Meet the Newest Girls: Brie, Calypso, Gabi, Bee & Louise

From the top: Brie is a little elf girl with pointy ears. She was started by Shayna (ladyingreen) of PA. I enhanced her eyelids and eyeshadow and added blush as well as a skinny scalp by Sleeping Elf. Calypso is my Mermaid girl by Cindy Sowers, shown here in a My Own Little World dress and with a fairytale boat by Debrina Pratt from Land of Enchantment. Gabi (in polka dots) is a sweet girl with Milky Way Blythe flowered eye chips. Bee, or Bedelia Miffy, is a Rainy Day Parade (RDP) custom who wants to be a ballerina. Louise is a stock Gentle River (GR) wearing a Taylor Couture cardigan with flower pin and a Mandylynn crocheted hat.

Finally! We Had Time to Change!

In an effort to convince me who should go to Art & Soul next week, all the girls decided to change clothes. The fashion fur was flying, and there were a few fashion crises along the way, but finally everything fell into place.

Since Lilly and Maggy went back to their rocker chick roots, I decided to leave them home because they would be noisy. Violet has to stay home because she got to go to Myrtle Beach. She's having tea here with Gwynyth, who is too new to go anywhere.

Olivia Elaia Rose is too shy to go anywhere yet, and Jolene's got too much hair to travel well.

So Zena did a good job, in Olivia's dress, of convincing me she should go. She has artsy-fartsy hair for one thing. For another, she gathered up her painter's palette, water bin, brushes, acrylics, colored pencils, charcoal pencils, and paper-crafting stuff, so I think she may be into this.

Fear not, my non-Blythe friends, I won't be the only weirdo with the Blythe. Ms. Joyce http://www.joycevance.typepad.com/ is an instructor, and she is taking a Blythe. We're going to do a little swap thingy.

A princess, a faerie and a sundae

Lots of happenings at Blythe Manor this week: Both Olivia Elaia Rose and Gwynyth Blythe arrived. They couldn't be more different. Gwynyth is a new ADG PWP, and if that's Greek to you, it means Ashton Drake Galleries Pow Wow Poncho. She is the ADG version of the previous redhead PWP from Kenner. ADG, the US Hasbro licensee, rushed to market this month with the remaining dolls from the original series of 12. There had been only three for a couple of years, and collectors had been clamoring for the rest. Some people feel the ADGs are somehow not as "Blythe" (or Blyce as my friend Tammy likes to say for some reason, as in "you're so Blyce") as the Hasbro Japanese-licensed Takara Tomy dolls. I have two ADGs and like them very much.

Anyway, GB/PWP immediately took off her poncho and slipped into something more comfortable-like head-to-toe vintage Skipper fashions from the 1960s. Her ensemble included the famous red velvet coat and purse as well as a red velvet and satin Skipper dress and black flats. I gave her a quick up-do since she looked so elegant. In case you are wondering, Lilly, my first Blythe and original blond, was seething. She is quite sure Gwynyth is a bottle blond.

Earlier in the week, Miss Olivia Elaia Rose London arrived from Hong Kong where she was known as Gentle River. Now she is thrilled to be named after her step-sister Elaia Tuesday. Olivia came with the most exquisitely detailed dress, smock and coat. The GR is a doll designed by a group of three friends, known as Team Sibley. They won the 2006 Blythe Fashion Show contest with their GR creation and were heavily-involved with Cross World Connection (CWC) in the creation of this doll. She was worth every penny.

Olivia has a forest/ecological mindset and quickly chose the olive-colored gnome hat by Miss Modular/Neuart of Spain on Etsy. She also put on the Dollsville maxi dress by Jooli, an underslip from Auntie Angela of Gemini Angel Art and she stuck her pocket kitty from Evon of VonVonz on Etsy, in her pocket for a walk in the woods.

Meanwhile, the cards and letters keep coming, including a fabulous "Sundae" hat by Rima of WillyNillyWaterLily http://willynillywaterlily.blogspot.com/. Maggy put that on since it matched her pink Hello Kitty dress by Twinklies. These girls have a passion for fashion!