I can’t believe this beauty is still available! $200 USD, located in Turkey with WW shipping at $35. Comes with her complete stock. She is being sold on Blythe Kingdom, you need to be referred and have 30 posts to see the sales section.
Being sold by this person: http://www.etsy.com/shop/blythechic
I am not affiliated with this person in any way, so if you want her, you will need to contact them.
New section on my blog, after all I do trawl all the Blythe websites every day looking at what is available. As I have bought Amaryllis this week and will try to buy Alexis Emerald in a few days I can’t buy ANYTHING right now.
Check out this lovely Marabelle Melody that is for sale in Australia for just $125 AU! Insanity! Hope someone picks her up. If you don’t like her freckles, it looks like they would be very easy to remove. Marabelle Melody was the girl I bought myself for Christmas and she is one of the best looking neo Blythes that I have.
On Flickr
I’ve spent a number of years working in various national collecting institutes in Australia, while studying and teaching in the museum course at our vocational school. One of the things most important aspects of this type of work is appropriate handling and packaging of collection material. I’ve mainly worked with 16mm film and books but the ideas are still the same.
When you are packing a Blythe for shipping, you should treat it as though you are packing a valuable museum artefact. To the person on the receiving end, receiving a Blythe should be as exciting as receiving a rare artefact! For some a Blythe doll is a huge monetary undertaking, and if you do not carefully package the doll and it is ruined, you could be accountable.Taking care and packaging a Blythe properly is the responsibility of the seller, so I am writing a little guide with some tips to protect a doll you’ve sold in transit.
DO NOT use newspaper to pack the doll – I’ve had to spend hours scrubbing the print off dolls before that were packaged this way
DO NOT send the doll, unfastened in their box – they will inevitably fall from the head holder
Sometimes people send dolls in just their box without a shipper, I would not recommend doing this. Purely because Australia Post can be rough with parcels, putting big boxes on top of them and I have had some arrive completely crushed in the past. If you don’t have a shipper, make one out of cardboard. I would definitely not do this if you are sending it internationally.
YOU WILL NEED:
You might need to secure the dolls hair before you post it, I try to tie it back without making it tight so as not to crinkle the hair. Here I have wrapped a little rubber band around her hips to keep her hair in place during transit.
Make sure you secure the doll properly in the box, if you do not have a Blythe box you should pack it tightly into an appropriately sized box with bubblewrap. Never let the packing tape touch the doll. If you need to put tape over her forehead to hold her in, put plastic over her forehead. This will also hold her hair in place.
Once you have secured her in the box, including her feet, cover her in white tissue paper or paper towel. (This is what several people have advised, esp for customs as bubble wrap might scratch their face, or react to the plastic of a Kenner). If you are sending a doll overseas you should always do this. Within Australia I have never had an issue with just bubble wrap.
Once she is protected, cover her in plastic bubble wrap. (not newspaper)
Place her inside the outer-box, she is now in a little bubble wrap sarcophagus.
Now it’s time to make a shipper if you don’t have one, if I were sending internationally I would put bubble wrap around the box before putting it into thicker cardboard.
Measure your cardboard so that you can cut along the “grain” to bend it. You need to wrap it around the Takara box. You probably won’t have enough to do it in one go so I do it in two.
In the places you need to bend it, cut lightly along the grain of the cardboard, making sure not to go through to the other side with your knife so that you can easily bend it.
Wrap the first piece around the box, you then need to make a 2nd piece to fit around it.
Wrap the 2nd piece around the box and then put tape around it.
You now have your make-do shipper taped around the dolls box which is a much safer way to post a Blythe than just in the Takara box. If you are sending internationally, I recommend putting cardboard on the ends as well as bubble wrap in between the Takara box and the cardboard.
Your dolls are ready to go… one other thing, always make sure you brush your dolls hair before you post it.
Please post your packaging tips below, or even share your horror stories! Thanks for sharing, I’ve updated the post to also add tissue paper to protect the dolls face from the bubble wrap. I hope this helps people to understand how important it is to properly package dolls before sending them. Otherwise they might show up like this:
This one is from Girls Wear Blue Too – doll packaged in bubble wrap, then put into a bag. The doll was OK but it isn’t a good way to send a doll.
Janelle Wind posted this photo on Twitter of a dolly package that she received today. It was packaged with bubble wrap over the Takara box. You just can’t be too careful I guess. Doll was safe.
A redheaded Kenner! Yes I splashed out after months of searching for a doll at a reasonable price, and bought this dolly for my birthday which is in a few weeks. Cannot wait til she arrives! Monika has wanted a sister for awhile and although I have had Tara’s, Barbie over to visit me for about a month, it isn’t the same as a new sister.
Two HOP dresses from my friend over in Texas
A Button Arcade dress
I am also waiting on the return of the money I paid for a dress that looked like HOP and was advertised as HOP but when it arrived it clearly was not. I am going to believe the seller that she didn’t realise as it was sold to her as HOP but the quality was really poor. Are people really selling fake designer doll clothes now? It was even made with the same fabric as a HOP one.
We are having a dolly picnic in Canberra on Monday, let me know if you want to come!
So, you went into the cave near Morthal and caught Sanguine Vampiris aka Skyrim AIDS? I looked online to find out what the cure was but none of them gave me a very good walkthrough to get rid of this annoying curse once I had reached level 4.
Firstly you should know that after 3 days in the game you will turn into a Level 4 Vampire as the disease has incubated. This is annoying as hell, as the villagers will attack you on sight. You can cure yourself before you get to this stage if you follow my instructions. I will also tell you how to cure yourself of Level 4 Vampirism too.
Being a vampire has a few advantages, until you get full blown vampirism after 3 days and everyone tries to kill you.
You get a few new special skills such as resistance to frost, complete immunity to disease and poison, better sneaking skills and more powerful illusion spells. You will also get a few new magic powers such as Embrace of Shadows and Vampire Seduction.
Early Level Vampirie Cure
Level 4 Vampire Cure Walkthrough
How to Feed on Blood
Here are the levels of vampirism that occur each day you are infected:
Source: http://skyrimguild.com/becoming-a-vampire-in-skyrim/
So, I just bought myself another Kenner as a gift for my birthday so I feel it is time to move on some of my neo Blythes. All are nude and stock except for some eye chip changes which I have photographed below. They will be shipped in a Takara box in a shipper or packed in cardboard, if I have theirs it will be theirs. If you buy more than one I will ship them in something else to save you money on postage.
Good Neighbour Cafe $115 *HOLD*
SOLD
SOLD
I have a thing for fixing up totally underrated Takara stock. This week I was looking for a white dress in my dress box when I found the dress that came with Enchanted Petal. The dress itself isn’t bad but it had ugly, cheap looking colourful netting butterflies stitched all over it. Using my unpicker I carefully removed the butterflies and was left with a gorgeous flowy, layered white dress with little yellow spots.
I am also fine tuning a new pattern, here is my first attempt, sorry it is a crappy phone pic but it has been raining for days I am home sick with some kind of stomach infection so I am NOT going outside. Friday looks banging in this dress with her new pink handpainted eye chips. I moved her blue ones to front facing position. Still not sure how to do collars properly but this is the first time sleeves have actually worked for me so I am happy with that.
I have been practicing taking group shots of my girls, this one has all of my girls except for one that is in pieces right now, and the blonde Kenner is a visitor. I’ve dressed them in all the House of Pinku that I own, except for Cousin Olivia and Marabelle Melody who are wearing my own clothing. I need two more HOP dresses so I can do a complete family photo. *edit* bought one but it is still on the way.
It’s about time I made another one of these posts. I am waiting on a couple of cute items from international sellers at the moment after a mini spending spree and after going through the Blythe Collection book there are some more shoes that I need for my collection. I am really into the original Blythe mary janes and ballerina flats at the moment.
Wait List
HOP *arrived*
HOP
Pink and gold hand painted chips, I cannot find the pic of them though They are for the girl I am customising at the moment. *arrived*
The ever elusive Cruise Day shoe set from Takara, this has been on my want list for a long time. *arrived*
Two Rob and Sioux hair bows, I am on their wait list but it will be about a year before it is my turn. *arrived*
More hair bows, love them!
A huge selection of little charms for making Blythe necklaces is on it’s way from the US. *arrived*
BIG BUY! Heather Sky! She will be shipped on Saturday. Already have some dark brown eye chips and gold hand painted ones waiting for her.
Want List
French Trench stock dress
Blythe Pink maryjanes – Miss Anniversary, Ribonetta Wish, Strawberries and Cream (dying for any of these)
Blythe Ballet flats – Prima Dolly Ashletina (blue) *found*, Aubrena (pink), Violetina (pink)
Blythe Gold kitten heels – Tommy February
Blythe Laced boots – Milk Biscuit de Q-pot, le Jardin de maman, Frosty Frock, Nightflower
Skipper dresses – Budding Beauty, Cookie Time, Posie Party and Drizzle Sizzle
Vintage Skipper shoes in this style – though not for $10 each – even if they are worth that to Skipper collectors, I would rather buy a bulk lot in all different colours.
Mimsybueno bear helmet – Flickr group
TLC blonde Kenner – yes I am on the look out and yes I have the money, so far I haven’t found THE girl yet though.
I also want to say, goddddamnitttt for all the time I have seen something I want to buy on Ebay and they will not ship to Australia and you cannot message them. Thank you to all the wonderful sellers that do offer international shipping. I am bidding on a few Skipper dresses at the moment.