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How often do you change your dolls’ clothing?

Written on November 5, 2010 at 12:00 pm by Michelle
Filed under: Musings

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One of the things I like about Blythe is how pretty they are and I also like changing their clothes from time to time, but I don’t do it particularly often. If you were to take a glance at my 365 photos, you’d think I never change their clothes because my dolls stay in the same outfit for fairly long periods of time. I believe that Bennett, my Margaret Meets Ladybug, has been in the same outfit since perhaps… May? I feel bad, haha.

So I was just wondering how often you change the clothes that your dolls wear! Every day? Once every other week? Once a year? Share!

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Blythe On A Budget: 10 Dollar Store Photo Props

Written on November 3, 2010 at 12:00 pm by Michelle
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I went to the dollar store recently and went around looking for the ten most interesting (and hopefully useful!) photo props that I could see that were listed at only $1 each and here’s what I came up with:

  1. Paper drink umbrellas
  2. Food-shaped erasers
  3. Dolly chair (bright yellow plastic but probably easily painted over with the right type of paint)
  4. Small stuffed animals (~3″ tall)
  5. Fabric butterflies (supposed to be used as room decorations, I think)
  6. Party streamers (2 packages for $1)
  7. Plastic martini glasses (supposed to be for wedding favours)
  8. Mini bells (supposed to be Christmas tree decorations)
  9. Earrings (replace your doll’s earrings or use the charms as a holdable item?)
  10. Mini playing cards keychain (don’t your girls want to engage a little poker game?)

While all dollar stores are different and they offer different products all the time and might not even have the same item in stock from one day to the next – it’s always fun to do some exploring and go through all the aisles and see what there is to see. Go into the store with just enough cash for one or two items to keep without your monthly dolly budget!

How I do what I do

Written on November 1, 2010 at 12:00 pm by Michelle
Filed under: Musings

Happy November, everyone! I hope you all had a lovely Halloween and got lots of candy while trick-or-treating (or just had fun hitting up all the 50%-off candy sales today!). For the voice behind BlytheLife.com, I spent a lot of time studying, cleaning, baking, cooking, doing some laundry and grocery shopping… It was essentially a normal weekend for me (minus the candy sales, of course).

I got an email from a visitor of BlytheLife.com asking me about how much time I put into the website, how I always get the posts out at (generally) the same time all the time.

Well, for the second question (regarding the time), WordPress has a handy-dandy little scheduling feature! I usually write my posts in advanced and schedule them from 12:00pm in my time zone (currently Pacific Daylight Savings, but it will be Pacific Standard on November 7th). Writing the posts in advance is a fantastic way for me to get to think about what I want to say, gather my thoughts, to edit (or try to, I do let some spelling and grammar errors get through sometimes) and source out photos if I don’t have one of my own to use. Like anything, I do my best to put out quality work, I like making lists, I like illustrations, I strive to put out original content at all times.

I heart Rob & Sioux

And as for the amount of time I put into the website… Oh boy. I get a lot of email to sort through each day. There’s usually 50+ spam emails that I delete just by looking at the name of the sender and at the subject title (I’m a woman, I don’t need enlargement supplements of that variety, thank you, and I don’t have any long lost relatives that recently passed away to leave me as the sole heir to billions of dollars). I usually spend about 15 minutes a day on email. I usually set aside a small portion of my week (usually towards the end of the week) to writing new posts, like this one, for future publishing. Interview questions are done as soon as I humanly can, I try to get interviews done fairly quickly to give the person I’m interviewing time to reflect over the questions and pick the photos that they want to showcase. It is a time consuming project, this website, but I really enjoy working on it and the feedback that I get from people – I’ve gotten a lot of support from people in the Blythe community since BlytheLife.com went live in July.

To the person who asked those questions, I hope this post answered them!

If you have any questions, comments or suggestions, let me know down below in the comments or contact me!

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