What with work ending for the year (I only work when I have time off from school) and school starting, the girls have been getting a little bit neglected… Which prompted the following outtakes that were captured on camera.

Belarus: Must rearrange this thing…
Me: BELARUS, WHAT ON EARTH ARE YOU WEARING? (more…)

Deena – Blythe dolls have pullrings attached to a string that goes into their heads. When you pull on the string, the eyes close and when you release the string, the eyes open back up and they would have rotated to a new ‘set’ of eyes. Blythes have 4 sets of eye colours, 2 that look forward, 1 that looks to the left and 1 that looks to the right. The stock eye colours are blue, green, pink and orange. I’m planning on changing them on both of my dolls when I go to gaze correct them and give them sleep eyes (mild customization).

Anyways, here’s some Belarus spam! I made her a new hat but I can’t figure out what kind of ‘animal’ hat she has on now. It was supposed to be cat ears, but they’re a little too rounded/long. But I can’t figure out quite what they would represent. Any ideas?

I decided to try my hand at doing side buns after seeing so many photos of Blythes with side buns. It’s not very neat… I only used 2 hair clips for this, one for each side, but I thought it was neat enough. The ends that are loose are because her hair’s uneven. It’s grown on me now though, so I’ll probably leave it as is.

She arrived at my house while I was at work yesterday – my eldest sister was home, so she gave me a call and went “Your stupidly expensive doll arrived, it’s in your room.” To be fair, they’re all “stupidly expensive”. But she’s mine!!

The ebay seller that I bought from giftshop-jp (who had the best price for her, NFRB – Never Removed From Box, and also had the cheapest shipping – even at EMS! Everyone else had comparative shipping prices, but it was regular air mail, not priority) included a little gift – it’s a plastic folder with the image of a custom Blythe doll – I thought it was a nice touch. And the packaging was great, there was bubble wrap and the shipping carton was awesome as well. I bought and paid for her on Sunday (August 26) and she was shipped on the 27th and arrived at my door on the 31st. I was rather impressed!

Ignore the stuff on the left and the right of the plastic folder and the box. Yes, I have pink scissors.

And here she is, Love Mission! She’s still in her box, I have a lot of stuff to do this weekend and I’m going to be hardly at home until late Sunday and most of the day on Monday, so I want to keep her in there until I get some time to enjoy her. I’ve decided (for now) to name her Belarus (like the country!). Maybe Ruse for short, not sure yet. But she’s gorgeous… I want to get her brown eyechips so she’ll really be a mini-me.

According to the Canada Post website, it took her over 24 hours to travel from Japan to Canada (left Japan at 06:22 July 28, local time and arrived at 16:33 on July 29, also local time). There’s like a huge time difference (over 12 hours, with Japan being ahead of where I am!) so I was a little bit concerned there for a moment. But she’s in Canada! She’s in BC! She’s currently being held by Customs. Hopefully she gets released soon so I can get her! I’m so eager to check her out, she’ll be my second Blythe and my first EBL doll (there are various face molds for Blythe: BL/EBL – same mold, different body; SBL; RBL – the kind that Sophie is!; and FBL – super new, only 2 dolls have been released with that mold so far).

Can’t wait until she gets here!