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Doll 1: Henri Arthur
This is my first doll, he was an early edition Felicity (with the soft ginger lashes) but Iād gotten the doll second hand and the original owner had cut the hair when she was a child.
This doll was gifted to me when I was either 13 or 14 and this old friend went everywhere with me. Now, Iāve cut the hair further to a more masculine hairstyle and decided he was a boy.
He looks like me at a glance but mostly cause all redheads are deemed to look alike and Iām obviously related to every redhead on earth, so yeah I look just like him /s
But in all seriousness, being my first doll and looking similar to me, he is a mini me. But he isnāt to be the only one hopefully. He is a reflection of the vintage enthusiast part of me. I collect and restore vintage clothes at times and he wears mini versions of the vintage clothes I own.
Heās the first doll I ever operated on. I had to restring his legs only like 80 times. I had to mend a hole on his torso side opposite of the tag side. I also had to sew one of his leg sockets back in place as it had started to detach from the fabric of the torso.
Heās also the first doll I ever gave a tiny plastic heart. I started this when I first got him, after the first repair. So heās got a red plastic heart shoved down into the cotton inside his torso thatās been there since I was a child when I first put it there.
This tradition continues and now every doll who passes into my ownership gets a little plastic heart. I thought it to be a cute little idea.
#american girl#american girl historical line#american girl dolls#american girl collector#ag dolls#agblr#american girl doll restoration#american girl brand#American girl mini me#introducing my dolls
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i never mentioned this since about a month ago, but let me welcome back caroline, fresh-faced and refurbished from the doll hospital ! the head is definitely not an equivalent to its' original mold and wig, but nevertheless, this is much preferred to the initial condition she'd been in upon purchase. š„°
#blaines dolls#american girl#american girl dolls#ag#historical characters#ag dolls#caroline abbott#caroline abbott doll#doll#dolls#dollblr#agblr#doll collection#doll collector#american girl collector#dolls of instagram
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This is my favourite thing because i think about this all the time.
From the official @AmericanGirl TikTok account. Just casually acknowledging the awkward mechanics of a historical doll owning a historical doll.Ā
#american girl#courtney moore#american girl dolls#american girl historical line#american girl collector#ag dolls#agblr
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Miss Claudieās looking gorgeous today!!
#doll collection#american girl dolls#claudie wells#doll photography#doll photoshoot#doll collector#dollblr#doll community#inner child
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My bb Anjali š§”š„ŗ
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Duel of the American Girl Dolls: Truly Me: Pets (Round 1)
This is a poll in the Duel of the American Girl Dolls. Other polls can be foundĀ here
#truly me#american girl doll#duel of the american girl dolls#american girl#american girls#american girl dolls#doll clothes#dolls#doll#dollcore#doll community#doll collector#doll collection#fashion doll#fashion dolls#doll accessories#my post#non disney#american girl truly me#truly me dolls
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Donāt forget felicity! Her and Sam both want to be seen and adored
samantha wants to be broken out of her cube and join the classic girls! ;D
#american girl#beforever#samantha parkington#american girl dolls#american girl historical line#ag dolls#american girl collector
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Indigenous Canadian dolls š§”
Today is National Day for Truth and Reconciliation in Canada, also known as orange shirt day, we wear an orange shirt, typically with the slogan āEvery Child Mattersā, in remembrance and acknowledgement of what happened to Indigenous children in residential schools.
As a doll blog I feel like it is only fitting for me to highlight some amazing Indigenous Canadian artists and dolls on here!
Saila Qilavvaq from Maplelea Girls
Saila Qilavvaq is a Maplelea Girl doll who is from Iqaluit, Nunavut. She wants to be a fashion designer who brings an Inuit flair to her looks. Each Maplelea doll comes with a journal and Saliaās is the first to be written in English, French, and Inuktitut!
Along with the dolls, Maplelea Girls also makes fashion packs you can buy. Here we have the orange āEvery Child Mattersā shirt, Saila wearing a traditional Amauti coat, and Canyonās Dress which was designed by Teresa Snow (the outfit is based on an outfit she made for her own daughter, Canyon)
Ribbon Skirt dolls by Tracy Boucher
These custom Ribbon Skirt dolls are meant to show women, girls, and two-spirit individuals their worth and bring attention to the MMIWG movement. Ribbon skirts are meant to be floor length and touch the ground to have connection to the Earth. Boucher further discusses the dolls and the meaning of the ribbon skirt in this interview.
No-Face dolls by Audrey āBillā Wilson
Wilson is a Chippewas woman who based these dolls off an indigenous story of a girl who is too vain and so the Great Spirits take away her face. The story is meant to be a lesson to children about humility. More of this story can be found in this interview. ļæ¼
Whetung Ojibwa dolls
In the 1960s the Whetung family began crafting more to sell at their store (now the Whetung Ojibwa Centre, a museum with indigenous art to purchase). The doll in the blue dress is named Waboose Whetung and if you find her hidden around the Whetung Ojibwa Centre you can get $5 off your purchase. More information about the Whetung history can be found here.
#Maplelea girls are basically the Canadian version of American girl dolls I feel like thatās obvious but yeah#dollblr#doll collector#indigenous#truth and reconciliation#every child matters#cultural dolls#Canada#Canadian dolls
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I added lip paint and a hint of blush to my 1991 PC Samantha. Now she kinda looks yassified but I think it works for her!
While I normally think Pleasant Company items are better quality, itās a bit of a pet peeve of mine that the dolls seem to lack color compared to Mattel dolls. Iām not sure if itās because the paint has faded overtime, but I used my acrylic paints and an acrylic sealer. It ended up a bit bolder than expected like makeup but Sam looks pretty!
#enyo ag dolls#samantha parkington#american girl#american girl doll#american girl dolls#ag dolls#my dolls#doll collector
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honestly sometimes i start thinking about all the tumblr bloggers who like saved my life a little bit when i was on here as a teenager and it makes me so emotional in a good way :) tumblr was the place i first got introduced to harm reduction, disability justice, prison abolition, so many other things. i remember reading a comic about prison abolition on here when i was 11 and i was like oh shit this all is making so much sense for the first time in my life. genuinely changed the path of my life. it just gave me so much more room to understand like, my family members in prison and the bullshit cops did in my neighborhood and how those weren't just individual events, but connected to these larger patterns of power. i remember being 13 following SO Many disability justice bloggers who were like, linking to mia mingus access intimacy and talking about crip time and interdependence and at the time i didn't even think i was disabled i was just like "wow this is all so interesting and cool to me" and then once i started getting more and more disabled like. my foundation of disability was one based in community and care and protest and not just the medical model or disability-as-tragedy. i remember following so many harm reduction bloggers on here and learning about decrim and like. that was a fucking lifeline when i was too young to actually access harm reduction resources irl and i am ALWAYS going to be so fucking grateful for all the people who were just sharing about their lives and their thoughts because it really did so much for me
#personal#okay actually the first place i learned about prison abolition was on the American Girl Doll collectors forum that was the progressive one#that formed in response to the conservative one. but then i learned about tumblr because i clicked on that persons post and then started#looking into it on tumblr LOL#shout out to the american girl outsiders forum tbh you all were cool
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I found a 1920ās lunchbox on eBay (which I ended up buying) that is quite clearly the inspiration for Kitās lunchbox. So I included some comparison pictures of my lunchbox and Kitās lunchbox.
Even the framing around the images is pretty much almost perfectly the very same. The images differ but do stick to the theme fairly consistently.
Boats, trains, planes. The lid is where the theme differs quite a lot. Kitās has got airplanes on the lid while mine has god scenes of people picnicking and enjoying the outdoors (Oof what was that like?? š)
But I do see why this decision was made. Due to the size of Kitās lunchbox, it cannot fit the imaging and still be clearly visible at the same time. So instead of having the train and plane in the same image on the front like mine has, hers has the planes on the lid and the train on the front.
Also, yes my lunchbox is absolutely made with so much lead. I do use the lunchbox since my naked food never would sit in it. My food will always be in some form of containment (even apples, oranges, bananas, etc) so there is no need to worry about that I think. (Besides Iām already consuming many contaminated things not to mention all the micro plastics, my body is already pollutedā¦ for clarification I live on the border of Ohio so all of the water is absolutely contaminated)
But yeah, I thought this would be a fun share. I absolutely love having things to match my dolls (Iām a weirdo) so Iām very pleased to have a lunchbox matching Kitās.
If I had the spoons to do a description of the pictures I would, but I havenāt had energy in so long. I do apologise for that.
#mmm lead poisoning my favourite#it pairs well with the cancer water and the micro plastics#american girl#american girl historical line#American girl kit#american girl dolls#American girl collector#1920ās#1930ās#vintage#antique#dolls#doll collecting#doll collector#ag dolls#dollbr#doll
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Writing my speech final on dolls and childhood development :) but I also want to tie in how helpful it is to involve this hobby/play in adulthood. If anyone wants to include personal experience or research/sources, I'd really appreciate them!! Please send them to me in any way you feel comfortable!
#i love writing about my passions and hobbies#im doing my own research but this website is a better resource than people think#ive used so many factual sources from this site it sounds insane#american girl#american girl doll#ag#american girl dolls#ag dolls#doll#american girl historical#dollblr#historical dolls#dolls#toys#doll collection#doll collector
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American GirlĀ® 2024 Pink Stardust Holiday Collector Doll
A dazzling tribute to dreamy pink hues, this collector doll is a captivating display of rosy radiance with a celestial headband, sparkling satin-and-organza gown, and more than 200 SwarovskiĀ® crystals. The limited-edition American GirlĀ® 2024 holiday collector doll is perfectly poised for a celebration as the latest 18-inch doll in the American GirlĀ® Collector Series. No more than 13,000 American GirlĀ® 2024 Pink Stardust Holiday Collector Dolls have been created worldwide.
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With so many dolls I finally broke down and bought a Billy bookcase from IKEA to display them on. It isnāt a perfect solution as they donāt all fit vertically, but my living room is much less cluttered now.
Everyone is dressed for school or autumn. I especially love the Samantha-Ruthie shelf.
#american girl#american girl doll#ag doll#dolls#doll photography#doll collector#pleasant company#madame alexander#dear america
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My beloved Jackie!
She is my Creole baby from Louisiana. All my dolls get a small piece of me in their lore and Jackie gets the tiny piece I left somewhere in the Bayou when I moved out. She speaks French and ASL (and some English after she went to college)
Jackie is a customized 26 with a light faceup (freckles and blush) and a discontinued zazoudolls wig. the necklaces are all from @/allldolledup on Instagram (middle 2 were custom made for Jackie!). the belt is a necklace from the 80s. all the clothes are handmade but I got them secondhand so I do not know the artist. :( shoes are the original Kit meet shoes.
#american girl doll#toy collector#american girl 26#custom doll#doll custom#american girl custom#american girl collection#doll collector#doll collection#honeycombs pals
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miss julia šāØš
#american girl doll#american girl#doll collecting#dolls#doll collector#age regressor#sfw little community#ag#ag dolls#ag community#jly 38#jly
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