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Question of the Week: Are your doll’s clothes on hangers?

Written on December 5, 2011 at 12:00 pm by Michelle
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I adore the look of doll clothes on little hangers. It’s quite a sweet sight to see, small works of sewn art on dainty hangers. But I have to admit that it sounds a little tedious and impractical when you have a lot of doll clothes or no where to hang it from. But I do adore the look of it, because it is really cute. I’m personally limited by space (and also a severe lack of hangers or something to hang the little hangers from). If I could, I probably would have some kind of small dowel set up to hang little dresses off of. Or at least have small dress forms to show off an outfit or two as some doll dresses are amazingly detailed and I consider them to be works of art and I’d love to show them off.

So while I’m unfortunately limited on space, my dolls’ clothing remains in plastic drawers. Each drawer has its own purposes (tops, bottoms, dresses, hats & hair, shoes, stock). I have 2 sets of drawers (with 3 drawers per set). It’s a lot of space for dolly clothing, but I’m afraid that it can be a bit time consuming at times to go through all the dolly things that I have to find an outfit that goes well. Maybe that could be fixed if I had everything out on hangers…? Or maybe I’d just end up spending even more time going through doll clothing as it’d just all be more easily accessible for doing up with different combinations of clothes. What a little conundrum I’ve caught myself in!

Are your doll’s clothes on hangers? How do you store them?

Question of the Week: The maximum you would spend on a doll?

Written on November 28, 2011 at 12:00 pm by Michelle
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Whenever I go by the toy department and look at Monster High dolls, I cannot seem to bring myself to fork up the $30 (yes, they’re more expensive in Canada) for one of those dolls. I don’t know why. Maybe it’s because I can always go back to the store and buy one? Oh, and then there are Lalaloopsy which retails for around $25+ here. But my first Blythe was $200. To be fair, they’re all dolls. What’s the big deal about spending $30 on a doll?

I enjoy the rarity of Blythe, even though sometimes it feels like that everyone and their mother has the same stock dolls as me in their collections. I enjoy the fact that not everyone knows what a Blythe is. I enjoy that aspect of it.

But it has still made me reluctant to buy a $30 doll. Which seems strange to me because I’ve spent much more than that on a Blythe. For the cost of my first Blythe, I could have purchased nearly 7 of them. That’s a lot of Monsters. But there’s something very special about Blythe that just commands access to my wallet (unfortunately). Which is likely why I had absolutely no problems forking up the money for a Kenner. Suddenly it seems like such a great deal because, you know, Kenners are expensive! So for non-Blythes, I’m just down-right unable to pay for them. I freeze a few steps away from the dolls aisle and just put the boxes back, somewhat reluctantly. I love admiring them, but I’m afraid that they won’t be as loved in my dolly family as the Blythes are. Even though I’ve recently added my first ball-jointed doll to the mix, Blythe is still my number one.

What is the maximum you would spend on a doll?

Question of the Week: Would you want Blythe to be easily accessible?

Written on November 21, 2011 at 12:00 pm by Michelle
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Vancouver Island Meet - October 16 2011

I’ve seen this debated on various forums. People post photos from their vacations in South-East Asian countries where you can find Blythe in actual stores and there’s displays of Blythe in storefronts, boxes and boxes of new dollies just waiting to be bought and opened up. And there’s a certain thrill about that idea.

After all, how awesome would it be if you could just walk into the toy department of a store and pick up the latest Blythe release off the shelf, pay at the cash register and go on your way home?

And on the other side of the debate, people have said that they’d probably spend even more money on Blythe. Maybe the dolls would lose some of her mystique if everyone knew who Blythe was. After all, one of the things about Blythe is that she isn’t well known at all. Then again, if everyone knew  who she was, maybe I’d stop getting strange looks whenever I pull out a big-headed doll. Or maybe I’d get more strange looks because people would start thinking that she’s a child’s plaything like they do with the average Barbie doll.

It’s kind of a freeing thought, the idea of the possibility of getting to just walk into any old store to pick up a new Blythe. But at the same time, would Blythe being easily available be the beginning of the end of the community as we know it? If you could go into any old store for a new doll, there’d be more new people all the time along with a huge influx of people selling things all the time and we’d lose the close-knit feeling of the dolly community.

Would you want Blythe to be easily accessible? Why or why not?

Question of the Week: Blythe’s Significant Other?

Written on November 14, 2011 at 12:00 pm by Michelle
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When I was little, my female dolls only had each other. I didn’t have any boy dolls at all and of my friends, I think only one of them had a boy doll (Ken, of course). And now that I have Blythe, I still don’t have any boy dolls. I feel quite okay with this, seeing as how I see them as being fairly young (at least, younger than I am). My Kenner, despite the fact that she’ll be turning 40 next year, is still young at heart. Perhaps older and more mature than the other Blythes in my family, but still not “really” forty.

September 11 2011 - QE Park

So my dolls, lovely and as demanding as they may be, have no needs for a significant other (male or female). They live in a female-only doll family and seem to quite like it. Maybe it’s because boys have cooties, maybe it’s because I just don’t see Blythe as making a convincing male (that is to say, some customizers do an amazing job on their boy Blythes, but to me Blythe is just too feminine). But I know that some dolly collectors also have male dolls of other collectible toy lines and some of their Blythes have a significant other in their photostories.

Do your Blythes have a significant other? If so, what kind of doll is she/he?

Question of the Week: When do you get a new doll?

Written on November 7, 2011 at 12:00 pm by Michelle
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Inner thoughts

There are a lot of reasons to get a new doll. Maybe it your birthday. Or you asked for one for your Christmas present. Maybe you just graduated, finished your degree or can finally call yourself a doctor. Or maybe you just stumbled across an auction for that grail doll that you’d just been dreaming about and thought to yourself “Oh, why not?”. Or maybe you just got a sizeable tax-return cheque from the government and it’s just burning a hole in your pocket…

Whatever your reason, there’s always some reason for getting a new  Blythe doll. Whether it’s “just because” or because you’re getting older decide that having another doll will keep you youthful, there’s always a reason for your doll buying (or splurging, as the case could be).

Most of my dolls were bought because I had the money available (and didn’t have other pressing needs for it) and because the dolls were also available. I didn’t really have much of a reason besides the fact that I could (I know, that’s a horrible reason, really). Although I did get two of my dolls so far as gifts. I got my Simply Peppermint (named Tertiary Jane) as a birthday gift from my parents and I also got Punkaholic People (named Eden) as a Christmas present from my parents as well, much to my sisters’ disbelief that my parents were encouraging and supporting this dolly habit of mine!

When do you get a new doll?

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