Halloween, 2005

(Originally written on October 31, 2005)

Today is Halloween and I'm ready. I have my Dollfie Dream dressed in her light yellow Alexander dress (which I purchased for $2 at a doll show a few months ago) with her platinum blond wig, which makes her look very ghostly. I plan on sticking her in the window with a desklight shining behind her to make her look really ghostly for the benefit of the trick or treaters. I'm also going to stick my Blythe doll in the treats dish and I'll be changing her eyes to see if I can spook a few kids.

Yesterday I took Blythe with me to church. A few weeks ago I volunteered to help run a special Halloween festival for young children to run concurrent with the adult Sunday morning service. (This Halloween festival was being run instead of the usual Sunday school.) I was staffing a pumpkin painting table where the kids painted the small miniature pumpkins.

We adults were encouraged to dress up in Halloween costumes as well as the kids so I wore a witch hat and a cape (which I bought last year at the Maryland Renaissance Festival). To make the outfit complete, I decided to bring my Blythe doll and I changed her eyes to the orange ones (for Halloween, of course).

Well whenever I whipped out my Blythe doll and told the kids to look in her eyes, I would pull the string to change her eye colors. I thought some of the kids would be creeped out or totally spooked. Instead she was well-received with several of the kids thinking that she's "cool". Some of the kids thought she looked "weird" but all of them were totally fascinated with her and how her eyes can change color.

I remembered reading that Blythe was originally released as a children's toy back in 1972 but she was a flop because her looks creeped children out. The children at my church weren't too creeped out by her at all. Maybe there is a greater tolerance among children for something that's totally different than there used to be. I'll find out for sure when I whip out my Blythe doll for the trick or treaters tonight.

Here are some Halloween photos taken inside and outside my townhouse before the trick-or-treaters arrived.

Here's Sakura dressed in her pale yellow Alexander dress looking ghostly in the window. I used a desklamp that I aimed at the doll from behind to make Sakura look even more surreal and spooky.

Here is what the window display looked like when viewed from a distance. I placed a carved jack o'lantern under the window with a lit candle inside the pumpkin to make the house look even spookier.

A view of Sakura in the window taken from a different angle.

Here's a view of the Halloween display with the front door. It's hard to see in the photograph but I have a small figure of the ghost figure from the Scream movies hanging from a nail in the front door.

Another view of Sakura playing a ghost in the front window.

Sakura wasn't the only doll who participated in the Halloween festivities. Here is Blythe wearing her orange eyes as she sits on top of a bag of pretzel treats that I handed out to the trick-or-treaters. Sitting next to Blythe is the jack o'lantern that I carved with a knife and placed a lit candle inside the hollowed-out pumpkin.

Here is Blythe sitting indoors guarding the treats as she waits for the trick-or-treaters to arrive. She's sitting on top of a plastic dish that I used to hand out the treats that is shaped like a black witch's cauldron.

Halloween, 2005

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