I blogged about the market happening... Blythe count 1.
So while she has been sitting to one side - I'm not a fan of shinny faces and I think until she looses it, she might stay sitting around, I've been looking at customisers. I signed up for Blythe Kingdom quite a while ago now and I spend most of my time (when I'm not aimlessly scrolling through the MP threads - lucky I don't like Blythes THAT much... and most of them are sold on ebay anyway so even if I did like them, I never have that much money that quickly, lol.) looking through the customisers.
I always knew that if I had a Blythe that they would have be customised in order to keep them (my VV's occupation of her carrier is proving that theory). So I am always on the lookout for customisers. Most notably at the moment, those who do mohair reroots.
I really like mohair and much prefer it over the cling-to-everything effect of saran. Not a lot of people do mohair reroots and I don't think I have the guts to do it myself. (I might be coming around to customising my own in regards to face ups and the like, but not mohair.)
So I dug up my courage and messaged one of the two customisers I was considering - Moofala. (http://chantillylace1.blogspot.com.au/) I haven't got an email back yet, so that has stalled. But then the same day I went off to the Australia Blythe forum and started to aimlessly trawl their Sales thread.
Wrong idea...
I found a thread entitled "3 Day sale all Girls under $130 including registered post"... I thought "Oooh cheap stuff!" and had a look.
Blythe count 3.
Yes... This delightful person was selling a Simply Mango - a doll I had always been considering because one of the Moofala customs I love so much is the same face mold and that gives me half a chance to a have a good custom on a reasonably priced doll.
The other one that caught my eye was a Love Mission. It's kind of hard to explain why this one caught my eye - I didn't even know that there was a Blythe called Love Mission before I went into this thread. The face mold is completely different to the dolls which first caught my eye (of which the Very Vicky is one) or of the customs I love (of which the Simply Mango is one). It was the name, it reminds me of one of my all time favourite sets of books.
This might sound slightly icky since the name is "Love Mission" well, its not. The books are rare fiction with almost a cult following by those who know about them. I read them when my local library had copies (and this is a MASSIVE rarity - ironically my local library's copies have since simply disappeared.) The author is Liz Berry and the books are Easy Connection, Easy Freedom and my personal favourite, Mel. The books are very hard to find - the author herself has no copies of Easy Freedom and second hand copies have gone for as much as $300 on amazon and other booksellers.
Anyway, the books star a number of rock stars, as well as three distinct bands that the author has created. One of those bands is called 'Night Mission'.
Very strange and uber misdirected way to come to a purchase of a Blythe doll, but there you go. She's the only one I have very firm ideas about a look and a name and the like. Her name is going to be Devlin (Dev for short) - and she is going to be in the style of a late 70s, early 80s rock star.
So I am tossing up between giving my Love Mission, Dev, a full mohair reroot with big curls or getting her saran highlights in like red and purples - any ideas?
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