Some More Blogging Tips!

Hey y'all!
     Taylor and I finally came up with our blogging tips! You can read the first post HERE. Here goes nothing!

1. Keep your blog a happy place!

     I think that this tip is pretty self-explanatory... Just try not to post really sad/upsetting stuff on a normally happy blog. There's a chance that you'll upset some of your readers, and you most likely wouldn't want to do that! We usually try to post happy things here on Emily and Friends; that's how a lot of doll blogs are.

2. Try to keep a schedule!

     This schedule doesn't have to be super detailed if you don't want it to be. I recommend that you should try to at least know how often you're going to post something. Some people go super in-depth, like knowing exactly which post that they're going to make months in advance. As you maybe able to tell, we don't do that here (We're working on making a schedule, but with the end of school coming up, it's getting a little tough). 

     I know that these tips weren't as useful as some of the tips in the earlier post, but I hope that you find them to be useful anyway :D

Addie and Taylor

Our Blogiversary Photo Shoot

Emily here!
     We have a few outtakes and fun photos from our photoshoot on Wednesday! By the way, sometimes, we post sneak peek photos on our Google+ account! You can follow us, if you'd like :) There's not a whole bunch of pictures, but I thought that you'd enjoy them anyway ;)

     Here's us just chatting while Ashleigh got the camera ready.

     Here's Molly and Addie being BFFs.

      And Addie looking pretty.

     Saige and Emily dancing (we were playing music!)

     Emily and Taylor showing off their dresses.

And Emily alone.

Molly's future profile picture?

     Natalie and Taylor's sister picture.

     Saige looking pretty too :)

     Don't forget to tell us which picture is your favorite! Did you ask any questions for us yet? If you didn't, leave a comment at THIS post, or ask in the suggestion box of our survey (you can find that in the "Help Us Improve Our Blog, Please" tab) by February 28th!

     Thanks for looking!
       Emily

One Year Blogiversary!

Hooray!
     Emily and Friends turned one year old on February 12th!!! Sorry that we didn't get to post on the actual day, we may or may not have thought that it was the 28th, not the 12th...... WOW, this year has gone by so quickly! So much amazing stuff has happened here in the past 12 months :D Not only did we get a new member of our doll family, but we now have 17 followers and over 3,100 pageviews. We'd just like to say THANK YOU!!!!! We have had so much fun writing for this blog, and we just want to say THANK YOU AGAIN!!!!
 
 Now our owner wants to say a few words...
     Ashleigh here! I'm actually sort of surprised that my dolls kept this blog running for so long... I really thought that they would forget about it a few weeks after they created it! Anyway, like Emily said above two times, THANK YOU!!! It has to be said multiple times because it's so true! I'm so proud of all of the dolls for doing this! Almost everybody has posted something here, and I hope that they'll all try to post something this year... I'm looking at you, Elizabeth and Kaya. 
     On a less happy note, I just thought that I would put it out there now, but I'm not planning on adding any more American Girl dolls to my collection. I've run out of space in my room, and I don't have anywhere else in my house to store my dolls. I'm also saving up my money for other things, like another reborn doll. I just wanted to tell you that now!

     Back to fun stuff! All of the dolls have decided to say a little something to all of you! You can find the font color guide in the "Meet the Dolls" page, in case you didn't know who was typing :)

     I'm SO SO SO happy that we've been here for a whole year!

     Ditto to Saige! There will be some more interviews here soon... We're re-doing my reporting room, so it might be a while ;)

     Has it really been a year? It sure doesn't seem so! I remember our first post... My hair looked  awful :P And we thought that it would only be the three of us posting! 

     Natalie was right, her hair did look awful there! I'm only kidding, that's just what sisters do! Now that I look at my picture on the "Meet the Dolls"page, I look kinda bad too! Nobody looks amazing there; I should re-take everybody's picture... I guess that that's what I'll be doing this year...

     Even though I haven't done much for this blog, I love it! Thanks so much for being an Emily and Friends reader!

     You've already heard my opinion ;P Elizabeth and Kaya both said thanks, but since they haven't done anything here, they didn't say anything else about this whole thing... But we still included them in this picture :D

It's not the best, some of us didn't focus on the camera; but we had taken so many photos already, we were tired ;)


Thanks so much!
Emily and Friends

P.S.- Don't forget to leave us any questions in the comments of THIS post!!

Introducing Addie! An Interview

Merry Two Days After Christmas and a Happy new year from Emily and Friends!!
     OUR OWNER GOT ADDY FOR CHRISTMAS!!!!!! WHOOP! OK, so I've calmed down now. Hooray! Addie is such a sweet doll! Molly interviewed Addie so that you could learn all about her, so here they are!

    
      It's Molly here! Well, now that we've kept you waiting for a few days, we'd like to introduce you to Addie Walker! I'm going to interview her for this part. Addie types in red ink. As usual, I'll be typing in orange ink.

 So what's your full name?
Adelaide Maria Walker, but everybody just calls me Addie. 
Why do you spell your name with an "IE" instead of a "Y" like in your books?
Well I needed to add my own spin on it! Our owner said that a lot of other people that have Addy dolls just call them "Addy", and she showed me the "Steampunk Addie" blog and I loved the spelling! So I s'pose that I sorta copied her...
Did you change anything else in your stories?
Yeah, a lot actually. Well I'm not from 1864, so that changes a lot of stuff! My name isn't Aduke like in my books either. 
Anything else?
Um, I'm not from Philadelphia? 
I've noticed that you have a southern accent. Where did you used to live?
Atlanta, in Georgia. 
How old are you? And when's your birthday?
14, and my birthday's on April 9th.
Is there anything in particular that you plan on posting about on the blog?
Hmmm... I'm not too sure yet. 
What kind of stuff do you like to do?
I like reading and sewing. I also love to write stories!
How do you like living in Maple Meadows so far?
Well, y'all are so kind! Also, I've said it before, and I'll say it again. It's so cold here!!
Well, I've gone through all of my questions here, so I think that we're done! Anything else that you'd like to say?
Nope! 

Thanks for reading, and stay tuned for more posts about -and from- Addie!
Happy New year!
Molly and Addie

Ideas On (Possible) New Dolls

 Emily here! We are thinking about getting Marie-Grace. Saige and I think that she should get rid of the pincurls. None of us here are completely sure about that name for her (we think that it is a very pretty name, we just don't know if we think that it suits her; that's just us, though :) I'm thinking about naming her Olive, but that would mean a change of last name too. That is only because that would make her name Olive Gardner, which sounds a lot like Olive Garden, my favorite restaurant, and naming someone after a restaurant is kind of strange. Any ideas on last names? Maybe we won't even name her Olive, so the whole last name change wouldn't be necessary. It's all up to her. I like Marie-Grace's skirt set, maybe we'll get that, too.

      We also want to get Addy. I love her dress and long hair! Natalie wants to braid it. Badly. Not that she doesn't braid hair enough around here already.. Anyways, back to Addy. We are going to keep her name when we get her (we are getting her at one point), because we like it a lot. We will probably get Addy's blue dress, too. Now that I think about it, Addy is probably our first priority, with Marie- Grace coming in at a close second place.
       I'm planning on getting this stuff when I go on a wonderful trip to the AG store, but nobody's even sure if we are going yet! That's OK though, we'll just order the stuff online if we don't go (but I really want to!).

Bye!
Emily