Doll-A-Day 2019 #181: Design My Style Carrie

  First of all,the sales page is up! It's actually been up for a couple of days,but I keep forgetting to mention it. It can be found at the top of the right sidebar area under the heading 'Dolls and accessories for sale'. There are quite a few things listed already,but ,trust me, there are about a zillion more things I could add! (And I will eventually.)
  An update on our kittens: It looks like Merlin and maybe Thalberg have homes already. That still leaves beautiful little Mordred,Fred, and George who need homes. Also the mommies need homes too. everybody seems to have thumbs except possibly Mordred,and Fred and George both have back feet thumbs as well!
  The heat here has been almost too much to bear without air conditioning. When there's no escape at all, it gets to the point where it wears on your health and sanity. Those who can work outside, and then go into a cool house and sip an icy drink in comfort, have no idea how the constant heat can make you feel after a while. I'm nauseous,and weak. I have no energy at all,and have to drag myself to do anything. I have been trying to make sure I drink liquids,but there's only so much I can hold! Any movement away from a fan causes the sweat to pour uncontrollably. I only hope the heat breaks soon.Lori says it isn't this bad in Georgia!
  Now onto today's doll. Yesterday we saw the modern version of Holly Hobbie. (You can see my post on the original small vinyl Holly and friends dolls and the history of the character's origins, HERE. You can see my post on the original 10" vinyl doll HERE.) Today we're going to look at her friend,Carrie Baker.

Like the Holly we saw yesterday, Carrie is from the Design My Style series,made by Mattel in 2006.

She's 12 inches tall.
 

You may have seen my post on the miniature version of Carrie. That Carrie was a tiny version of this girl,with different clothes. My Carrie,as you can see, has borrowed the clothes from my spare Holly. 

This was necessary because she was naked when I got her. She would have looked like this in her box.
 

She does still have her original hair style though.

Like Holly, Carrie has a sweet face.

They don't share a sculpt, but they are close enough that they are obviously from the same series.

The original Holly Hobbie Carrie wasn't African American. It was obviously decided that more ethnic diversity was necessary when Holly was resurrected for the modern era. I'm glad they made this Carrie. She is so cute.

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

Doll-A-Day 2017 #56 Shrunken Saturday: Holly Hobbie's Friend, Clubhouse Girls Carrie Baker

  This Shrunken Saturday doll is Holly Hobbie's friend,       .

She's one of the modern Holly Hobbie  dolls.She's from the line called Clubhouse Girls.

This is an update.I finally found a picture of what Carrie looked like in her package.So now I know her original outfit and what she came with.

She stands about 4 1/4" tall,  but I attribute that extra 1/4" to her big hair.

I have no idea who this dress originally belonged to, but it fits her perfectly.

These are her original shoes and jeans,but I'm pretty sure her shirt is a Lil Bratz Boyz shirt.

She's a perfect size for a 1/12 scale doll house.

And she has a sweet little face.

It has been absolute torture keeping the internet on long enough to just load these pictures!Come back tomorrow and see if I manage to post anything!