In the ancient days of my youth, a.k.a. the '90's, craft stores used to carry a variety of fun and cutesy iron on transfers. You could put them on anything -- sweatshirts, tote bags, t-shirts, pillows, aprons, and more! The designs came printed on special iron on transfer paper, and all you had to do was carefully cut them out and follow the directions to stick them to your item of choice. I had a beautiful palomino carousel horse iron on transfer that my mom helped me fuse t

"...and I didn't like the ending." I heard you like collabs... Over the past few days, there's been a lot of discussion about American Girl's newest collaboration (in this, the year of unending AG collaborations, 2026), a fashion collection and doll based on "country music superstar," Megan Moroney. Your first thought may be the same one I had -- which it turns out is the same thought that many people have when they hear her name. This sentiment is so prevalent, her own marke

For about nine years and nine months, I have been blessed to be "cat mom" to the greatest little black cat who ever lived, Darcy. Since adopting him back in October of 2016, I had not spent one day fully apart from him until just a couple of days ago, when we had to say goodbye to him. He joined my dad in Heaven, and now my husband and I have to learn how to navigate the rest of our earthly lives without him. It's not going very well so far, but I know time will help. Baby Da

I enjoy lurking around on r/americangirl from time to time. Sometimes I learn really useful and obscure tips about American Girl dolls, like how to tell if a doll's vinyl is leeching plasticizer. Sometimes I marvel at amazing restorations or incredible secondhand finds. And sometimes, I see astute observations that make me go, "Oh snap! Yeah, I see it!" That's exactly what happened when I saw this thread by Reddit user, "callmeselinakyle." They noticed that Wednesday kind of

Today is "AGIG Day" on Instagram. It's also the first day of non-gray weather this week. So, I decided to celebrate both occasions by taking pictures of "Adventure Lizzie" for my Instagram. I redressed her in what has essentially become her "meet" outfit, with the exception of one very important piece -- her (Rapunzel) flower barrette. I know I borrowed it for someone else to wear temporarily, but after checking all of my dolls, no one seems to have it! I've looked in a few s

Yesterday was my husband's and my 14th wedding anniversary. Before our cat's diagnosis, we'd planned to spend the weekend before our anniversary doing some chill, fun activities at home, like playing board games and trying new crafts. Then on our actual anniversary (a Tuesday), we planned to go somewhere fun that hopefully wouldn't be as crowded as it would've been on a weekend day. Since circumstances have changed, we decided to spend our actual anniversary at home with tast

I've mentioned before that I only read a couple of American Girl books as a kid, and of those, the one that stands out most in my memory is Meet Felicity. I was a hardcore horse girl back in the day and dreamed of owning a horse when I was older. Reading Felicity's story, I couldn't help but daydream about finding or rescuing a horse and somehow being lucky enough to end up keeping it, just like her. But as much as I enjoyed her story, I don't think I ever really wanted a Fel