Happy Friday! I hope everyone has had a great week and has some fun plans for the weekend. I will start my weekend off cheering on Natalie and her friends at their swim meet tomorrow morning but hope to have time to do some sewing or something else creative later in the weekend. I have a few things to share that don’t really go in another category…
First, the girls on my desk right now say hi! The shelf above my computer is where I put various dolls from our collection on display – they all take turns and sometimes there is a theme and sometimes there is not. They keep me company while I work all day and that makes me happy. From left to right – Snoopy (I just LOVE Snoopy), Ivy, Ellowyne, sitting down Emma and Hadley our Little Miss Matched dolls, then Addison (BFC Ink) and Olivia dressed in an Our Generation bowling outfit.
- Thanks to everyone who has entered our giveaways! They are lots of fun, however, when you enter them, please read all the instructions!! I can’t tell you how many entries into the SF Style Club were winners but the entrants didn’t read the instructions and I couldn’t get in touch with them – so I had to pick someone else.
- If you enter a giveaway, please double check the email address you use for your comment. I always email our winners after the giveaway closes, but if your email bounces back or I don’t hear from you for a week, I have to draw a new winner.
- We love our Doll Diaries readers and want you to enjoy your time here! When you leave a comment, please use the same name and same email address each time. If you are being multiple people, I will probably delete some of the extra comments.
- Please take the time to read your own comment before you hit submit! I know that you are taught as early as first grade to capitalize the word “I” and even our youngest commenters should know this. I have been getting tons of comments recently where the spelling is so bad, I have a hard time understanding what the reader was trying to say. Everyone makes mistakes and this is not English class, however, please do the best you can to spell correctly, review your comment before you send it, and always think before you submit.
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- As we get close to another historical release, feel free to share any scoop you find, but remember – I will not post anything unless you can tell me where you got the information – as in a link, photo, or something else I can substantiate.
- Finally, I really care a lot about making Doll Diaries a fun website that doll lovers of ALL ages enjoy visiting. That is why I read every comment left on this site and delete anything I do not feel is appropriate – I give myself a lot of leeway on the appropriate decision!
Thanks again for being part of this awesome community! I appreciate each and every one of you. And stand by for a new giveaway coming up very shortly.
Ah! Dolls for different companies co-existing and getting along. It’s a beautiful sight. I wish people could be that way. Nice photo, Char.
I love such a variety of dolls you have! And I’m really glad there is a site like this that isn’t just for kids
Thanks Molly! I want Doll Diaries to be a site that has something for doll lovers young and old and everything in between.
thirdie
Sharry Agreed
Can I ask a question that is unrelated to anything? When I click on the link to doll diaries in my favourites for the first time, a webpage comes up that says, ‘Internet Explorer cannot display the webpage’. Are you doing some maintenance on the server or something, or is it just my computer? After I close the first page and open it again, the site comes up just fine. ??? Thanks!
Hey char first I love the site and did you send felicity to the doll hospital
Abigail, you need to go into Options and clear the cache. I did a server change a few weeks ago and your bookmark is looking at the old server.
Aww, Ivy looks so cute in the kimono. : )
I know this has nothing to do with this but I have to say something. I have a pair of bitty twins, 2 girls who don’t look anything alike. The thing is, when I got them, I had thics face of “I am obsessed with toddlers! I want a toddler girl who has tantrums alot.” Usually, when I get a new AG doll, I play with her for months, litterlly, before I play with them altogether. But when I got my twins, along with their pj’s I played with them for 2,3 days and then played with my other ones. Now I barelly use them. I regret that I payed 100 dollars for them, when I barelly use them. I could of gotten Elizabeth, Laine, or Josefina, but NO, I got them instead. Does anyone have bitty twins and things to go with them? Is it funner to play when you have more things? I really regret getting them and if anyone has anything to say about things to do with the twins, please comment about it.
Thank you,
Natalia
Sorry, I meant, faze, not face
Hi Char, Do you know what historical doll American Girl will be retiring?
I think Kaya will be retired or maybe Josefina.
Rebekah – I think that Molly might be retiring soon. Judging by the pattern of dolls that they have retired, I doubt they would retire some of their newer dolls. They have already retired two of the original three dolls (Samantha and Kirsten), and the third of the original three is Molly, so she might go next. Then again, they have also retired Felicity and Elizabeth, and American Girl continues to surprise us.
I really hope that hey dont retire Molly, emaily, or josefina. I wantt o get Josefina and Molly, since Josefina is a doll iv always liked and they pap likes Molly. But you think AG would have to keep soem of the importent time periods. Like World War two was very inportent. I was already mad when they retired felicity and elizabeth, i love there books.
Anyway i think its kind of crazy that AG is rasing their prices and adding more dolls when MG and C just came out last Sepember! Anybody agree? probly not.
BTW, Ellowyne is gorgeaus~
Erica w – I agree i think they should go back to the original prices which was $80 And bring back all the retired historical dolls Ans retired JLY (MYAG ) dolls
$82 in 1986 is not the same as $82 today. It’s more like $150 today. So no, I’m not happy about rising prices, but I am happy that they didn’t rise with inflation.
Very nice picture and great reminders, Char!!
You have Addision?! I have Yuko!