Doll-A-Day 2023 # 141: American Girl Wellie Wishers Camille

   Today's doll is one I found at a thrift store. She's Camille.

  Camille is an American Girls Wellie Wishers doll.

I have been wanting Wellie Wishers Willa, the red head. But you get what you can find if you're cheap.

As a Wellie Wisher she would probably have come wearing a pair of rubber boots, or 'wellies'. ('Wellies' is short for Wellington boots, named for Arthur Wellesley, the first Duke of Wellington. Apparently he wanted his boots to be a little shorter, so they would be better in warmer weather, and he could wear them with his evening clothes. So, he had his shoe maker make him a pair to his description, and the Wellington boot was born.

  Anyway, I got mine naked from the thrift store. She's instead wearing a dress that was on a Tiny Tears when I bought it. It didn't fit Tiny anyway.

  The Wellie Wishers debuted in 2016, for kids who were not old enough for the regular 18 inch American Girl dolls, but not toddlers anymore.  

  Wellie Wishers are 14 1/2 inches tall, and all vinyl.

Early Wellie Wishers had vinyl limbs and a hard plastic torso, and a raised 'W' logo. Later dolls, post 2021, were all vinyl with a sunken 'W' logo, so I think this doll is a later version, .

She has the standard articulation of neck, shoulders, and hips.

  Her blue eyes are inset plastic eyes.

She has a mark next to her eye that wouldn't come off with Magic Eraser,.

  She has painted on lashes, and brows that are individually painted hairs.

  

The best part about this doll, and the line in general,(besides those cute boots, which

I don't have), is the teeth. They all have two cute little front teeth.

  I think my girl has had a hair cut. Her hair would have originally been longer than this.

  That's today's doll. See you again tomorrow.

Goodwill Girls: My Latest Haul: Journey Girls Meredith and American Girl Saige

  It is with a heavy heart that I inform you of the death of my beloved pear tree. After blooming this Spring, and even growing baby pears, one day we were all sitting out on the patio when one of us looked over and noticed that the poor tree was completely dead. A few years ago I noticed there were ants or something in the tree, hollowing out a portion of the trunk. I think I poured hot water on the spot. In any case, I thought the bugs had gone. Maybe they were the cause, or maybe they were just appreciative of whatever had been killing the tree. I looked at the trunk, and there was a split leading off from the hole where I had seen the bugs.

In another week or so, the split went most of the way along the trunk, and was accompanied by an even more severe split down the other side of the trunk. So it became very important that we take the tree down.

Yes. My yard is weedy and overgrown, okay?!

Once down we saw that the entire tree, including the limbs, had been hollowed out.

  I'll really miss our pear tree. It may not have provided any pears for the last few years, but when it did I canned mass quantities of pears, gave pears away, and made pear cake, pear pancakes, and pear syrup, which we eat on ice cream. If you want to try the recipe for the cake I made out of my pears, you can find it in my post HERE. It's actually an apple cake recipe, but it was great made with pears. The tree also provided beauty in our yard,(Even if it did smell like fish when it was in bloom!)

As it did in the photo for this review of Ashton Drake's Alice, by Dianna Effner.

 I am going to plant another fruit tree, but I am notoriously bad with plants.
I hadn't been to Goodwill, or any thrift store, for ages. I've still only been twice since the virus became a thing. A few weeks ago Ivy, who is doing most of the driving these days to get practice to get her license, and I, dropped Ken off at work. Since we were in the shopping center where Goodwill is, I decided to make a quick scan of the aisles. I had only been there one other time lately, as I said, and found nothing. I did a little better on this day. I found these two girls.  **Update: I forgot to mention that the Journey Girl is Meredith, and a reader  tells me the American girl is Saige, which is one of the AG dolls I would have picked to own!** Further update below.

  The American Girl was wearing these cute homemade monkey pajamas and slippers. But the Journey Girl was wearing a nice homemade Christmas outfit and American Girl boots.

Whoops. Left out the boots.

  I think they've both had haircuts. But if they have, they look really good.

These naked pictures are before I washed them.

I wondered if they had really had haircuts, or just had short hair, because the short hair is curly. At least, it's curly enough to look like a real hairdo, and not just a chop job.

  The test was if the curl would wash out when I washed the dolls. You know I have to wash them. I always have to wash second hand dolls if at all possible. (You can read about how I wash my dolls in my posts HERE and HERE.) These guys were washable, so I washed them.  When they dried, their hair was still curly. So, did they come with short hair? I don't know of any Journey Girl who comes with short hair. As for the American Girl, I thought she might be one of the dolls you can choose with your own attributes. But I researched that, and it looks like they only offered options of skin tone and hair and eye colour, and freckles. All the dolls seem to have come with long hair. Now that they're washed, I can see that they do definitely have haircuts.

They both have a few long hairs that somehow got missed by the scissors. The AG's hair is a little longer on one side. She has tremendous flip though.

Ivy says she looks like Mary Tyler Moore on The Dick Van Dyke Show. Then it occurred to her that with the Journey Girl being blonde, she could be Rose Marie on The Dick Van Dyke Show.

Ivy thought I should put little Rose Marie bows in the Journey Girl's hair.

I pointed out to her that no modern kid would have dolls of people from The Dick Van Dyke Show...except her. She would have.
  I have two other American Girls. One is the Samantha I got at a yard salea few years ago.

You can see her Doll-A-Day post HERE.

One is a Kirsten I got at a flea market.

I think I like this AG better than either of those two. I like her reddish hair and her freckles.

  I have a couple of Journey Girls. You might have seen my review of Journey Girl Kelsey HERE.

I also have another one with a haircut. I'm not sure which one she is. I had another Kelsey, but I'm not sure if I still have her. She might have gone on Ebay with her post-mate, Lotus Kayumi. You might have seen their post HERE.
  These two girls are most certainly staying though. I love their faces. Despite the haircuts, they don't seem to have had much play. They have very tight limbs, and no scuffing.

  **FURTHER UPDATE** For those of you who are curious as to how much these ladies cost me: They were priced at $3.99 each, but I got the Old People discount! I only paid $7 something for the both of them, including tax!
  Soon we'll be going review crazy. I have three sponsored reviews, plus one amazing gift I recently received. I'll be going to Lori's before the end of the month to help her move. If you're wondering why I haven't done that yet, it's because the original sale of her house fell through. She had to cancel her house purchase, since no one was buying her house. Then her house sold again. Of course, by that time, the house she was originally buying was no longer available. So she had to find another house. She's not really happy with it, but she didn't have much of a choice. Hopefully she can make it into what she will be happy with. At least she'll be closer to where she works.
  I'll see you all soon!

Doll-a-Day 2019 #138: American Girl Mini

  Some of you may have noticed that for the first time this year there was no daily post yesterday. There's a good reason for that. All year, no matter how bad I felt,no matter how late it was when I managed to get to it,even when I had no camera for over a week,I still manged to post every day. Yesterday I was finally done in by...Frontier. Our internet was out all day. Here it is past noon and the internet has finally come back on. I'm posting yesterday's post as quick as I can before it goes out again. It has a tendency to go in and out when they're fixing the problem. So here is yesterday's post, and hopefully I will get today's post up too before the internet goes out again!
  Today's doll is this tiny girl.
 

She's an American Girl mini figure.
 

She's a little bigger than a Lego mini figure. She comes with a stand with raised circles just like Lego bricks. She also has hands like a Lego figure.

She has jointed shoulders,and knees,which look more like jointed thighs,and her hands swivel at the wrists.

She comes with an extra rubber skirt.

The American girl mini figures were made by Mattel as part of the Mega Bloks line. Mega Bloks are Mattel's version of Legos.

The faces are really quite as much like the full size dolls as they look on the package.

That's the doll for...yesterday! Don't forget to look for today's actual post too.

American Girl's First Male Doll

  This may be old news to some of you, but I just heard about it. American Girl's new line will include their first male doll.
 

And there's a new Felicity.

He's a boy named Logan Everett.

The company said that boy dolls have been one of their most requested items for years.And we all know that people were creating their own.What's nice here is, they actually made a new face sculpt for Logan. So now you can have a male American Girl friend that isn't just the girl face with short hair. It's a new face though. So now are we going to see people buying Logan and making him into a girl?!

Logan is a drummer in a band.His band mate is another new doll this year,Tenney Grant. Tenney is a singer/songwriter from Nashville,Tennessee. That and the banjo tell me that her band is a country band. If you look closely at the pictures,at least Logan's right hand (and possible Tenney's too.),have a different sculpt from the regular American Girl hands, that allows him to hold his drumstick. Tenney's looks like she can hold something too.There appears to be a plectrum in her hand in the picture below.

In addition to his 'Play Loud' t-shirt and button up, Logan will have a gray shirt and 'leather' jacket.I'm not sure if these will all come with him, or will be available as extra clothing items. Most likely they will be extra clothing pieces that are available for purchase,or they might come in a 'bundle' available with the purchase of  Logan.

Logan (and Tenney) will be available on February 16th. That's only two more days.

Mystery Doll: The Gotz Bitty Baby

  Ok, somebody help me. I know American Girls were originally made from a Goetz head scuplt. But what about Bitty Baby? Take a look at this kid:

I found this baby at Salvation Army the other day.

I'm scratching my head, and not only because I'm still healing from having that lump removed...Who is this kid?!

I thought at first she must be a rerooted Bitty Baby.

Lots of curly hair.

Real Bitty Baby.

.

But she says Gotz on the back of her neck.

And there is no paint or molded hair on her head under that hair.
She has a white cotton body.

And long, flat neck strings.

Her hands and feet look like Bitty Baby's too.

So is this a pre-Bitty Baby Gotz doll with the same head mold? What's the connection? Can anybody help me with identifying this doll? I'd appreciate any information.