Rosafina

Our newest girl arrived yesterday from New York. She is a Josefina, but since we already have two Josefinas, we call her Rosafina.

Meet Rosa

Edit 10/13/08: Since I thought Rosa was coming with much shorter hair (see her make-over photos here), I have always imagined her with shoulder length hair. So I trimmed it up a bit, steamed out the kinks and now she's perfect!
My beautiful, modern Hispanic girl, Rosa!

Rosa needs some work

Recently, I found a BIN $20 Josefina on ebay. So she came to live with us this week. She needed a lot of work. She had one eye that was broken, her torso seemed to be narrower on the top, and she had various paint and dirt marks as is common with play.

Rosa's ebay photo.

I took off her limbs so I could clean her torso and fluff. I discovered that a previous owner had tried to restring her by filling her arms with plaster and bungee-ing her arms together. That's why her upper body looked so narrow. Her arms were being pulled towards each other at the shoulders!

I cracked and removed all the hardened plaster and restrung her properly.

As I mentioned, one eye was broken and I've never done an eye transplant, but figured it wouldn't hurt to try on this dolly. I got the eye out, glued back the broken piece, and, with a great deal of effort, got it back in!

Here's the eye outside of Rosa's head:

Finally after working on her most of the day, she's a new girl!

Now we have three Josefinas. They are all beautiful in their own way.

Josefina (1997)                   Rosafina (2000)                       Kayafina (2002)

AGBA - September

We took Willow down to Atlanta to the American Girl Boutique & Bistro last month to have her ears pierced (among shopping, of course) and had a wonderful time. Here are a few pictures of our time there.

The display window that's facing the mall.    

The ceiling in the store. Pretty creative.  

Willow in the salon chair at the Hair Salon.  

 

 Willow visiting Kit in her new kitchen.      

 Kit, Willow and Ruthie in the tree house.      

Willow's new earrings.

We had a fun time, as always. The AGBA is always a fun place to visit.

Dolls' Tree House

Thinking that our girls needed some more room, and that a tree house would be fun, last weekend we created our doll sized tree-house.

The rooms are each 24" long by 20" tall by 18" deep. They stand on a real tree stump and have real limbs branching out each side. There is a swing on the left side for the girls to swing and a play yard for the pets on each section near the top.

This sits in the same room as the Dolls' House so it's kind of hard to get far enough away to take a good picture. Anyway, the girls seem to love it.

Little Miss Playthings!

During the months of July and August, BeanBunny hosted a photo contest called Little Miss Playthings.  There were five different categories of photos to be taken and members of the AGPlaythings forum got to vote on each round.

At the end of all the rounds, my Miss Darcy came in 1st Runner Up! We are so excited for her and she is very proud of her accomplishments. Bean made the winner and the runners up these adorable LMPT t-shirts. Darcy's arrived today.

 The tiara is from the 2003 Radiant Rhinestones Accessories set, but Miss Darcy has claimed it as her own.  Congratulations, Miss Darcy!

School Days!

Ivy Ling

I hadn't planned on getting all the Best Friend dolls for our Historical girls. However, I ran across a great deal on Ivy and brought her home. I made her this tie-dyed shirt because I really didn't like her meet top.

Ivy came from Pennsylvania this week.

Dusty

We went to some of the yard sales at the 127 Sale over the weekend where we found and adopted our first Bitty Twin. She's a 2003 blonde, short-haired (retired) girl.

Meet Dusty!

To the Beach!

We took some girls on vacation with us to the beach in Delaware

Mini-Girls' House

A couple of months ago we bought an unassembled, fully wooden doll house kit at a yard sale. There must have been 1000 pieces! After several days, 40 some hours, lots of glue, paint and wallpaper, we completed the house. You can see the front of the house in Kealoha's last entry here.

And here's a picture of the PC glass-eyed mini-girls in their new house:

As you can see we don't have much furniture yet. And really the girls are a bit off scale to the 1"=1' doll house. We made them their own bunk beds because they wouldn't be able to lie down in a scale, store-bought bed. We bought the fire place, sofa and ottoman at an antique store in Indiana. The house is still a work in progress, but we (and they) love it.