From vintage-inspired to very much modern everyday fashions, my dolls wear them all.

This is mostly because I am not picky, and having a variety of styles of clothing helps when you have multiple dolls like I do. This mean that my dolls wear a huge range of fashions that can be decidedly vintage (both literally and inspired) and then also very modern with things that I wish I could ‘blow up’ and wear for myself in this day and age.

Do you prefer vintage or modern style dolly fashions?

Quite a few of the Takara-released Blythe dolls have had special stock eye chips- all beginning with Miss Anniversary, the first anniversary doll that also had all special eye colours. Since there, it has been special stock eye colours that appear on and off and there have been some beautiful stock eye chips. Some of them have been more creative than others (e.g. Ultimate Tour Momolita’s silver skulls or Ahcahcum Zukin’s green clovers) while others have just been really pretty.

Some of my favourite special colours that my dolls came with stock are Bennett’s browns (Margaret Meets Ladybug) and Mollie’s light blues (Simply Sparkly Spark). There’s just something a little extra special about a Blythe who comes with a pair of eye chips that isn’t the standard pink, blue, orange, or green. Even a slightly different shade of green or blue (or pink or orange…) is a welcome change.

What’s your favourite special stock eye chip colour?

When I was first new to Blythe, I thought that sleepy eyes were just so neat. I gathered up some courage and opened up my first and third Blythe dolls in order to give them sleepy eyes. The only reason that Blythe #2 didn’t get them because it was Belarus (a Love Mission) and she’s an EBL and I was/still am quite antsy about the thought of opening an EBL (or BL, or that matter). I will open up a Kenner if it’s necessary, but getting my hands on the inside of an EBL has me going nope! in a really emphatic way.

But they’re still useful. One of the reasons why I like sleepy eyes because it gives you a great variety of expressions from an already interestingly expressive face. However, I am just not a fan of having many strings – most of the time I just want to swap from on set of chips to the next and I’m not interested (or caring) to have my dolls ‘sleep’ between colours. This is funnily enough the primary reason why the majority of my Blythes do not have sleepy eyes. I have 6 RBLs, 2 FBLs, and 1 RBL+ and only 3 of them have sleepy eyes despite them all being fairly easy to open (all 3 dolls are RBLs, 1 is a full custom and came to me with sleepy eyes). I’m a creature of habit, but also lazy with the strings. Sad, but true!

Do your Blythes have sleepy eyes or you do you dislike sleepy eyes for whatever reason?

Just like it reads on the tin: which of your stock dolls have the best hair? You could also answer with whichever stock scalp your Blythe (or Middie!) happens to have.

Out of my dolls I personally thinking that Moxie (Simply Bubble Boom) has pretty great hair. I never did anything with it – no washes, no ‘treatments’, no snipping of random bits. Bennett (Margaret Meets Ladybug) has really great hair as well, but I’ve actually washed hers before, and she also has a lot of hair. It is almost an understatement to say that she has just “a lot” of hair because she won’t stay standing on a doll stand for very long because of her thick mane of hair.

Which of your stock dolls (or stock scalps!) has the best hair?

Moxie’s wearing: dress/chelleshocks.
Bennett’s wearing: dress/Vinyl Belly.

What’s in a name, really? Sometimes I look back and wonder what I was possibly thinking with some of the names I’ve given my Blythes – but the idea of having to come up with a new name stops me in my tracks from coming up with something new.

My very first Blythe was a Cappuccino Chat (she’s an RBL) that I named Sophie. If you’ve been reading BlytheLife.com for a while, you may recognize her from Love, Sophie (her very own column) or various other posts. I’m not sure why I named her Sophie, I really couldn’t tell you right now. I do know that I bought her first and then named her. Which was the opposite of what I did for Blythe #2 (Belarus, a Love Mission [EBL]). Sophie was followed by all the rest of my dolls, but she will always be the Queen Bee around here.

What is the name of your first Blythe?