Doll Time….

The weather here has been a bit frightful.  There has been a lot of snow and this past weekend there were the winds……THE WINDS.  They were a howling for sure.  Ken gets all worked up and worried, but I tend to hunker down and find something to do.  When the winds are a howlin' for some odd reason I enjoy it, as long as I am not living in a house where I am worried about a tree crashing down.  This weekend…no bad trees and some free time before the big yarn club mailing next week, so I took some time to play with dolls…..yes, you read that right.

I talked about my discovery of Blythe dolls a little while back and shared that I had purchased one or two.  One of the dolls named Autumn has lovely red hair, but it was a bit tangly and not smooth, so I spent some time researching how to wash a Blythe's hair and this is what I found.  You do this:
1.  Wet her hair down in hot (boiling hot) water
2.  Shampoo (I used my Aveeda damage control shampoo)
3.  Condition (used Aveeda damage control conditioner) and let it set for a few hours.
4.  Rinse, rinse, rinse
5.  Plunge into an icy cold water bath to bring back any of the natural curl that the hot boil took away.

The end result was silky soft hair and a happy doll (if a doll can be happy…LOL)…and if did you notice…her dress is full of sister bees!  That just makes me smile. 🙂

I know….you think I am crazy, but really there is this huge world of Blythe, just like the huge world of fiber….if you look closely at my picture links, you will see a girl who looks just like my Ashley…so crazy weird!  Different things to keep us busy and happy. 🙂