Ashleigh's Off To Camp!

Hey guys, it's Emily!
     I just wanted to let you all know that Ashleigh will be at camp this whole week, so if you leave a comment or something on here, It won't be visible until next Saturday or Sunday:) We just wanted to let you know that so you don't think that we ignored/deleted your comment. All comments left on this blog need to be moderated by Ashleigh before they are visible on the blog:)

Emily

P.S.- Don't forget to put a vote in our poll off to the right! It would really help Ashleigh decide:)

Ashleigh's Early Christmas Present

UPDATE: I only the fixed the pictures in this post! this is not supposed to be a repeated post, but whenever you update a post, it looks like it's new >:P

Natalie here!
     We've been waiting to show you pictures of Ashleigh's early Christmas present for like, a month; but we've only JUST been able to get Picmonkey to work. So anyways, Ashleigh got a new doll! It's not an AG doll, though. She got a reborn doll. In short, reborn dolls are super lifelike dolls that are made to look like and feel like a real baby. Her name is Piper Amelia, and she got here in the middle of November (we were gonna show you!!); she weighs 7 pounds, 12 ounces, and she's 21 inches long. Yay pictures!

     These pictures are kinda weird.... She isn't actually as yellow as these pictures make her look, and the bottom picture makes her have yellow blotches everywhere... But I love these pictures of her anyways :) Piper's so realistic, Ashleigh actually takes her to the store in her baby carrier sometimes, and people think that she's real! It's really funny to see people's faces when I say "Oh, she's a doll"! They get so surprised! OK, that's all for this post! 

Natalie and Ashleigh

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!!

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

An Interview With Ashleigh!

Hi Everybody!

   It's Molly McIntire here, the official interviewer for Emily and Friends! I'm just going to post interviews and news articles that I write from time to time on here. I'm starting a series of interviews of the other dolls that will be happening in 2015, but I'm going to start now with our owner, Ashleigh. Ashleigh posts in black italics, and I post in orange.

Why did you decide to start this blog?
I guess because I like writing stuff, and I love dolls!
What blogs inspired you the most?
Probably Doll Diaries, The Doll Wardrobe, Fun With AG Fan, and a whole bunch of other ones. 
What do you want to be when you grow up?
A NICU nurse.
Which of your American Girl dolls looks the most like you?
Taylor. We both have curly brown hair, and green-brown eyes; but mine are more blue and I have some freckles.
Is there anything that you plan on doing with the blog in the future that you think is worth noting?
Hmmm.... I'd really like to post more, and maybe get a better camera, but other than that, I'm not sure.
What are your favorite hobbies?
Sewing, knitting, crocheting, reading, and some origami. 
When's your birthday?
August 30th, like Taylor!
What is your favorite book?
Uhm, The Fault In Our Stars, probably.
Which AG doll would you like to get next?
Definitely Addy. 
And after that?
If they release a 1950s BeForever doll, I will get her.
What's your favorite color?
Turquoise.
Favorite TV show?
Either The Office or Call the Midwife.
Ok! That's all of my questions! Anything else that you'd like to add?
Yes, actually. We should have a post on -or a few days after- Christmas!

Thanks for reading my FIRST post!!!
Molly and Ashleigh

We Owe You Guys An Apology...

     Alright, so we owe you an apology. We haven't posted in a while, and we can't post like, anything that we had planned to post about. Ashleigh(our owner) has been like, CRAZY BUSY these past few weeks; and to add on to that, her laptop hasn't been running Adobe Flash so she can't use Picmonkey to edit her photos. AND, since she has to use her laptop camera, (quick story about that, she actually has a nice camera, she just can't find the cord anywhere and she keeps forgetting to buy one) the pictures really need to be edited and cropped and stuff to make them look decent. Ashleigh's also been working on starting an Etsy shop,(more on that another time) so she's been making things for that too. ANNNND it's almost Christmas and she's making gifts for people. 
     So we're hoping that we can upload and edit our photos by Christmas so we can post stuff! We've kept you waiting on our Craft Time With Natalie and Saige! post, but I don't think that we'll be able to upload it :( Sad times. Anyways, I have to go!

Merry almost-Christmas!
Saige

A Post Featuring Many Updates

Greetings from Emily!
    Before I start, I have a very important update. We have updated our blog, so we now have a new, easier to read font; and font colors! We've updated our old posts, too. I've color-coded the posts according to who's writing. I (Emily) post in black ink. Taylor posts in pink ink. Saige posts in blue ink, and Natalie posts in purple ink. Back to my post!

      Oh my goodness, I'm so sorry that we haven't posted in a while! We've been SUPER BUSY lately! While we were gone, a lot of stuff happened, like......

     OUR OWNER'S BIRTHDAY!!!!! All of the dolls chipped in some money to buy her a mini Kirsten doll! Yay! She's been wanting a mini doll for a while...We were going to do a post on it, but we got too busy :P

     It was also Taylor's birthday! She shares a birthday with our owner, August 30th. We got her a pearl necklace.

     We're starting school on Monday! We go to Maple Meadows Doll School. Some of us are not as excited as others...

     Also, BeForever has launched. I know that we don't sound excited, but we are... It's just a big change to get used to. Our owner just wants a 1950s BeForever doll. Or for American Girl to bring Kirsten out of the archives like they did with Samantha. Maybe next year....

     Another reason that we haven't posted in a while is that we've been feeling crafty lately, but we don't know what to make! We'd LOVE LOVE LOVE to have your suggestions! If you have an idea, just tell us in the comments, please! Natalie and Saige have been wanting to do some crafts ever since they got back from camp. They got to work in the craft cabin!

     We just made a survey! You can find it at the top of the page. Click on where it says "Help us improve our blog, please!", and click on the link there. Thanks!

     Well, that's pretty much all that's happened during our break! Remember to leave some comments and/or take our survey to tell us your craft/future post suggestions!

Emily

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

Our homemade clothing

Hi!
     It's Taylor here. Today I'm going to show you our small collection of doll clothing that our owner has made for us. Our models today are Saige, Natalie, and me (Taylor).

     First, we have Saige modeling a hand-knit sweater dress, Saige's meet outfit boots, and Kaya's belt.

     Next, we have Natalie wearing a skirt, shirt, and cape, and a pair of shoes from one of Elizabeth's outfits (we don't know which outfit.. ugh).

     Now we have lovely me wearing a button print dress, headband, and the same shoes as Natalie.

     Saige again, wearing her meet dress, two different hand-crocheted sweaters, and her meet outfit boots.

     Natalie is modeling her meet outfit shirt, the pants from the retired bowling set, and 2 different aprons.

     I hope you've enjoyed our little fashion show! Comment and tell us which outfit was your favorite!

Taylor