Friday, January 30, 2015

A Quick Thing...

Emily here!
     OK, so some of you said that our background and header here are all dark grey/black. It's NOT supposed to be that way. We are trying to work on it, something isn't right... We've been using Shabby Blogs for our background, has anybody else been having trouble with this? We noticed it a little while ago, but we didn't pay much attention. Has this been happening to you? I'd just like to know how many people this is affecting. We're going to go fix it right now; this is just a quick heads up.

Thanks!
Emily

UPDATE: I think that I've fixed it, let me know in the comments! It might take a few seconds for the background to load.

Wednesday, January 21, 2015

An Interview With Emily

Molly here!
     Yay! The official start to my interview series! Ashleigh and Addie's interviews were just "prequels" I guess.. Emily writes in black ink, I write in orange.

It's so exciting to finally interview you!
Well, thank you very much! I'm quite flattered that you chose to interview me first for this series, Molly.
You're the owner of this blog, of course I'd interview you first!
What questions do you have for me?
Oh, right. Questions.... Let me just grab them... Okay, let's start.
Go ahead.
What other names did you have in mind for Emily and Friends?
Well, it's been so long, I can't seem to remember any! I think that I just always liked Emily and Friends.
What's your favorite post?
Hmm. Let me think about that for a moment. Oh! Probably Natalie's photostory about when she and Saige returned home from camp. (You can find that HERE)
I like that one! Now for some questions about you! Where did you used to live before you moved to Maple Meadows?
Oh, I lived in London, just like in my books!
How cool! I'd love to go to London someday! Oh wait, I have more blogging questions. What kind of stuff would you like to do with the blog this year? 
Do you mean, like, my goals for the blog? Or stuff that I actually want to do?
Either works; but let's start with goals.
My main goal is for us to reach 30 followers by the end of the year! I know that we can, we already have 16 (Now 17!)! P.S.- thanks to all of you!
How about what you want to do with the blog?
I want to post more often, and I'm pretty sure that Nat, Saige, Taylor, and Addie want to do that too, I know that Addie's working on writing a story! I think that she's going to post a little bit each month or week.
Will Addie's story be a photostory?
No, I don't think so. She said that she isn't really interested in photography, so I'm guessing not.
What kind of posts are coming up soon?
Pretty soon we should have a photoshoot up, I'm not sure when, though.
Ooh! That sounds exciting! Would you like to add anything else? I'm done with my questions.
I don't think so. Oh, but be sure to check out a little tweak that we added to our photos! We added that cool "Pin It" button over all of them. You just have to hover your mouse over the picture that you want to pin, and a button should come up in one of the top corners.
How cool! Alright, I think that we're all done here!
Bye!
Bye! Have a fantastic week!
Molly and Emily

P.S.- We've noticed that our background is taking a really long time to load properly. I don't know if that's been happening to anybody else, but we're working on that anyways!

Saturday, January 3, 2015

Thoughts About Grace Thomas, Pinterest, and New Year's Resolutions

Ashleigh here!
     First off, happy New Year!!! It's so hard to believe that it's 2015 already. I remember Isabelle being released like it was yesterday... OK, so I'm going to start with the Pinterest/ resolutions stuff first. We just noticed that you can actually pin our posts to your Pinterest account! If you look right underneath this post, on the line directly beneath the time that we posted this, you'll see a little bar with buttons that you can click to share our posts on multiple social media websites!!!! Let me rephrase that confusing sentence. If you click on one of the little buttons underneath this post, you can share it on the social media website of your choosing (Blogger, Facebook, Twitter, Pinterest, Google+, etc).  So, we want to ask you to do us a BIG, HUGE FAVOR..... Spread the word about our blog! Part of our New Year's resolutions is that we'd really like to get 30 followers by the end of this year, and you could help us do that :D Tell your friends! Tell your siblings! Tell your followers on wherever you have followers! If you have an Instagram (we don't... but still) you could post about us there (I'm not quite sure how to use Instagram. If I misstated anything about it, I'm sorry!). You could pin us on Pinterest! Really anything that you'd like to do. Help us reach our goal, please! That brings me to another point.....
     
     Our New Year's resolutions! These are blogging resolutions; things that we'd like to accomplish here on Emily and Friends. 
1. Get to 30 followers on Blogger
2. Reach a few thousand more pageviews! We got over 2,400 last year, and we're more popular now       than we were before!
3. Post more often. We really do try to post, but we are CONSTANTLY busy!
4. Start working on "Craft Time With Natalie and Saige!" posts. Seriously. We need to do this.
5. Start a new series of posts. Any ideas would be helpful! We were thinking about doing a short info         post about each non- AG doll. Sound good?
6. Do more on Pinterest! We pinned a lot of stuff yesterday, you can go and check it out HERE.
    And yet another point.....

     My thoughts about Grace Thomas, Girl of the Year 2015! -Remember, these are all MY opinions. It's totally OK if you disagree with them- In short, I love her. But there is more about that for me to elaborate on now, so here goes! 
     I first saw leaked photos of Grace a few weeks before January, and I really wasn't impressed. The lighting in the photos was off, and it made her look like she had orange skin and purple lips. Then came January 1st. I saw the photos of her, and I fell in love! The side bangs! Dark hair! Freckles! Josefina face mold! Her shoes! Aaaah! I need her. I. NEED. GRACE. THOMAS. So I looked at all of her stuff; clothing, furniture, the works. 


     Clothing: Adorable! Her clothes are actually stylish! Like something that I would totally wear; unlike most of Isabelle's clothing.... Anyways, there are two clothing articles in Grace's collection that I really want. Her Travel Coat and her City Outfit.
Grace's City Outfit

Grace's Travel Coat

Furniture: Ahahaha. $500 for a doll bakery? I literally laughed out loud when I saw the price. It's cute and all, but it's not THAT cute. Grace also has a Bistro Set that comes with a table and a chair and some other stuff that you'd put on a table. Then there's her Pastry cart, which is cute. Expensive, but cute. I can see taking some fun photos with that.


$500 doll bakery. Why?

Grace's Bistro Set

Grace's Pastry Cart
Accessories: Yay French Bulldog! I Like the mixer in the baking set, but it's too expensive if I just really like one thing in the whole set.  I do like her travel set, though!
Grace's Travel Set

Grace's Baking Set


Grace's French Bulldog

     This post has been way too long. Maybe I should have cut it in half. Oh well, too late now!

Happy New Year!
Ashleigh