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Printable: Blythe Passport

In the summertime, Tony and I like to take a few trips around the area. We usually head down to the giant redwoods and up to Seattle, and we might even make it to Crater Lake this year. My little dolly hates being left home alone, so she decided to pack her bags and head someplace new.

She is perhaps a more adventurous traveller than I, since she demanded a passport of her own and a little suitcase to pack up her belongings (mostly just adorable dresses, of course). I'm not sure where she's off to, but I wasn't going to stand in her way.

I printed out the little passport from the file I have provided at the bottom of this post, and the tiny suitcase comes from a tutorial I found on Design Sponge.

The suitcase is actually the second installment of my Pinned It, Did It series. As I was photographing my doll and her passport, I realized the photos were missing something, but I couldn't find any travel-related props in my dolly drawer. However, I remembered this little tutorial I had pinned a little while ago to my Dolly Days Pinterest board and just had to try it. I think the hardest part was finding the rubber bands (as Lydia has a tendency to steal every rubber band that comes into the house); the rest was a piece of cake and really quite fun.

I like to imagine where my little doll might have gone to receive some of these stamps. I'd certainly like to visit the land of mushrooms or candy.

In true dolly fashion, though, she's keeping quite mum on the subject.

I'll just have to watch her passport for more stamps and see if I can guess where she's been.

These little passports are just right for some of the miniature stamps I've collected over the years. I also made a little "B" stamp using a pencil eraser that was past its prime.

I wonder what would happen if I tried to use one of these at the border of a foreign country...

Files:

• Download Blythe Passport Printable (PDF) - prints on 8.5" x 11" paper
• Set your printer to photo quality for best printing
• Use regular printer paper
• Requires double-sided printing

Where will you and your dolly go?

Pinterest: Seedling Pots

I'm sure I'm not the only person who gleefully browses Pinterest, pinning this and that, daydreaming about all those projects I'll create once I have some Free Time. Of course, Free Time is hard to come by these days, and Pinterest projects seem like a lot to ask of oneself when trying to think of something relaxing to do.

This is where having a helper comes in handy. No, not the sweet boyfriend who loves gardening and insisted we finally try one of the pins I showed him on my gardening board. The bunny, of course! This project involved toilet paper tubes, and Enid went bananas when she saw how many Tony was about to use.

Whoops! Never mention bananas in the presence of a bunny unless you mean business.

Well, OK, so I guess Tony comes in handy for calming the savage beast.

This was a really simple project. We made little seedling pots out of toilet paper tubes. You just cut the tube in half, snip about a half inch up all around the tube, fold down the little tabs you make, and tuck the last tab under the first tab. Voila!

If you can't find your scissors, you can always use your teeth.

And you never know what kind of inspiration will strike you while working on your project. You might come up with the next ingenious pin! Or not...

I'll leave it up to that super-helpful, gardening-loving boyfriend to grow food. I used all of my seedling pots to get a head start on my dyers garden. Let's hope some of my seeds sprout!

You can see the original pin for this idea right here, and you can find the rest of my boards over here. What's your favorite thing to pin?