A beautiful spring day!

Nutmeg, Ginger and Licorice enjoying a spring frolic in our front meadow.

Ruthie

Now we have all the historical dolls! Kit is so excited that her best friend, Ruthie, has joined our family. She came from a previous home in Ohio last week:

She was still in her box and came with her meet outfit and her accessories too. I just think she looks lovely in Kit's school jumper. So now everyone's here. That is until American Girl releases Rebecca, the new historical from 1914, in late May.

Josefina's piano

The most prized piece for any Josefina collector is her English Square Piano.  It was only available from Pleasant Company (American Girl) from 1998-2001. We finally have one in our collection!  Josefina actually has too much furniture now for it all to fit in her room, so she's put her piano in the living room area of the Dolls' House.  Sweet!

Pets!

I took a picture of all my AG Pets lined up on the stairs to the garret. I should have turned the light on upstairs first as the horses are a bit dark. But oh well, here they are:

Message for Kayla: Since I don't know how to get a message to you because you're never signed in when you comment, here's the answer to your question about ear piercing. It cost $14 to have your doll's ears pierced at the AG Store, but that includes 7 pairs of earrings. You can send in your doll to the AG Hospital for an ear piercing service as well. Same price except you have to pay postage to send her and return her. But you can have her ears pierced at the Hospital while she's there for other services if you are sending her in anyway. Check out the AG Hospital web site for more information.

Happy Valentine's Day!

Happy Valentine's Day from the AGRescue team!

Logan and Hallie

We welcome Logan and Hallie to our American Girl Hopscotch Hill School doll collection. They are welcomed by their classmates, Skylar and Gwen. 
Now we have all four HHS girls in our home.

Logan and Hallie came from Arizona yesterday from a friend who found them on her local Craigslist.

New girls!

Today's my birthday and this year I decided not to go to the Atlanta American Girl store for a birthday trip like I did last year. I'm kind of disappointed that I didn't go, but I got some great surprises anyway! First, the reason I didn't go, was that AG has a coupon code out for $10 off of a Chrissa doll if you order on-line. Well, I was going to buy Chrissa in Atlanta today anyway, so I saved myself the trip and money on my new girl. And the good news was she arrived today!

 Here's Chrissa in her pajamas with her llama, Starburst.
They are both so cute and sweet!

 The second surprise was that my husband had already bought me Emily for my birthday and he gave her to me today as well!

This is Emily in her SwimSuit. She's so cute and squishy. I love her.

Two dolls in one day! How very blessed I am to have such a loving family.

American Guy Dolls

After hosting Traveling JD for a while, our girls here thought that they'd like to have some brothers too. So I found these two AG dolls (formerly #21 and Samantha) and customized them to look like my real sons around age 11.


 

Meet Rosco and Charlie
We gave these to the boys at Christmas and they were very pleased to meet themselves in doll form. We also bought a few of the older GoT outfits that looked more boyish (they both are wearing genuine AG outfits in the picture above.)

So now we have too many AG dolls to take a group photo. There are 32 (18") American Girl (and Guy) dolls, 3 Bitty Twins, 2 Hopscotch Hill School girls, 1 Girl of Many Lands (Isabel) and 21 mini (6 1/2") American Girl Dolls here at AGRescue.

Traveling Dolls

I've had a couple of questions from readers about Traveling Dolls so I've made this entry to help explain things.

First, I'd like to take a minute to help explain what the Traveling Dolls are and why I don't post about them anymore. You see, the Travelers COME to my house. They aren't my dolls. They belong to other members of the doll forum. Their owners have decided that their dolls want to see the country (or the world) and send them out to different hosts for two or so weeks at a time. While the doll is staying with me I will post pictures of their activities while at my house. When they leave, I can't post any more about them because that's up to the next and subsequent hosts to post.

I miss JD, Kealoha, Meadow, Alex, Cordelia, Nora, Sadie and Toast, but they are either still traveling around visiting other states, or have gone home for a visit or permanently. You can read about some of those travelers on their own blogs which are linked on my side bar. Some of the travelers don't have their own blogs, so we can't keep up with them anymore. Ah, fun times with all of them.

Second, If you are an adult and a member of an AG Doll Collectors Club (such as AGPlaythings) you might be selected by a Traveling Doll owner to host his or her doll for a couple weeks. Most forums won't allow collectors under the age of 13 to join for legal reasons.

One word of caution also, owners don't normally send out their dolls to new members and never to those under 18. There are just too many problems that could arise in either case.

I hope this answers some of your questions and concerns about the Travelers.

Elizabeth!

Elizabeth joined our family today along with her accessories and her holiday gown.

Merry Christmas to everyone!