Just to explain
and avoid trouble in the Blythe world!
Recently I
made a swap with a kind of weird Lady from the USA
I send my
dress to her and at the same time the helmet arrived… And yes, I think it must
have been a fake! The embroidery really looked like on the well known ET
helmets, but it had no label and the shape was somehow different and to big for
a Blythe head. And what really made me sad, it had two moth holes at the back,
she didn't mention! I was so upset! I wrote her an email, but as you can maybe
imagine, she never wrote back! So what to do? As some of you maybe know I am a crafter &
studied fashion design, and during my studies I really knit-felted a lot,
because it was very popular at that time. I was so unhappy with that fake
helmet, that I pulled down all the embellishment & pearls and threw the rest
into the dustbin! After that I went through my stash, found some lovely wool
that was great for felting and made a try on my own knit-felted helmets. And to
my surprise they came out very nicely. After that I embroidered one with the
stuff from the fake helmet and with some things from my own collection… and now
I own a helmet that looks like an ET-helmet and I am really in a quandary! I
never planned to copy Ruth's work because I really hate copy cats without own
ideas, but I did it somehow!
After all I
had to tell Ruth the whole story and fortunately she is not angry with me! I
could show this "fake ET-helmet" and the other future helmets, which are WIPs so far! I
never ever will sell them, I just make them for my own (and the dollies) joy
and use.
Thank you
so much Ruth!
And if you
ever get an email from janet-smith@google-mail.com, with the offer for a swap/trade –
Don't trust her! She will maybe fool you, like she fooled me!
Greets,
yours Nicola
