Here's a list of DIY gift ideas not just for a special doll but also for their furry friends!
Starting on December 12th...
Dec 12: What's on Ellie's Christmas Wishlist?
Dec 13: Wintertime DIYs
Dec 14: Gift Guide #1: Beauty And Fashion
Dec 15: What's on Lily's Christmas Wishlist?
Dec 16: Gift Guide #2: Animal Lover
Dec 17: Christmas Decor DIYs
Dec 18: Gift Guide #3: Sporty And Outdoorsy
Dec 19: Christmas Cookies And Treats DIYs
Dec 20: Gift Guide #4: Trendy
Dec 21: Dollidays Hairstyles
Dec 22: Gift Guide #5: Movie/TV/Books
Dec 23: Festive Feast DIYs
Dec 24: It's Christmas!
-The Human ❤
With Thanksgiving coming up, here's some great DIYs for it.
For the Feast...
1. Thanksgiving Food by Always Dolls
Mashed Potatoes, Sweet Potatoes, and Green Beans
2. Pie Tutorial by Always Dolls
Use this for the Pumpkin Pie, but it's changeable so you can use it all year long!
3. DIY Thanksgiving Food by American Girl
Rectangular Pumpkin Pie, Green Beans, Mashed Potatoes, Ham.
4. DIY Thanksgiving Turkey by American Girl
Decorations...
1. Thanksgiving Decorations by Always Dolls
A fall centerpiece, candles, and wheat bundle.
Extras
1. Thanksgiving Coloring Pages by Brandy's Happy Home
These doll sized coloring pages are really cute!
2. Thanksgiving Headbands by Brandy's Happy Home
There's a turkey headband, football turkey headband, pilgrim hat headband, and a feathers headband.
3. Thanksgiving Bingo by Brandy's Happy Home
A fun version of the classic game of Bingo.
Wishing everyone a happy and safe Thanksgiving!
- Lily, Ellie, and the Human ❤
1. DIY Halloween Milkshakes by Always Dolls
2. DIY Halloween Mickey Mouse Cookies by Totally Rudy
3. DIY Candy Corn by Totally Rudy
4. DIY Dum Dums Lollipops by Totally Rudy
5. DIY Twix Candy by Totally Rudy
6. DIY Ring Pops by Totally Rudy
7. DIY Party Treats by Totally Rudy (Ghost Cookies, Candy Corn Cookies & Candy/Caramel Apples)
8. DIY Candy Boxes by Totally Rudy (Reese's Pieces, Goobers, Dots & Milk Duds)
9. DIY Rock Candy by Totally Rudy
10. DIY Candy Bars by Totally Rudy (Hershey's, Crunch, and Mr. Goodbar.)
11. DIY Fruit Snacks by Totally Rudy
12. DIY AG Halloween Food by SewCraftyAG (Spiderweb Cookies, Candy Apples, and Halloween Lollipops.)
13. DIY Halloween Treats by AGChloeAndZoe (Halloween Spiderweb Cake, Mummy Brownies, and Spooky Cookies.)
14. DIY AG Halloween Party Food by Always Dolls (Deviled Eggs, Bread Bowl, Cake and Mummy Hot Dogs)
1. Gumball Machine Costume by Totally Rudy
2. Copy Cat Costume by Totally Rudy
3. Unicorn Costume by Totally Rudy
4. Mermaid Costume by Totally Rudy
5. Candy Costume by Totally Rudy
6. Rey Costume by Totally Rudy + DIY BB-8 by Totally Rudy
Unicorn, Ice Cream, Bubblegum Machine & Minnie Mouse
8. 13 No-Sew Costumes by SewCraftyAG
Deer, Mario, Minnie Mouse, Bumble Bee, Ice Cream, Russell from UP, Nerd, Bunny, Minion, Grapes, Crazy Cat Lady, Cat, and Strawberry
9. 3 Easy DIY Halloween Costumes by SewCraftyAG
Olaf, Pinata and a Witch.
10. DIY Doll Halloween Costumes by foreveranddollways
Cat, Angel, Unicorn, and a Sim.
11. Easy DIY Costumes by AGJitters
Harry Potter / Hogwarts Student, Elle Woods from Legally Blonde, and Belle (Yellow Dress)
12. Last Minute Easy DIY Costumes by Rainbow Lollipop Productions
Ariel, Belle (Village Dress), Cat, Hippie, and Newspaper
13. Care Bear Costume by American Girl
14. Starbucks Drink Costume by Bé Chic Forever
15. No-Sew Costumes by SewCraftyAG
Owl, Peter Pan, and Unicorn.
16. DIY Doll Costumes by dolly_d3lights
Harry Potter, Totoro, Misty from Pokemon
17. Last Minute Easy Halloween Costumes by dolly_d3lights
Rosie the Riveter, Pineapple, and Tina from Bob's Burgers.
18. DIY No-Sew Mermaid Costume by agloviesparkles
Just want a simple accessory DIY to pair with your dolls' wardrobes? From Mouse Ears to Simple Masks, Here's some simple and quick DIYs & Ideas.
1. Mickey/Minnie Mouse Ears by Totally Rudy
Make Minnie Mouse ears and pair it with a red dress with white polka dots or any red dress with polka dots (or pink, just do a pink bow), a black long sleeved shirt, black leggings/stockings and any shoes. There's so many different outfits Minnie Mouse wears that you can take inspiration from! Or make the ears with no bow fir for a boy doll to be Mickey!
2. Trolls Headband by Totally Rudy
Make this and then pick out the perfect outfit to dress your doll as your favorite Trolls character.
3. DIY Glasses by Totally Rudy
Make some circular silver glasses/goggles then dress your doll in a Yellow t-shirt, blue overalls, and black shoes for a quick Minions costume.
4. DIY Doll Masks by Totally Rudy
These are masquerade style masks that you can decorate for any costume!
🎃 I Hope Everyone has an amazing and safe Halloween, or Doll-oween, and stay tuned for Day 2 of our Countdown to Doll-oween! 🎃
- The Human, Lily, Ellie, Max and Coco! 👻
I'm super excited to be working on a Week-long Countdown to Doll-oween series. There's going to be one post per day at 12 pm EST everyday starting Sunday the 25th up until Doll-oween on Saturday the 31st.
A Sneak Peek:
Day 1: Dress Up Time
Day 2: No Tricks, Just Treats!
Day 3: Let's Decorate!
Day 4: It's a Mystery...
Day 5 & 6: Curious Questions w/ Lily & Ellie...
Day 7: Doll-oween!
Also stay tuned, as November brings Thanksgiving and Black Friday, the start of Christmas shopping! What will be on Lily's and Ellie's Wishlists this year? You'll find out very soon!
-The Human ❤
I watched it and it definitely looks interesting. I'd love it if American Girl made a doll stop motion full length film, especially since no movies with actual humans can be filmed right now. Doing a doll stop motion would only require the human's voice.
I also think doing a stop motion would inspire people who watch it to get into doll stop motion. I know it's hard and time consuming but a project that takes a lot of time is great right now.
You can watch the trailer here.
I just hope it isn't an Amazon Prime only one and made so many people can watch it.
-Lily and Ellie and the Human. ♥
American Girl's newest Historical character Courtney Moore came out this week. You can purchase her online right now and you'll find her in stores later this month.
The doll sells for $110 as just the doll & book, $140 with the accessories set, or $249 if you want more of the sets (Care Bears Sleeping Bag, Care Bears Pajamas, Lunch Set, T-shirt and Tank set, Leggings set and her Cardigan).
The doll has blue eyes, sandy-blonde hair, and is the Classic? (Not sure on names yet.) Face Mold. She comes in a light blue crop top with the words Totally Cool on it over a light purple tank top, a high waisted acid washed denim skirt, hot pink leggings, white faux-leather shrunched top pointed toe boots, and a hot pink scrunchie.
Her accessories set includes a cassette player, cassette tape that works with the boombox in the sleepover accessory set, cassette tape holder, headphones, four plastic bangle bracelets, a tube of pretend lip balm on a string, and a plastic button that says "Maureen for Mayor" to show support for her mom.
I am sure a lot of people will be enjoying the mini Pac-Man Arcade. It is currently for Pre-Order for $149.99.
Her bedroom set is a bunk bed. It sells for $225. It has pink metal rails and a printed wall at the bottom bunk. There's shelves on the side and a place to hang clothes too. It has rainbow pillows and comforters for both bunks, and a Pac Man Pillow. It also includes some smaller accessories such as a potted plant, a telephone, books, book-ends, a diary, a calendar and a set of stickers of music and movie posters to decorate it.
The release came with two adorable Care Bears sets: Pajamas and a Sleeping bag.
The pajama set $28 is a Care Bears Nightie, A matching light blue scrunchie and light blue fuzzy socks.
The Sleeping bag set $36 includes a Care Bears Sleeping Bag, matching pillow and a mini stuffed Care Bear.
There's a Sleepover Accessory set $50 that includes a working boombox (the cassette tape that comes in her acessories set works with it), four cassette tapes with cases, two cans of fruit punch with straws, a bowl of tortilla chips, a cootie catcher and a friends book.
There's also a Caboodles make-up & hair accessories set $36. It includes a Caboodles makeup case, pretend hair spray can, white hair pick, blue and pink scrunchies, green plastic banana hairclip, pink lace bow, pretend make-up compact and brush, and four sheets of nail stickers.
Two school themed sets came along as well. A Lunch Set and School Supplies Set
The School Supplies Set $30 looks like it's definitely inspired by Lisa Frank. It includes a binder, two folders, 20 sheets of lined paper, puffy stickers, pink pencil box, three pencils and three erasers shaped like a cat, a dog and a rhino.
The Lunch Set $25 includes a Pac Man Lunchbox and matching insulated container, a bologna and cheese sandwich cut in two, apple slices, a container of cheese puffs and a brownie with sprinkles.
The item that I think everyone is the most excited about is the mini Pleasant Company Molly Doll.
The Pleasant Company Doll $30 includes a mini Molly McIntire doll in a Pleasant Company box, a mini Pleasant Company Christmas catalog, and a mini Meet Molly book.
Courtney's other clothes come in Mix and Match; each piece sold separately. The options are:
An acid washed Denim Jacket $18
Hot Pink Cropped Jacket $12
Colorful Patterned Cardigan $18
A Splatter Print Dress $18
Tropical Patterned Shirt and Purple Tie $16
80s Graphic T-shirt and Green Tank Top $16
Acid Washed Jeans $16
Purple Lace and Light Blue Leggings $16
Purple Skirt and Hot Pink Suspenders $16
White High Top Sneakers with hot pink laces $16
Hot Pink Flats and Light Blue Socks $12
A colorful Belt Bag and Watch $16
Hot Pink Sunglasses $10
Fashion Accessories $16 includes a hot pink lace bow headband, two sets of earrings (pink and green posts with green triangle dangles and pink star dangles), a green scrunchie and purple lace fingerless gloves.
I would really like to purchase the Care Bears pajamas and sleeping bag, and some of her mix and match clothes. And maybe the miniature Molly doll. Only time will tell.
I hope to DIY some of the stuff though so stay tuned!
-The Human ❤
School is starting up soon, although with some it's at home, some in person, and some a little of both. Here's a list of doll DIYs you can do for your dolls' at home classes!
*Disclaimer: I give full credits to the original creators who shared these wonderful crafts that I wanted to share the links to for anyone who stops by. Credits to: American Girl Ideas / Totally Rudy; American Girl Fan; Doll It Up*
Make one of these DIY Pencil Cases to store their pencils and pens.
Pencil Pouch by American Girl Ideas
Clear Pencil Case by American Girl Ideas
Pencils and Pens
Pretty Pencils by American Girl Fan
Store your dolls' schoolwork in a binder or folder:
School Binder by American Girl Ideas
School Folders by American Girl Ideas
Binder + Printable Worksheets, Notebook Pages, and Ruler by MyFroggyStuff
Your Dolls' can get creative with these extra school / art supplies
School Glue by American Girl Ideas
Glue Stick by American Girl Ideas
Markers by American Girl Ideas
Art Supplies by American Girl Ideas
Doll School Project Idea: Doll It Up shared an amazing doll project:
Doll School Project by Doll It Up
Just make the file folders *seen above*, print out the pages template in the link, and then choose what the project is about. You don't even have to do a town. Do a state, an animal, a person, anything!
Your Dolls can "do their research" in these encyclopedias too!
Maryellen Encyclopedia Set by American Girl Ideas
Study or prepare for virtual classes with these:
iPhone and iPad by American Girl Ideas
Bonus: Some YouTube Video DIYs themed to back to school
School Supplies AG DIYs! by BiggestAGFanEVER
Hey everyone, the Human here. Just wanted to let you know that I still have tons planned for this blog, I'm just currently busy with some organization & a storage room remodeling project. Stay tuned for:
~My Second AG Haul!
~A peek at Lily & Ellie's new room.
~#QuarantineLife Camp - Stem Week!
~DIYs
~Doll Scrapbooking
~A Fashion Photoshoot
~More product reviews
~Back to School Fun!
And of course, after that...
~Fall Fun!
~Halloween DIYs
~A Halloween Photostory
~Thanksgiving
~Christmas! Which will include
~ (Hopefully) Decorating a Christmas themed Room
~ Baking with Ellie
~ Gift Shopping for Lily & Ellie
~ A 12 Days Countdown
~ More holiday fun, all leading up to a Christmas Eve/Day Story (Might not post right on it though) and afterwards a New Year's photostory.
-The Human
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