Tis the season to dress in holiday colours?

Most of my dolls wear dresses, only occasionally pants, and even when they wear dresses the outfits end at or above the knee. Hardly appropriate for the type of temperatures that we’ve been having here, and yet if someone issued me the challenge to dress all of my dolls in holiday and weather-appropriate garments I would fail that challenge (miserably so). I focused a lot this year on expanding the shoe collection – mostly because doll shoes are darling and I like all things teeny tiny. But then that means that one part of the wardrobe expanded, and I did add a couple dolls, but there wasn’t any addition of winter wear. This is most unfortunate as, even though it hasn’t snowed yet here, it is very cold and I feel colder just looking at my dolls in their weather-inappropriate-clothing. Or maybe I just need to turn up the heat a wee bit – either way, it’s cold and that must mean that the dolls are cold too!

Just because we have limited amounts of winter garb here, doesn’t mean that I wasn’t able to pull together a winter outfit ! It’s a good mix of handmade and commercially-available items. Sophie declined to model, something about it not being “designer”… What are some of your favourite wintery clothes?

Of course, now my dolls have a new request – skinny jeans that can fit into boots!

For all the crafters reading this, and for those crafters that have a dolly lover in their lives, here’s a freebie pattern for you!

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Once in a while, I consider adding dolls of other varieties into my doll family. And by others I mean of the not-Blythe variety. That means not the Kenners, the Neos or ADGs, Middies or even Petites (Takara or LPS). I mean completely different dolls. And I have added quite a few, although they don’t typically get their own Flickr sets, any regular photos or even names sometimes. But they are part of the doll family, so they should get a little bit of a mention from time to time – even on a blog all about Blythe. What I would like to do is add a (modern) Licca and a (vintage) Skipper to the family. I’m a bit wary of adding dolls that won’t already fit at least part of the clothing and shoe collection. This is partially why I haven’t gotten more Middies, because there’s not enough clothes to go around!

Besides the Blythes, and other size variations of the brand, I have 6 Monster High dolls (2 are not pictured as they are still in their boxes) and one BJD (who wasn’t about to fit herself onto the couch). I didn’t include figurines, even if they were jointed, because I don’t really consider them to be dolls.

What are the “others” in your doll family?

Ahh, it’s that time again! Many thanks to Pamela from Endangered Sissy for offering up such a fun, and very pink (just the way Eden Mouse likes it!) dress set for one lucky person!

A reminder, the winner gets this fantastic dress set (the dress and a cute jumper that goes underneath!):

And the winner is…

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My local doll group is having a December meet in the next month that will be holiday themed with a gift exchange! I love adding a little handmade touch to gifts in the holiday season and I wanted to share with all of you some of the DIYs that I’ve shared previously on BlytheLife – just in time for the holidays and perhaps you could make something for your own dolls or a friend’s doll family!

For any crafter, there are a variety of crafty hobbies represented in the tutorials – mainly because I do a variety of crafty hobbies. Sewing, knitting, crocheting! There’s a little something for everyone – and this also means that there’s no excuses not to have something newly handmade for your dolls for the holidays – regardless of which one you celebrate.

• Knitted empire dress
• Knitted headband
• Sock-sweater dress
• Fun skirt with a trim
• Blythe-sized smartphone
• Felt Blythe slippers
• Crocheted Petite Toque and Scarf