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

When I was but a young lass back in the '90's, I, along with my peers, were introduced to the video game, trading card game, and anime franchise known as "Pokémon." I liked the anime well enough, but I really, really loved two of the Pokémon video games, Pokémon Stadium and Pokémon Snap for the Nintendo 64. I spent HOURS playing these games, particularly Snap (and then my older cousin came over and deleted my Snap file and I have been salty about it ever since). After awhile,

I love a good pair of doll jeans. Unfortunately, whether they're from American Girl or another creator, good jeans seem to be few and far between. Maybe it's because denim can be difficult to work with at such a small scale. There's a good reason Barbie wears a lot of printed denim. Twelve years ago, I got two amazing pairs of skinny jeans from Royal Doll Boutique . They're still some of my favorite pieces to mix 'n' match. The jeans are made of a slightly thinner denim (I t