Friday, July 25, 2014

Emily and Friends is Now On Pinterest!

Hi!
It's Emily, and I have wonderful news! We now have a Pinterest account! YAY! You can find/follow us here. Our boards will just show American Girl stuff; like crafts, hairstyles,and clothing ideas. We hope that you enjoy!

Emily

Tuesday, July 22, 2014

1,000 pageviews!

Hey dolls, It's Emily!
     Wonderful news, readers! We've reached 1,000 pageviews! That means that our little blog has been seen 1,000 times :D So, We'd like to thank all of you: our 6 subscribers- UPDATE! Now 7!- (we'd love it if you subscribed, it would just make our day :), the people and dolls that just enjoy looking at our blog, the people that stumbled upon here by accident, all of you! We are so very thankful for all of our readers; because the more readers we have, the happier it makes us, and happier dolls equals happier posts :)

Thank you SO SO SO much!
Emily and Friends

Monday, July 21, 2014

What Would You Like Us To Post About?

Emily here! Quick thing; we have made a new poll- called "What would you like to see on our blog?"- and we'd LOVE it if you gave us your input! Select 1-4 answers on the poll, and you can comment to tell us more about what you picked. If you selected the option "Other", then could you do us a little favor and write a comment telling us about what you'd like to see? That would be awesome :) We love getting input on what you want to see here at Emily and Friends; it helps us make a better blog, which helps you enjoy it! The poll ends on July 28th, so be sure to get your vote in!

Thanks a lot,
Emily

Wednesday, July 16, 2014

Hairstyling Tips and Tricks With Taylor

Hi dolls!
Taylor here once again! So, this post would have been written by Natalie, but as you probably know, she's off at camp until the end of the month *sigh*. Since Natalie's kind-of the go-to hair girl here, I'm going to try to take her place, because I am her sister. Also, I have to do the most with my hair every day to keep it looking semi-decent, so I'm pretty good with hair too. This is going to be in a Q&A format; so here it goes!

How do you keep your hair looking so smooth and shiny?

     We keep our hair shiny and smooth by 1) not touching it a lot, and 2) doing very simple styles, A.K.A. ponytails and braids. We brush our hair often, and when it's needed, we'll spray some water onto our hair before we brush it. Make sure to NOT get any water into your doll's eyes!

Is there any certain way to brush your doll's hair?

     Not really, but just be sure that you don't use a lot of force, and always use a wire brush! Make sure that you only brush straight and wavy haired dolls; not curly haired dolls like Caroline, MyAG #26, or MyAG #44 (hey, that's me!)

How do you deal with those annoying little pieces of hair that just refuse to cooperate?

     We recently discovered that brushes that people use on a baby's hair work amazingly on our hair to keep those pesky pieces of hair down! Just brush down the piece of hair after you've competed the style, and viola! The hair behaves!

What do you do to take care of Taylor's hair?

     This question seems geared more toward our owner, but since it's about me, I'm going to answer it anyway. Very simply, don't do much to it; pigtails and braids are the maximum amount of styling that my hair can handle without turing into a frizzy nightmare. Also, NEVER EVER brush curly doll hair! Our owner brushed my hair once, and it was a complete disaster. Many hours of spritzing hair and finger styling curls later, our owner learned her lesson.

Good luck with your hair, and thanks for reading!

Taylor

Friday, July 4, 2014

Another camper??

Greetings from Taylor!
     So guess what! Our owner is going to camp next week too....without us! I really wish that I could have gone to Camp Little Lake with Natalie and Saige!  We really tried to convince her to let us go with her, but she just wouldn't budge on her word. Here's how our conversation went:

Owner: Quick reminder, dolls! I'm going to camp next week!
     Me: Can we go?
Owner: Nah, you might get lost, dirty, ruined, broken......the list goes on.
     Me: Please? I'll be careful!
Owner: Haven't we had this conversation before?
     Me: Umm....  (On a side note, we have had this conversation 3 times before)
Owner: Just what I thought. You know that I love you girls, but I want you to be safe. Besides,                 I'll only be there for a week!
     Me: But a week is 7 days long!!
Owner: And?
     Me: That's a long time of not being played with!
Owner: You'll survive. You can hang out with some of my other dolls, too!
     Me: Like who? I already know all of your American Girl dolls!
Owner: Well, I have the Disney Animator's Collection dolls, some Monster High dolls, and a few             Ever After High dolls, too. You can also clean up your bedroom with Emily... hint, hint.               It's a mess.
     Me: Okay...
Owner: You'll be fine.
     Me: Alright.

     And guess what? I met the Ever After High girls, and they're super nice and cool! Our owner has 6 of them; Cedar Wood, Apple White, Cerise Hood, Maddie Hatter, Raven Queen, and C.A. Cupid. I think that I'll be hanging out with them a lot next week :)

Bye!
Taylor