Meet Emily!

I just finished posting photos of Story’s first solo Blythe customization, Amber. Now…I want to tell you about Emily. When we worked on Amber and Limona, our practice dolls, we spent a couple weeks doing it. Well, my mom wanted to try to work on a doll so she came over one day with the expectation that we would be working start to finish. That’s a big bite to chew, but we all commited to sitting and working as hard as we could just see if it was achievable for her sake. This took 14 hours. (O.M.G.) I worked on Olive, and personally this is not the way that I ever want to do it again. It’ll be a little bit before I share pictures of olive because I’ve decided to try to tweak her a little more as I just wasn’t happy with the result. Story on the other hand worked on Emily and absolutely blew my mind with how good she did.

Emily is a factory doll that was not made up of Blythe parts. So she is a fake, but she was a much better quality than our Basaaks.

For Emily, Story used the Dremel tool briefly, but for the most part she used hand-held carving tools.

Story decided to not give her sleepy eye, nor to do a gaze correction. I’m not sure yet if that’s going to be a preference for her or if she just felt in a hurry with this doll. She did however give her some new lashes. Emily’s eye chips came out so easy compared to Amber’s! One of her new pairs is a printed pair, but my favorite are these chips that Story painted on her own.

She struggled a little again with the chalk pastels. Unfortunately, she had some chalk on her hands that she didn’t know about, so when she was holding the faceplate it came off onto the plastic without her realizing it. So, some of the chalking was a little spotty. She is her worst critic though because I do not feel it looks near as bad as she feels it looks.

I think she did an absolutely beautiful job on Emily…I am so impressed! Her response to me is “Mom, I could have done a lot better.” She is so my daughter.