New Girl in Town

Heidi Plusczok's 2013 line of dolls is titled "Celebration" and has some very darling dolls and new sculpts.  I pre-ordered "Linette" in January, and she arrived last week!  She is a very cute doll, here's her official picture:

She is celebrating the first day of school, and has her backpack and a paper cone filled with candy from her parents.  Pretty cute, eh?  Well, I love this sculpt, but I already have a doll with the exact same wig (Heidi) so I decided to play around.  I undid the buns and brushed out her hair and put it into a single ponytail.  When I pre-ordered her from Let's Play Dolls (http://letsplaydolls.com/cart/index.php) there was a great offer of a free Boneka dress with my order.  I picked out a cute smocked dress, and decided to redress Linette in it.  Then, off to the backyard for pictures!

-- Janet

Water Babies

My mom made a mermaid costume for my American Dolls, so I put it on Christine to try out.  At the doll show in March, I got a Felicity doll, and she wanted to dress up, too, so she is wearing the new swimsuit I got at the American Girl store.  The girls are ready for the water-- and so is their dog!

-- Kairi

Follow-up to the Doll at the Library!

It looks like the article about the doll at the library touched a lot of people!  Here's a follow-up: http://cityroom.blogs.nytimes.com/2013/01/29/at-a-library-an-outpouring-of-support-and-new-dolls/?src=recg

-- Janet

A really neat doll article

I saw this article the other day on the internet about an American Girl doll you can check out at a public library in New York, and wanted to share it: http://cityroom.blogs.nytimes.com/2013/01/22/doll-of-pioneers-spirit-explores-the-city-one-loan-at-a-time/

This is a neat idea, and I love that the girls saved up money to send the doll to the doll hospital!

-- Janet

At the Beach: Janet's Version

We spent our vacation at the beach, but unfortunately, it was pretty chilly, so the dolls didn't get to wear their swimsuits, but instead wore their holiday sweaters and boots!  I had made holiday sweaters from socks for Libby and Toni before Christmas, using a pattern by Dale Rae (http://www.dalerae.com/) and the girls definitely needed them on the day we ventured out.  Toni loves her new cowboy boots, and refuses to take them off (good thing they didn't go swimming!).

-- Janet

Libby is amazed at the size of the ocean

The girls huddle together against the wind

At the Beach: Kairi's Version

We spent our vacation at the beach, but as you will see in Janet's post, it was sometimes too chilly to really enjoy it.  So Kairi brought the beach indoors for her new doll, Strawberina.  We had some Fun Foam that we used to make boogie boards for the dolls, then she used some to make a great beach scene for her doll.

She not only made sand and water from the foam, she also made a sand castle, bucket, shovel, beach ball, umbrella, flip-flops, shells and suntan lotion!

-- Kairi

Bluebonnet Bebes Christmas Party

At the beginning of December, we attended the Bluebonnet Bebes Doll Club's annual Christmas party, and had a great time, and got a few new dolls (Kairi got her new Gene doll at this party). Janet's doll Libby tagged along, and got a new doll, too. :)  She sits happily in the photo below, hugging her new doll.

-- Janet