The Easter eggs were hidden around the website and two of three were found – yay!

The pink egg was hidden on Who Lives Here: Eden Mouse – found by Moses.

The green egg was hidden on the first Tiny Shoe Love installment – found by Olivia.

The purple egg was hidden Primrose; a little restoration store – not found!

Hidden in the Easter eggs were these lovely little sweaters:

For funsies, I had Cedar (Monique Magnifique) to model all of the little sweaters. Perfect short-sleeved sweaters for the spring and summer!

The yellow-and-pink striped sweater will be going to Moses and the pink-and-green sweater will be going to Olivia. The orange one (unclaimed) will be going to a future giveaway.

There are three Easter eggs hidden around BlytheLife right now and they look like these:

If you find one, email me the location at michelle@blythelife.com!

Here’s a few tidbits about this Easter Egg Hunt on BlytheLife.com:

• If you’re the first one to find an egg and email me with the location (the complete URL of the post) of the egg, you will win a specially made pastel coloured dolly sweater.
• The sweaters will be randomly assigned to winners and sent out.
• This Easter Egg Hunt is open to international participants.
• If you have found an egg and I confirm that you are the first to find it (and therefore you are now a Winner), please leave the other eggs for other Egg Hunters.

Details on the sweaters: I have no photos for you right now, they are in the creative process of being made! The sweaters may be solid coloured, or there may be patterns. They may have long sleeves, or short sleeves, or even no sleeves. I’m not sure yet, but it’s going to be awesome. Here’s a photo of the yarn, pre-sweater making:

Locations to the hidden Easter eggs and the winners will be revealed on Monday, April 6th. You have until 12pm Pacific on Sunday, April 5th to find them. If any of the eggs are not found, the sweater(s) will be kept for a later giveaway.

If you’ve spotted one Easter egg (and I’ve confirmed that you are the first to find it), please leave the other eggs for other people.

You didn’t really think I was serious about quitting Blythe, did you?!

I am not going anywhere from the hobby, neither are my dolls (or their clothes, or the plentiful shoes). The whole crowd is staying, even the ones that don’t get photographed often at all (I am very sorry for that!). It was meant to be a bit of a joke (I know, I know, I have a poor sense of humour). But sometimes a little bit of a shock to the system can be a good thing.

BlytheLife is not going anywhere, I will still be writing and posting as I’ve always been. As I near the end of my academic journey, I will probably spend a little bit less time replying emails but I will still do my best to reply within a few days. I do have a lot of fun things planned for BlytheLife over the next little while, so I am very much still excited to be blogging and taking photos of dolls and being a part of this online community.

Sometimes you just need to know when to throw in the towel.

Blythe has been a very important and very integral part of my life since 2009, and I’ve also grown a lot since 2009 and sometimes it’s just time to stop with the dolls and to move on from dolls and other silliness that came out of the hobby. I will be listing all of my dolls, clothes, and shoes, for sale over the next couple of weeks. In life post-Blythe, I will be focusing on school (which I’m almost done), and I will still be working on BlytheCon Vancouver as I made a commitment and I intend to follow through.

If anyone has any questions about this, or about the future of BlytheLife, you can email me.

As Blythe’s sisters go, they’re not as exciting as Blythe is. Neither Middies or Petites have a pull string, they don’t have four sets of eye chips, but they do have some features that stock Blythe does not have. Middie is able to look side to side (or front-facing) with the same set of chips, plus she can tilt her head from side to side. Petite is able to tilt her head from side to side, and if you have a Takara-produced, she has stock ‘sleep’ eyes that is more reminiscent of the baby dolls that some of us may have grown up with. Petites have been changed with Hasbro’s Littlest Pet Shop relaunch, so the new ‘Blythe’ dolls in Hasbro’s LPS line are more similar to the Mattel’s Polly Pocket (with the rubber clothing).

Petites and Middies continue to catch the eye of many Blythe collectors. New Middie releases come out in tandem with a ‘related’ Neo Blythe, or they come out with a similar theme as a Neo that did well. Themes that worked well for Neos also tend to do pretty okay with the Middies. And while Petites aren’t as plentiful in their releases as Middies are today, they are still quite beloved and very pocket friendly. A Petite fits into pretty much any pants pocket that I have – and if you’re familiar with fashion these days, you know that most pants pockets don’t fit much at all.

At this time in my doll collecting days, I would probably favour Middies over Petites. I enjoy the larger size, and the dial on the back of their heads means that I can eek out just a smidgen more personality out of the chubby little faces.

Do you prefer Middies or Petites?