Seriously. Can you believe it?
I bought myself an American Girl doll.
I'm going to blame it on the fact that Famke got one for Christmas.
Then I ordered a pattern for an American Girl doll wardrobe (forgetting that i haven't actually sewn anything in almost four years);
Famke wouldn't want to leave her doll with me, now would she?
It didn't take long for me to see that I would have to buy my very own American Girl doll.
Even though Jonge told me that I wouldn't be able to find one that looked like me (thank goodness).
Doesn't that sound like a good plan?
He is a reasonable man and is aware that almost everything I own has been a thrift store bargain.
He assured me that it was fine with him. It probably wasn't, but before he questioned me I hit the purchase button.
The doll I picked out has light blond hair, light skin, and blue eyes. Just like someone I know.
It was love at first sight.
She took one look at it and said, "HERTSJE!"
Then she kissed her, and hugged her, and carried on an intense conversations with her through the little window in the box.
I'm wondering how this story will end.
Will the doll remain a dress maker's dummy for six years, or will this doll come out of the box?
Only time will tell.
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Hi, still not sure about the dolls real name, although of course even if I knew that, it will for me forever be "Hertsje II" In Frysl6an and Drenthe cows always had a name, if their mother had the same name, as a calf they would be called ...II and then ...III and so on. Later, when farms got bigger the names disappeared and they were only a number (that is the reason why crownprince Willem Alexander chose to use his full name as king and not to be called Willem IV, it felt to him like being equal to cow Bertha 38. That cow does not exist, but is famous (now we have King Willem-Alexander) as the picture of being someone like thirteen in a dozen.
Well, because Hertsje will be in time the mother of the doll, the doll really will be Hertsje II, won't she (or Hertsje too, of course). Is it not fantastic we have reached the age that when seen with a doll everybody automatically thinks: Ah, that will be her granddaughters doll?DM
I love the number robot prove, much easier then the difficult to read letters.
How well I know that feeling! ;0)
I've gone through the baby doll stage and the Cabbage Patch and still feel good in their company. Then it was Barbie's and I had to have one to make gowns, etc. for the grands and then it was American Girl. This one was easier as an older granddaughter had one she no longer played with to LOAN me to make clothes for her younger cousin.
I still have that doll. :0)
The way I look at it is, we and our grands reap the rewards.
Some things that I made....I haven't been able to part with.
At age 76, I may be living in "my second childhood."
Loving every minute of it!
(((hugs)))
I predict she will not stay in the box :)
Unbelievable but seriously cute too.
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