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July 09: Happy Birthday Saila Qilavvaq (Maplelea)!!!!

[alittlebitbethany]

Hi everybody I’ve posted a new video on my YouTube channel in honour of my Maplelea Girls doll Saila’s ‘s birthday today. Please check it out it would mean a lot to me. Image Description : a photo of an Inuk Maplelea Girls doll wearing a mint t-shirt with a lime and purple graphic of a Rock Ptarmigan on it and a pair of purple capris. The doll is sitting down and is holding a chocolate and cherry cake. The text reads BC’s Doll Place: Happy Birthday Saila 2024! (With Subtitles).

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Indigenous Canadian dolls 🧡

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 “Every Child Matters”, 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 Salia’s 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 “Every Child Matters” shirt, Saila wearing a traditional Amauti coat, and Canyon’s 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 “Bill” 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. 

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.

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Maplelea Girls as American Girl JLY Dolls

Alexi Neele: JLY30

Brianne Kovac: JLY32

Jenna McAllister: JLY08

Taryn Brady: JLY68

Léonie Bélanger-Leblanc: JLY21

Saila Qilavvaq: JLY15

Charlsea Woodhouse: JLY39

[alittlebitbethany]

Hi everybody I’ve uploaded a new video to my YouTube channel about my #mapleleagirls dolls #winter outfits this year. Please check it out it would mean a lot to me. Image Description: a screenshot of a #YouTube video featuring 5 #mapleleadolls in winter clothing #dolls #dollphotography #maplelea #mapleleagirlsaila #jennamcallister #saliaqilavvaq #alexineele #charlseawoodhouse #léoniebélangerleblanc #canada #christmas #agtube #agtuber #canadian

[americangirlstar]

ok i’ve been working on a PJO AU for the Maplelea Girls and I just realized the absolute funniest part of this AU which is:

Camp Half Blood is in Long Island, NY, USA

The Maplelea Girls all live in fucking Canada

so I did some quick googling and found out this is the GENERAL DRIVING DISTANCE for each girl, ranked from shortest to longest:

Alexi Neele– living in Cabbagetown, Toronto, the drive to Long Island would be 8hr, 39min– the shortest length of the girls

Léonie Belanger-Leblanc– living in Quebec City, Quebec, her drive is about 8hr, 49min

Saila Qilavvaq– Saila was the hardest to determine, as she lives on an island. However, taking out of the equation the time it could take her to get to shore, however she does that, the closest she could get to shore is Ivujivik, Quebec. And because that is so far from many other cities, I also cannot get a driving distance from there, nor from Salluit, which is also generally close. The closest guess I can get is 10hr, 4min

Jenna McAllister– living in Lunenburg, Nova Scotia, Jenna has a 14hr, 12min drive to Long Island

Brianne Kovac– Brianne gets to be the first to expand to over a day, with her drive from Sandy Lake, Manitoba to NY being 28hrs

Taryn Brady– Taryn lives in Banff, Alberta, making her drive 39hrs long

and finally, our grand winner:

Charlsea Woodhouse– living all the way in Salt Spring Island, British Columbia, Charlsea gets a whoppin 47 mcfucking hours. that’s one hour short of two full days.

And also note, this does not take into account bathroom breaks, where exactly in the city these girls are and CHB is in Long Island, and, of course, breaks they may have to take to fight deadly monsters.