#and Marie grace gardner

[angelabowermicelli]

anyways, not to brag, but I requested a physical copy of the June? American Girl Doll catalog and it had this incredible two page spread and I finally got around to framing it this weekend!! <3

[agflashgamesenjoyer]

Transparent PNGs of the Historical Characters from American Girl's website, circa 2011-2012.

[desertdollranch]

For several years I've been looking forward to re-creating the moment Cécile and Marie-Grace first meet in both Meet Marie-Grace and Meet Cécile. It's an adorable moment portrayed in the books, when each one isn't sure what to think of the other, but they very quickly find themselves in a nice conversation and feel immediately as if they are kindred spirits, despite their differences.

I made Cécile's dress a couple of years ago, but I just today finished Marie-Grace's ensemble. I had the hardest time picking out the fabric. The book refers to the gray dress as her "best wool dress", and so I after months of searching found a pair of wool-blend dress pants that had just the right feel.

The above illustration is the only time this dress appears, which means I had to guess at some of the details covered up by the jacket. So I went over the top and added pintucks, some buttons, and extra ribbon. The bonnet and jacket are more accurate to the illustration.

And a close up of the bonnet, which I made with satin ribbon and eyelet lace.

[haveamagicalday]

Duel of the American Girl Dolls: Winners!

Elizabeth Cole's best outfit is : Riding Outfit

Cecile Ray's best outfit is: Meeting Outfit

Marie-Grace Gardner's best outfit is: Summer Dress

Caroline Abbott's best outfit is: Winter Coat

Nicki Hoffman's best outfit is: Red Vinyl Jumper

Isabel Hoffman's best outfit is: Year 2000 Outfit

Ruthie Smithens best outfit is: Play Outfit

Nellie O'Malley's best outfit is: Spring Party Dress

Claudie Wells best outfit is: Meeting Outfit

Courtney Moore’s best outfit is: Meeting Outfit

Emily Bennet's best outfit is: Meeting Outfit

Felicity Merriman's best outfit is: Riding Hat and Habit

Kaya's best outfit is: Pow Wow Dress

Josefina Montoya's best outfit is: Weaving Outfit

Kirsten Larson's best outfit is: Checked Dress and Shawl

Nanea Mitchell's best outfit is: Holoku Outfit

Maryellen Larkin's best outfit is: Poodle Skirt

Melody Ellison's best outfit is: Birthday Outfit

Rebecca Rubin's best outfit is: Meeting Outfit

Samantha Parkington's best oufit is: Plaid Cape and Gaiters

Molly McIntire's best outfit is: After School Party

Addy Walker's best outfit is: Tartan Plaid Dress

Kit Kittredge's best outfit is: Overalls

Julie Albright's best outfit is: Calico Dress

Ivy Ling's best outfit is: Chinese New Year Outfit

The best Truly Me Cute Dress is: Red Jumper

The best Truly Me Exploration outfit is: World Traveler in Ireland

The best collector doll is: Shimmering Silver

The best American Boy doll outfit is: Tartan Plaid Outfit

The best World by Us/Mordern Girl outfit is: Evette's Meeting Outfit

The best Truly Me Fun and Hobbies outfit is: Christmas Recital

The best Truly Me Beach Wear outfit is: Beach Outfit

The best Birthstone Collection outfit is: September Sparkling Sapphire

The best Truly Me costume is: Medival Princess

The best Girl of the Year outfit is: Kavi's Bollywood Outfit

The best Truly Me dance outfit is: Ruby Ballet

The best Truly Me winter wear is: Sugar Plum Coat

The best Truly Me casual outfit is: Plaid Skirt and Sweater

The best Truly Me bed time outfit is: Penguin and Robe

The best Truly Me sports outfit is: Ice Dancer Outfit

The best Truly Me holiday outfit is: Diwali Celebration Outfit

[alldolllove]

Meet Marie-Grace (they/them)! They tend to be a bit of a loner since it can take quite a while for Marie-Grace to warm up to others. Though, once you get to know them, they can become quite chaotic and adventurous. Most of all, deep down Marie-Grace is driven to spread their creativity

[samantha-and-nellie]

@flamesonthesidesofmyface absolutely! let's take a peek around the highlights of my collection. i've made little categories since i'd otherwise have a hard time deciding on what my favorites were:)

to start with, favorite outfits from american girl:

sam's middy dress and her bird-watching outfit are tied for my favorite ag pieces. the middy dress is actually one of two outfits i've added to my collection since childhood, since it was probably my favorite outfit ag has ever made but i never got the chance to own it as a kid. look, i'm obsessed with sailor suits and i blame this outfit for starting it all.

the bird-watching outfit, meanwhile, was something i got as a kid, and i'm just so charmed by it still. i love little jackets for dolls, and the hat is just so absurd (and looks kinda like one sam wears in saves the day when she's going through the attic with the twins) in the best way possible.

next, favorite handmade outfit (not made by me):

i bought this outfit from an etsy seller in the early 2010s, and it's just sooo stunning. i tried to figure out who had made it, but the order was not in my etsy history, so alas. i do remember the seller having different colored gowns in the same style, and if anyone happens to know who made this, please let me know! it's such an elegant dress. bonus for the snaps in the backs (velcro is my nemesis for how doll hair can get stuck in it).

now, my favorite outfit that i made as a child:

as a kid, one of the ways that i practiced sewing was using the pleasant company patterns. i got so used to them after a while that i used them as a basis to draft my own patterns, and this dress is a result of that! i love the sweetheart neckline, and i'm still pretty proud of younger me for creating this dress.

accessory time! first, favorite ag accessory:

the binoculars that came with the bird-watching outfit are AWESOME. you can articulate them, and they actually magnify things. need i say more?

next, here's my favorite non-ag accessory:

this doll-sized iron is so cool, and i have no idea where it came from. it's a pretty perfect size for ag dolls, and i loved playing with it as a kid (look, i had nellie and i needed to act out the child labor from the books). the iron definitely needs some tlc, so please excuse the rust, but even so, it absolutely remains one of the coolest pieces in my collection.

bonus for favorite ag girl-sized outfit that i had as a child (but we'll look at it on a doll):

oh, samantha's holiday coat. can't believe that someone in my family spent $89 on this coat for me, but i'm so, so glad that they did. i wore it for many years, since the adult who bought it was smart enough to get it in a larger size so it would grow with me. i had a little black cloche hat that i would wear with it, and it made me feel so elegant. guess i should now go make an aunt cornelia-style coat for adult me...

[midsummerdolls]

First photo: Corinne, Tsukiko, Nanea, Esme

Second photo: Eloise, Divya, Lena, Amarah

Third photo: Andrés, Nihkko

Fourth photo: Kaya, Marie-Grace, Cécile, Claudie

Hey! It’s been a while! I was able to switch some of their clothes to winter-y (kind of) clothing, and they’re so cute! I want to photograph them soon 🥰

[in-pleasant-company]

Okay so either there's a massive mistake in Meet Marie-Grace or French has changed since 1853 (entirely possible).

There's a scene where Marie-Grace is at the market and she orders a banquette.

Cecile teases her and says that baguette is the proper word because she just asked for a sidewalk.

Except, banquette doesn't mean sidewalk, it means a little bench.

[bennettandyank]

Cécile and Marie-Grace ✨

[no-one-picked-maris]

i'm fucking shocked at how horrible the illustrations in marie-grace and cecile's stories are.

i mean holy fucking shit. where is the life in their facial expressions? why does it give AI vibes?

she's like, not even integrated into the scene. it feels like she was auto-generated and copy/pasted onto a background.

[gardner-n-pardner]

redressed my dollies for November 💕

They're in my fav dresses/colors since it's my birthday month! Seeing all the pretty makes me happy :)

[historicalfictionsims]

Cécile and Marie-Grace's Meet Hats

This has been high on my list of add-on WIPS for a long time, and now that I've finally read their books I've been motivated to make more of these girls' accessories. My original plan was to also include the necklaces, but I ran out of time and wanted to post something before January was over. Hopefully the necklaces will be coming soon.

**Front views of both hats under the cut**

Cécile's hat comes in swatches to match her meet outfit. It is a mesh edit of Melody's meet hat.

Marie-Grace's hat is a merged package with the base in the (retired) Milk Tea palette and the ribbon overlay in the Primary palette. It is a frankenmesh of @waxesnostalgic's mushroom hat and @vintagesimstress's 1890s hat.

Ribbon overlay found under piercings.

Both are hat slider compatible.

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Download for free on CurseForge: Cécile | Marie-Grace

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[desertdollranch]

Happy Valentine's Day from my historical besties!

Felicity and Elizabeth

Cécile and Marie-Grace

Courtney and Molly

[crazyintheeast]

Virginia Gardner and Grace Caroline in a new photoshoot

[haveamagicalday]

Duel of the American Girl Dolls: Marie-Grace Edition (Round 2)

This is a poll in the Duel of the American Girl Dolls. Other polls can be found here

[zoominag]

1900-1949

This is part of a series in which I am posting clips of my larger project by decade as I finish them. For more about this project, or to ask me to include your doll or OC, check out my pinned post.

Previous posts:

17th century

1700-1739

1740-1769

1770-1799

1800-1849

1850-1899

The OCs in this post that are mine are Hannah and Delia, He-Mei and Florence, Gertrude and Mabel, Hattie and Mattie, Diya and Medha, and Bernice and Lawrence (they're in pairs because I did the Best Friends series based on @americangirlstar's suggestions, and in the process created a Best Friend for each of my own characters). Aoife, Francesca, and Honoka belong to @autistickirstenlarson, Lilyann belongs to @kirstenlarsons, Violette belongs to @getintothesun, Charlotte belongs to @gardner-n-pardner, Hope belongs to @Lorsdolladventures, Francie belongs to @futuristicsaladparadise, Alice belongs to @mapleleagirls, and Adrienne belongs to @addywalkerstan. If you'd like your historical doll or OC included in this project, HERE'S THE LINK; more detail about that at the end.

While putting together previous installations I became aware that I have the birth dates wrong for several of the canon characters. I'm planning a redo for the canon character set, eventually, so please do let me know if I'm wrong about anyone. I might already know, but since I have pretty severe dyscalculia as well as ADHD it's not bad to have the info available in multiple places.

I also feel that I should repeat the statement I made before that I had a hard time finding accurate, non-exoticizing references for Kaya, Speaking Rain, and Singing Bird's wardrobes without embarking on a level of research way beyond the scope of this project. If someone is reading this who has familiarity with and access to visual references for 19th century Nimiipuu, Salish, and Dakota/Lakota clothing, and the time and patience to help me understand them, I would be very interested in learning.

1900s

Caroline Abbott: 99 Clara Montoya: 88-97 Josefina Montoya: 86-95 Hannah Kane: 76-85 Delia Freedman: 76-85 Violette Metoyer: 76-85 Aoife Callaghan: 64-73 Cecile Rey: 58-67 Marie-Grace Gardner: 58-67 Kirsten Larson: 56-65 Singing Bird: 56-65 Charlotte Devereux: 51-60 Addy Walker: 46-55 Sarah Moore: 46-55 He-Mei Hsieh: 35-44 Florence Coburn: 35-44 Lucy Morgan: 35-44 Gertrude Levy: 25-34 Mabel Kaplan: 25-34 Medha/Mahtab: 23-32 Diya/Nasreen: 20-39 Harriet Shapiro: 15-24 Matilda Greene: 15-24 Samantha Parkington: 6-15 Nellie O'Malley: 6-15 Rebecca Rubin 0-5 Ana Rubin 0-5 Alice McDougal 0-5 Frances Elizabeth Whitman 0-1 Francesca Vitale 0

The 20th century begins with some of Samantha's more iconic outfits, but I'm also a fan of the way Addy's school suit translated to 1905, and Kirsten's summer dress to 1908. I took a long break from drawing these because for a while there the world seemed to be improving and I didn't need the regulating effect of this project as much, but hey, looks like we're back. That means I don't have a lot of process comments about the first couple of decades of the 20th century, since I finished them more than a year ago. I'm finding my way back to this project now, and I'm planning on starting again from 1668 with the siblings collection soon.

1910s

Clara Montoya: 98-99 Josefina Montoya: 96-99 Hannah Kane: 86-95 Delia Freedman: 86-95 Violette Metoyer: 86-95 Aoife Callaghan: 74-83 Cecile Rey: 68-77 Marie-Grace Gardner: 68-77 Kirsten Larson: 66-75 Singing Bird: 66-75 Charlotte Devereux: 61-70 Addy Walker: 56-65 Sarah Moore: 56-65 He-Mei Hsieh: 45-54 Florence Coburn: 45-54 Lucy Morgan: 45-54 Gertrude Levy: 35-44 Mabel Kaplan: 35-44 Medha/Mahtab: 33-42 Diya/Nasreen: 30-49 Harriet Shapiro: 25-34 Matilda Greene: 25-34 Samantha Parkington: 16-25 Nellie O'Malley: 16-25 Rebecca Rubin 6-15 Ana Rubin 6-15 Alice McDougal 6-15 Frances Elizabeth Whitman 2-11 Francesca Vitale 1-10 Claudie Wells 0-6 Nina 0-6 Dinah Hope Bellini 0-5 Bernice Wright 0-4 Lawrence Ross 0-4

1916 is a unique moment in fashion and it was fun to adapt some of the more elaborate Victorian outfits like Marie-Grace, Cecile, and Violette's formal winter outfits. The 1910s in general are an underrepresented fashion era and I'm enjoying looking back at these.

1920s Hannah Kane: 96-99 Delia Freedman: 96-99 Violette Metoyer: 96-99 Aoife Callaghan: 84-93 Cecile Rey: 78-87 Marie-Grace Gardner: 78-87 Kirsten Larson: 76-85 Singing Bird: 76-85 Charlotte Devereux: 71-80 Addy Walker: 66-75 Sarah Moore: 66-75 He-Mei Hsieh: 55-64 Florence Coburn: 55-64 Lucy Morgan: 55-64 Gertrude Levy: 45-54 Mabel Kaplan: 45-54 Medha/Mahtab: 43-52 Diya/Nasreen: 40-59 Harriet Shapiro: 35-44 Matilda Greene: 35-44 Samantha Parkington: 26-35 Nellie O'Malley: 26-35 Rebecca Rubin 16-25 Ana Rubin 16-25 Alice McDougal 16-25 Frances Elizabeth Whitman 12-21 Francesca Vitale 11-20 Bernice Wright 5-16 Lawrence Ross 5-16 Dinah Hope Bellini 6-15 Kit Kitteredge 0-7 Ruthie Smithens 0-7

Finally, the 20s! I'm really disappointed that Claudie hasn't gotten much in the way of a collection yet. When I drew this decade a year or so ago I had put off adding Claudie and the Hoffman twins to this project because I was waiting for more outfits to be released for each of them, but that doesn't seem probable right now so I filled out Claudie's collection with a mixture of fashion plates and designs that AGblr members have made for their own Claudie's. Check out the real life versions by @futuristicsaladparadise (here) and @doll-princesse (here)! They're both really spectacular designs. I left my pre-Claudie 1920s Harlem OCs, Bernice and Lawrence, in the rotation as well.

1930s

Aoife Callaghan: 94-99 Cecile Rey: 88-97 Marie-Grace Gardner: 88-97 Kirsten Larson: 86-95 Singing Bird: 86-95 Charlotte Devereux: 81-90 Addy Walker: 76-85 Sarah Moore: 76-85 He-Mei Hsieh: 65-74 Florence Coburn: 65-74 Lucy Morgan: 65-74 Gertrude Levy: 55-64 Mabel Kaplan: 55-64 Medha/Mahtab: 53-62 Diya/Nasreen: 50-69 Harriet Shapiro: 45-54 Matilda Greene: 45-54 Samantha Parkington: 36-45 Nellie O'Malley: 36-45 Rebecca Rubin 26-35 Ana Rubin 26-35 Alice McDougal 26-35 Frances Elizabeth Whitman 22-31 Francesca Vitale 21-30 Bernice Wright 15-26 Lawrence Ross 15-26 Dinah Hope Bellini 16-25 Kit Kitteredge 8-17 Ruthie Smithens 8-17 Lillyann Bonney 0-9 Nanea Mitchell 0-8 Lily Suda 0-8 Emily Bennet 0-7 Molly McIntire 0-6 Honoka Oishi 0

In the 1930s skirts get longer again. I imagine Rebecca thriving on the romantic bias cut gowns and Samantha appreciating the freedom to experiment more often with trousers. Speaking of trousers, I'm glad I left Bernice and Lawrence in the mix despite how close they are to Claudie because now we get to celebrate Lawrence's move from knickerbockers to long pants! Very grown-up. One thing you probably can't tell at this scale is that Alice is very slightly taller than the other characters. As always, I love an opportunity to make small alterations to the model, especially since Charlotte is at an age where her using a cane doesn't make me change the model for her. Between AG having a lot of 20th century characters and AGblr having a lot of 20th century OCs, it's getting a little crowded in here, but it makes for a good party!

1940s

Cecile Rey: 98-99 Marie-Grace Gardner: 98-99 Kirsten Larson: 96-99 Singing Bird: 96-99 Charlotte Devereux: 91-99 Addy Walker: 86-95 Sarah Moore: 86-95 He-Mei Hsieh: 75-84 Florence Coburn: 75-84 Lucy Morgan: 75-84 Gertrude Levy: 65-74 Mabel Kaplan: 65-74 Medha/Mahtab: 63-72 Diya/Nasreen: 60-79 Harriet Shapiro: 55-64 Matilda Greene: 55-64 Samantha Parkington: 46-55 Nellie O'Malley: 46-55 Rebecca Rubin 36-45 Ana Rubin 36-45 Alice McDougal 36-45 Frances Elizabeth Whitman 32-41 Francesca Vitale 31-40 Bernice Wright 25-36 Lawrence Ross 25-36 Dinah Hope Bellini 26-35 Kit Kitteredge 18-27 Ruthie Smithens 18-27 Lillyann Bonney 10-19 Nanea Mitchell 9-18 Lily Suda 9-18 Emily Bennet 8-17 Molly McIntire 7-16 Honoka Oishi 1-10 Adrienne Davis 0-5 Maryellen Larkin 0-5 Davy Fenstermacher 0-5

All right, we're almost caught up with where I was when the project paused, so the next post in the series will have more to say about the fashions, since it'll be more recent in my mind.

As always, to get your historical doll or OC included in this project, HERE'S THE LINK. Obviously if your doll is from earlier than the 21st century they'll have to wait for the next round of drawings, but you're welcome to put them in the form and I'll include them in the next round, which will otherwise focus on the siblings of canon characters.