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I adore Ruthie. I originally fell for her when on a Gilmore Girls kick and in certain pictures she looked an awful lot like a dollified Lauren Graham. I ordered her and waited (she was my first doll in 12 years or something) impatiently. I read her book and I fell head over heels. Ruthie is my everything will be okay doll. Having her around makes things better even when they are absolutely, positively awful.








Oh, and a little known fact about Ruthie?

She can tame sharks. True story.

Rebecca's dress on a PM Samantha. Originally I bought this dress for Nellie, as I figured that there was no way it would fit Sam, since she's easily my biggest doll. I tried it on Nellie and she was swimming in fabric. Part of that was probably trying to get the dress to lay correctly (the lace can be a bit tricky if you're not properly caffeinated) and part of it was simply my dress was awfully large. Which would be bad if I had a Rebecca doll, but for Samantha it worked out perfectly. The shoes fit, which I truly did not expect since Sam also has fairly large feet and Mattel shoes almost never fit. The heels don't hamper her ability to stand on carpeted surfaces, but I haven't tried to stand her on my desk.


Please excuse the less than stellar bow. I either tie them very well or it's embarrassingly bad. There is rarely an in between. Poor dolls.


Close-up of the lace and sleeve.


I think the dress looks gorgeous on Sam, but I am a little disappointed that unless I was completely out of my mind the day I tried it on Nellie, that it probably won't fit my smaller dolls. Also, I think the shoes look a little... odd in person.

Dress: A- (it's gorgeous, but the sizing throws me for a loop.)
Shoes: B

I was really excited for these, which is odd since I'm usually in the "ew, pink" camp, but I thought they'd work for Kanani. And they do.

I love them, although I will agree that the shorts are going to ride up and the elastic for the shorts, in my set anyway, gets a little twisted or something. It takes another minute or two to smooth it out.

The boots are a little odd, but I guess it makes sense since this way they're more substantial than they'd be without the padding. Boots as opposed to simply glorified socks, which is honestly what I was expecting.

I'm going with a nice solid A.

Ivy in Lanie's nightgown/shirt/whatever. I love Ivy something fierce and I haven't even had her all that long.


I still think her shirt is unfortunate, particularly when paired with the pants/boots they chose for her 'Meet' outfit, but doll-wise it's hard to find a cuter doll. The cute, it burns. Perhaps not in the photos as my room is a sucking void for light, but still. In person, she's adorable.

And while she didn't come with the dread green-leg syndrome, she did introduce me to a whole new threat. Those blasted little hang-tags that come wrapped around their wrists telling you just how to care for your doll with _whatever_ hair? Ivy's rubbed up against her pinkie and now she looks like she hurt herself.


I didn't even know that was possible.

I should probably actually semi-review her and not just OD on cute.

Her hair is definitely unique, not just in style but in the feel of it. I like it, though I can understand how it would be off-putting to some people. Also, people really aren't kidding when they say there's not really enough to do much with. It's an odd length, really, because there's enough that fans or wind will blow it around, but even pigtails will stick straight out because there's *just* enough to gather into them.

Her boots are pretty nifty and the pants seem interesting although there's a saddlebags issue, at least when paired with her meet shirt. Her undies are cute, although I expected a more vibrant color for some reason.

Overall, Ivy gets an A- from me. She's adorable, her outfit isn't all "burn it! Burn it now!"; I just don't care for it all put together.

I snagged Kirsten's birthday dress years ago. It was the only dress/outfit I bought for her until this year from her own collection and it's so pretty that I probably felt I had time to acquire the other things.

I'm obviously in the minority here, but I like the dress on it's own as well as with the apron, though I will admit it looks 100% better with the apron on. The wreath is pretty but I've never managed to take it off without messing up her hair, no matter how carefully I put it on to begin with. Since my Kirsten wore her hair straight for years, this didn't really surprise/bother me, but anyone who is keeping their Kirsten in stock braids will probably want to take a little extra care.

Yay for the socks that are infinitely prettier than her Meet Socks (and quite probably a big reason I bought the outfit back then) and the overall look of the outfit is gorgeous.

Sadly, I somehow managed to snag/pull the bow on one of the sleeves and once you do that, you've got to be handier at fixing things than I am. Poor Kirsten's bow is now a string and it annoys the heck out of me every time I try and fix it.

Pictures to be edited in whenever it stops raining/looking like it's going to rain.

Overall, A.