17th Birthday Scavenger Hunt!

Hi everyone!

Today I turned 17! I cannot believe I am already 17! It feels like I just turned 16!

To celebrate, I have made another Fall Scavenger Hunt for you to participate in! :)

I know many of you did not get the chance to participate last time, so now you have another chance!
Please find this picture located somewhere else on my blog.

Hint: Dance... Dance... Dance!

When you have found the picture, please email me telling me where you found it to agfan2010@aol.com.

Please do NOT comment, telling me where you found it, as this would give the answer away.The first person who emails me will receive three mini doll sized posters and an award for their blog! (I can only ship to the U.S. though. I am very sorry.) Anyone who participates will receive an award for their blog as well!

Have fun!

P.S. If I can get 90 followers, I will have a giveaway!





My Blog Cupcake!

Yes... the title is kind of funny. LOL

Yesterday, my sister and I made cupcakes with chocolate icing!

They were actually shaped like muffins because we made them in a muffin pan, but they tasted like cupcakes.

I decided to get a little creative with the icing and decorate some of them! :D

Can you read my messy hand writing? ;) If you cannot, it says AG Friends! I could not fit the American Girl part of it because the cupcake was too small. hehe

Delicious!

What is your favorite kind of cupcake?

Doll Food: Doll Fun Special # 1!

Welcome to the first Doll Fun Special! I have a fun craft to show you all, which you can easily make for your doll/s!

You will need some different colors of clay. Sculpey clay is a good brand. You will also need a clean work space and a paper plate to put your clay on. You might also want to use some tools such as a knife, so you can shape the clay into "food".

I recently made a bunch of foods for my dolls using this clay! I made s'mores, a chocolate chip cookie, a banana popsicle, a hamburger, a pepperoni pizza, and a lollipop.

For the s'more, just get some light brown clay, dark brown clay, and white clay. Then cut two small doll sized squares of the light brown clay and shape them into two graham crackers. Add some dark brown clay and white clay in the middle for the melted marshmellow and chocolate.

The lollipop is very simple to make. You just shape some dark pink clay (or what ever color you want) into a circle and slip a cut tooth pick through it.

If you want to make a chocolate chip cookie, mold the light brown clay into a small circle and add little "chocolate chips." (pieced of dark brown clay)

I love my banana popsicle. Just take some yellow clay and shape it into a popsicle. Add a toothpick through it and you're done! (You can even make double popsicles or different "flavors".)

The hamburger is a little more difficult, but it's not too hard. Shape some light brown clay into hamburger buns. In between, shape circular like shapes of green, red, yellow or gold, and dark brown clay. (This will be the lettuce, tomato, cheese, and meat.) Optional: Finally add small white pieces of clay on top of the bun to look like sesame seeds.

The pizza is also neat to make! Sculp some light brown clay into a circle. Add a circle of red clay on top. Finally add uneven shapes of white or ivory clay and place firmly on top of the red clay, leaving some red clay showing. This part can be complicated and will probably take the longest. You can also add red circles on top for pepperoni! You choose!

After you have finished your food, you can bake it in the oven, so that it will harden. I still need to do that... LOL

Then give it to your doll/s! :)

You can make various other treats for your doll as well! You could make candy bars, fruit, a cake, a pie, and lots MORE! Just be creative and have fun!

I hoped you enjoyed reading my first Doll Fun Special! (I think I will be posting another one this month, but when the school year comes around, these types of posts will probably be only once a month. It all depends on how much time I have...

Oh and I decided to post these regularly on my blog, but made a separate page on the top of my blog for all my past posts, so you can easily read one if you missed one. Thank you Rachel for the idea! :)

 

Peach Picking and Reminder

Today, my sister, brother-in-law, little nephews and I went peach picking at an orchard! It was really fun and a nice family outing!

There were so many peaches! We picked some white and yellow peaches and now we are waiting for them to ripen. I think I want to make some peach cobbler!

We have also been having a GIANT HEAT WAVE!! It was one hundred twelve degrees on Friday and then it dropped suddenly to seventy five degrees during a random rain storm within like ten minutes. Now it is back up in the high nineties and early hundreds.

Have you ever been to an orchard and picked fruit? Has it been really hot where you live?

Also, I want to remind you all that tommorow is the last day to enter my giveaway! (See below for full details.) The winner will be announced on Tuesday!

Thank you also to all my sixty four followers! I have tried to make sure I have followed your blogs too, but if for some reason I have not, and you would like me to follow yours, you can email me at agfan2010@aol.com.

Oh and this is kind of off topic, but I got my braces off! After having them for a second time, I am finally finished! Hooray! LOL

Anyway I hope you all are having a wonderful summer! :)

Cookies!!!

Hi it's Ruthie again!!

After playing in the snow, I got very hungry, so Anne (my owner) made chocolate chip cookies!

I ate one with a glass of milk!

Mmmm

They were delicious!

I LOVE cookies! Do you? What is your favorite type of cookie!

This was kind of a silly post, but I felt like posting it anyway!

~Ruthie

Happy Thanksgiving!

Hi everyone! :)

HAPPY THANKSGIVING!

I'm so excited to have a wonderful Thanksgiving with my family today! We are going to go to my aunt's house tonight and have lots of delicious food there like turkey, mashed potatoes, and pumpkin pie! I think we are even going shopping tommorow for all the Black Friday specials! My dolls have been having fun celebrating Thanksgiving too!

Today is a special day to be very thankful for what you have. :) I have so many things to be thankful for- my family, friends, food, a warm house, my dolls, and so much more!

What are you doing to celebrate Thanksgiving?

Whatever you're doing, I hope you have a great Thanksgiving day filled with happiness! :)

YUM!

Happy Thanksgiving everyone! Only ONE month until Christmas! :D

P.S. Hope you can enter my Thanksgiving Doll Photo Contest! Pictures are due Saturday! :)

My 16th Birthday Post!!!

Hi everyone!!!! :)

I'm so excited!!!! Today is my birthday and I turned 16!!! YAY!!! I'm finally 16!!!!!!! :D

Today, my class sang happy birthday to me and then we had cupcakes! When I came home, my mom had made me my favorite dinner! (Barbecue Chicken and Potato Salad!)

I also had a really nice birthday celebration on Saturday with my family! We went to Outback Steakhouse, then we went home to have cake, ice cream, and open presents! 

This is what the cake looked like before everyone took a slice. LOL :D (My mom realized there was only one birthday candle left at home... and it was a trick candle, so I couldn't blow it out. ) It was pretty funny because she had to put the candle in a cup of water to extinguish it. haha

Here are some pictures of I what my family gave me for my birthday!

My mom got me this gorgeous purse, which I really wanted!

My older sister and her husband got me this beautiful Vera Bradley purse!

They also got me a pack of lip gloss!

And a cute little set of nail polish!

They also got me a nail file! My mom bought me the pretty pink nail polish!

My mom also got me a pack of mini doll-sized silly bands!

My other older sister got me a Barnes and Nobles gift card! (She was going to get me the Taylor Swift CD, but she couldn't because it hadn't come out yet, so she got me a gift card so I could buy it when it comes out!) She also got me a pink rose.

My older brother and his wife got me a gift card to Old Navy!

And I got GUM! hehe

My mom knew I really wanted the new Mandie movie, so she also got me this!

Rebecca wearing the silly bands. ;) 

Now for 16 Random Facts About Me:

1.) I was born in Florida!                                           

2.) I'm taking Algebra 2 at school.                          

3.) I'm going to get my braces off before Christmas!

4.) I wear contacts.                                                 

                         

5. )I get up at 5:30 every morning for school.               

           

6.) I want to be a  teacher after I graduate from college.               

7.) I sing soprano 1,which is the highest voice range in my school chorus.

8.) I like wearing bracelets.                                                                             

                                                             

9.) I get up at 5:30 every morning for school            

         

10.) Little House on the Prairie is one of my favorite TV shows.          

                                                         

11.) I think I've seen all the Little Women movies.           

12.) Once I had over a week of school off because of a

rather large snow storm! (That was pretty amazing!)

13.) I used to be allergic to peanuts.                               

14.) Bath and Body Works is one of my favorite stores!

15.) I can't fit all of my school books in my locker at school. LOL

16.)  I will never forget the year I was 15.                   

                   

Thank you all so much for your sweet birthday wishes! :) Thank you Hannah for the very nice birthday posts you did for me too! I had a wonderful 16th birthday! I'm so happy to have all of you as friends!

CONGRATULATIONS! YOU FOUND THE FALL SCAVENGER HUNT PICTURE! Please send me an email at agfan2010@aol.com!

TOP TEN Favorite Foods Tag!

Hey everyone!

This is tag that I came up with myself! All you do is post your TOP TEN favorite foods if you are tagged. You don't have to do it if you're tagged, but it's fun to!

Here I go!

                                                         CHOCOLATE CHIP COOKIES!!

PIZZA!!

PASTA!!

                                                                        SALAD!!!

                                                                      BROWNIES!!

YOGURT!!

STRAWBERRIES!!

POTATO SALAD= YUM!!!

                                                                         HOT DOGS!!

CHOCOLATE CAKE!!

         

I tag: Anyone that wants to do it!!

Daisy Cake & Ruthie!

Hi everyone!

This week I did a cooking camp and made many yummy things to eat! I had a lot of fun!

Here is a list of what I made with everyone during the week:

Pizza
Cupcakes
Chicken Pot Pie
Cream Puffs
Mini Biscuits Bites
Macaroni and Cheese
Chocolate Chip Cookies
Root Beer Chocolate Bundt Cake
Vanilla Ice Cream
Cinnamon Rolls
Salad
Taco Puffs
Neapolitan
Croutons
Shepherds Pie
And...... CAKE with fondant and icing!!

We made a cake and then put icing on it. Then we put the fondant covering on! After that, we put different colors and shapes of fondant on it to decorate it! I decided to make daisies with the fondant and put it on the cake!

It was all very yummy, except we didn't get to try the vanilla ice cream. I think the teacher forgot about it. Oh well. Anyway, we all got to bring our cake home with us! So, knowing me, I had to take pictures!

The cake I made with fondant on top!

Closeup! It's all edible!

Ruthie wanted to have her picture taken with the cake! (She loves cake!) ;)

We ate some of it for dessert tonight! It was delicious!

Do you like to cook or bake? Have you ever made a cake or decorated one? I'd love to know! ;)

Also, my giveaway is still going on if you'd like to enter!

~Anne~