A Few Updates and an Award

Hey Everyone,

I just wanted to share with you all a few updates.

First I have a button, its located on the right of my screen, grab it if you want! I also put up a list of my fabulous followers.

Second, I just added a couple new blogs to my list of favorite doll blogs and websites. Oh My Dollies and Dolls On My Mind. They are fabulous so check them out!

 Thirdly, I am hoping to start a post schedule. It is tentative and not effective immediately.

Fourthly, I recently watched the project runway inspired by American Girl and you can see the full episode HERE. The designs (most of them) were cute. You can skip towards the end and just see the designs since the episode is an hour long.

Fifthly, I got nominated for an award, the Sunshine Award. This is this the first award I have ever won so thank you to Dolls On My Mind for nominating me!

Rules:

State five facts about yourself

Answer the five questions

Create five new questions and nominate more bloggers for the award

1. I am a Perfectionist.-  It is a blessing and a curse
2. I love bread, rice, noodles, crackers and all other grains
3. I hate going to bed with a messy room so I clean my room every night
4. I eat a fried egg for breakfast almost every single day
5. I always wear jeans to school

Maddie's Questions

1.) AG freckles or custom DIY freckles?

Ag Freckles

2.) Favorite doll hair color?

Black (like Hailey's)

3.) How long have you been blogging?

10 Months

4.) Tees or Hoodies?

Hoodies, I'm from Minnesota.

5.) Favorite doll AG has ever made?

Nikki or Caroline

I've Nominated: 

The Salty Breeze

Pretty Lilly

~Simply Dollightful

American Girl Northwest

Tea Time with Melody Q

And anyone else, you all make my day brighter!

My Questions

1.) Favorite Girl of the Year?

2.) Pink or Blue?

3.) Cake or Ice Cream?

4.) Historical Dolls or BeForever?

5.) Why do you blog? (What makes you want to blog?)

Okay, I think that is all. Thanks for listening to my ramblings!
 - Jessica

Back - to - School Outfits

Hey Everyone, 

I thought I would share with you some of my favorite back-to-school outfits for my dolls that I have collected over the years. I enjoy looking at American Girl Doll outfits from the past and I hope you do too!

Happy Back-to-School!

School Days Outfit

Released in 2008

Retail Cost: $28 

Jumper and Boots Set

Released in 2008

Retail Cost: $26 

True Style Outfit

Released in 2010

Retail Cost: $28

Sweet School Dress

Released in 2011

Retail Cost: $28

I also wanted to add a little update. I am hoping to start a series that will run the length of the school year. It will be based on Innerstar University and will probably be called Innerstar Academy. My thought is to do a craft or activity related to one of the games at Innerstar University every week in addition to my regular posts. I'll either start next week or the week after. Please tell me what you think in the comments!

 - Jessica

How to Planting Flowers for Fall

Hello, Rachel here. I'm going to do a show-and-tell of how to plant some pretty fall flowers. I'm going to be using mums today in different fall colors. Let's get started.

First dig a hole.

Make sure it is deep enough so your flowers aren't sticking out above the top.

Secondly, place your flowers inside.

Press the dirt down a little bit, but don't pack it.

Thirdly, water, water, water.

Get used to watering because you are going to be doing it everyday until you no longer want flowers. 

Now you are done. Ta-da, you have a beautiful fall garden!

Please send me pictures of your garden, if you have one, I would love to see them!

 - Jessica & Rachel

Sporty Hairstyles

Hello, I thought I would share with you some super quick and easy sporty hairstyles. Seriously, these are really easy, they only took me a couple minutes each. Oh, and sorry about the picture quality.

Hairstyle #1.

First start french braiding your doll's hair. Stop about half way.

Secure her hair with a pony tail binder.

Then I added a cute sun visor.

Hairstyle #2.

Put your doll's hair into two high pigtails.

Twist them to form mini buns. Secure with hair elasctics

Add a headband if you'd like

Hairstyle #3.

Put your dolls's hair into a half ponytail

Take the remaining hair an place it in another ponytail 

Add a headband for a pop of color.

Hairstyle #4.

Start by putting your doll's hair in a half ponytail.

Place the remaining hair into two high ponytails 

Add colorful ponytail holders for team spirit!

I hope you enjoyed! What are your doll(s) favorite sport(s)?

- Jessica

Kanani's Photo Shoot

Do you all remember Rylee? She has done a couple posts. You can find her introductory post and see her six beautiful dolls HERE. Okay, without further adieu, here is Rylee!


Hello!I am sorry for my lack of posts on this blog! Hopefully I will be able to post more frequently in the future!

Today I took Kanani outside and got some cute pictures.

I hope you enjoyed the Kanani's photo shoot! If you have any requests for what you would like me to do a post on please let me know in the comments!

Rylee

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Summer Reflection

Hello, today is my last day of summer, so, I thought I'd reflect on my summer. The collage below shows some of the fabulous things my dolls and I have been up to this summer. Enjoy!

 - Jessica

An Issue with BeForever Outfits

Hello, I hope that you all are having a wonderful Labor Day. I wanted to tell you a story about the outfits pictured above. So, I go these outfits on Thursday at The American Girl Place Minneapolis. Both were pictured online with a hair clip. A red one for Kit's outfit and a gold one for Rebecca's. Neither came with one though. We called AG about it the same day and they said many people had called with the same issue. They weren't sure if it was a manufacturer mess up or if they had put it on the website wrong. AG said they would call back after the holiday weekend when they knew more. Well, they ended up calling back Friday and said that they had put it on their website wrong. (Which I don't get because when you buy the doll it comes with a clip.) Anyway, they said they since they advertised it wrong they would send us the barrettes free of charge. But they said it would take 4-6 months for the replacements to come in so we should call back then. You heard right: 4-6 months. I think they are hoping that we will forget to call, but I'm going to try very hard to remember, I want my barrettes! Besides we already paid for them by getting the outfit.
I would still recommend getting these outfits, just be sure to call AG so you can get your barrette in 4-6 months.

For those of you who actually made it through all my ramblings, here are some exclusive pics from my photo shoot yesterday. Enjoy!

 - Jessica