Creatology Doll Clothes Ensemble Sets At Michael's

Greetings and Salutations Doll Friends!!

This is a blog post I've been working on a while... Or rather it's one that I orignally intended to be about my first 'girl' clothes ensemble from the Creatology doll clothes line. Then it took me so long to get it posted that it turned out I'd purchased two more ensembles in the meantime. 

Here they are!

Aren't they cute?? (*Note the red sweater doesn't come with the middle outfit, I added it because I thought it was cute)

What can I say? When I am in town and drive by a Michael's and know I always have a 40% off coupon in my phone (because they kind of have a standing coupon) it's hard to drive by and not pop in and grab a dolly treat for myself  the dolls. (Teehee)

I know I've spoken about this doll clothes line before with the Creatology soccer outfit I bought for the boy dolls. They are made pretty well especially considering the price point. So I imagine I'll end up with quite a few more of the cute ensembles. As I mentioned in that post, they are made a bit on the small size of things since Creatology dolls are only 17inches. So I think they'd be best suited for Journey Girls or Tolly Tots or other dolls that run on the slimmer side. I need to try some of them on an actual American Girl doll but I guess I didn't think of it again until I was actually typing this sentence... So I'll try and do that soon too!

 As I mentioned in that post I had already gotten all four dolls in the line as of when I wrote that post in July. I wrote about when I got two of them; Creatology Doll Lauren and Creatology Doll Zoey who became Milo Yiannopoulis' Doppelganger doll. I apparently forgot to write about the other two coming home to the doll house though...? I have Creatology Doll Kaylee  in this post from the Halloween party but sadly couldn't find even one posting about poor Madeleine!! I looked and looked and can't find her in any of my postings. Poor dear!! I'll have to put her in the Christmas Party scene I have planned! If you're curious about her though here is a great review of her: Living A Dolls Life Review 

So as you can tell, I like the doll line pretty well....

This is the first one I brought home and I'll let it's photo's show you how they are packaged...

Pretty easy to get out of packaging... Just slide out outfit and snip the fasteners. (Note, I recommmend cutting from the cardboard side so you don't cut the clothes!)

This is the second one I bought... Must've forgotten to photo the zebra striped pants outfit but you can see it in the photos of the clothes at the store I think. 

Other items I've seen lately at Michael's? These charms were on clearance for $1 and so I bought one of the baby bottle ones for my baby sibling dolls. I think it'll be perfect size.

They also had these adorable small 'cookie cutters' that are perfect size for the dolls... I found the price a bit prohibitive but maybe someday I'll go crazy and buy a set with a 40% off coupon. 

Well, I feel like this blog post is a bit scatterbrained but that'd be the best way to describe me on this Christmas Eve Eve... Haha! Have a lot of little loose ends to tie off just like most people this time of year... But by end of the day today I plan to nestle down in my own little house with my own little family and just enjoy the reason we celebrate Christmas in the first place: The Peace and Love of Jesus Christ our Savior. I just love Him to the moon and back. Jesus loves you, in case no one ever told you... He is the best Gift ever. He's all yours, all you have to do is invite Him in.

Merry Christmas Eve Eve!
Till Next time!
XXOO
Heather

Michael's In Store Reporting!!

Greeting and Salutations Doll Friends!!

First off, let me say that if you stopped by in the last 24 hours or so... You may have found this blog post as only photo's and a one word title. I tell you, I am having a dickens of a time getting the Blogger App to cooperate with me lately. So, in a desperate attempt to just get the post to upload, I finally just hit "publish" instead of "save as draft" yesterday morning. Then it finally posted and I didn't have a chance to get to my computer to finish it properly. Oy! So... I apologize if you got an 'incomplete' post! 

Now... On to the dolls! So last weekend I had a friend send me a linky to Michael's  website showing that they had a 60% off coupon for Friday and Saturday. Since my family was planning on going into town on Saturday, I simply had to stop in and find something with the coupon! Right? 

So my first inclination was to buy one of the dolls... At 60% off it would make a doll only 9.99!! However, I've been trying to stop buying dolls as much because the population of the Doll House is already rather large... Teehee. Not to mention I kind of already own one of each of these dolls. Still, I picked out a Zoey doll and put her in my cart to think about her. I customized the Zoey doll I had into a doppelganger doll named Milo. He's super adorable but it means I don't have a Zoey doll in my collection as she is made. Then again, I don't really like her hair as it is out of the box either. I thought "Maybe I can buy her and customize her with a girl wig?" 

Meanwhile, I decided to browse around and see what else there was... So many cute outfits!!

I already have a few of the outfits in the Doll House wardrobe... They are very cute and well made clothes. However, just so you know, I don't think they'd work very well for American Girl Dolls or Our Generation dolls with well stuffed torso's. As you can see in the soccer uniform, even on the slimmer old Battat body style, the clothes are a bit snug on dolls with thicker torso's. The Creatology dolls are a bit shorter than AG Dolls as you can see in this post about my first creatology doll Lauren who I re-named Nadine. I have her next to my AG Lilly Doll in that post.

I was excited to see that they've released a tee-pee in the Creatology line!! How cute! I considered buying it with the 60% off coupon but I already own a My Life As Doll Tent Set I got as a gift from my sweet husband months ago... What's that? I know, I've never even told you about it or shown it to you have I? I kept wanting to take it outside so I could make a fun and proper 'camping scene' but the weather hasn't ever cooperated! However, I recently got a great 'outdoor' back drop I think will work great for it. So... Suffice to say I didn't want to buy a teepee when I've yet to use the tent. Maybe someday? In my minds eye I imagine a fun 'camp site' where a tent and a tee-pee could be set up with a bunch of dolls! Wouldn't it be fun? But... Space to store all of it always has to be in the back of my mind because there is only so much room in the Doll Room!

I considered buying the little outfit withthe dragonfly on the shirt... But I just think the outfit being $14.99 instead of $9.99 like many of the other outfits seems silly. I am sure it's because you get the brown hat... But the hat wasn't worth $5 extra to me so I left it on the shelf. 

In the same aisle as the dolls they had 'Toob' toys!! I was so excited because I've been looking at the Toob Tools on Amazon for months now and if I could get them for $8, I was gonna take the plunge!! The first set I saw was this adorable set of fruit and veggies. So adorable!! They sat in my cart for a while too...

However, despite them having a huge selection of the Toobs, they didn't have the tools! Bummer! 

They are pretty cool... The only other Toob I thought lent itself to doll play was a tube of prehistoric mammal skulls that would be neat for a doll classroom perhaps. 

However they had these Mini-Toob toys and I was pretty tempted to buy a little pack because the dolls would like Toob Toys themselves I am sure of it. Still, they were $5.99 a pack and I was trying to stay reasonable. Maybe someday!

I was pretty surprised and kind of excited to see an American Girl craft display right behind me in the Creatology doll aisle. Cute! They had several sets. They were all a bit rich for my blood but I love the idea of selling kits specifically designed to craft something for your doll. That would be a keepsake forever for a girl with her dolly, right?

Given that I was having a Birthday Party in the Doll House last weekend, I was a bit tempted by these cute 'paper products' but the price, I think, is a bit mad. They coud've at least included a set of 8 of each of the items if they were going to charge that... I guess perhaps, being that I am a former paper crafter, in utter shock over how much paper items can cost pre-made. Wowzers! They also had doll sized party hats but also were kind of pricey... So I'll perhaps I'll have to pull out some of my paper crafting supplies and merge my two hobbies a bit and make some doll sized paper items. Eh?

Then I browsed around the store with dolls in mind... You know, just in case I found something else besides the Creatology stuff to use my coupon on. I snapped photos of everything I saw that I considered doll sized. These cute customizeable dolly bags would be a great idea to get for a Doll Party with kids. Each guest could customize their bag and then take it home as a party favor. Eh?

These little dressers are perfect size for dolls and you could stain them any color you like. I have no shortage of doll furniture myself but these are a great option for anyone who wants doll furniture at a good price I thought!

These crates would be great muli-purpose items for the doll house! I didn't buy any but... Someday I am gonna get some and make a craft or something!

Great doll sized 'treasure chests' for only $1 each! Again, they'd be great party craft favors!

Little buckets!

So many chalkboards that would be great for the Sweet Shoppe or for a classroom for dolls as well!

These cute cutters would be good for dolls... If you found them at a Garage Sale for 10% of that price! Hahaha.

More doll sized bags... These you could also use for a doll craft and decorate them with stickers or stamps.

These paint cans would fit right in on the doll work bench. 

These little plastic paint pots would be good for doll sized take-away containers or other doll dishes or crafts...

They also had packs of these adorable little jars and bottles!!

They'd be great for the doll kitchen... Wouldn't it be fun to 'put up some preserves' in them? I bet you could make some doll preserves in them the same way I made doll sized drinks with glue and beads.

These little jars would also be great for the Sweet Shoppe! So many fun things at this store!

So what did I bring home to the Doll House? Well, as I was browsing, I saw that they had their great storage boxes on sale six for $10! I've used these boxes all over my real house to organize things, especially in my paper crafting hobby. They are pretty and sturdy and, when you get them on sale, a great option for storing all manner of stuff. I've wanted to get some for the Doll Room for a while now so I can organize it a bit better. Here is the bag of the colors I chose. Aren't they pretty and festive?

I am kicking myself for not taking a 'before' photo of my doll cabinet but you'll just have to trust me when I tell you that this is vastly improved!! It made optimal use of the space in the cabinet and it was actually really good I dragged everything out of that cupboard anyway because, as you can imagine, there were things so badly organized that I had forgotten I even had them. Teehee. So I have many blog posts in my head about some of the stuff I found in there in the works in my head. 

Since I decided to buy $10 worth of the boxes, I decided to just get one of the $9.99 ensembles with my 60% off coupon. I chose this adorable yellow outit. For $4, it was a steal. 

I brought it home and immediately put it on my sweet Sharon Doll to wear to the party that afternoon!

Perhaps you noticed it in the party photos from that post? Isn't it a cute outfit?

I've never been one to wear much yellow in my own life (It just isn't the best with my skin tone... Despite all my wishing it was) and so it's alway fun to buy yellow for the dolls. What's the fun of having dollies if you can't live vicariously through them a bit, eh?

Well, I am outta time... Gotta go get ready for church!
Have a great day Doll Friends!
Till next time!
XXOO
Heather

Creatology Soccer Ensemble

Hi Doll Friends!

As I've mentioned before in other posts, Micheals craft store is discontinuing carrying the Springfield doll line. They've started selling a whole new kind of doll made by Creatology. They are very cute dolls! I have all four of them already! Hard to pass up when you can buy them for about $15 each with a 40% off coupon! (They are $25 full price)

However, I had never bought any of the doll clothes by Creatology. They are $14.99 regular price! Only about $10 less than a whole doll! Hard to do... 

However one day I had a 50% off coupon and finally decided to give it a go. There were two reasons I wanted this outfit. The first is the black shoes! I needed plain black shoes to go with Josh dolls tuxedo! I had quite a few "boy" type shoes but nothing that could pass for boy shoes. So... These were perfect. 

Obviously the second reason I bought the set was for the soccer outfit... It is pretty cute.

Here is photo on back of box of other ensembles.

Here is Vito wearing the outfit. I put a different pair of shoes on him. Fits pretty well... Although the Creatology dolls are a smidge smaller than standard dolls of this type... They are a bit thinner and are only 17inches tall.

So the shirt has a bit of a gap in back when you close it.

All in all, pretty cute... I'll eventually get the photos done of Heather and Josh in all their wedding finery done and I'll show you the shoes that came with set then!

Chat soon!

XXOO

Heather 

Creatology Madeleine From Micheals

Greetings and Salutations Doll Friends!

Sometimes I take photos for the blog with a specific post in mind and leave them on my phone until I have a chance to take corresponding photos later... Apparently sometimes I totally forget I have taken them and then not posted them. My fasting Thrift Shoppes for Lent has been good for me because it's given me a 'pause' in the influx of dolly items into the Doll House and allowed me to go back and look for things I might've neglected to post about. It happens! Given that blogging is a multi step process... You have to think of a post subject, set up whatever photos you might want to show, post them to blog (no easy feat sometimes given that the Blogger app for iPhone is a total dud!) then flesh it in with writing. So I guess it's no surprise that sometimes one or two of the steps happen and the rest get missed. Eh? Case in point?

My Creatology Madeleine doll. I own all four of the dolls in the Creatology Doll Line from Michael's Craft Store. How can I not when you can, with the 40% off coupon, buy one for only $15! Sometimes you can even find a 50% off coupon and get one even cheaper. I actually customized one of them into a totally different doll and so I may or may not go back and get another one of that sort to leave 'as is'... You never know. Teehee.

So Madeleine here came home in January 2016. I found these two photos of her in the box on my phone from back then when I was looking for another old photo. Apparently I photographed her box with intentions of writing a post about her after I got her changed into different clothes and whatnot and then never actually wrote the blog post. So... Better late than never. Right?

So here she is in regular 'street' clothes. Her outfit is made up of several different brands and bits from the Doll Closet. As you can maybe tell, she is wearing Journey Girl shoes and those do tend to work well enough for these dolls. 

I re-named her Jenn because she is a doppelganger doll of my good friend whom she favors. 

Here she is with Amara in front of a new photo backdrop I got off eBay of graffiti on a brick wall. Isn't it neat?

So I think the Creatology dolls are pretty great especially considering how inexpensive they are. Just fun simple little dolls that make great siblings or friends for American Girl and other 18inch sized dolls. 

Better run! Monday morning and it'll be time to get the family up soon. 

Happy First Day of Spring!! 

Till Next Time!
XXOO
Heather