wearing 3/4 length shrugs because that length fits her arms swimingly,) tiny hippie top is too small to be a barbie or skipper top, blythe jeans from etsy, barbie purse and fashion doll shoes! how fun!

sugar skulls!!!!

that's right! work it girl! nana made the sugar skull dress and my shy little girl has been really been coming out of her shell! i am going to have to change her personality discription!

WOW! what a cool lady!

ever is having the time of her life, here in the office with me. we just received her package from my sister and she is thrilled... when i first held up her dress she just giggled an said she thought it might be too dark, but once she say the hat it was on in no time! there's another she needs to try on, but i can get her to take this one off. oh, well. maybe tomorrow... hmmm, now that we have more clothes shoes are a must!

can you believe my sister made these! there so wonderful!