Summer vacation is here which means my girls are in the mood to create! They love making things for their dolls bur are looking for something new this year. I’ve been looking all over the web trying to track down ideas and make a list of things to get when we go to the craft store later this week. Here are some of the projects I think they will want to start with:
- Make an easy tent for your dolls
- For mini dolls (or Polly Pocket) here are all the instructions for making a complete doll house from materials around the house
- Purchase doll sized t-shirts from the local craft store – decorate with fabric paint, jewels, and more to create custom shirts for your dolls
- Make your own doll flip flops
Some great books for doll craft inspiration:
Doll Crafts: Make Your Doll Accessories to Fill Her World! (American Girl)
Doll Tees: Sparkling Shirts to Make Your Doll Shine! (American Girl Library)
Doll Purses: Create Tiny Totes Your Doll Will Treasure! (American Girl)
Making Furniture & Dollhouses for American Girl and Other 18-Inch Dolls
Kirsten’s Craft Book & Kit (American Girls Pastimes)
Tiny Treats: Fun Foods to Make And Eat (American Girls Collection Sidelines)
Show off your creations!! If you make anything for your dolls, please send in photos to share@dolldiaries.com for us to show off for you. If you can, send in the list of supplies, instructions and a photo of the completed craft. Or if you have more craft ideas, please send them in for us to share.
I am!!! Where’s Holly?
My friends are coming home from Richmond VA today!!!!!!!!! YAY!!!!!!!!! Sry, I just really missed them!!
Hello!!! Any body on??
im back sara.
sry, i was on vacation.
It’s ok Holly!!
Have u ever seen Happy Feet? Did u kno that Steve Irwin is in it? Have u seen the Crocodile Hunter Collision Course? I love it!! It’s so funny!!!!
I have the Doll craft book it is totally worth your money!!! I recomend it!
no i havent seen it., but i have seen 5 mins of happy feet.
bella says hi!!
Who’s Bella?
my turtle
oh!
Samantha and Nellie says hi!!!
lol sara
i guess my notebook of songs and my guitar says hi!!
i have just a couple of weeks and i can get sonali!!! im really excited.
which new jly outfit is ur favorite? mine is the honey pjs
I like all of them!!! I can’t decide!!!
Do u have Samantha and Nellie? Sam looks like me!! I’m sad that AG retired them!!
Aren’t u tired of hearing about Michael Jackson? I was tired of it a day after he died!!!!! Sry if that sounded mean!!!!
Holly~ click my name!!! This is cute and funny at the same time!!! I will have this for awhile!
yes i have sam and nellie. i have a 2008 sam, and a 1996 sam.
i never,ever liked michael jackson. it makes me sick everytime i hear about him.(no offense to anyone that likes(d) him)
ok i will.
very,very cute video btw!!!
Thnx!! I love how Steve has baby Bindi in his duffel bag. (“Look what’s in my duffel bag!”) R.I.P Stevo!!
he was like the only star i cared about when he died. RIP Steve.
i hope bindi follows steve’s footsteps
I kno. That’s how I got started liking him. And I think she already is. Same with Robert. Oh, and I sent a letter to Bindi, and I got stuff back from Australia Zoo!!!!!! Pamphlets, a map, and an autographed pic of the whole family including Stevo! I was so excited, I showed it to my class, but they weren’t excited at all! Oh well! And, I have Terri’s book, and a Bindi talking doll!!
thats really cool sara!!! bindi is a really cute name for a girl, if i ever get another JLY, ill name her bindi
I agree!!! I would suggest #12 cause she looks like Bindi! And someone asked little Bob Bob (I still call him that! prolly cause Steve did! Robert.) if he needed any help and Bob said “No! I’m mr. independent!” So cute!!
lol. still counting down the few wks till i get sonali…
I got my catalog today!!!!!
cool, mayb i will 2!!!
yay!!! mine came too!!! now, getting ready for the very long wish list…
Me 2!!! I also have a long wish list for stuff of Sam and Nellie that’s now on ebay.
How long till u get Sonali? U’re so lucky to get her!!!!!
about 2-3 wks. im really stoked!!!
Lucky!!! Send pix plz!!!!!!
i will. if not on dd, ill post it on my website. or btr yet, ill post it on both. just multiple pics of sonali, and sonali in different outfits. mayb have a poll on which outfit looks best on her
Ok.
My power just came back on!!!!! 7:55 here it went out!!! So about 3 hrs!!!! Luckily I have my Mp4 player, or I would have gone nuts!!! I was watching Mary Poppins when it went out and came back! (coincidence?
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Instead of saying coincidence, I wonder if Mary Poppins used her magic to make the power come on?
lol… thats kinda strange
i was the same way w/ my ipod when the power went off… it kept me from being bored out of my mind.
grr…. mum is making me wait till xmas to get sonali…
but, she said i could get a historical!!
I agree!!
Did u kno that Dick Van Dyke played the old man? Funny story~ when they would break 4 lunch, Dick (dressed as the old man) would wait 4 a bus w/ tourists and he would very slowly cross the road. Then, he’d let them get about 20 yards away and then pass them in a dead sprint! It’s a funny story!!!
Uh oh! It’s rainin’ hard. Our power might go out. Again. Wish me luck that it doesn’t!!
It didn’t!!!
Coolio!!! I suggest either Ruthie, Kit, or Beckie. (even though I don’t have Beckie!!)
i want felicity, at least im fairly sure.
i love ag dolls
lol Holly!! I love Lissie! If u put her hair in light (sun) it looks amazing!
Did u see the story (very very short) I posted?
yea
Wasn’t it funny? Dick is a character!
yea it was!!
do u think felicity is a good choice?
yay!!! im ordering felicity friday!!!
Yay!!! U mean tomorrow?
yea, wow!! and im going to a metro station concert!!!
Wat’s Metro Station?
miley cyrus’s older bro trace is in it.
some of their songs are Shake It, and Seventeen Forever.