Jubi and I go for a Walk

Finally, after all this rain, the sun came out! Jubi and I were dying to step outside. You know, we can't walk in the rain so we've been inside forever!

For a while, we just stood on the porch, basking in the sunlight.

Jubi smiled. "It's lovely, isn't it?" She murmured happily. "Yep! I wonder if Spicemuffin's disappointed that the thunderstorms are gone." I replied.
Jubi laughed. "She likes the sun, too, you know."
"Yeah, when there's a trampoline to jump on, gymnastics to do outside, a potential photoshoot, or a swimming pool to swim in. Take those away, and she has no interest in the sun. Very narrow-minded."
"Ivy!" Jubilee scolded me.

 "You shouldn't say such things about her," She continued. I looked away. "Let's start down the path."

 Pretty soon, our little misunderstanding was forgotten as Jubilee discovered how big the lilies had grown! "I know!" I agreed. "Just last summer, they were teeny baby plants. Not even a fourth of the size they are now!"

 Jubilee pointed out the pretty dewdrops on the leaves. We were both relieved the ants had not invaded yet. Ants and bugs are so frightening!

 I mentioned that I had heard that plants like to be talked to. So for a while, we chatted with the plants. I'm sure they loved it! {I'm also quite sure that they've had enough talking to last a while.}

 Later down the path, I found this AWESOME rock. It was like a bowl, and it held some water. Isn't that just cool? I thought it was.

 "Hey Jubi!" I called. "Come check out this crazy rock!" I pointed at it, motioning for her to come take a look.

 She came close and glanced at the rock. "I see why you like it!" She stated cheerfully.

 "Look at that!" Jubi tugged at my arm. "Do you see it?"

 A black cat! "Do you suppose those superstitions about the black cats are real? Are they really bad luck?" She wondered.

 Now it was my turn to scold. "Jubilee Noelle!" I said. "Mama wouldn't approve! Remember her lesson on Sunday? There is no such thing as luck. She wouldn't like you worrying about superstitions."
Good-natured Jubi took the correction well, and nodded.

 At the end of our walk, we strolled to the dog park and sat on our favorite boulder. "Too bad we didn't bring Ella and Winterberry," I sighed. "They would've loved the dewy grass!" Jubilee replied.

 Suddenly, she turned and looked at me. Not sure what she wanted, I smiled. "Ivy Virginia," She said, "I'm glad you're my best friend."

 I was a bit surprised, but very pleased. "I'm so very thankful that I have a best friend like you, Jubilee. Best friends forever?"

"Best friends forever!" We laughed together.


THE END

Bad news

Oh no! Guess what happened? Mama decided to shelf us. Yup. She's going to delete her blogs. You'll see a post from her in a few minutes. Sadness!

I don't know what's going to happen.

I just want all of you guys to know that we all still care about you, and one more thing.



APRIL FOOLS! HA HA HA!

LOL

Okee, yup, we were joking. Yup yup yup. We're going to stick around for a while. :)

~Sunshiny Ivy

Taylor's B-Day

Taylor's birthday was last week. Since she was the first 9-incher to live in Spicemuffin's home, she's pretty darn special! And so, she gets a birthday party.
Technically, us dolls never age unless your current owner decides to assign us a new age. :) Thus, us three 9-inchers are currently 13 years old.

Here's the birthday girl, Taylor Angelique!

 I also wanted to show you our 'rooms'. Hey!!!!

Hallo! Ivy here.
I was typing, this is MY post!
This is MY blog! Anyhoo, I can't let those 9-inchers crowd out the guy figurines. Especially my favorite little LOTR guys.
Doesn't Gandalf look so serious? I love his staff. Of course, Sam is my favorite. :) 
*ouch*
Okay, Sierra, you may continue your post now.


THANK you! :)

 Moving on...
Anyhoo, anything in our rooms are mostly collected. Some things are given.
Since Karina was the latest small doll, she has the least stuff in her room. For now, a shell and a keg that she found on the beach.

 Here's me in my room! Gandalf, Sam, and Frodo jump at any chance to be behind the camera, so they happened  by. :)
I have a petrified piece of wood as my sofa, and a reddish rock as my chair. Spicemuffin gave me a little art frame that she stitched herself! Also, I got myself a ceramic calf/lamb. I think. :)

 Here's Taylor's room! Karina and I pitched in and got her special edition aircraft--it came with a red ribbon! One is a Japanese Zero, and the other is an early (early 1900s) airplane. She also found a silver kitty ornament, and a Santa figurine at Christmastime.

 So, for Taylor's birthday celebration, we decided we should do something before dinner. Spicemuffin made a party dress for her, and Karina did Taylor's hair.
First, we explored Spicemuffin's home. We had a scavenger hunt to find every single flower in the house, and had Taylor pose besides one of the Valentine's day bouquets.

 Then after we ate dinner (delicious italian food), we watched a movie! I love movie nights. We all love the Avengers guys. So, since it was a special night, we watched Captain America and Thor! Spicemuffin won't let us watch Iron Man. *pout*

Don't worry, we didn't drink any wine. :) We just took turns trying to climb up the slippery sides.

We stayed up till 3 am in the morning! It was the most fun I've ever had in my life. :D I hope to have the same sort of fun on MY birthday too. :)

Thanks for reading!

Sierra~Rose

Disney Dolls

 Today, I decided to play in Mama's room. I climbed up on her chair...

Why they make chairs so tall is beyond me.

 To my surprise, Mama came and sat besides me. {note from spicemuffin--ignore my messy room!}
'I have something to show you,' she said.

 She turned on her computer, and pulled up Google Chrome.

 To my surprise, she typed in the Disney store URL! I was a bit confused. What was she going to show me?

 I was shocked when she clicked on Rapunzel's link! 'Isn't she cute? Her hair looks amazing. I've never had a jointed doll before...'

 'What do you think?' she asked.
'Don't you like me?' I whispered.

 'Of course! I wouldn't love any of you any less if she were here.'
'Then...I guess it would be fun if she came.'

 I looked at her. She was cute in her own way. Then I saw her lovely jointed elbows and wrists.

 I looked at my own inflexible arm, and sighed.

 'Well Rapunzel,' I said, 'if you come, you're going to have quite an adventure!'

It's me, Ivy!!

Okay, not wanting to panic but...

People are taking over my blog!!


Anyway, Ari has convinced me that I need a new name. We can't do Simply Ivy, Always Arizona, and Kylie's Letters as a title!

This is where you come in. I need you to help me come up with a name. Yup,
please comment below telling us your name ideas and description ideas for this blog!


Thank you kindly. :)
Please, scroll down to see Kylie's post. I'm feeling very nice today. :)

Kylie's Letters: A Day in the Park

Hello! It's Kylie, with my very first post. I lightly mentioned to Arizona that I might be posting...I hope it's alright! To be truthful, I'm nervous of Ivy, and that she'll be mad at me for posting on her blog. Oh well. :)

Anyway, I wanted to tell you about myself {don't worry, I'll still tell you about the park!}

I'm 10 years old, and I'm from Ethiopia. My name is Kylie Grace, and I'm an adopted sister. I love chocolate! I can't sing, {unlike Nahji} but I can play the piano. Sometimes, I try to take pictures with Mama's great big Nikon camera. It's huge and heavy! My sisters say I'm a 'people pleaser'. I guess that means I please people? I think writing is fun. I hope you all will be my friends!

Now to the story.

It was February the 4th. Mama took me and Ivy to Elliebob's house! It was very pretty there. I took a few seconds to run around the grass, and scramble up their tree. I'm proud to say none of the other dolls can keep up with me. Eventually though, Mama made me go inside. Elliebob's house had the shiniest smoothest wood floors I had ever seen! It was all I could do not to just sliiiiiiiide across that floor.
Then, Mama and Elliebob took me into Elliebob's bedroom. Sitting to the side was this beautiful tanned Mexican girl. She had the prettiest hair I'd ever seen.
"Hi, I'm Kylie," I said.
"Hello," She said. "I'm Consuelo."
"How long have you been here?"
"Since before Christmas! How about you?"
"I just got here Christmas day!"

Well, needless to say, we became good friends in a matter of minutes. Consuelo and I were interrupted suddenly when Elliebob suggested, "Let's go to the park!"

Elliebob's mom was kind enough to give all of us a ride to the nearest park.

It was exciting riding in the car! Here we are, looking out the window.

 The grass was a bit dry and prickly. Since it's winter, a lot of the grass is dead.

 Consuelo was thrilled to be out in the open. I love her gentle sweet nature.

 My hair is so unruly! You wouldn't believe how hard it is to put in a ponytail. Consuelo insisted it was really cute. She enjoyed bouncing my curls around. I laughed. "Try brushing it!" I teased.

 Just look at this interesting tree! One of the good things of being a doll is being able to see the littler things. We can really appreciate everything. After my dark, bumpy, scary UPS trip here, anything is great! Mama told me that Consuelo and I were bought and shipped at the same time. She even told me that we were next to each other the whole time! Too bad we couldn't talk. It would've been impossible to speak through all that cardboard and plastic.

 Consuelo gave me a boost, and I shimmied up that old tree. Doesn't it look amazing? Kind of spooky though. A great "dolloween" tree!

Consuelo showed me her favorite path. It was nice and clean and neat. Okay, maybe not 'clean' to you Americans. :) But in Africa, the paths are nothing but little lanes where there are no weeds. It's so dusty, hot and dry!

 We talked as we walked. Before this, I'd never taken a long walk with a friend. It was quite a new experience for me!

 Here we are!

 Consuelo then went back on the grass. I stayed on the path.

 Woah, look at this tree! Isn't it huge? It was pretty darn awesome.

 I love this picture of myself, if I do say so. It looks like a real photographer did it! Sorry Mama, not to say that you're not a real  photographer. :)

 But, there were more places to explore. Mama had to pull me away! I waved goodbye to my tree.

 Then, I found this leaf. Truly, this is the biggest leaf I have ever seen. Seriously.

 "Look, Mama!" I called. She walked up. "I found a giant leaf!" To Mama, it wasn't very big. But she praised me on my find.

 Towards the end of our walk, we found unusual picnic benches! I would never be able to eat at this table. It's huge!

 On our way back, I showed Consuelo a good spot for a campout. It was nice, dry, and shady underneath those branches. That's what I call instant shelter.

 They were branches from coniferous {something along those lines anyway} trees, as you can see from this picture.

 There was another branch not too far away. I sat on it. Well, I can't say it was a comfortable seat! Yeah...

 Can you spot us? You may have to click on the picture to enlarge it. :)

 Oops! After the above picture was taken, I fell down! I think I tripped on a dirt clump.

 Mama came and helped me up. :D

When we went home, we got to eat pizza and breadsticks! Yum! We never eat pizza. Here at Spicemuffin's home, we are all on diet. We usually only eat Challah bread, other than that, no wheat, grains, occasional potatoes, no rice, and nothing with a lot of sugar in it. 

Well, enough about me. That was my day in the park! Hope you have a fun time today. :)

Spoiler: I can't keep a secret. We might be having a giveaway this month.

~Kylie~