Little Jo's Holiday Party Part one.

Little Jo wanted to have a doll party to celebrate the New Year,  but everyone's calendar was already booked full for the holidays.  So much family and so many places to go, so many cousins, so many aunts and uncle's to visit......  Ok thought Little Jo,  How about we celebrate on the Sunday after New Years Day?   Grandma thought that would be ok and started getting everything ready for the party.  The Christmas tree has always kept up until after Orthodox Christmas (the Saturday After New Years day this year) perfect!  There were plenty of Grandma's cookies left from the holidays, enough to share with every one attending the party and there would be plenty of sparkling grape juice to serve in the pretty red glasses that Grandma kept in the china cabinet to use for special occasions.  Indeed this would be a very special occasion for Grandma because she wanted to take pictures of her lovely grandchildren all dressed up for the holidays.  Everyone of the dolls would have a pretty holiday outfit too (maybe not new) but certainly a pretty outfit.  She nipped and tucked every festive piece of doll clothing she could find and managed to dress every one of the doll cousins for this festive holiday party (plus almost all of the doll friends too).

Top left is is our Kate doll, she is the Journey Girl Doll Meredith that we renamed Kate.  The pretty little out fit she has on came from a grab bag of American Girl clothes bought at a Thrift store.

The pink velvet pants, sparkly headband and jacket were among several AG items that were bagged and sold together at our local VOA store. This is called the Snowball outfit.

The pink and white shoes came from China via eBay.  If you have not bought 18" doll shoes from China you should give it a shot on one of their auctions. I do think the straps can be easily trimmed.

The Madame Alexander doll  second left on the top row is our new Nora doll.  She has a very sweet little girl face.  This doll has the same face mold as the original Nora doll.  The original doll is now residing with four year old Granddaughter Nora. 

Nora has long dark wavy hair, brown eyes and a very pretty face.

Nora's little out fit is a mix and match of clothes.  The skirt and headband came from a Journey Girl outfit,  the shirt and vest Came from China via eBay.

The black shoes are a pair of My Life shoes bought couple of years back.    There are a lot of threads hanging on the edges. Very sloppy workmanship on this pair of shoes.  They are from China too,  Via Walmart!!!

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Brittany is the doll in the middle of the top row of the cousins picture..

 Her jacket was on the Madame Alexander that was our original Nora doll.  Her little dress has no tag, it  was in a grab bag of thrift store doll clothes.  The tights are AG from the same grab bag. 

The red shoes are from China via eBay

Her neck scarf was a little scarf for a miniature dog. XS size. 

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Little Jo is the second to the right doll on the top row She is a new doll with the same face mold as the original Little Jo doll.  And yes,  you guessed right, Little Jo is now living in her forever home with the real eight year old girl that our doll was named after.  

 This doll came with the mixed pattern outfit she is wearing and pretty gold flower ear rings.

Her hair cascades with wild frizzy curls tumbling down the back of her head.  The curls are very soft and very fuzzy.

 

 Little Jo's boots were ordered from an eBay store - they are very cute and they were modestly priced.

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 The dolly on the far right top row is our Becky doll. She is named for my oldest granddaughter.  Becky is all grown up now but she will always be the precious little baby that I hold so dearly in my heart.

She has a blue sweater and sparkly skirt and white tights that came in the grab bag of outfits I found  a couple of years back at Goodwill.

Her necklace is a child's bracelet that stretches.

Silver shoes from eBay.
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Grandma set the table for the dolls to have cookies and juice.

 

The Nativity was displayed to remind one and all
why they are gathered to celebrate.

 Of course their were many more doll friends that were gathered for Little Jo's Doll Party Holiday celebration.  There is even more cousins.  They will be modeling their pretty Holiday outfits in part two of this post.

Pretty Kimberly.

We'll be back on another day to see the rest of the cousins.
 See you all real soon.

New friends and old friends
and
more cousins.

Meet Jimmy Joe At Our Saint Patrick's Day Party.

I want you to meet the newest member of our doll family.  His new forever name is Jimmy Joe.  We have created this tablescape to celebrate Saint Patrick's Day and to celebrate Jimmy Joe's new birth date of March 17, 2016.  He is still a bit rough around the edges but I think overall he is quite handsome.  His hair has been cut,  his eyelashes are shortened, and his lip color has been adjusted (slightly) to give him his boyish appearance.

There is a hand crocheted tablecloth over the Battat table.  Wee little silverware and tea cups as well as leprechauns and crystal water glasses and shamrock plates adorn our party table.

 We even have green root beer mugs for the dolls to enjoy their St. Pat's Day beverages in.

 Little Jimmy Joe had the attention of all the dolls,  but especially young Callie's attention.   Ahhhh,  seems like Kismet has payed a call to our doll family.  You can feel the chemistry in the air.

 Young master Jimmy's eyes are riveted onto Callie's sweet face.

Can it be that they will be best friends forever?

Gradually as the party has wound down our two young friends have moved  closer.

How sweet they look together.

Happy Saint Patrick's Day to All!!!!

Details on the furniture, flatware and Jimmy's new look will be in a later post.

I will be visiting at JoAnn's Wednesday Wee Ones to see what her dolls have been up to this week.

See you there!

Little Jo Helps Set The Thanksgiving Tablescape.

The Thanksgiving Holiday came and went without too much commotion at our house this year.  Little Jo and Cindy had watched Grandma polish the silverware and place the napkins in the napkin rings last year during the holidays. They thought that with a little help from their cousins that they could help with the little tasks needed to set the table.  They wanted to help Grandma so that she could enjoy the company of her family a bit more this year and maybe even be able to sit down and read a story to the kids before bedtime.

Little Jo and Nora joined Becky and Cindy to fold the napkins to fit into the terracotta turkey napkin rings.  Nora was the first to get her napkin folded and into the ring properly so she helped Tina out with her napkin while Tina tried to figure out how to put the batteries into the candles.

After several attempts to place the batteries into the candles Tina started to get very frustrated.

Tina stared into the plastic cavity where the batteries went and began to wonder just who the heck thought of putting batteries into candles anyway?  Even after you get the batteries in they still look fake and don't give off much light anyway.   With a little help from Grandma the batteries finally went into the candle.  After the first candle was finished the other three were much easier to fit the batteries into. Tina was finished in only a few more minutes. 

Cindy helped Grandma get the runners laid down straight straight over the brown tablecloth.  Grandma held one end while Cindy tugged on the other end to help guide the runner along the edge of the table.  Once the runners were all straight Grandma let Cindy lay the lacy placemats onto the table so that the Thanksgiving dinnerware would look real pretty on top of them. Grandma placed all of the plates and glasses onto the table herself.  See how pretty Cindy's place setting looks!

Little Jo Helps Set The Thanksgiving Tablescape. 

The reason Grandma would not let us girls put the plates and glasses onto the table is because she thinks that we are too little to handle that job,  Hmmm,  I wonder why she thinks we are too little?

Well, maybe we are a little bit small,  but the books we stand on help us reach the stuff on top of the table.  Maybe next year......

After each place setting was ready all of the cousins sat around the table.  They giggled and told stories to each other just like they did when they went camping and told stories around the campfire.

Becky was so excited to tell her story that she kept waving her hand in the air so that she could have a turn telling her story too.  All of the other girls sat together and got very quiet as Becky told the tale of how they had gone out to the country with Grandma to Farmer Ricks Turkey Ranch to pick a turkey for Thanksgiving dinner.

Maggie, Tina, and Kate listened intently as their eyes grew wider and wider as they learned about how Mr Tom Turkey had run clear across the farmers barnyard to escape his inevitable capture when suddenly in a flurry of white feathers he spread his wings and flew over Farmer Ricks fence and took off running towards the woods. 

Cindy and her youngest sister Summer were giggling at the thought of that big ole fat turkey flying off into the woods.  How funny it must have been to see his big rump go over the fence with Farmer Rick trying to chase after him.

Soon after that grandma's big kids started to arrive for dinner so all of us dolls had to get back into our basket.  We all kind of hung out for awhile until the pumpkin pies were served. 

We hope that everyone had a wonderfully Happy Thanksgiving!

You can join JoAnn for Wednesday Wee Ones and see how her dolls are decorating for Christmas **Here**    and Diane's dolls Zeta and Holly are getting ready for Christmas too!**here** .

Thank you for stopping by to visit us!
Big Dolly Hugs,
Becky, Cindy, Tina, Brittany, Summer, Kate, Maggie, Little Jo, Nora, and our sweet little baby girl due to be born today.

Update:
 
Baby Eugenia was born at 2:47 AM this morning.  A beautiful *real* little doll baby!