I decided to make 2 separate listings for the Royal Paisleys.

Western Hemisphere

If you are interested in *jaszmade’s Royal Paisley Dresses, please make sure you are on *jaszmade etsy today (04/26) at 9 pm german time. Find your time on worldtimeserver.

Eastern Hemisphere

If you are interested in *jaszmade’s Royal Paisley Dresses, please make sure you are on *jaszmade etsy tomorrow (04/27) at noon german time. Find your time on worldtimeserver.

Thanks so much and have fun!

See you,
Jasz

If you are interested in *jaszmade’s schoolgirl dresses, please make sure you are on *jaszmade etsy at 6 pm german time. Find your time on worldtimeserver. Thanks so much and have fun!

See you,
Jasz

Do you know that? You just love the look of Licca shoulders and arms on your doll but when it comes to dressing you find that her boobs and feet just don’t fit the most charming dress you just got for her? Right! Same here!

I do not love the Licca body itself, I just love the rascal look it gives your doll. And so I was blown away when I came across Becca aka. Sai’s Blythe dolls (above) who sport their elegant Takara body but have bendy Licca arms! Bummer!

After I got over the sheer horror of ripping out dolly arms, I finally tried it on my Parco and I am so happy with her new look! Finally I can have the rascal but can dress her up like a girl when I feel like it.

And so I asked Rebecca to share her surgery talents and she was so sweet to write a little tutorial on Licca Arm Transplantation on *jaszmade. Enjoy!

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I really, really like bendy Licca arms on my Blythe dolls. What I don’t like are the Licca chest, legs and feet. It’s just not my cup of tea! If you’re like me you might find this little tutorial helpful: how to transplant Licca arms to the original Blythe body!

Except from your original Blythe body you’ll need:

• Licca body (ideally with a matching skin tone to your Blythe body)
• Prying tool (I use a little flat screw driver wrapped with tape)

Finding a Licca Body that has a matching skin tone to your Blythe body might be the hardest step in this whole transplantation business. The one that I used is not a 100% match but close enough. (It’s also missing part of its neck and has red stains…ooops)

We’ll start with the scariest first step: pulling out the original Blythe arms. In my experience it helps to soak the body in very warm (not boiling) water prior to pulling. The plastic softens a bit.

Since I found it impossible to take a picture of this step my boyfriend is pulling them out in this video, so I could film the process:

Now carefully pry the Licca arm out with your tool – and when I say carefully, I mean it!

Here is a picture to show you what the Licca arm looks like (in comparison to a Blythe arm). It’s hollow and can easily tear:

This is how the Licca arm should come out of the body:

This is how Licca arms work
Both arms are hollow, each has a wire inside. The wires are connected through this little rubber pipe. You’ll need the whole thing for the transplantation.

When you put the Licca arms into the Blythe body, the first Licca arm should hold the rubber pipe, it’s much easier to coordinate the wire this way! (Hope you can see how the rubber pipe is set up inside the body.)

Put the wire into the rubber pipe…

…now push! Nah, seriously: Carefully press the arm into the body. When using a tool make sure you don’t rip anything!

And that’s the whole deal! In my opinion you get the best of both worlds, the original Blythe chest, legs and feet and the bendy Licca arms with their cute hands.

All of my Blythe dolls have Licca arms, one might say I have a little obsession – but they are great for taking pictures!

© photos and tutorial by Becca/ Sai, original source: Licca Arm Transplantation on flickr

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Thanks Becca for sharing this tutorial with *jaszmade :*

There is a big project planned in the Blythe Community: A book dedicated to the Love of Blythe by Fanny Zara, Jean Yates and Cindy Sowers. There are 7 teams of dolly artists all over the world each creating a unique doll through a collaborative work.

As some of you may know I am responsible for hair and story of Team Yellow’s Collaboration Girl.

My talented co-workers are in alphabetic order Camilla (photos), Frédérique (costume), Ina (face up) and Suzy (accessories) and I am mighty proud of our results so far.

After a hard time trying out different styles, I decided on just a little hair sculpture, something smooth and nice but not too overwhelming with a bun and curls and still versatile enough to even being able to sport some extra accessories like Suzy’s crown (see pic above).

The scalp is rerooted with finest mohair of mohairhouse, for me the best mohair supplyer out there (Thanks Sue!). I dyed it reddish blonde for a slight celtic touch, pretty north european and I am happy how it worked out.

It’s so hard to let her go but she is now on her way to Camilla who will bring her to life in the norwegian woods

After 2 years of more or less frequent absence in the Blythe world *jaszmade fashion for Blythe is back with some of your favorite goodies: *jaszmade suits as always richly decorated and each with a special hairpiece.

They will be up on *jaszmade etsy for you

this week on friday (07/27) at 5 p.m. european time

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More detailed shots of the suits and hairpieces (like the one below) you find on *jaszmade flickr.