April 24, 2010 · 7:22 AM

Factory Girl Arrives!

I was super excited to say the least that this Wednesday at work a new girl came in through the front door and asked if she could be mine… Her name is Siobhan, and here is the little one after a few hair treatments, gaze correction and sleep eyes.

As for the overall quality of the factory/ prototype blythes… As I only adopted 1 girl I can only compare her to my Takaras and my Basaak clone.

The factory girl is almost perfection, she has some strange configuration to her thatching/ rooting. The part line looks good but the back of the crown is a little sparse. My Ivy (Simply Peppermint) has amazingly thick hair. And while Liv (Cousin Olivia) has long hair, it isn’t as thick.

Siobhan’s body is a standard Takara body which matches well. She will truely be loved as a Brasscupcake.

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April 8, 2010 · 8:24 AM

The plunge…

So I have taken it… the plunge to purchase Blythe #5 and what I say will be my last one… at least to keep in the house. The limit shall be 5 at one time. If there is another girl who sparks my interest, then I will have to adopt out one of the current girls.  So this is the girl I am currently waiting on…

My wonderful twitter friend, duherica, posted the link for her, which was amazing to me… mainly because I had been about to email her seller asking her to post her on eBay so that I could purchase her. But as fate had decided, she was already up there. Now as many of you know… Blythes are not cheap. But she was!! A grand total of $65 plus shipping. I am seriously hoping there isn’t much wrong with her when she gets here. She has been shipped and now I am just waiting for my little redhead.

Here are some more shots of the little lovely.

I get the impression that she is Irish… so therefore needs an Irish name…. I’ve got a few ideas but would love some help here.

1. Logan- One of my family’s names a few generations back.

2. Moira- Just have always loved this one.

3. Maeve- A major Queen in Celtic mythology.

If anyone has ideas for this… leave me a comment! I would love to hear what y’all have to say on my new little one!

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February 23, 2010 · 6:11 PM

The Brass Cupcake

I’m happy to announce that on this past Friday the 19th, I received my very own copy of The Brass Cupcake by John Macdonald. If you love the 50’s style noir writing, detective stories or just guys who talk out of the side of their mouth; then this is a book for you.

I started reading it on Saturday on my way to work and finished it on Monday night on the way home. I ride the bus, I don’t drive right now, so this is when the reading happens. It’s a fast paced book, even when fighting against the retro language. I loved it! But I also got to learn what a “real” brass cupcake is, a police badge. I prefer my version.

Last night I also got my jewelry order from Tizzalicious on Etsy!! The most awesome brass cupcake necklace and earrings all the way from Denmark! I should have asked for a longer chain, but thankfully I had a gold rope chain sitting in my jewelry box that I could use.

I have also been furiously working on changing the eye chips in my Blythe clone, Ethel. She’s a Basaak clone; which is one of the better quality clones. Her chips were not only over glued in, but the white if the eye was beveled over the chips. Hubs had to help with drilling her eyes out. Now I am scraping and sanding the remainder of her stock eye chips out. A painful process if you’re a Blythe, so I’ve not let the other girls in the kitchen for fear they won’t let me work on them.

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February 15, 2010 · 12:46 PM

A little intro…

A little about me… tomorrow I will have been married for 3 weeks. Although my family doesn’t know that I’m married… here’s the back story. I got engaged to the love of my life September 20th, 2009. He wanted to get married in 10 days, which actually was my fault. I had a dream the previous night that we were engaged and had 10 days to plan my wedding. Sometimes he has a sick sense of humor. So we started planning the wedding, a Day of the Dead, retro wedding picnic. Just a few themes going on there.

We got all the way to January before I gave in to his idea of a courthouse wedding… January 26th, 2010 is our official wedding date, now. But we are still having the Day  of Dead retro wedding picnic. And that is when hubs will get to meet the rest of my family for the first time.  My mom has been out here to visit and has met hubby but the rest of the family hasn’t. The rest of the family consist of:

  • The Duke- my father
  • Babs- my mother
  • Goober- my brother
  • Trina- brother’s fiancée
  • Banana- my niece

These are the people who I will occasionally write about.  As well as the last 3 months and 14 days until the white wedding. We have tons of it done already but a lot still to go and a minuscule budget. Of course I will also be writing about my daily little life here in New Jersey/ Philadelphia. And as I am an avid cook, rarely making things out of a box, there will be recipes too. As well as just my general thoughts about being a bit of a pin-up girl in a modern world. Hope that you enjoy the rambling of a brass cupcake…

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