Lost Packages and Backgrounds and Bears, Oh My!

This is kind of a mishmash post! 

First of all, an update on Margaret the Woodlee (which I just typed as Miranda the Woodlee, WHOOPS!  Guess I'm just excited Miranda is back!).  She is still in Anchorage!  Tracking says she passed through a sorting facility there on June 29th, and again yesterday.  I wonder what she thinks is so interesting about Anchorage?!  Let's hope she makes her way back to Colorado soon so we can get this ironed out.  Poor Prue is not handling all these unknowns very well.

Also, here is the promised photo of Patch and Pie, the Pumpkin bear twins!  I wanted to get some green ribbon for Pie's ears before I shared a photo.  Aren't they darling?  I think I've accepted that they will both be staying, and I'm not exactly sad about it, either :oD

 Now I need a bit more advice.  American Girl just came out with some pretty awesome large cardboard backdrops to use with their dolls.  There is a gala scene, classroom scene, park scene, and winter scene.  I am interested in the latter two.  This is the park scene and this is the winter scene (I promise these are links, can't figure out how to get the font a different color since I use a fancy template).  Of course they would mostly be for use with my American Girl dolls, but I'd love to be able to use them with my tiny dolls.  Do you all think they would work for smaller dolls like Pea and Jessi Lynn, or would the scale look really bizarre?  They are tiny dolls living in a big world so I'm inclined to think it could work, but I don't want them to be barely visible in front of the giant scene (if I want to show the entire backdrop) or have the scene be illegible in closer photos.  What do you all think?

Meandering Margaret

Well, Margaret the Woodlee still is not here!  It sounds like she definitely has an intrepid spirit and REALLY wanted to try out college, because her package ended up being shipped to the university, which turned right around and sent her back to Colorado.  All of this happened on Monday.  Tracking info was not updated until yesterday (almost a week later), and to my surprise, she's only made it as far as Anchorage!  Wonder if she took a riverboat down the old fashioned way or what! 

Prue is pretty worried about Margaret being trapped in that box for who knows how long, but Jessi Lynn reminded her that I ordered some *tasty doll sized goodies* at the same time, so Margaret will have those to eat.  That helped Prue feel a bit better but I think Jessi Lynn is more worried that none of the goodies will make it here!

Let's hope Margaret will meander her way here soon!  And in the mean time, any ideas for how to keep the other dolls' minds off of Margaret's predicament?

New Doll!

So, our exciting news is that... a doll from Woodlee Junction will be coming here soon!  Woodlee Junction dolls are made by my friend, Wendy, and are little bendy wooden dolls with yarn hair and sweet, simple faces.  I first saw them on the Hittyville Gazette blog and thought how cute they were.  When I found out Wendy made them, I had to get one for myself!  So far she has only made about 40 of them and they're selling great.  If you want your own Woodlee, check out Norm's Dollhouse!  The Woodlees also have their own awesome blog.

This is the newest member of our doll family:

I knew she was the one as soon as I saw her and Prue and Jessi Lynn agreed.  All three girls are excited about the arrival of a new friend.  I've never had a doll like a Woodlee before and can't wait to meet her, either.  We have the hunch her name will be Margaret after the Alaskan naturalist Margaret Murie, and we will find out soon enough!