Last Day to Vote for Activity One Pics!

Yeppers everyone - today is the last day to submit your votes for Activity One photos!

Check out all 52 entries here:

http://thedollwardrobe.blogspot.com/2012/01/winter-wonderland-photos-vote-begins.html

Email your votes to nora.demington@gmail.com before tomorrow. One set of votes per activity per person. You can vote for more than photo. You can vote for your own photo.

And FYI:

Activity Two photos - "Holiday/Celebration" - are due February 7th. 

Anyone can enter Activity Two - even people who didn't enter Activity One.

Any questions??? Feel free to ask!

CeCe's 'Bun' for Inky

Whattup peoples! Sorry for the lack of posts. We are working on several things for you from many different directions and that is taking a bit of time.

Reminders about the 2012 Grand Photo Contest: 

Votes for Activity One are due in by tomorrow, January 31st. 

And Activity Two pics are going to be due on February 7th.

Today we have a brief interruption in our other two main storylines (Maple's Laboratory and the CeCe and Kenna Saga). [And of course we have sixty other things on our to-do list: Agent S stories, doll jewelry tutorials, holiday photos, outdoor photos, recent purchases photos... the list goes on and on and on... we just can't keep up with ourselves!)

We wanted to show CeCe's hair in our version of a bun. It's not perfect, but twisting her hair into a sleek, smooth bun wasn't going to happen for us. Haha. Inky asked to see her hairstyle from the back - so that is what we are attempting to accomplish.

CeCe is wearing McKenna's School Outfit sweater and skirt, along with socks from Aunt Bees Old Sew N Sew, and AG shoes from a different outfit. Her hair was pulled back into a ponytail and then secured with one loop of a hair elastic. Her ponytail was then twisted into a bun-like shape and secured with the rest of the elastic. Her curls do peek out - which we like. I am sure someone more talented could really tame her hair a bit more, but we like the bun a little unruly. ;-)

More pics!

Hope this was useful to those of you considering Cecile!

Stay tuned for more posts!

Maple Insists: McKenna's Hamster Set

Ah, the elusive hamster.

AG FINALLY makes a rodent pet set --- I mean how many kids out there have hamsters, guinea pigs, mice, rats, and chinchillas???? A LOT right? --- And they bundle it with a $225 bed set. Which will then cost $23 more to ship, never mind the taxes if you live a state with an AG store. Qua? This seems really dumb to us.

AG, are you reading this? The hamster set being only available with the bed was dumb. I, Maple Twiggs, declare it to be so on January 25th, 2012: Dumb, dumb, dumby-dumb-dumb.

Sure, sure you could say that it was brilliant marketing and business strategy, blah-blah-blah. I don't give a billy goat's gruff. Simply said, a lot of kids want that hamster and you have made it impossible for them to get it.

The spirit of AG should be charity and understanding. Forcing people to buy a $225 bed, to tell their children they can't have it, or to search Ebay endlessly for just the hamster part of the bed set is not charitable nor understanding. :-(

I wag my butt at you AG.

Le sigh. Not really much one little doll can do in the face of corporate greed - but I have said my piece.

Now I will discuss the hamster set itself. It is cute and sufficient. The hamster is super tiny, like a bebe ham. He is a little bit over an inch long. So in approximate scale, that would be a three-inch-long hamster in real life. Tiny lil dude. We haven't read the McKenna books yet - so we can't tell you the kind of hamster he is supposed to be. But this is like the size of a Siberian dwarf or something. See my collage below.

He is a molded piece of plastic that is flocked. Then his eyes are painted a black color that will pierce into your soul. My hamster's eyes are a little large. I think he was eating some special brownies or something...

I still have to figure out what to name him, and I am not sure if I will keep him as part of my laboratory. True, a hamster in a science lab makes sense. But have you seen the gear he comes with? Totally Barbie-plastic-happy stuff. Fine for people who like that. But not overly convincing as something that should be in a science lab. At least the hamster itself isn't a chunk of hot pink plastic. Although AG probably considered that option...

I will probably end up revising his equipment or making a new tank thingy for him.


If anyone has any suggestions for revising the equipment or finding new stuff, 
please feel free to share them in the comments.

The hamster equipment includes the tank/cage, a wheel, and a food dish. The water bottle is permanently attached (as far as we can tell) to side of the tank. Once everything is inside there is pretty much no space for the hamster to move. Sigh. His materialistic needs have crowded him out of his own home. Sounds familiar.... (looks around at a room full of dolls).

So here are the rest of the pics. If anyone has any questions about this set, please let us know.

Thanks for visiting us today!

Stay tuned for more posts soon!