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American Girl Finds from the Goodwill Thrift Store!

Recently, we went to our local Goodwill Thrift Store! It's fun to look around and see if there's anything we can find. Well, this time...I found some really cool American Girl things!! :)

First I found an old "Good Sports" American Girl book! The copyright is 1999 by Pleasant Company! I had never seen this book before! :)

I also found another American Girl book "The Babysitters Handbook". It's copyright is 1999 too! It was really funny because this book I found in the Kid's section and the Good Sports one in the adult section. They were completely across the store from each other!

We decided to go to another Goodwill too. The first thing I found there was this "A Smart Girls Guide to Friendship Troubles" American Girl book. I almost didn't buy it because I remembered having the same book at home. Though, I got it anyway and was surprised when I found out that the two books were the same, but different!

The difference was that the book I got at Goodwill was made by American Girl, and the one I already owned was made by American Girl Library/Pleasant company. I thought that was really cool!

I then searched through a huge pile of books and found this American Girl Josefina Directors Guide. I was really surprised when I saw this. The copyright of the book was 1998. As I skimmed through the pages I found out that it was a play book of a Josefina story. You and your friends could act out the characters and perform the play.

On the back of the Directors Guide it showed that there were plays for the other 6 American Girl Characters too. (There were only 6 Historical dolls in 1998, Kit wasn't even available yet!)

Here's a page in the Director's Guide that tells all about the characters in Josefina's story.

On this page of how to plan the play I saw that it said there were four included play scripts. I wondered if the Play Scripts were in the stack of books too, so I searched through the rest of the books...

...and I found all four of the Play Scripts together!

Here's a page of the play script. The play looks so much fun, I would have loved doing this with Hope when I was younger!

I was super excited about finding the American Girl books, but as we were checking out I found something else too!

This cute little pitcher that was doll sized!!

Isn't it pretty? I love the design on the pitcher. I think this would be perfect for Samantha's time period!

I was surprised that I found some American Girl things at Goodwill! It was the first time I found anything AG there, but also the first time I really searched. I only spent around $7.00 for all of it too! :)

Have you ever found anything for your dolls at Goodwill or other thrift stores? I would love to know! :)

My New Yardsale Find-A Doll Horse!

Yesterday we went to yardsales hoping we might find something nice! I always love to browse around wondering what surprises I will find! Well, I found a very nice surprise yesterday...

...a doll-sized horse! At first, I didn't know if it would fit my dolls-but I took the risk and only payed $1 dollar for it! An awesome deal! It came with the saddle and reins and a blanket (not pictured) too! Plus, I found out it was the perfect size! :D

Mia was the first one of my American Girl dolls to see the horse. She petted it and gave it some love before my sister Hope and I gave the horse a bath-it really needed it! :)

The soapy horse! hehe We washed it's hair and gave it's body a scrub. Also, we washed it's saddle and reins. :)

Here's the nice and clean horse, with the blanket I mentioned before! :)

It's hair was a bit too long, so we decided to trim it a bit. :)

Then, Hope and I put the horse's wet hair in braids to give it some wave. We left them in overnight and this is what the horse's hair looked like today when we took the braids out...

...beautiful and wavy! Since the horse was all cleaned up, my doll Mia went outside for a ride!

Once Mia learned how to get on, she was riding away like the wind!

I am so happy that my American Girl dolls now have their very own horse! Though, there's one thing that's missing! Our horse needs a name! Do you have any ideas for a good name? I would love to hear them! :)

   

Edit: I was just looking at our new horse to see if it had a mark of what company made it. It says "Battat: Saddlebred horse". That sounded really familiar so I looked it up and my horse is a older Our Generation Horse that they sell at Target for 34.79! Isn't that awesome!? Click Here to see some of the Our Generation horses, mine looks really similar! :)

Even more Edit: It was brought to my attention from my friend Jordan that the same horse I got at the yardsale isn't an old version after all! They still sell it at stores like Target! The horse is called the Lipizzaner Horse and it looks like this:

It looks the same!! I saved a lot of money getting it from the yardsale! hehe :)

Pleasant Company Yardsale Finds!

This past weekend we went to yardsales that were included in the World's Longest Yardsale, that goes 624 miles from Ohio to Alabama. I am always on the lookout for American Girl Items (and even American Girl dolls!), because I have heard of lots of people finding American Girl stuff for really cheap at yardsales. I went to yardsales in the World's Longest Yardsale last year, and didn't have much luck. (but I did find a few doll-sized things.)

Well...with the help of my mom and my sister Hope, this year we found some Pleasant Company/ American Girl items!!

We found 7 American Girl books: Addy's World, Great Girl Food, Meet Felcity, Puzzle Crazy, Best That I Can Be, A Kaya Mystery: The Silent Stranger, and Molly Takes Flight. The paperback books were $.50 cents and hardbacks were $1.00! Some of these books I have never heard of before!

 

 

Some Felicity Pamphlets were hidden in the Meet Felicity book, and some stickers were hidden in a book too.

 

 

American Girl Buttons (I think they were called Grin Pins), were $.50 cents for two!

 

 

American Girl Doll-sized towel was $.50 cents!

 

 

Cheerleader skirt and 1 pom-pom and Samantha's Hat and Muff were $1.00 each!

 

Samantha's Hat and Muff are from 1989!

 

 

Jacket and Hat from the Pleasant company "First Day" outfit, was $1.00!

 

 

The Jacket and Hat are from 1996!

 

 

 Doll Hair cape, was .50 cents!

 

 

 

 

There isn't a Pleasant Company tag on this one, so I think that it is a Non-American Girl outfit. It was 1.00, and I think it is cute! :)

 

 

Bitty Bear was .50 cents! I almost passed her up thinking that it was just a ordinary bear but...

 

 

...the tag said Pleasant Company! :)

 

Now this was the biggest surprise of all that we found...

 

A Mini Kit, Mini Felcity, and Mini Samantha which were 1.50 for all 3! I was looking through a bag of Webkinz they had and then I saw blond hair and picked up Mini Kit! I showed Hope and we quickly searched some more, and out came Mini Felcity and Mini Samantha! I was so surprised and I still am! Mini Kit only came with one shoe, but they were such a great price and are so cute! :D

 

 

Hope's dolls and my dolls are so happy to have some new things! :)

Have you ever found anything American Girl or doll-sized at a yardsale/garage sale, flea market, or thrift store? I would love to know! :D