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How was your week? It was pretty good here and I had a chance to check out some of my favorite blogs while enjoying my coffee this morning. I thought you might like some of my favorite reads, too. Want to see how this cutie – Marieka from Kidz n Cats – got her new [...]
Madelon is at it again… keeping us up to date on all those special days! Today is National Lucky Penny Day – who knew? A lucky penny has been spotted! You know the saying, “Find a penny, pick it up, all the day you’ll have good luck!” And she picked it up! It looks like [...]
Hi girls! Natalie AGAIN! A few weeks ago did a photoshoot on a rainy day (although it was not raining when I took the photos) and thought you might like it! So now I present Rainy Days Not so Gloomy! Here is Sonali walking Coconut. They are just so cute! No, Coconut! Wait up!!! Hehe [...]
Just a few little ramblings from me this morning: First – I don’t think there is a lot of confusion among the Doll Diaries regulars, but I am seeing some confusion on Facebook and Instagram about Camp Doll Diaries. Just in case you were not clear… It is an ONLINE camp, you can do as [...]
Happy Sunday! I am enjoying a second rainy day and while I prefer for the sun to be out, there is something so relaxing about a gentle spring rain. And by the way, today is Kit’s birthday so if you have a Kit birthday photo, go ahead and send it in so I can add [...]
Wow, that was one busy, crazy, tiring week! I am really looking forward to relaxing this weekend. As I went through my folders of my favorite sites this morning to get caught up on my reading, here are some of my favorites this week: Emily at the The Toy Box Philosopher has THE BEST reviews [...]
Happy Mother’s Day to all the awesome Moms who help make the Doll Diaries community a safe, fun and even educational site for doll lovers of ALL ages to enjoy! I can’t even begin to name all of you, but you are all appreciated so much! From SmileySophia – Happy Mother’s Day from Molly. From [...]
One of our readers, Tarynn, took some photos of her dolls Lanie and Kanani to share. Tarynn followed the guidelines on our Get Featured page and now I am happy to share them with you! *** We had a nice sunny day this week, and since Lanie has been begging for a nature walk with [...]
I hope you have had a great week. I just went through my folders of doll blogs I read and here are a few of my favorite posts this week. At Karen’s blog, she did a write up on the Kirsten doll that Brandy rescued and restored for her daughter. Kirsten is beautiful and is [...]
I didn’t know what to title this post because it really isn’t about any one thing, rather me just talking to you and sharing some more of the photos/ideas/etc that are in my inbox. Lillian is hard at work checking messages on the “tablet” and helping me prioritize tasks this morning. There are so many [...]
Today is National Teacher Day and we would like to say thank you to all of our teachers for everything you do!! Madelon’s Mia brings her favorite teacher a bouquet of Spring flowers to honor her teacher today. Speaking of teachers, have you seen the new Teacher’s Desk Set that The Queen’s Treasures is coming out [...]
While you are enjoying this morning’s Sunday Showcase photos, Natalie is swimming in a long course meet and I am doing swim officials training at the same meet. Dolls are a major part of our life, but not all of it From Tony - Jane (Marie-Grace) was crowned May Queen during this year’s May Day celebration. Here she is [...]
I have had some people ask about Spotlight Sites, and the Doll Diaries Picks of the Week have replaced them. I hope you don’t mind Based on the feedback I have gotten about the Picks of the Week, I think you are good with it. Posts I loved this week: Make doll pancakes with Liz [...]
The very first movie I saw in a movie theater was Star Wars – way back in 1977 (gasp!) and I remember going because my younger brother wanted to see it (who by the way, ended up being a HUGE Star Wars fan, and still is today). Today, May 4th, has become known as Star [...]
Time for another creative photo story from one of our readers, June! Enjoy. *** Olive (JLY#43) and Mia were searching for the perfect picture of a flower for a photo contest. The prize was $100! The problem was they couldn’t find one, so the went to search one more time. “Hey Mia do you see [...]
Yesterday afternoon I returned home from a visit to my parent’s farm to find lots of new flowers to plant. My husband had gone to the nursery and picked out all sorts of pretty new flowers as a surprise to me. In the front of our house we have an island in the middle of [...]
This is a photo story by one of our readers, Alyssa. It was a warm and sunny day. But it was not just any day. Today was the day of the poetry contest in honor of “Poem in your Pocket” day and April being National Poetry month! Every one was walking around talking and looking [...]
Continuing this week’s Sunday Showcase we have… Let’s start by wishing our very own Karen a big HAPPY BIRTHDAY! Karen says, “Hawaii has been fun and Ivy made it to my birthday celebration of afternoon tea at the oldest hotel in Oahu, the Mona Surfrider Hotel. My mother in law bought me this outfit from [...]
It has been another busy week in my inbox! Let’s take a look at what you all have been up to! We have quite a few photos this week, so this is PART 1, if you don’t see your photo, chances are it is in PART 2 which will be posted later today. From Karen [...]
I hope you have some fun planned for this weekend, but during your downtime, enjoy some of the articles I loved this week! So many of you have asked about the adorable ruffled dresses on Anna’s dolls in her Tuesday craft posts, well, she did a tutorial on how to make a shirt into a [...]
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