Dolloween – Halloween Parade Day 4

Pin itOur friend Tari, who makes beautiful handmade doll clothes, is joining the Halloween parade today. Here is JLY #6 revised (now retired I believe), Katie, in the retired Mermaid costume: Here is Julie in the retired Hippie costume: This is retired #20, Heather Noelle, in the Grecian Princess: And finally Natalie #5 in a [...]

Dolloween – Halloween Parade Day 3

Pin itOne of our most creative readers, Gale, has shared some of her doll photos and boy, are they cute! Hula girls Emily and Kit Samantha and Nellie dressed as boys Karen as a witch and Mia as a hockey player Mia as a scarecrow It’s not too late to get in on the fun! [...]

50 Years of Barbie on Display in Baltimore

Pin it Geppi’s Entertainment Museum in Baltimore, Maryland will be featuring Barbie and 50 fashionable years in an upcoming exhibition. Barbie, her friends, fashions, furniture, and fun accompaniments will be on display from December 20, 2008 until May 31, 2009.

Kit Movie DVD Contains Trailer for 2009 Doll Movie

Pin it The new Kit Kittredge – An American Girl movie has been released on DVD and it contains the movie trailer for the American Girl of The Year 2009 movie, An American Girl Chrissa Stands Strong. The trailer is in the bonus features. The movie, which will star Sammi Hanratty, is scheduled to be [...]

Dolloween – Halloween Parade Day 2

Pin it Our Bitty Baby and one of the twins have joined the Halloween parade dressed as a puppy and a kitten. Get in on the fun! Submit your dolls’ (American Girl, My Twinn, Build a Bear, Webkinz, Barbie, the works!) photos for our Halloween parade. You can submit them by joining the Doll Diaries [...]

Barbie and the Diamond Castle DVD

Pin itMy daughter loves the Barbie series of movies so when we were given the opportunity to review the new Barbie and the Diamond Castle DVD she was so excited. The storyline is: Barbie™ and Teresa™ tell us the fairy tale story of Liana™ and Alexa™, best friends who shared everything including their love of [...]

Dolloween – Halloween Parade Day 1

Pin itIt’s Halloween Week and time for the first dolls to show off their costumes! Agfan4ever’s Molly dressed in an elegant red & gold gown. Gale’s American Girl doll looks adorable in the Bee costume she made! This is our Kit as a Grecian Princess from last year. Our dolls will be dressing up later [...]

Doll Diaries Halloween Parade

Pin itYou can also head over to Printables4Kids and download Halloween word searches, word scrambles, coloring pages and more.

12 Dream Toys for Girls in 2008

Pin it Each holiday season we speculate as to which toys are going to be hot! Toy News Magazine released its Dream Dozens lists for the 2008 holiday season recently. The 12 toys expected to be big hits with girls (I would say ages 4-9 or so) include:

What’s New at Doll Diaries

Pin itHappy Monday everyone! For those of you who have not noticed yet, Doll Diaries got a whole new design over the weekend. What do you think?

Which Are The Best American Girl Stories

Pin itOkay Doll Diaries readers, I need your input! My daughter is starting to read chapter books and really loves reading. She just finished one of the Tiara Club books (and loved it) and Junie B. Jones is just too easy for her. I suggested we start reading some of the American Girl stories and [...]

Help Us Say Farewell to Samantha

Pin it Today American Girl will announce that Samantha Parkington, one of the original American Girl historical characters, will be archived or as some call it, retired. Doll Diaries has partnered with American Girl to let readers and Samantha fans from across the globe say farewell. The upper right part of the Doll Diaries page [...]

American Girl Fashion Shows

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Pin itAmerican Girl Fashion Shows are so much fun! We went to one a few years ago and my daughter loved every minute of it. The shows, which are held as benefits for local charities, feature local girls modeling fashions from the American Girl collections – Historical, Today, and even Bitty Baby. It is a [...]

More Scoop on the Chrissa the American Girl of the Year 2009

Pin it I love my readers! You guys always find the best stuff. Here is a two page spread advertising the new American Girl Doll of the Year movie that will go with the doll. The title is Chrissa Stands Strong and will star Sammi Hanratty, Annabeth Gish, Timothy Bottoms, Don Franklin, Adair Tishler, Joanne [...]

Reborn Baby Dolls – Cute or Creepy?

Pin it Reborn baby dolls are incredibly realistic baby dolls that are created by extremely talented and skilled artists. The artists go to great measure to make the dolls look as life like as possible, but are they cute or creepy? The Today Show recently did a piece on the reborn dolls and reported that [...]