Treasures For Dollars is a new mini-series that does belong in the Blythe On A Budget article series but is completely focused on things that I actually find (and buy) from dollar stores and other similar stores. It will alternate with Blythe On A Budget articles for the next little while until the finale of the mini-series (at Part 10). I hope you enjoy the series!

I’m a sucker for all things cute – which is probably why I have a half-dozen Blythes! I like small things, but haven’t managed to get sucked into buying re-ment by the crate (yet). I’m always on the look-out for small cute things that are in the right scale for Blythe as I don’t collect other dolls. One of my favourite recent finds was actually purchased back in August when I went to a local dolly meet.

We met up in the food court of a mall to hang out – we all shopped at the mall, bought mildly overpriced food at the mall and just hung around and had a great time. There’s a store in the mall (Daiso) which is a lot like a dollar store, but most everything in the store is priced at $2 with some exceptions (food is priced below or above $2, some larger items are priced higher/accordingly). And I picked up this little gem there…

Isn’t it cute? I’m really glad that I got it back in August, I went to the store again just on Monday and they did not have it in stock anymore – they did have the same item but in silver instead of black. It’s super cute and a little bit large for Blythe’s hands, but I really just wanted it as a charm for one of my doll’s pullstrings and it’s a good scale in comparison to the size of their rather large heads (ego??). The nice thing is that it already comes on a string so I can easily connect it to my doll’s existing pull string or use the string for another project.

What’s a good inexpensive dolly-find you discovered recently?

Our dolls have personalities that are (usually) some form of extension from our own. Our dolls have hobbies that may be similar to our own. They like some of the same things that we do, sometimes they like all the things that we don’t. The girls are fickle that way, but that’s what makes us love them so much!

My own dolls have interesting hobbies. Some of them love video games, some have an inner desire to create crochet and knit cozies for everything while one has a love for modelling and another loves to play with dolls. Whatever their hobbies are, most of them mimic my own (besides the love for modelling). It’s interesting how some of my most loved hobbies translate so easily into my dolls’ personalities and become their hobbies and loves as well! So this week’s question is probably easy to guess.

What kind of hobbies do your dolls have?