new pattern, new dresses

This month i was working with a new pattern for the big girls, and i find it quite versatile just by using different fabrics and accessories.
so i made this three gardening girls dresses, attached with a lovely rose lace as apron. the pattern is the same as the one posted earlier this month, yet they feel totally different, well, at least for me :D

i love all three of them! (the dresses AND the girls haha)
Bubbles looks like Alice in Wonderland don´t ya think :)

love,
*Tea

*Finja the traveling blythe

This month i had a very special guest around me for two weeks.
Let me introduce Finja: Germanys traveling Blythe to you.

it was a good choice to visit Mr.P with her, so we came around quite alot...
We enjoyed late summer sun in the garden...

 We visited the "Ivenacker Oaks", which are some of the oldest trees in europe. the big oak you see in the picture is about 1000 years old and still growing.....

 

we took a few walks in the "Weser Bergland" which is the landscape around Hannover city.

 we visited Mr.P.s workplace....

 came back to Munich, Bavaria and enjoyed "Oktoberfest".....Isn´t she cute with her bavarian "Dirndl"?

 She also came to see "Salzburg", beautiful city in Austria and hometown of "Mozart"

 yes,.... we will miss her.... but there are still many places to see for her...

love,
*Tea

*sentimental mood

staring out of the window... what might Miss Marple be thinking about...

love,
*Tea

*a day at the river

one of my favorite places to be is the river Isar, floating through Munich. I love rivers, i love to see them flow. rivers give me the feeling of beeing alive and of moving on in whatever i am doing.
When i lived in Japan, i lived only 5 minutes away from the big Tamagawa-River. One thing i did EVERY day was taking a walk at the river. 

 Following the Isar to her origin, you come bye a beautiful little town: Bad Tölz. Only a short drive with the car away from Munich, it´s defenitely a wonderful trip for a day.

outtakes: ^_^v

love,
*Tea

*Hortense

This is one of the rare pics of my Vinter Arden blythe doll.
Her previous name was Milka, because she has such a pale skin, but recently, as i combed her hair again and again until it was all pretty and shiny like silk, she told me her real name: Hortense.
Her haircolour so much reminds me of my late hydrangeas in the garden, which are among my favorite flowers.
unfortunately for some reason i find it very hard to take pictures of her. She went with us on our last trip, but the sun was so bright, it was nearly impossible to get a pretty picture of her already so pale skin. I feel so sad because she really is a beautiful girl and i adore her face colours.
So, this is one of the rare pictures which came out ok but still is kind of blurry.

Nevertheless, it was a beautiful and great day at the lake.
Pink is dressing Hortense really well, don´t you think?

love,
*Tea

*a day out

Mr.P and me planned a day hiking in the mountains, but weather forecast was telling rain and thunderstorms, so we decided to stay in the sun instead and went to a little excursion to the Isar.

 

love,
*Tea

*Strawberry & Cream Cute

 Last week, a new blythe arrived. She is a cooperation between Junie Moon & Emily Temple Cute.

 This is her still in box. i love the packing.

Her outfit is really cute. i like the blue navy stripes with cute strawberry skirt. What you can´t see in the pictures, she has a really bright light blue eyeshadow. Beautiful!
She also has special eyechips and long eyelashes like Dear Lele Girl.

I decided for me, this will be my last Neo Blythe from Takara. I have to stop lurcking the news section. I don´t want any more Blythe dolls. i feel i have enough. I have a big dolls family now and i am happy with them, but i feel like i am bonding less with every new girl coming into. i want to spent more time with them. It is not possible if they are too many. So, this girl will be my last one.
I still want a Kenner in my family and a Kozy, but this are only plans for the future. I will go slowly with buying Blythe dolls now.
I don´t want to only look at them and see them standing in the bookshelfs, i want them to be characters who come out and play with me. By not buying any more new Blythe dolls , I can treasure my dolls family more from now on :)

Her name is Haruko. Because she is the girl who came in spring :)

love,
*Tea

*sailorgirls

the little ones recieved new dresses and they are so cute!

now, all we need is a beach to go to and warm and sunny weather!

love,
*Tea

*Penelope aka Miss Maple

never heard of her you think?
that´s right, she is the new girl in the house :)
She is a Love Mission EBL Blythe.
name: pending between Penelope & Miss Maple, tending to Miss Maple though

i got her for really cheap at Ebay from a national
private auction.
i am still not yet sure if she´s for real....
but can´t think she is a fake either, i can´t find any characteristics of what is in the disscussions lately.
EBL Face type is just so different from all of my other girls! It feels like a totally different doll and makes me want a Kozy even more now!
Her nose shape is different, her eyelashes are very thin, her eyechips are a slightly different colour to all following Neos and the black inside is much bigger.
The eyelids are matt, not shiny.
Love Mission Make-up is very subtle. Her blush is nearly visible.

From the auction, she came with her box, card, stand, full outfit etc., plus the licca body she is wearing now.

I´m in love.

But: My doll family is growing insanely recently! Especially since i know that there will be some more incoming in the future. Where to stop? My biggest problem: i can´t let any of them go.

love,
*Tea

*Blythe Winter Outfit

i have been so busy since the new year started, i even didn´t have the time to take some pictures. *sight*
so i just share some old things i thought :)
This outfit was made for our German Blythe forum, you have already seen a little preview of it.
i used handspun gingham chequed fabric in lovely reds and browns. a huge white lace makes the apron and the big shoulder scarf. i love the pure and lovely white of it, it reminds me of the snow.
The little christmastree pendant on the bag is removable. i wanted the outfit to be able to wear all winter through and not only for the short time of christmas season.


have i shared my recieved swap with you already? i don´t think so!

it included not even some lovely dresses plus Pommecopine coat (Loulou was wearing in Paris did you recognize it? ,) but also those lovely Petit Blythe dresses (yay!), a sweet christmas card, lots of vintage buttons for crafting and a cute little Ddung keychain! Don´t forget the lovely little deer blanket you see beneath everything! i got so spoiled, haha :)
the Ddung keychain is a little bit larger than *Piu, you can´t open her hair and the clothes are glued on (what a shame!) but she´s really adorable too!
i haven´t participated in any swaps for quite some time and nearly forgot how fun they can be!

love,
*Tea

*Welcome 2011

Welcome 2011 and HAPPY NEW YEAR my friends :)
so, this is the first post of the new year. what will it be about? i still have some unfinished things to share from last year but, let´s start the new year with fresh greetings from Loulou and Merry from Paris!

It were some fabulous 2 days. we stayed at a friends house and so we had a handsome guide to tour us around Parisienne nightlife too :D Of course, two days are never enough for that huge city. we just walked around a little bit and watched all the famous spots from the outside. i couldn´t believe how crowded Paris is from all the tourists. Not one single place where you don´t have to wait at least about 1 hour to enter. O_o
Unfortunately, we were not lucky with the weather. The city was wrapped in a grey fog all time long and the only day we could see the Eiffel Tower in its full beauty was the first day in the morning. from then the half top was hidden under the fog. It was a great idea then to wait until the evening to climb Eiffel tower and see the city´s beautiful lights from the second level.
We will come back in Spring or Autumn next year! i want to see the city all in green!

Goodbye 2010 and Hello 2011!
love,
*Tea

*preview

i have participated on our winter swap in the german blythe forum.
of course it is still a surprise for my swap partner, soooo... i won´t post the outfit yet...
sorry my friends :D
but i´ll give you a little preview, because i really really love the result.

i am not good at sewing dresses many at a time.
i discovered for myself, that if i find a beautiful fabric, i have just a blurry picture in my mind about the result.
starting with making the basics of the dress, the picture is growing and growing and while working on it, it gets clearer step by step.
this method takes a lot of time and makes selling the outfits not really profitable, but in return, i am really satisfied with the results in the end.

i hope my swap partner likes her little presents,
i will probably make a similar of this dress set for our trip to Paris.

furthermore... i have decided, i want Mademoiselle Poulette de Popinet to travel with us!
After all, she has some french family roots!
She is the perfect beauty for this wonderful city,
but yet... i am still afraid to take her with me.
She has just been to expensive and is too precious to just put her in and out the bag.
what do you suggest?
PS: Merry will travel with us anyway ,)

love,
*Tea

*blythe meeting

bonita came for a short visit to Munic, so we met at town for a coffee and some shopping and strolling through the city with our girls in the morning.

we met those two guys advertising in front of some shop.
they were so funny!

bonita enjoys climbing in her free time.
The girls do too!! hehe
(i think Lele is more afraid than excited, lol)

indoor climbing wall in our local sports shop.

yep, this is us two. bonita has a much better picture with us and our girls,
mine is a little bit blurry.

last but not least, we went for some fabric and lace shopping!
found some lovely and soft cotton fabrics for doll sewings :D

Thanks for the lovely day bonita!
i really enjoyed it! :)

love,
*Tea

*with love

from Mademoiselle de Popinet

though she can get quite grumpy looking too if she doesn´t feel comfortable in a situation ... lol

love,
*Tea

*Mademoiselle Poulette

She enjoys late September sun in the garden.
i really love that yellow dress on her. it compliments her haircolour.

have a lovely and sunny fall everybody!

love,
*Tea

*hello, i come from the land of ice ♥

but i look like a huba-buba-apple-flavored-bubblegum bubble!

my mom thinks about a name for me right now:
here are some choices:
1. Pooh - like Pooh the bear because my hair reminds of sweet honey and Pooh the bear fur.
2. Bubbles - i don´t htink i need to explain this
3. Babette - because my mom has an addiction to french names

have you seen my lovely skirt? Today is day five of "One Dolly Dress a day" and this is ODDAD #5. It is a little big wide around the waist, but it is so cute and suits me very well.

♥
love,
*Tea

*traveling in my bag

what´s in my bag, when i go on holidays:

over the weekend, Mr.P and me took a short holiday and went to italy by car (taking about 5 hours from where i live). After a long time of rainy season, it was great to see the sun, even if it was for only two days, and relaxing at the beach of Lake Garda at about 32 ° C.



love,
*Tea