Come and play Veronique!!

And everything went black. Birds stopped singing and the warmth of that afternoon vanished. Forever. It's been a long time since that day. She doesn't remember what happened. She hasn't got any recall whatsoever about how the sun burnt her skin. About how the air turned into fire in her lungs and her viscous blood stopped flowing in her veins. She passed out. Fell inert over the mild grass and her friend's infant voices ceased to give way to the tears that followed that afternoon. Such long time has passed since then that there's noone left that remembers how the small and sweet Veronique died inexplicably in a beautiful summer's afternoon.

Come and see the moon Veronique!!

Darkness doesn't blur the contours of the creatures' world that have welcomed her. Her eyes caress the whity clearness that the most simple things reflect during the night. She hides within the shadows to enjoy the powerful feeling that her senses provide her with when she percieves the heat and smell of the blood that flows avidly inside those who wander, unconscious, searching for a dream they'll never enjoy. It has also been a long time since she learned the language of the owls, of the cats with reflecting eyes, of the statues that come alive when the bustle of the cities stops, of those who, like her, exist within the elegant stealth of darkness.

They say there aren't many kids among them. But it's not true because Veronique keeps coming out to play.

I am from Spain and I live in a beautiful village north of Madrid. I am a computer engineer and I have always loved painting and designing. I collect and customize blythe dolls since 2008. From the moment I discovered blythe I found a new way of creating and letting my imagination fly in my free time. These gorgeous dolls are a hobby which has turned into my passion.

Blythe dolls were created in 1972 by Kenner company but didn't have great success among the girls of that time. 30 years later, producer Gina Garan received a blythe doll which she started to use as a model to improve her photographing skills. A random meeting in 1999 with japanese Junko Wong, responsible for CWC, made blythe dolls attract the attention of japanes toymakers.

The main feature of the dolls, either Kenner or Takara, are their eyes. They can be closed voluntarily and be changed in color thanks to a pullring at the back of the head, hidden behind the hair In addition, the way they are built makes modifications easy. Changes in hair, eye color, face carving, make up, body, internal mechanism, clothes, accessories, etc... This ease of change added to her incredible photogenic ability makes these dolls a real canvas on which to create, either me or many other designers of the blythe community.

Sometimes I have trouble staying awake.At school, the teacher is focused on teaching us very boring things. Adding, subtracting, multiplying...I don't like numbers. I also hate language classes. That's why its hard for me to pay attention and not fall asleep. When the class finishes I see the blackboard from the end of the class. I see my classmates, working, paying attention. But the sun comes through the windows creating bright figures on the floor. I prefer to play, imagining they are doors that take me to a sunny world. If I step on those light shapes on the tiles of the floor I can travel to the school's playground. Very few people know that at the far end, behind the dense scrub in the corner, there is a hole on the fence that leads to the river. Only once you have crossed it you can say that you have really entered the world where interesting things happen. I like to escape through that hole during the lunch break. I descend between the bushes that grow beside the trees and I reach the river bed where I can pick blackberries and eat as many as I want. Then I lay down in the shadow to watch the dragonflies fly over the dark water. I slowly fall asleep listening to the sound of their wings humming and smelling the ladn beneath me. My mother scolds me because she says that well-behaved girls don't fall asleep around as if they were bee drones but the thing is I get bored at school. The rest of the kids prefer to jump and run on the playground instead of observing insects, flowers or putting their hands in the cold water to feel the small tadpoles salute you with their smooth and slippery bodies. Besides, my river-friends don't mind me falling asleep. Whatsmore, they like it because it is then when they reveal to me secrets about their green world, made of water and light.