Puchi Collective

Happy Halloween to you and your Blythes! Halloween is quickly approaching, and if you’re like us, you’re probably way behind on sewing those elaborate Blythe costumes you started planning way back in July. Don’t worry! Print and cut out these easy masks and turn all of your Blythes into spooks in a pinch. It will be our little secret!

Download the Printable .PDF Here! (zip/230K)

Tips for making your Masks and sacks:

1. Print the file with no scaling (100%) on regular printer paper.
2. Cut off the treat sack portion of the sheet.
3. glue or spray-mount a sheet of cardstock or construction paper to the back of the masks for strength.  cut out and add string or elastic.
4. for the sack:  fold on the lines, starting at number [1] . Fold all the lines marked [2], then paste the tab to attach the side of the bag to the front.  Bring the lines marked [2] together, creating a valley fold at [3].
5. fold the bottom of the bag the same way you would wrap a birthday present, hold it shut with glue or tape.
6. tape some black cord or string inside the top edge for a handle.

We participated in the Variety Fair exhibition and shop again this year, Christina made two Jam Fancy outfit sets and Paul and I worked on the doll to model one of the outfits. We were sent a lovely butter-yellow haired girl to work on (I wonder how many of these they have at the factory… the hair is gorgeous!).

Christina finished the outfits before we got started on the makeup. She used the Blythealizer to come up with a makeup combo that worked with the outfit, She came with normal skintone and primadolly-esque makeup. We decided that she should have fairer skin, so my Primadolly Aubrey got the swap. They are both happier in their new skin as my Aubrey always looked a little ill to me. Anyway, this time we tried an all-airbrush makeup including shaded lips. It was our first try and we are happy with the results, and will continue to refine the technique. The finished girl has pink lips with red shading on the bottom. We created our own mask for the shape and sprayed it in two stages.

Three of her eyechips have been airbrushed for depth. This technique is super easy and gives the eyes so much pop! Of course, she has three sets of P-chips.

With Paul airbrushing the lips, you may be wondering what the heck I did… This time, I did the eyeshadow! We kept it simple, one color, a teal green to match her dress. I sealed the lids with high gloss to prevent scratching and give her a dewy look.

We hope you like her! She’ll be available for sale at Variety Fair. More pictures are on puchi-flickr. You can check out both the finished outfits in Christina’s flickr

So I have to admit, I am totally smitten with Princess a la mode. CWC put together an adorable stop-motion movie of the story of the Princess to very cute and spooky music, voiced over by Junko Wong. It was playing on the big screen during the Omotesando Hills exhibit, and parts of it are very sad and sweet.

Here are the previews:

check out the rest at Blythe Theater

The movie will be included on the Beauty Contest/Anniversary DVD.

So cute! My favorite is the “commercial” of all 6 primmadollies can-can dancing. must.learn.stop.animation…

After a little break (life, you know…), I’m happy to finally have made some changes around here.

We’re testing out a new look and a new server, so if you notice any links or images are broken, we’d really appreciate a head’s up!

You’ll also notice a lot less google ads. The t-shirts are taking care of operating costs for now. We’d love to see pics of you in your puchi shirts! (I’m wearing my brown Posey shirt right now).

Be sure to check out the new Tutorial - my technique for natural looking freckles. It’s the same method I used on Nara (right).

I’m way behind and very embarrassed that I didn’t post anything after our trip to Japan - Don’t be surprised If I spam the archives later this week.
Keep the questions and comments coming, we love your feedback!

Ladies and Gentlemen, children of all ages, step right up for the spectacle of the season: “Darling Diva and her Daring Dogs!” Right this way folks, the circus is about to begin!

“Darling Diva and Her Daring Dogs” by Team Sibley will be on exhibition at “Diva Party” at Gallery Lele from June 19th to July 16th.

More detail pics in the Flickr set. This was a really fun project - We have so much fun with these “do whatever you want” customs. Christina of course is fantastic at putting together the details of a scene and Paul and I have really been wanting to try new things with makeup. There’s hot-rod style metalflakes on just about every surface for razzle dazzle. I got to practice my plastic fabricating skills on the little dog stands and the hoop-of-fire.. i mean, paper.

We’ll save the pyrotechnics for the exhibition.

Not pictured, but included in our piece is the amazing tiny crochet top-hat by Blanki. We had to rush it to Japan before the hat arrived.

And check out all of the Dolls on display at Diva Party!