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"Tonight's the night!" said Willa. "I can't wait. I'm so excited about our campout!"

It was the last weekend of August, and the most beautiful summer that Willa could remember. She and her friends Kendall, Camille, and Emerson were pretending to be forest fairies while they waited for their friend Ashlyn to join them. They all gathered around a large tree stump, dubbed "The Fairy Queen's Throne" by Camille, to talk about that night's camping adventure. They had all gotten permission from their parents to go camping on Willa's family's property.

"I'm excited too!" Kendall said. "Thanks for thinking up such a great new thing for us to do together, Willa."

"I got the idea from this Wilderness Wendy book," said Willa, showing her book to her friends.

"Wilderness Wendy says camping under the stars is really, really fun, but only if you do it right."

"Do we have to follow all the rules?" Camille asked. "That doesn't sound very fun."

"The rest of you can follow whatever rules you want," Emerson answered. She was snacking on a bag of marshmallows, and held out the bag to Willa. "I'm just here to have fun, even if that means breaking the rules."

"No, Emerson, we have to do everything right tonight," Kendall replied. "Our parents only let us go camping by ourselves because we promised to follow all of the rules. If we can't do that, we won't get to do this again!"

Emerson ignored her. She put down the marshmallow bag and stood upright on the stump. She sang a silly song to the tune of "Yankee Doodle":

WellieWishers, Shout hooray! We'll surely have a ball! Because tonight we're camping out, The most fun fun of all.

"I'm here to have fun too," said Willa, "but Wilderness Wendy says that the fun part of camping is being outdoors, surrounded by the trees and the birds and stars in the sky. I think so too."

"I think the best part is putting up the tent," said Kendall, who liked to build things. "It's like being inside a sweet little house."

"I think the best part is singing songs and telling scary stories and playing games," said Emerson.

"I think best part is seeing the night sky full of magical twinkling stars," said Camille dreamily.

Willa laughed. "It sounds like we're all ready to go camping right now."

"Hey," Kendall said. "We've been here a long time. Where's Ashlyn? I hope she didn't forget that tonight's the night."

Just then, Ashlyn came walking up the trail towards the four other girls, pulling a wagon behind her.

"Holy cow, Ashlyn!" said Willa. "What's all that stuff?"

"This is camping equipment," said Ashlyn. "It's the tent, and a few other things that we'll need tonight, like bug repellent and mosquito netting."

"Will there be lots of bugs and flies?" asked Emerson, wrinkling her nose.

"I hope there are," gushed Camille, clasping her hands together. "Lots and lots of lightning bugs and fireflies. They're fairies in disguise."

Ashlyn smiled. "I wish fairies would help us get set up. But I'm afraid we're on our own. We have a lot to do before the fun can start. Let's go find a spot to set up the tent, and then we'll get everything else unpacked."

The five girls picked up their overnight bags and chose a flat, shady spot under the oak trees. In only a few minutes, they had the tent set up.

"Perfect!" Ashlyn said, admiring how big it was inside. "Now let's unpack everything else and decide how we're going to divide it up."

Nobody moved or said anything.

"Remember?" Ashlyn asked them. "When we were planning our camping trip last Saturday, I said I would bring the tent. I gave the four of you lists of everything else we need, like flashlights and sleeping bags and snacks." She groaned. "Didn't any of you bring anything from your lists?"

Everyone looked at each other awkwardly, still saying nothing.

Ashlyn turned to Emerson. "Your backpack looks pretty full. What did you bring?"

"I have puppets to entertain you," Emerson said, reaching into her backpack.

She held up the dinosaur and the chicken and made them say, "Hi, WellieWishers! Thanks for including us. Bawk, bawk!"

"What I mean is," Ashlyn said, "what did you bring that was on your list?"

"Oh, yeah," Emerson said. "I had marshmallows on my list." She took out the bag of marshmallows she had been snacking from.

Ashlyn stared at the empty bag.

"Uh," Emerson stammered. "Oops. I guess my dinosaur and chicken got hungry. Nice going, you two," she scolded her toys.

"It's no big deal," Willa said. "We're not allowed to make a fire, so we can't have s'mores anyway."

"Those weren't for s'mores, Willa!" Ashlyn exclaimed. "They were for putting in our hot chocolate. Camille, hot chocolate was on your list."

"So that's what that word was?" Camille asked. "Because on my way home, I stopped by the pond when I heard a frog croaking. I thought maybe he was a prince turned into a frog, and he needed help getting out of the pond. I put the list down next to the lily pads so he could hop out of the water. When he hopped away, I pulled my list out from the pond, but the paper was so soggy that I couldn't understand the words. I thought it said 'chompmate', and I did not know what that was."

Camille opened her bag and pulled out what was inside.

"So I brought some grass to make friendship bracelets," she said. But Ashlyn didn't smile like Camille had hoped. Instead, she sighed.

"Kendall?" Ashlyn asked. "Did you read your list?"

"I didn't have a chance to read it," Kendall said, shrugging her shoulders. "On my walk home, the wind blew the list out of my hands, and into the sky. Then a bird took it and put it in her nest. I let her keep it, because maybe she needed it more than I did. But I did bring something useful."

She pulled out a walkie talkie from her bag. "It's just like real forest rangers use."

"Just one?" Ashlyn asked.

"My mom has the other ones," Kendall said. "But I can find some pinecones and we can pretend we all have one."

"Wilderness Wendy wouldn't--" Willa began, but Ashlyn stopped her.

"Willa," Ashlyn said, "Please tell me you brought something useful from your list."

"I didn't need my list," Willa said. "I didn't think our campout was shaping up the way I imagined it. Wilderness Wendy builds a shelter out of sticks and sleeps on a bed of leaves under the shining stars. I want to be a real camper, like her.

"So I made my list useful. I folded it into a sun hat. That's exactly the sensible kind of thing that Wilderness Wendy would do."

"Great," Ashlyn grumbled. "So we aren't prepared at all for our campout."

"But Wilderness Wendy says we don't need any of that stuff," Willa insisted. "We don't even need a tent. We only need what is strictly necessary, like a sun hat. Nature will provide everything else we need."

"Willa," Ashlyn sighed, "we talked about this! The key to a successful camping trip is--"

"Being surrounded by nature and living as simply as the animals do," Willa read from her Wilderness Wendy book.

"No," Ashlyn said. "It's--"

"A place to gather around and tell stories," Kendall added.

"A starry sky," said Camille.

"Fun and games and puppet shows!" added Emerson.

"Of course all those things are important," Ashlyn said, "but the real key to a successful camping trip is preparation. Since we're not prepared, we'll need to find a way to get the basics: food, water, and a source of light. Then if there's time before it gets dark, we can focus on the extras."

"But animals live in the wilderness," Willa added, "and they can survive just fine without equipment. Wilderness Wendy says the whole point of camping is being simple and natural. That's what makes it fun."

"But we aren't going to have fun at all if we can't work together and make this happen!" Ashlyn scolded.

"Don't worry about us, Ashlyn," Kendall said. "Willa is right. None of the stuff on your lists is really necessary. Not for real campers anyway, like Wilderness Wendy."

"I guess Wilderness Wendy and I have different ideas about what's necessary for camping," Ashlyn said.

"She's the expert," Willa said, hugging her book.

"Fine," Ashlyn said. "I'm getting cold out here, so I'm going to go in the tent and warm up. The rest of you can figure out what you want to do instead, since you decided it's more fun to go camping without anything useful. Unless anyone wants to change their mind and join me?"

"We'll be fine," Willa said, before anyone could answer. "We're going to start building our shelter right now."

"Ohh-kay," said Ashlyn, turning her back on her friends and going into the tent.

(Part 2 will be in the reblog)

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gooodbyee 200 dollars helloo piece of pleastic

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✨️💗"Star Color Pendant! Color Charge!"💗✨️

Another pic of Claudie in her Cure Star cosplay before I change her into a back-to-school outfit. My sister made her pen and pendant :)

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My Courtney is a toy collector

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I went to the county fair and there was a doll sized quilt show happening in the fiber arts hall?!

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Saige and I took a side trip to the Ojito Wilderness during our weekend camping getaway. This is such a uniquely beautiful place, dotted with these naturally occurring sandcastle-shaped formations called hoodoos. If you remember your elementary school geology, you'll know that these are formed when the softer sandstone erodes away faster than the harder rocks at the top. The loose, wind-eroded sand all around was lovely to walk on when we ditched our hiking boots.

Saige canonically lives in New Mexico like me, so it's always fun to take her out on adventures she absolutely would have done and enjoyed even without my help.

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Kirsten is minding Britta while she works on her embroidery.

Britta’s dress is made from vintage fabric from the late 80’s/early 90’s.

I found Britta’s vintage cradle on Mercari and made the bedding from a partially ruined Kirsten mattress. Her blanket is from a woven vintage fabric as well.

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Ms. Valerie Frizzle

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also just wanna clarify cause i havent in a while that ag is allowed to make white dolls, the problem is that they're a) prioritizing the white dolls over the dolls of color to an absurdly obvious degree, b) not even bothering to make the white girls interesting. summer is literally just isabelle with groucho marx glasses and grace's second book subplot as her main plot. nobody had a problem with joss bc she was fucking interesting– yeah she had the same "fight with best friend" plot but it was over her fighting her own internalized misogyny, having two interests ag had never touched on before (they got close with kanani's paddleboarding but her surfing/cheerleading was new as hell) AND she was really good disabled rep AND on TOP of that she had a new original design that didn't make her look like every other white brunette doll. compare to kira, who is "julie doll with a pink-shaded lea collection" and how nobody gave a fuck other than to say "her best friend has a way better design." also compare to how ag released their bland white y2k dolls ONE MONTH after kavi debuted, then debuted the next white girl of the year DURING KAVI'S YEAR. you see why we're mad??

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i think about the 30th Anniversary Star Trek Barbie and Ken set so much actually,,, look at them go

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So I tried my hand at doing my own modern take on Samantha's meet dress and I think it turned out really cute 🩷

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Raphaela enjoyed visiting the beach while camping at Possum Kingdom State Park. Bonus picture of her strolling among the wildflowers!

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out of box collectors: i wanna actually hold and enjoy my doll. i just don’t understand why people want to keep their dolls in boxes.

in box collectors: STOP JUDGING US FOR KEEPING DOLLS IN BOXES. THERES SO MUCH HATE FOR IN BOX COLLECTORS IN THIS COMMUNITY!!!!! HOW DARE YOU TELL US HOW TO COLLECT

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I’d love to finish this American Girl series one of these days, I adore these girls

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What isekai is this