2012 Holiday MyAG Reindeer PJs Review

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This is our MyAG Reindeer PJs review. $28.

These are worth the cost if you need jammies and like the color scheme.
AG really blows most other retailers and handmade sellers out of the water when it comes to pajamas. Sorry, but it is true.
The fit is better, as well as the realism. Instead of using one fabric with an oversize novelty pattern -- they do different fabric combinations and small patterns. And again, the fit is better than 90% of what we see on the market.

If you want to make handmade AG-size jammies, take your cues from AG.
Stop making jammies that are over-sized and ill-fitting.

Here is Joanie modeling them for you. Her wig is from Ruby Red Galleria.

We don't like this RRG wig as much as the RRG black one because you can see the fabric wig cap at the part. Boo.

The antler headband is a flexible cloth circle that is pulled on -- so it's not a stiff headband.

Cute antlers. Well-made. And a good scale.

We like the contrasting stitching of the top.

It reminds us of Alp-n-Rock. One of our favorite brands.

Shirt has a very good fit as well.

Alp-n-Rock tops.

Joanie has the sweetest face and she looks great in this deep auburn hair color.

Thumbprint reindeer detail on the front of the shirt.

Pants are silky and shiny.

Detail of thumbprint reindeer on pants.

Slippers are soft, fuzzy and pink with white snowflake embroidered accents.

They are held on with elastic at the back.

Overall Review:

Again, you can't beat AG jammies.

$28 isn't bad seeing that you get a top, pants, slippers, and a headband.

If you like the blue and pink color scheme, and reindeers -- go for it.

Also, for those of you who don't celebrate Christmas -- these are a good pair of winter jammies that don't blatantly say "Christmas."

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Let us know if you have any questions about this set. :-)

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Joanie's New Black Wig and LJ Outfit

Just a quick post with Joanie sporting one of her new Ruby Red Galleria wigs. 

This is by far the best wig of the bunch that we received.

It is this one: http://www.rubyredgalleria.com/product.php?Product_ID=AD0008A

Says it is dark brown, but to us it looks black. Blacky McBlack Black. 

Did they send us the wrong one? Who knows? Looks good to us though.

We put it on at an angle so she would have a side-part.

Her outfit is Liberty Jane. Her boots are her Meet MyAG boots.

Enjoy zee pics!

p.s. For those of you in the dark, Joanie is an AG Doll Without Hair that we ordered who has a collection of wigs to show off. It is like getting a new doll every time we put a new wig on her!

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Meet Joanie! Part Two!

Hola! 

Sorry for the delay with this and the 10,000 other things we planned on posting about this week/this month. Holidays require planning, planning, planning and working, working, working. Aren't they fun?

Housekeeping: Many of the FDC Entrants have already sent in all of their materials.... but..... for everyone else....

REMINDER ALL FDC Entrants -- Your Second Outfit Final Product Shots are due this Friday, November 16th. 

However, we will be flexible with this. We won't be able to load all of the second outfits until after (US) Thanksgiving. So we are asking for your patience on that. It will take us a week to load everyone's work and we want to group the launch all together so no one has extra time to get more votes than anyone else. All second outfits should be on view the first week of December for voting.

But be sure to send in your second outfit final shots when you have them ready. 

You can't win unless we have those shots.

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Back to Joanie!

Here she is in a blonde Blythe wig that we can't even remember buying. 

Yes, we are that senile.

Joanie calls this wig her "Pageant Hair."

Here is it pulled up in pigtails.

We said this on Facebook, but we will say it here again:

Joanie, the #3 option from the AG Doll Hospital Dolls Without Hair program, is the most perfect Sonali mold doll we have. We aren't talking about the skin tone, so don't jump to that conclusion.

It is her eyes. Doll eyes are the one thing we obsess about obsessively.

(Yes we repeated that on porpoise.)

We are that person who looks at every # ___ MyAG in an AG store until we find the one with the most perfect eyes. If we can't find one, we don't buy that # MyAG.

For the Sonali mold, it tends to have a wide-eyed look with a lot of visible white (sclera) around the iris. So she looks surprised or shocked.

Our Sonali looks this way. Our Cecile (CeCe) has this issue slightly. Our #47 (Needa) is kinda like this as well -- but less so.

Joanie doesn't have that wide-eyed "OMG!" expression.

Her eyes are even. One isn't bigger than the other. One doesn't look in one direction while the other looks away. Her eyelashes are straight. She doesn't look down at the ground.

If you think we are crazy, we probably are. But we really did look at every Cecile doll at the Chicago store to find the perfect one. Every single one we looked at except for one had issues with her eyes or eyelashes. Maybe a normal consumer wouldn't notice, but we did.

So yes, we were that person who annoyed the AG floor personnel by opening every Cecile box and looking at her eyes like a psycho. But they should be used to this by now.

And we did the same thing for Needa in Los Angeles.

Those people love us in that store.
We consistently ask them to look in the back for more dolls so we can examine their eyes.
The AGPLA personnel will probably all hide when they see us walk into the store next time. ;-)

Needless to say, after that long rant above......

If every #3 looks as good as Joanie, we highly recommend her and are telling you to order her if you want her. She is flawless and I think the Doll Hospital People/Designers really did this one right. 

Applause. Applause. Applause.

This was one of the very few, and very wonderful, times when we opened a doll box shipped direct from AG and said aloud, "She is perfect!"

Joanie really is quite perfect.

This doll is a winner ladies and gentlemen and we can't wait to show her off more on the blog (when we finally have free time to take mo' pics.)

Thanks for visiting us today!!!

Let us know if you have any questions. :-)

Meet Joanie! Part One

We finally processed our pictures of Joanie!!

YAAAAAYYYY!!!

Here she is out of her box.

Our fav part of the new meet outfit! Booooooots!

Joanie with a different set of earrings.

In a purple hat from Etsy seller Yarn Twisted: http://www.etsy.com/shop/yarntwisted.

We haven't figured out which family she should be in yet or from a new family maybe. TBD. Haha.

Part Two is her in a blonde Blythe wig we dug out of the closet. 

Stay tuned!

Doll Without Hair Order!

Hola! We placed an order with the Doll Hospital last week --- For one of the Dolls Without Hair -- #3, the medium skin Sonali mold doll, with light brown eyes, and pierced ears.

Her name will be Joanie when she gets here. 

We are very excited. She should come this week or next week.

We ordered three Ruby Red Galleria wigs for her to use.

But they won't be here for about 10-25 days since they ship from Hong Kong.

These are the RRG wigs we ordered:

We also have a collection of Blythe Wigs already here.

Their quality is not super-good, but they are fun.

They are sometimes a little loose on the AGs, but overall they fit okay.

Sometimes we use a tiny binder clip at the back of the wig at the hairline to tighten it to their heads while wearing.

These are the stock images of the Blythe wigs we own.

Most are buried in a box in the doll closet. 

So we will have to put some effort into finding them, haha. ;-)

Is everyone as excited as we are to meet Joanie and see what she looks like???

Thanks for visiting us today!!!