#kirstenlarson

[alicianyblade]

December 13th is the feast day of St. Lucia of Syracuse, patron saint of the blind, who was said to maintain her sight after losing her eyes. Some say they were taken as part of her martyrdom torture. Others say that Lucia, wanting to remain single and serve the less fortunate, gouged them out herself and gave them to the man she was once engaged to as a parting gift because he found them so beautiful. In Sweden, St. Lucia is portrayed by young girls in white dresses with red sashes and candle crowns worn on the head head. She's also honored with these, St. Lucia buns! The recipe I used is from "Kirsten's Cookbook: A Peek at Dining in the Past with Meals You Can Prepare Today" from The American Girls' Collection. Kirsten Larson and her family moved from Sweden to Minnesota in the 1840s. I didn't read her series as a kid, but I did when I was older and started to get into my Swedish heritage. Happy St. Lucia Day, everyone! May she, the lady of light who saw without her eyes, remind you that wisdom and vision come from within. Blessed be. )O( #Yule #YuleTreats #StLuciaOfSyracuse #StLuciaDay #SwedishBaking #StLuciaBuns #SaffronBuns #SwedishHeritage #SwedishChristmasTraditions #Blindness #BlindHistoricalFigures #KitchenWitch #KitchenWitchery #WheelOfTheYear #TheAmericanGirlsCollection #ArchivedAmericanGirlsSeries #KirstenLarson #KirstensCookbook https://www.instagram.com/p/CmH5D7KvCSp/?igshid=NGJjMDIxMWI=

[konzenkoryuu]

A couple of little red riding hoods. I think with flash worked better, despite natural lighting #americangirl #pleasantcompany #KirstenLarson #bjd #volks_superdollfie #yosdlillie #RhiannonYamamoto #dollphoto #littleredridinghood https://www.instagram.com/p/CjgAzM1O9rc/?igshid=NGJjMDIxMWI=

[alittlebitbethany]

For Day 13 of #averydollychristmascountdown we have the lovely @americangirlbrand #kirstenlarson dressed as #stlucia in honour of #stluciasday she is sitting on a #sled that my mum very kindly bought me from @hobbycrafthq. Image Description: a doll dressed in a #stluciagown and #stluciawreath sitting on a sled. There is a festive backdrop. #agig #agiger #americangirldollkirsten #agkirsten #americangirl #americangirldoll #americangirldolls #swedishtraditions #americangirlbrand

[queer-nanea-mitchell]

I posted 216 times in 2022

7 posts created (3%)

209 posts reblogged (97%)

Blogs I reblogged the most:

@enby-dollhouse

@desertdollranch

@kirstenlarsons

@americangirlmom

@benbunny

I tagged 39 of my posts in 2022

#american girl doll - 6 posts

#american girl - 5 posts

#ag dolls - 2 posts

#nanea mitchell - 2 posts

#american girl dolls - 2 posts

#rebecca rubin - 2 posts

#lucy morgan - 2 posts

#wasn't that what elon musk named his kid? - 1 post

#i love that you're matching! - 1 post

#but she looks so cute - 1 post

Longest Tag: 124 characters

#my great grandmother was actually an actress in the 1920s and she also changed her name presumably because it was too german

My Top Posts in 2022:

#5

Meet Rebecca

Meet Rebecca Rubin, a Jewish-German girl growing up in 1814 in New York City. Rebecca longs to be in the spotlight, which isn't easy in her big family.

Read about the historical basis of Rebecca's story under the cut.

Moving Rebecca's story 100 years back meant I had to make some changes. While New York City already had a thriving Jewish community by the regency era, it looked very different to that of 1914's. There was only one synagogue in the city and it followed Sephardic liturgy, despite the majority of the community being Ashkenazi. There also wasn't a large number of Russian Jews in New York, instead most new Jewish immigrants were coming from Poland or Germany. In the 18-teens and twenties German-Jewish immigration especially ramped up and by 1825, the German-Jewish community had established their own synagogue in the city.

33 notes - Posted January 16, 2022

#4

Purim with Rebecca (1814)

Chag Purim sameach! Happy Purim!

This year, Rebecca is Little Red Riding Hood for Purim, complete with a mask that matches her cloak. The tradition of dressing up in costumes for Purim dates back to the medieval era and considering the popularity of costume balls during the regency era, Rebecca would have likely also dressed up.

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39 notes - Posted March 17, 2022

#3

Nanea has arrived!

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48 notes - Posted September 24, 2022

#2

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70 notes - Posted October 8, 2022

My #1 post of 2022

Meet Lucy

Meet Lucy Morgan, a 9-year-old girl living in 1874 Victoria, British Columbia, one of Canada's newest provinces. Lucy's father runs a general store and the family lives in the apartment above. Lucy's parents are a part of a group of 700 Black Americans that left San Francisco and the extreme oppression they were experiencing, for Victoria in the late 1850s and early 1860s. These settlers created a thriving community in this growing city, however, they began to leave in large numbers after the end of the American civil war to return to the United States and Lucy worries that someday soon her family will leave too. 

I can't wait to post more of Lucy's story in the future and its historical context!

131 notes - Posted May 29, 2022

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[in-pleasant-company]

Skirt from Kirsten’s Winter Skirt and Blouse

Female figure, unknown date, American Swedish Institute

One of my blog followers asked if I found any evidence that Kirsten’s Winter Skirt and Blouse were inspired by Sami design. It’s definitely a possibility, and this wooden figure wears a skirt which is very similar to Kirsten’s. She's also carrying a baby in her traditonal Sami carrying bag.

#kirstenlarson #americangirl #agig #aghistorical

https://www.instagram.com/in_pleasant_company/p/CZAgab2LO5R/?utm_medium=share_sheet

@thekirstenplug you asked about possible Sami inspiration

[americangirlstar]

[I'm @kirstenlarsons] if you've seen it Tessa Campanelli from Degrassi High, if not any "other girl" in a love triangle from a teen show

oooooooh

medium-light classic mold + light blonde hair with bangs + green eyes

meet: THIS CUTE OUTFIT

[in-the-dollpalace]

(I'm @kirstenlarsons) I just noticed they took all hairstyles with bangs out of the cyo, plus on the site they have decided the dolls for age range (the truly mes and cyo dolls are 6+ while the character dolls are 8+ which is weird) but what's weirder is that in the main page it advertises the Wold by us dolls as 8+, but when you go on the "find the perfect doll" page they are literally no where to be found (plus Kira is both in her own category and the historical characters' one for some reason.

What in hell is happening

idek anymore

[desertdollranch]

[BTW I'm @kirstenlarsons] I just received some dolls from my childhood (three fabric dolls from the My Doll brand my aunt found in her house) and I'm a bit stuck on the process of deciding who they're going to be. How do you usually go through with that?

Good question!

For modern characters, I like to give them a slightly obscure or unusual interest of mine. Then I can fully develop that aspect of my character's life, because it's something I'm passionate about and so can make it look realistic for them. You can also give them a major life event that has an impact on them, like maybe they visited a beach where they found an ancient coin washed up from a shipwreck, so now they're interested in metal detecting and finding all sorts of cool little treasures on the beach.

For historical characters, I pick a year close to where something especially interesting was happening, and incorporate that into the background of their lives, kind of the way American Girl does. It doesn't have to be a huge one-time thing; like with Samantha, she was coming of age in a time when technology was changing the way people lived their lives, when women began demanding the right to participate equally in society, and when the feelings around child labor was beginning to change. Compare that with Nanea experiencing a one-time historical event that shaped her life and her future.

I hope that helps!

[zoominag]

Intro Post

I hope you're enjoying the ZoomInAG series!

I've realized that on the individual outfit posts Tumblr mobile does the zooming in for you, so it'll be blurry to look at. It shows up tiny and unblurred on browser though.

Here are some links that might be helpful:

Zoom In AG tag (just the art posts).

Rules of the game for how the series works.

Send me your doll or OC to draw link goes to a post with more info, which in turn has a link to a Google form with space for you to describe your idea or upload pictures or collages.

MistakesThere are definitely mistakes, and I'm open to corrections, especially if I got your culture wrong. Here's how to let me know.

Asks: I'm happy to post clips or zooms of anything I've posted before! Let me know if you would like to see:

A specific outfit and year ("Show me Addy's meet dress in 1875")

A specific run of an outfit ("Show me all of Addy's meet dress variations")

A specific year ("Show me everyone's meet dresses in 1875")

A decade or series of years ("Show me everything from the 1870s")

Any individual figure at 8x zoom ("Show me Addy in 1875 at 8x")

Links to specific posts below the cut.

The big posts:

(* to indicate ones that haven't aired yet; after they air I'll add links. Check later to see these!)

Canon main girls (Imgur link), no OCs or Best Friends Canon and my original characters, no Best Friends * Canon main girls and canon Best Friends (in other words, all the historical dolls that have been released)Canon main girls and Best Friends for each (per @americangirlstar's Best Friends series) Canon and original characters and Best Friends * Historical OCs by AG Tumblr users! If you'd like me to include your historical OC(s), please fill out this Google form, which will guide you through sending me your character's collection, with space for reference pics, collages, or just descriptions of what you'd like to see. More info and guidelines at this post. *Reboot this will address a variety of issues in Caroline, Courtney, Molly, and potentially others. *Canon characters and their siblings *Canon characters, OCs, and siblings

Individual meet outfit posts:

(* to indicate ones that haven't aired yet; after they air I'll add links. Check later to see these!)

Kaya'aton'my, 1765 Felicity Merriman, 1775 Caroline Abbot , 1812 Josefina Montoya, 1825 Cecile Rey, 1853 Marie-Grace Gardner, 1853 Kirsten Larson, 1855 Addy Walker, 1865 Samantha Parkington, 1904 Rebecca Rubin, 1915 * Claudie Wells, 1922 Kit Kitteredge, 1932 Nanea Mitchell, 1941 Molly McIntire, 1943 Maryellen Larkin, 1954 Melody Ellison, 1964 Julie Albright, 1974 Courtney Moore, 1986

Speaking Rain, 1765 Elizabeth Cole, 1775 Lydia Livingston, 1812 Clara Montoya, 1825 Singing Bird, 1855 Sarah Moore, 1865 Nellie O'Malley, 1904 Ana Rubin, 1915 * Nina, 1922 Ruthie Smithens, 1932 Lily Suda, 1941 Emily Bennett, 1943 Davy Fenstermacher, 1954 Val Porter, 1964 Ivy Ling, 1974 Tina d'Amico, 1986

My OCs: Mazal Cardozo, 1684 * Carlotte Finch, 1724 Rachel Gabay, 1790 Hannah Kane, 1834 He-Mei Hsieh, 1875 * Gertrude Levy, 1884 Diya (Possibly changing name to Nasreen), 1890 * Harriet Shapiro, 1894 Bernice Wright, 1925 Shazmeen Malik, 2001

My OCs' Best Friends: Agnes Jonker, 1684 * Jane Finch, 1724 Abigail Schorr, 1790 Delia Freedman, 1834 Florence Coburn, 1875 * Mabel Kaplan, 1884 Medha (Possibly changing name to Mahtab), 1890 * Matilda Greene, 1894 Lawrence Ross, 1925 Liora Blickman, 2001

Other people's OCs: Susanna Hanchett, 1664, by @desertdollranch Héloise Cormier, 1765, by @autistickirstenlarson Violette Metoyer, 1833, by @getintothesun * Aoife Callaghan, 1846, by @autistickirstenlarson * Charlotte Devereux, 1853, by @gardner-n-pardner * Lucy Morgan, 1874, by @queer-nanea-mitchell * Alice McDougal, 1914, by @mapleleagirls * Francie Whitman, 1917, by @futuristicsaladparadise * Francesca Vitale, 1920, by @autistickirstenlarson * Dinah Hope Bellini, 1924, by @lorsdollventures * Lilyann Bonney, 1939, by @kirstenlarsons * Honoka Oishi, 1949, by @autistickirstenlarson * Adrienne Davis, 1957, by @addywalkerstan * Karine Bedrosian, 1971, by @autistickirstenlarson * Remy Blake, 1997, by @americangirloftoday * Brielle Walters, 2012, by @kylejsugarman * Sophie Dwyer, 2003, by @kaileeandag * Lexie Sarah Gilbert, 2016, by @adventuresindolls * Summer Louise Williams, 2016, by @adventuresindolls

Progress by decade:

17th Century 1700-1739 1740-1769 1770-1799 1800-1849 1850-1899 * 1900-1949 * 1950-1999 * 2000-202?

Thanks for reading and I hope you enjoy Zoom In AG!

[annkathryne]

In the midst of this season of #Advent, sitting in darkness and waiting for the #LightoftheWorld... Happy Feast of St. Lucy! #luciaday #agreatcloudofwitnesses #kirstenlarson

[costumesbyaly]

I can’t wait for my nieces to start ready #americangirls books. I wonder which will be their favorite ❤️. #elizaschuyler #kirsten #vikings #kirstenlarson #americangirl #americangirldoll #historicalfashion #historicalclothing #18thcenturycostume #elizahamilton #hamiltoncostume http://etsy.me/2zKdM4x

[alittlebitbethany]

For day 6 of #averydollychristmascountdown Kirsten rushed to the fire place this morning and was delighted to discover that St Nicholas left her some sweets #dollphotography #dolls #christmas #kirstenlarson #americangirl #americangirldoll #americangirldolls https://www.instagram.com/p/CIc_uM-MIFF/?igshid=15g63pd59cymz

[alittlebitbethany]

For day 14 of #averydollychristmascountdown we have Emily and Kirsten playing with this adorable train set I think it’s perfect for doll photos #americangirldoll #emilybennett #agdoll #trains #trainset #kirstenlarson #historicaldoll #dollphotography #christmas #xmas #dolls #christmastree 
https://www.instagram.com/p/B6DSsAFB6Xh/?igshid=k97rsigu4g5q

[alittlebitbethany]

For day 9 of #averydollychristmascountdown we have Kirsten baking a #prinsessårta or princess cake a traditional Swedish cake I made the eggs and cake myself out of clay #kirstenlarson #americangirldoll #christmas #xmas #baking #americangirl #miniatures #clayminiature 
https://www.instagram.com/p/B52rcxlBffu/?igshid=eyoapgh1wrig

[alittlebitbethany]

For #itsadollygoodseason here’s a photo of #kirstenlarson and Billy #yulegoat ( from @ikeauk ) sitting under my Nan’s #christmastree . Image description: a doll dresses in a #stlucia gown and sash sitting under a lit up (with lights) christmas tree holding a Yule goat. The tree skirting is red. #americangirldoll #agig #agiger #dolls #dollphotography #adollygoodseason #dollygoodseason #americangirldolls #americangirl #agdolls #americangirlbrand #christmastreelights #stluciasday #swedishtradition @americangirlbrand 
https://www.instagram.com/bethany_coughlan/p/CXqO9_HMLZA/?utm_medium=tumblr

[alittlebitbethany]

for day 13 of #averydollychristmascountdown #kirstenlarson would like to wish you a #happystluciaday I am absolutely thrilled to own Kirsten’s #stlucia outfit thanks mum and dad Image Description: A doll standing by some curtains dressed as St Lucia in a white gown with a red sash and a wreath of candles on her head she’s reaching out to touch a Christmas tree. #stluciaday #swedishtraditions #americangirldoll #americangirlbrand #agig #agiger #christmas #dolls #dollphotography #americangirldolls 
https://www.instagram.com/p/CXayEl2s_zz/?utm_medium=tumblr