Today I received a gorgeous new dress in the mail from Janelle's etsy store - The Stitched Bluebird- Totally love it - especially with her green eyes :)
but that is where the excitement ended for our Blythe girls today.
We are still very sad as yesterday we started the process of eye surgery - If you've never seen this done you may like to look away it does involve hot glue guns. Tals had chosen to replace her pink and orange eyes as had Sof.
I thought I had it all under control.
I had to paint the iris on first
So we had 6 sets of eyes to change.
I was able to remove the current chips
Then put the new ones in
That is where it all went haywire. Obviously - as this dolly clearly doesn't have a head anymore.
I didn’t put the chips in properly and they fell out inside of three of the girls heads. It required me taking the heads apart. For two girls all was fine but for poor Eliza Jane her scalp came off too and no matter what we do we can’t get her back together. Her whole head came apart off her body but that was too distressing to take a photo of so this is her as good as we can get her. :( :( :(
We had our “I can fix anything friend" come over this morning early before work especially to no avail. She is getting packed up and we are sending her to visit with Aunty Jo who does the most beautiful alterations to Blythes. The plan is for her to fix her and maybe make a few little alterations while she is over there . Tals is still terribly upset and I'm so cross with myself.
The only bright spot in the whole situation was when I said to my girls you know they will all have headaches for a little while after their heads have been taken apart. They rolled their eyes at each other and patted me and said Mumma you do know they aren't real don’t you? We all had a giggle and got the panadol out just in case. We will try to take some photos tomorrow of our other girls with their new pretty eyes and hope for a speedy return of Eliza Jane.
Tamar x
