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.

Many thanks to Karen of Pinnigirl to donating this adorable dress and handbag set as a giveaway prize to one lucky winner here on BlytheLife.com! If you didn’t win, you can always pop over to Pinnigirl on Etsy and buy yourself a consolation prize.

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Some days I can recall life pre-Blythe well. I was frequently in jeans, tees, and hoodies. The few dresses I had in my wardrobe either a) did not fit me anymore because they were from my younger years and I grew or b) was my grad dress. Since I got into Blythe six years ago, I’ve branched out a bit and I’d like to think that my fashion choices have gotten a little bit more sophisticated from the time that I was nineteen.

Now, I’m not sure how much of this was due to Blythe being a fashionable doll and being overly bombarded with images of dolls in really cute outfits and how much of this was due to me just growing up, having more spending money for clothing and just being more aware of how I wanted to dress. That said, I’m in a profession where my work clothes are scrubs and those are essentially like wearing pajamas at work so who knows where I’m going with this.

One of the tiny influences in my life.

In the process of knitting tiny sweaters and cardigans for dolls, I’ve wound up buying (not knitting…) sweaters and cardigans for myself. It’s a great process that winds up with the dolls getting clothed and the money that possibly would have gone to clothing the Blythes have gone to, well, clothing me. I read a lot of times where people buy their dolls fancy dresses or really detailed clothing, but they themselves are wearing jeans that get patched over or having bought themselves anything new for a good long while. It’s nice to be able to treat yourself to something new once in a while. I noticed a few years back that I didn’t think twice about buying a doll dress that was $30-50, but I hemmed and hawed over a jacket for me that was the same amount of money. And I needed to change that mindset. This may have been because I had quite a few expensive doll dresses at the time, but also because I needed to get a new jacket.

If nothing else, I personally wear a lot more pink now (thanks Eden!), and I take into consideration what I need in my own wardrobe when considering if it’s a “good idea” to drop more money on doll clothes.

Doll shoes are always always fair game. I just love tiny shoes.

Do you remember to treat yourself from time to time or do you primarily spend your hobby/spending money on the plastic family?

Original photograph by FreeImages user Marcello eM.

This is decidedly not a post about dolls, but instead about remembrance and history.

It’s the 100th anniversary of a poem entitled In Flanders Field by Lieutenant-Colonel John McCrae, a fact that has been emphasized in Canada. It’s important to take a moment to remember the sacrifices and lives lost in WWI, WWII, and the many conflicts and wars that have taken place since.

Some things deserve a moment of silence, this is one of them.

In Flanders Field

In Flanders fields the poppies blow
Between the crosses, row on row,
That mark our place; and in the sky
The larks, still bravely singing, fly
Scarce heard amid the guns below.

We are the Dead. Short days ago
We lived, felt dawn, saw sunset glow,
Loved and were loved, and now we lie
In Flanders fields.

Take up our quarrel with the foe:
To you from failing hands we throw
The torch; be yours to hold it high.
If ye break faith with us who die
We shall not sleep, though poppies grow
In Flanders fields.

– John McCrae, 1915

Doll related news and thoughts will resume on Friday.

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?