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My American Girl Dolls Displayed at the Library!

I just love the Historical American Girl books, and that is what started my love for American Girl! My local library is where I get most of the American Girl Books I read. Since reading is what started it all, my family and I thought it would be fun to share our American Girl Collection, and encourage educational reading, by displaying our Historical American Girl Dolls at my local library!!

Here they are in the case! It was so much fun setting them up along with all the Historical books we have. They are all in the order of their time periods, and I also wrote about each Historical American Girl Doll Character.

 

Here I am on the left and my sister Hope on the right, next to our display! :)

It is so much fun sharing what I love with other girls! I hope that by this display many girls get to enjoy what I love too! :)

 

 

Me and My Doll Elizabeth

I was looking through some of my old pictures a few days ago, and I came across one that I wanted to show you all! :D

This is the picture of the day I got my second doll Elizabeth, and Hope got Samantha! This was on Christmas day of 2005. (I think the date on the camera was wrong.) My mom is in the picture too! I am so happy that I found it! :)

Here is a close-up of me when I was 12 years old with my new Elizabeth doll. I was so happy that day!

 

Here I am today, at 15 years old with my Elizabeth doll. I can't believe it has been 3 years since I got her! How time flies!

I hope you all enjoyed reminiscing with me! :)

 

Rebecca Rubin is Here!!!

  After many months, weeks, and days of waiting...Rebecca is now Here! I really like Rebecca, including her collection!

Her collection so far is:

-Rebecca Doll and Book (also 2 other ways to purchase her are Rebecca Doll and boxed-set, and Rebecca & Accessories)

-Rebecca's six books (Meet Rebecca, Rebecca and Ana, Candlelight for Rebecca, Rebecca and the movies, Changes for Rebecca, and Rebecca to the Rescue.)

-Rebecca's Accessories 

 -Rebecca's School Outfit

-Rebecca's School set

-Rebecca's Movie Dress

-Rebecca's Pajamas for dolls

-Rebecca's Robe and Slippers

-Rebecca's Pajamas for girls (You can get the Rebecca's robe for girls, and slippers for girls too)

-Rebecca's bed and bedding

-Rebecca's bedtime set

-Rebecca's Sideboard

-Rebecca's Sabbath set

-Rebecca's Kittens

-Rebecca's Mini doll

You can see all of this in Rebecca's world.

Wow! My favorite thing in her collection is her accessories. I LOVE that hat! I also really like her School Outfit,Rebecca's Kittens, and I like her Movie Outfit-especially the hat! As you can tell, I love hats. :D 

So....What is your favorite thing in Rebecca's collection?

                                                   

American Girl Julie 70's Recipes

AmericanGirlFan reader, Mackenzie, recently asked me in a comment if I had any American Girl Julie recipes. I thought it would be groovy if I posted some recipes that Julie would have made. I did some research on 70's recipes and here are two that I found that I thought sounded yummy! :)

Almond Cookies

Ingredients:

• 1 cup all-purpose flour
• 1 cup ground almonds
• 1/4 teaspoon baking powder
• dash salt
• 1/2 cup butter, softened
• 3/4 cup granulated sugar
• 1 large egg white
• 1/2 teaspoon almond extract
• 48 whole blanched almonds

Preparation:

Stir together flour, ground almonds, baking powder, and salt; set aside.

In a mixing bowl cream butter and sugar at medium speed of electric hand held mixer. Beat in egg white and almond extract.

Stir flour and ground almond mixture into the creamed mixture. Cover with plastic wrap; chill for about 2 hours.

Shape dough into small balls, about 3/4-inch. Place balls 2 inches apart; flatten slightly with the bottom of a glass. Press an almond into the center of each cookie. Bake at 350° for about 12 minutes, or until set but not browned.

Makes about 4 dozen almond cookies.

 

Easy Bacon and Cheese Quiche (serves 6 people)

Ingredients

• 1 (3 ounce) can bacon bits
• 1/2 cup chopped onion
• 5 ounces shredded Swiss cheese
• 3 ounces grated Parmesan cheese
• 1 (9 inch) deep dish frozen pie crust
• 4 eggs, lightly beaten
• 1 cup half-and-half cream

Directions

1. Preheat oven to 400 degrees F (200 degrees C).
2. In a medium bowl, mix the bacon, onions, and both cheeses. Place this mixture in the unthawed pie crust.
3. Mix the eggs and half and half in a bowl. Pour the egg mixture over the cheese mixture.
4. Bake in preheated oven for 15 minutes. Reduce heat to 350 degrees F (175 degrees C) and bake for an additional 35 minutes, until top of quiche begins to turn brown.

 

I found out that other popular homemade 70s foods were Fondue of all kinds, Hot dog roll-ups, Pistachio cake, Carrot cake, and Ceasar salad. You can find lots of these recipes and more in Julie's Cooking Studio book. :)

I hope you have fun trying out these recipes. Let me know if you try them! :)

Peace out! ;)

 

I found these recipes from http://allrecipes.com and http://southernfood.about.com/. I give credit to those websites.

You can see more American Girl Recipes at my American Girl Collection Recipes Page.

Preview Picture of Rebecca!

I was recently made known that American Girl sent out an email with a preview of the new historical doll, Rebecca! (Thank you Meg!)  Here is what the email that American Girl sent out looks like (which was shown at the AGplaythings Message Board):

It goes to this picture if you click Discover more in the email...(EDIT: I need to make a correction. When you click discover more in the email, it doesn't go to the picture below, it goes to a list of American Girl Place store events about Rebecca. The picture was cropped by someone else. It does give a better look at her though. :) )

Isn't it exciting? I think Rebecca from this picture looks a lot like Mia. I can't wait to see the rest of her! :)

What do you all think of this preview of Rebecca?