Junie Moon (part of Cross World Connections Ltd.) is one of the official Blythe shops and is one of the places to go if you want to get a newly released Blythe at retail price. However, for a lot of the time when Ashton-Drake Galleries were making their Blythes, Junie Moon was unable to sell directly to North American consumers due the licensing and selling rights given by Hasbro (ADG was given the rights to sell in North American).

Junie Moon now allows for customers from the United States and Canada to purchase directly from them. Please note, they will not lower the value of your shipment (Canadian customers should know that the customs is pretty strict on things over the value of $60, even if it’s marked as a gift!). So that being said, take that into account if you’re planning on buying directly from the source and be sure to always shop around to see if you can get a lower price somewhere else!

Many thanks to Meg, irulethegalaxy, as I heard about North Americans being allowed to buy directly from Junie Moon while she was tweeting about a certain purple-haired FBL…

I’ve recently received quite a few emails about the interviewing process for BlytheLife.com from people interested in getting featured here. Here are some of the frequently asked questions from some of you regarding getting interviewed/reviewed for BlytheLife.com:

Does it cost anything to be interviewed for BlytheLife.com?
The answer is no. It does take some time, of course, but it’s a fairly straight-forward process for being interviewed. All interview questions are done via email. You can choose to (or not) host a giveaway in association with your interview and thus that would be a ‘cost’ to doing the interview – giveaways do help generate more visitors for the interview.

What kind of benefits are there to being interviewed for BlytheLife.com?
It gives you exposure – as someone who creates clothes or accessories for dolls or owns a Blythe website or customizes dolls, it generates exposure. BlytheLife.com visitors follow the blog via the RSS feed and Twitter – which updates whenever there is a new blog post (i.e. the interview featuring you!). When you’re being featured, you have the chance to shine and have your services and products exposed to more people in the Blythe community.

Why do I have to send you something if I want to be reviewed?
Reviews are product reviews. If you make doll dresses and want an honest review done on BlytheLife.com, you will have to send the dress to me in order for it to be reviewed. It’s very difficult to do a product review if I’m only looking at photos of what you make online. Product review items are kept, however, and if you wish to have a giveaway associated with the review done of your product, it is suggested that you send 2 or more of your product. Also, I don’t write nicer reviews for people because they send me more things – all product reviews are honest and stick to the facts of the items you send to me.

I hope that clears up some confusion for people regarding being interviewed and/or reviewed for BlytheLife.com!

For more information, you can check out the How to Get Featured page and if you have any other questions or concerns, please use the Contact form or comment below. I often get to read my email more than once a day, but please allow up to 48 hours for a reply.

Just to let you all know, the first installment of Blythe Lifecast will not be released today, there’s been some delays. I will be sure to let you all know when the first installment is ready to be heard by all of you. But the good news is that you get more time to get your questions and suggests in to Lauren for the podcast as well!

Be sure to follow the @blythelifecast Twitter account, as well as email any suggestions and comments and questions you have to blythelifecast@gmail.com.

Blythe Lifecast is a podcast produced by Lauren (Cakewalk_Queen) that will be featured here, on BlytheLife.com!

In partnership with Michelle at blythelife.com, I’m going to be doing a bi-weekly podcast all about Blythe. Episodes will include news, hot topics, and a question and answer session. For now, it will be half an hour and just me talking. Hopefully in the future, we can add Skype interviews and discussions! I’m so excited about this project and have to give a big thank you to Michelle who was nice enough to let me host it on blythelife.com.

If you have a question of any kind regarding Blythe that you would like an answer to, please send me an email at blythelifecast@gmail.com. You can also follow me on Twitter @blythelifecast. I’ll be posting updates and news there.

I’m aiming to have the first episode up and ready for download by August 1st so please send in your questions and suggestions!

– Lauren

I have gotten an overwhelmingly positive response about this site over the last, well, five days since it’s been up and running and I’m so grateful to everyone! I’m busily working to reply to all the emails that I’ve received so far, a lot of people seem interested in how they can contribute and I’ve had quite a few people asking about if there were any sort of guidelines regarding contributing articles for BlytheLife.com. And there wasn’t.

But now there is!

You can find it via the How to Contribute page, or you can click here to read the Article Guidelines. I hope it answers a lot of the questions that some of you had about what’s required for writing articles for BlytheLife.com and I look forward to seeing what some of you come up with!

Thank you all so much for the support!

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And I’d like to do a shout-out to Rob & Sioux, two of the sweetest people in the world (plus they’re just adorable in general), and to We Play With Dolls, for recommending BlytheLife.com as a new favourite Blythe blog!