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Pin itUPDATED WITH WINNERS!! Congratulations to: Maddie – Heat of Tension Becky – Talent Show Sharry – Rock Flower Solo Shauna – Mary Had a Little Lamb KT – School Talent Show I will be emailing the winners shortly! Thanks to all who entered! Be sure to visit the gallery of entries to see everyone’s [...]
Pin itOne of our reader’s husbands was recently in London and was kind enough to take some photos of the My London Girl store in the Westfield London Shopping Center and he brought back some great goodies for his girls, too. Thanks to Michele and Angelia for sharing these great photos with us. The entrance [...]
Pin itReady for a treat?? Our friends at A Girl for All Time (makers of Matilda Your Tudor Girl™) have sent us two photos of their new doll, Amelia Your Victorian Girl™, who will be available in September 2012. From the A Girl for All Time website: “My name is Amelia Elliot. Just an ordinary [...]
Pin itAfter hearing reports that even though some of McKenna’s collection were on backorder, they were still shipping, we decided to go ahead and order her a few weeks ago. McKenna’s starter collection arrived with McKenna, her meet outfit and her accessories – her practice outfit and her warmup outfit were on backorder, scheduled to [...]
Pin itThanks to all our readers who have shared their photos with us this week! Here are the Sunday Showcase entries for this week. Jasmine’s McKenna was reading Doll Diaries with her and spotted our Mckenna doll in the Fairy Garden, and was surprised to see her twin sister! Jasmine loved how McKenna looked in [...]
Pin itOne of the most frequently asked questions I get is “how can I tame the frizzies in my doll’s hair?” A pretty common technique is to give your doll a “Downy Dunk” – where you wash your dolls’ hair, then soak it for an extended time in Downy fabric softener. The results of a [...]
Pin itIt’s time to celebrate another one of our favorite American Girl historical character’s birthday – Kit Kittredge! Kit’s birthday is listed as May 19, 1923. In celebration I put together the collage of some of my favorite Kit moments in Doll Diaries history. The very bottom photo is from our trip to American Girl [...]
Pin itIt is a bonus craft day!! My friend Jen from 100 Directions has a super easy tutorial for making doll sandals for us today and if you follow the link at the bottom of the post she has a tutorial for an easy doll sundress on her site, too. The girls need some fabulous [...]
Pin it Inspired by the “Plant a Row” campaign that encourages families to grow a row of vegetables of their own. I thought it would be fun to make a doll sized garden using items I had on hand. To make your own doll sized garden you will need : 1 9X6 piece of corrugated [...]
Pin itI had to go to Target this morning which meant a mandatory trip to the doll aisles! I noticed they had one end cap dedicated to Disney’s upcoming movie Brave and the dolls/toys to go with it. Target had everything from dress up gowns to mini figures to the 11″ Disney Brave Merida Fashion [...]
Pin itWhen I visited the Sophia’s Heritage booth at ToyFair this year I was completely overwhelmed by the variety of clothes, furniture pieces and accessories they have for 18″ dolls. One of the pieces that caught my eye was this adorable white bunk bed with bright colored flowers. Recently Sophia’s sent me that bunk bed [...]
Pin itThe last few days the American Girl dolls have had all the attention – between the announcement of the new historical character Caroline Abbott to the arrival of McKenna and the making of her vault – but now it’s time to focus your attention on something truly stunning – Ellowyne Wilde! One of our [...]
Pin itUPDATED WITH WINNERS!! The winner of the three McKenna books is Christina from http://bigworldandmypower.blogspot.com/. The winner of The Hidden Gold is Jen. The winner of the ISU Behind the Scenes book is Kaylee and the winner of The Smart Girls Guide to Liking Themselves is Agbittybaby. Summer is almost here and one of my [...]
Pin itUPDATE 5/14/2012 – American Girl posted on their Facebook page today that the new historical character for 2012 will be named Caroline Abbott along with the image below: And here is the cover of her craft book: Obviously no photo of her but the flower basket is interesting. UPDATED: We have a possible new [...]
Pin itIn order to make it easy for us to keep questions about the Reader Photo event for May and the entries easy to comment on, I am creating this page separately to show off all the entries in the “Lights, Camera, Dolls!” Reader Photo Event for May. For entry information and the entry form, [...]
"Lights, Camera, Dolls" May Reader Photo Contest Ends May 21, 2012
American Girl Books Giveaway - Ended. See post for winner.
