Simply Chocolate, new face up

Adding eyelashes

My little Vampire :D

She has no body of her own, no hair; I brought a practice/replacement RBL face plate, and decided last night to try and carve fangs and though she is far from perfect I have fallen in love with her.

I made her a little jumper, which is being modelled by Kitty, i also made one for kitty too, i dont want her feeling left out! :D

Another New Arrival

I adore her hair! so that will be staying, such a beautiful pale face plate can't waite to design her face up!

Choices Choices???

My first ever Order arrived from My little Customs, and i am really pleased with service :D

The Nylon comes in so many beautiful colours, but does feel a little weird and kinky!

{i am used to handling natural fibre!}and the Saren is really glossy and soft, only down side is it feels a bit oily.

Now just have to make up my mind what colour/s hair she is going to have, as i REALLY love the colour of the pale pink Saren. {oh Choices Choices}

New Girls :D



Pow Pow Poncho SBL-2 and Kiss me True RBL

Both will be having a face up, even though i think Kiss me true is actually a pretty stock girl,but must admit i am not that keen on Pow Pow stock face at all, and her hair is really greasy as well, so i am hoping to re-root with ginger mohair, that and some cute freckles i am sure i will fall in love with her :D

Out with the OLD...{Re-root}

And in with the new...well sort of!

Using a pair of tweezers i worked from the crown down, Removing all the hair and left the centre parting to last, wasn’t difficult as all, quite satisfying actually lol

Re-rooting on the other hand, it well.. TIME Consuming, I had planned on using natural fibres and the fibre pictured are wensleydale locks, that i hand dyed, the stunning colours inspired by  “Mermaids” hair Fantasy colour way yarn.

I started off doing the centre parting using the knot method because the fibre isn’t as long as I had originally thought! {boo :(} and it’s been a pain in the bum!

I have used a tiny crochet hook, and a embroidery needle, but find my dolly needle works best!, even though I have stabbed myself in the leg! And chipped a bit of my bottom tooth :D {yep my own fault for using my teeth to pull the needle through} I have also tired the hair plugs wet and dry, and even though EVERYONE says the fibre needs to be wet, I just found I was a lot quicker with it dry, and I could see better which areas need thicker or thinner plugs.

After working on the re-root, for the best part of a week, I am gutted to say, that I am going to have to take it all out, as it’s just not as long as I want it to be!

I have ordered some nylon hair from my little customs, which I am hoping will arrive in the next few days! I guess at least this way I can build my confidence with both!

The scalp *gulp*

Before attempting to open my Blythe, I searched the internet high and low for a Tutorial, but only stumbled on ones that had partially taken the flange out.

So I took a deep breath and pulled the scalp from the dome, there was only a little bit of glue on the back, and it came out easy enough, so I thought before detaching completely I would try putting it back in and to my surprise it went back in all the way, little bit tricky in some areas but on a whole a lot better than expected



As you can see from the last picture there is a little gap between the edges, so may need to use some craft glue in a couple of spots to secure in place.{There was no glue on the dome its self though}

Changing Face's

When my other girls arrive I will put together a tutorial on how I carved my simply chocolate, but for now here are a few pictures that I took during the process and for my first attempt I am really pleased with her nose.

So as you can see the new face plate has been sanded to remove shine and make up, i then used my dental pick to carve my lines, then used the combination of carving and sanding to achieve final look.

The areas that i carved on this face plate were; around and in the nose, the philtrum{above the lip} and mouth.

Tool's *inserts creepy laugh*



My Tool kits consists of:

Screw drivers - great for prying, and of course undoing the screws

Paint brushes – from sweeping, dusting and painting very handy :)

Dental tools – nice and Sharpe but also strong and thin, so ideal for face craving. {I brought mine from ebay}

Mini needle files - great for nostrils, mouths, philtrum and around eyes. {I brought mine from ebay}

Tweezers - Removing hair from scalp and eyes lashes

Craft knife – not had to use mine yet, but have read that they’re great for flanges and scalping the earlier models of Blythe.

Sand paper – I have super fine wet and dry sand paper and also nail buffing blocks, also I found using an eraser with the sand paper wrapped round makes an awesome little sand block.

Glue sticks – not pictured but on order.. to remove eye chips {the glue sticks you use in glue guns}

Fake eyelashes – if you want to change your Blythe original ones.

Air brush kit – not essential but my preferred method to apply the makeup, I am also using magic colour paints which become water proof when dry and high grade art pastels.

Nail Art stencils – To add little face or eyelid decorations 

Glue – again this is down to personal preference, I am using craft glue instead of super glue, so that if I want to change things at a later date, I can do so with out to many problems or making too much mess.

New eye chips – you can buy beautiful handmade ones from etsy, and you can try making some yourself {which I am going to attempt at some stage.}

Dolls hair – if you’re going to re-root you will need your replacement fibre, being a total Yarny and die hard natural fibre fan, I am sticking with Mohair ,Alpaca and wensleydale sheep locks, because like human hair, you can dye, wash, and use heated hair appliances to style.{ I will go more  in-depth about the fibres in a later post.}

Crochet hooks - for re-rooting hair and un hooking springs

**  At the moment I am still trying out EVERYTHING to find my perfect tools {which will be different for every one}  so my list is quite long :D but then I am a person who likes a lot of stuff!! Lol..i will add to this list if I come across things that work better than others.

Opening a RBL/FBL Blythe head

After all the horror stories I read about opening up an RBL, I was very reluctant to try and open mine.

RBL have three little screws at the back of the head, you also have the little square hole that has the spring attached, now for me trying to unhook that spring before opening the head was a pain and just far to fiddly, so I unattached after I opened.

  You will read a lot of post on blogs and websites stating that you have to a considerable amount of presser at the ears for it to pop open…so I was surprised when my head popped with hardly any pressure at all.  

As you can see from the picture above the spring is still attached to the back of the head, if you are going to attempt to unhook by this method, don’t pull the head to far apart, otherwise you will over stretch the spring and it won’t work when you hook it back. To unattached mine I used a metal crochet hook {buy one for your tool bag if you crochet, because you will end up blunting them} and a pair of tweezers.

The great thing about RBL is you can open the face, without having to touch her scalp like the other earlier models. Another bonus is you swap scalps with other RBLs to change your Blythe if you don’t want to go down the re-root avenue  and also change face plates!