IKEA Cabinet-o-Dolls

This is the IKEA cabinet I built (all by myself so don't laugh) for my Blythe collection. The top floor is Ash's bedroom on the left and Pilar's living room on the right; next is Sweet Somethings (romantic clothing boutique that Olympia runs) and Burgers and Flies (Pali the Wonder Frog's cafe); next is Kennedy Pearl's kitchen & dining room and Perky Buns (Rhoda's coffee shop & bakery); finally, on the bottom is Kennedy Pearl's living room & study and an outdoor area for grilling and chilling.

This is Ash's bedroom up close. She's our hippie chick.

Riley Scout

I got a doll in the mail today; she's a custom Blythe doll from a collector in Canada. She's been sand-matted, hair cut (and dyed?), and she has new makeup and freckles. She also has all new eyechips, but you can only see one set of them because her string's broke. I tried to repair her today, and I did pretty well at it until my string broke. So anyway, when my sweetheart gets home from his trip to see his parents and brothers, I'll ask him to help me with her. Maybe he can figure out what's wrong. By the way, she's number 20.

Kennedy Pearl's Kitchen

This is Kennedy Pearl's kitchen (so far) that's gone up in the new IKEA bookcase unit (Granemo). I'm pretty pleased with the progress I've made, and I'm glad the original wallpaper/color scheme didn't work out (Target sold out of the scrapbook paper I wanted to use). I like this new colorful lavender, pink, and blue thing she's got going on. There's still a lot of work to be done here (the fridge needs painting, the sink is MIA, but overall it's coming together. Good job, K.P.

Lucky Number Sixteen

Okay, it hasn't been three weeks since my last post, and the number of Blythe dolls I own has already more than doubled. That's right; at last writing, I had seven. Today I have sixteen. Sixteen has always been my favorite (lucky?) number, although there are more dolls on their way as we speak. I do have to report, however, that I have not bought any in the past week. For me, that's a very good thing.



This is the last group picture I made; it only has twelve girls in it.





These three girls have arrived since the group photo. They are a Prima Dolly Violet named Pandora Fox, a Tea for Two named Tzeitl Davida, and a French Trench named Marcelle that I adopted from someone in Australia. I get a lot of enjoyment from thinking up names for the girls. A violet haired girl seemed mischievous, and Pandora Fox makes me think "Pandora's Box" whenever I say it. Tzeitl is named after a character in the musical, Fiddler on the Roof, because she has the same gorgeous long hair. Marcelle already had her name; I kept it but gave her a first name of Yvelise. I like for them to have both first and middle names.