13 posts tagged “blythe”
After 4 months of not even being certain she'll come home with me, I finally managed to have a friend pick her up from the seller for me last Sunday. The seller and I had discussed a price for her (this was even before I'd seen a photo of the doll's condition), and I was afraid she'd had second thoughts about selling her to be since it's a very very good deal (for me). I am a bit annoyed with the seller than she didn't specify that there was a broken neck post (I had asked about the glue remnants and if that meant the neck was broken), but I can't complain seeing that she came to me at a bargain price and I'm not about to ask for my money back. :)
This little sweetie has been christened Beatrice Dimple - I'd decided on the name Beatrice from the time the seller sent me photos of her face, and 'Dimple' was added because I'd always had this notion of having a Scottish girl, and anyways, James likes the scotch whisky by the same name. Now all I need is a dark brunette wispy bang Kenner with a Welsh name to complete my little Kenner family.
Can't believe I've not come on to Vox for nearly a month now!
In case you were wondering what's been happening in the past month, here's a summary in:
- Sold one of my Blythes that I thought would always be in my special group (FAO HW, Roo). She's gone to live with an awesome pal of mine in Sydney, and I know she's being loved heaps.
- Bought my first Jun Planning doll ever - a DAL Drta
- Sold DAL Drta after just over a week because we weren't really bonding and I needed the money for another doll (she's now living with another mate of mine in Melbourne, so I'll still get to see her from time to time at meets!)
- Ordered my first BJD, a msd sized DZ Xi. *SQUEEEEE*
- Decides to quit work because personal and company work ethics clash too drastically.
- Dad arrives from Singapore for visit.
- Has fiancé arrive from Newcastle for a 3 week long visit - hadn't seen him for nearly 4 months.
- First night that fiancé was here, he surprised me with my engagement ring (we had put off getting a ring because we wanted it to be the perfect one) - I am now sporting some bling on my finger. Lol. Feels weird, but nice at the same time.
- Gave my 2 weeks' notice at work
- On the SAME day, right after work, mom rings me on mobile to tell me that my paternal grandfather has suddenly passed away and we were all flying back to Singapore for the funeral within the next few days.
- Had to ring up work to tell them to basically screw the 2 weeks' notice; I would no longer be going back in. There was a sense of liberation in that even though it was due to bad circumstances.
- BJD resin boy arrives all nekkid and without a faceup. *More SQUEEEE-AGE*
- Fiancé had to cut trip short (he was only in Melbourne for 4 days!!!), and family and I flew back to Singapore. (Rushed decision, but decide to bring resin boy instead of any Blythes so I could work on his faceup while in Singapore because I could readily get MSC here in stores.)
- Missed Christmas Blythe meet at Christina/Orriettacat's home *kicks self*, and will also miss the Christmas bjd Melbourne meet that's coming up on the 16th. *kicks self harder*.
- Resin boy now has faceup and clothes and hair. And I think he's bloody smexy. XD
- Flying back to Melbourne on the 27th/28th of December - I CANNOT WAIT.
- Going to have some much needed me time before visiting fiancé in Newcastle in mid January.
Don't know about you, but I'm tired just doing the list above. ;)
Been at work for a month now, and I don't know if I like it there or not, even now. All I know is, unless something radical changes there, I'm not going to be looking at this as a long-term job.
Nothing much's been happening lately; been for a few dolly catch-ups, and am now busy trying to decide and work on what to make for my girls to wear for the upcoming Halloween/Alice in Wonderland theme tea-party at Grace's on the 29th. I was going to cop out and just dress them up as part of a deck of cards, but I'm thinking maybe my petites can do the honours as card soldiers. The neos would have to have something more impressive, but I don't want to go down the typical Alice route. Must ponder over this.
In other dolly news, I just got a new Azone Pureneemo girl, and I love how she's more posable than Blythes and Moofs. She's called Tohno, btw. :)
What's the last thing you crafted, constructed or created yourself?
I'm going to think outside the box for this one and say, the look/style that Sachi is wearing in the photo shoot we did today. ;)
I haven't been overly crafty since after Vera's dolly party where I made the 6 matching party dresses for the girls to wear, and think my sewing fever has subsided for a while now. But hey, I fully customised Sachi a couple of months back too, so that should count as being crafty.
She got a few inches trimmed off the ends of her fleecy hair, so it'll resemble more like dreadlocks. It goes well with the Fruits/Harajuku look in the photo too. Layering clothes on dollies seem so much easier than trying to do that for myself. Is it bad to lust over my dolls' wardrobe?
Dead tired now, and for once, I think I might be going to bed before 2am. :D In fact, at around 9.30pm to be exact. Left the house at quarter to 8 this morning to catch my 40 minute train ride to the location for a job fair, and thankfully after 2 1/2 hours I'd gotten through the rounds of fun and games and those lala team building assessments and gained an one-on-one interview. Hopefully, I'll find out if I've gotten through to the next round within the next fortnight. Then, went to meet up with Sassie for a dolly meet. She'd just started collecting Blythes and was so eager to meet other Blythe collectors in real life, that she didn't quite mind it was just me (and Roo and Kenn) turning up. She's a lovely lovely person. We ended up chatting about dolls for 5 hours!! Alana popped by for the meet too; wasn't expecting her since she'd said the night before that she thought she wouldn't be able to make it, so it was great to see her there. Later, went to meet Eva during her work break and hey, more dolly talk!
I must have gotten up on the right side of the bed today because the jobs that I've applied for this week have all requested me back for an interview. Wheeee! Going to go for an interview tomorrow for a job that's coffee related, so I'm brushing up on last minute facts. It's been sooo long since I've last worked with coffee! 6 years! It's funny when I stop to think about it - all the jobs I'm being called back for are all retail related, but in different industries: one's for books and music, one's for coffee, and one's eBay/auction related. Weird shite.
Pooped in a good, "I'm-just-really-tired-from-all-the-fun" sort of way.
The
dolly meet was fabulous today, with seven of us regulars turning up. In
total, we'd managed 52 neos and a couple of petites. Sue had went all
out making Vera's party one to remember by making little dolly sized
party hats, and the rest of us chipped in with some re-ment, a pop up
birthday card, candy, and even some fairy bread (bread topped with 100s
and 1000s/sprinkles).
The humans had a nice spread too - there were cupcakes, brownies, apple chips, cake, buscuits, fizzies, vodka cruisers and wine. *pats satisfied tum* It was lovely to see all the Blythes decked out in their party clothes, and there were some stunning sewing and embriodery on some outfits!
A couple of us took a short dekko to the patchwork fabric store a couple of blocks away (where Christina/Jamfancy's pretty much a household name there) and oh.... the choices!!! I'm trying to be frugal with my spending, so I wasn't about to splurge on so many of the wonderful fabrics there, but I did get some rolls of scraps that would make a couple of dolly dresses. :)
My girls did their best to behave at the party, and overall, I think
they were pretty good. Except I think Kenn and Roo got into a little
bit of a tiff on the way home (as you can see from the photo on the left where they weren't on speaking terms even in the group portrait).
Something about who got the most attention at the meet.
I'm
pretty satisfied with how all the dresses turned out - especially how
the colours really complimented each girl's colouring - but I would
have liked more time to add some extra accessories to them. Live and
learn, I guess. :)
As with all Blythe meets, I can't wait for the next one! Thank goodness us Melbourne bunch do like to have meet ups pretty regularly - I think another one's in the works for next week! Coffee and chat somewhere in St. Kilda or Albert Park was the plan. Yay!
I'm up baking brownies at nine in the morning, and am also giving the girls some last minute touch ups before the meet this arvo. Hopefully, the girls' dresses won't end up too wrinkled at the party, but I've got no choice but to carry them in a box for the meet. I couldn't find anything else decent enough that would fit all 6 girls - fleece reroots and pigtails included! Carrying that and trying to balance my beast of a camera plus brownies enough to feed 10, and all my usual junk that I carry with me is going to be ... interesting. :) There shall be loads of photos, of course!
Speaking of interesting, I've been receiving some interesting emails from a guy I met last sememster while I was still at uni. He was an international student from Spain doing a Masters in some building related discipline and we'd met at the postgrad orientation function. I'd met him that morning, and parted ways with him six hours later. Never bumped into him at uni since. How do you let a guy down like that easily? I'm rather amused by the whole thing, really.
Oooops, brownies are about done! Fingers crossed that they're going to turn out fine!!!
Update: Brownies are out, and thankfully, the oven held up. Have added a photo of the extras that we're going to be having at home. :)
Finally managed to stop procrastinating and have finished sewing up all six dolly party dresses. Not without some help from the telly though - so thank you SVU, Boston Legal, Scrubs and CSI for keeping me company. I'm still not quite happy with the way I'm sewing the party dresses; so I guess I'll be practising with a couple more when I'm up to it. But for now, I'm busy making tsumami flowers - some for the girls to accesorise with and also some for sale. The one Kenn is wearing right now is made from the remnants of the fabrics used to make her dress and lining. The sudden creative/productive spurt is probably due to the fact that I can't stand not doing anything all day other than job hunting online and in the papers.
I also got the shites with James today over the phone cos he was being totally unreasonable. Everything was going well over the phone and they I casually mentioned that one of my girlfriend and I were thinking we should save up for a trip to Japan in the spring of '08. He got a little narky with me at that point, and was upset that I should consider going to visit Japan without him! Oh, the audacity on my part! To clarify, he and I have always wanted to visit Japan together (specifically, Kyoto for all its own world charms); but I never thought that it was going to be a big deal if I visited the country first without him. Apparently, it is. It's supposed to be something special and memorable that we do together. Hrm. Well. I can't see how me having visited the country before our YET UNPLANNED trip could even alter the experience with him. And they say girls are hard to comprehend. Funny thing is, the trip with my girlfriend probably won't even go ahead. :)
That's the ratio of finished dolly dresses to unfinished ones. *pulls hair out*
I'm trying to make a set of 6 dresses so that my 6 able bodied girls (Punchi's not going since she's just a head after donating her body to Kenn.) can go to the dolly meet/party next Sunday in style. They're going to be in the Puchimadam's party dress style, and in polka dotted fabrics of different colour. I know what you're thinking; but hey, they're just dolls, NOT actual people, so I've no qualms in dressing them in matching outfits. :)
In other happenings of the day, my mom's finally found a financial institution that will allow us to sign up for a Visa debit card, thank lordy. I've tried applying for one since relocating to Melbourne at the start of the year, but all the banks that I've approached either don't do debit cards, or don't allow non citizens or permanent residents to apply for them. Which is stupid, since a debit card's essentially like an ATM card. It frustrates me to death because it really mucks up my online transactions which are all still currently being done through my Singapore debit card. Think additional usage AND currency conversion fees - both of which I don't need. Grrr. But anyhoo. We've found a bank that actually has some common sense, and hopefully my application will be approved in a week. *fingers crossed*
This weekend's going to be spent finishing up the dresses, going to church and watching anime on Youtube. My life's thoroughly action-packed at the mo. What are you doing this weekend?
I'm still on the hunt for a job, and like anyone who's been on the active search for a while, I'm getting really frustrated with the lack of positive responses I'm getting. I've finally gotten in touch with my ex-boss (who'd I've been in constant contact with through email up to maybe 2-3 months ago), and she's now prepared should any prospective employer of mine decide to give her a buzz to find out how big of a skiver I was at work. :D It sucks too cos the job I had before my stint with this ex-boss is pretty much non-existant now; the outlet of the coffeeshop franchaise I worked at is no longer around, and as far as I know; the manager I was under has quit and I have no clue where she is now. So, I'm rather stint on the referees' list. Plus, my visa-type is a little unusual, so employers would probably go for someone who's a citizen or a PR than have to deal with the little-known. *shakes fist*
So in between sending out applications with CVs attached and waiting for replies, I've been sewing stuff for the girls. And now with Kenn-chan's arrival, I've been having so much more ideas on what dresses to make next. I've always wanted a redhead in the family (I lusted over a PWP when I first got into Blythes, but never did own one), and now I've got one (and she's a Kenner to boot!), so I'm over the moon. Plus, all the trial and error with my sewing is good in two sense: I'm brushing up on my skills so hopefully I can start selling stuff to the dolly community and not feel worried that the hem might come undone; and the rejects are still happily lapped up by my girls at home. :)
