Lots of photos

Hi Everybody,
This is Sophia and Emma.  Sorry we haven't been blogging that often and we even missed our blogoversary:(
We have been really busy and so has our mom.  Because of that, it's been easier to use instagram, takes a lot less time.
Here are a few pictures of Zoe and Chloe:

Here are Zoe and Chloe sitting above the French section in the children's department of the old public library.  They wanted to visit it before the new one opens across the street in the fall.

Recap:  Lissa from Passover at my grandma's apartment.

Seder plate:)

Recap:  earth day photo at the public gardens (Zoe, Chloe and Lissa)

Yoko had to have her photo taken during International Dance week back in April.
  And finally, here are a couple new photos of us :)

This is our favorite one and we might use it as our new user pic :)

Just wanted to add that much to our disappointment, we were confused about the deal with AG stores in Canada.  We are only getting a kiosk out here, the only specialty boutiques are in Vancouver and in the Toronto area, all the rest are kiosks like out here.  that means that you can go to the Chapters-Indigo stores that are listed on the chapters website as carrying AG products and you can order items into their store from the list of items that are available for sale in Canada.  So that comes out to mean free shipping which isn't a bad thing in the end.

That's it for now.
Sophia and Emma :) :)

Happy Belated Easter and exciting news :)

Hi Everybody,
This is Sophia and Emma.  We know easter was a while ago but here are a couple of fun photos.

A look inside Sophia's easter basket, she didn't get peanut butter eggs like the other girls but the rest of her basket is exactly the same.

Here we are all together enjoying our easter candy :)  Yes there are now 3 sets of twins in our household, (Zoe and Chloe aren't identical twins the way the 2 other sets are).
That's it for easter fun.

Now for the big exciting news:  Chapters/Indigo is opening an AG specialty boutique right here in Halifax where we live.  We found out by accident last week when our mom was shopping there.  Halifax is the biggest city in Nova Scotia and AG is supposedly putting one of those boutiques in each province, so it makes sense that it would be in Halifax.  We know this is true because the employee said that they already even have AG stock in their back room!!!  It's hard to believe as there are not even any rumors circulating yet about the Canadian specialty boutiques after the rumors about Winnipeg.

That's it for now.
Sophia and Emma :) :)

Introducing: the new girls :)

Hi Everybody,
We are the new girls:)  We're Zoe and Chloe (we're fraternal twins) and Vasilissa, but everybody calls me Lissa.

 Zoe is the one on the right and Chloe is on the left.  We're from Aix en Provence like Lucie.  She's our friend from back home, we lived on the same street.  In case you can't see in the photo, Chloe has blue eyes and I don't, I have brown eyes.  We weren't actually born in France but in Japan :)  We're cousins to Amaya and Yoko, we have japanese names as well as French ones.  Our full names are Zoe Zamiko and Chloe Chiharu.

Here is a picture of us with Lucie and her dog Milou.  We are 11 years old by the way.  We'll be 12 in June.

By the way, this is Chloe speaking, I was born with a hearing impairment so I wear hearing aids in both ears.  I am good at lip reading too.  I have learned quite a lot of sign language and the other girls here are interested in learning to sign too.

This is me Lissa, outside on a recent and rare warm spring day.  I am french Canadian, I am from Montreal, Quebec.  I am 14 years old.  I was orphaned early in life so I have mostly lived in foster homes.

Here is a close up of me, Lissa :)

And finally, one last group photo of the 3 of us.

That's it for now.
Zoe, Chloe and Lissa :)

March break (and purim too :))

Bonjour,
C'est Lucie :)  Hello, this is Lucie blogging today.

In spite of my papa's wishes, I did not have to spend March break in France but got to stay here in Canada.  Because of travel time, I would only have gotten to spend a couple of days with each of my parents (they live in different cities in France) and would have spent just as much time traveling as visiting.  So instead, I'll go to France sometime in the summer.  Instead I got to go to the Natural History Museum and see a kangaroo named Jack.

He's a red kangaroo :)

At first it looked like we wouldn't get a good look at him as he had had a long day by the time we visited the museum and here he is just barely poking his head out of his safe place, a large animal crate.  He is only  1 year old, so he isn't very big yet.  He will be 7' tall when full adult around 10 years of age, or so the naturalist told us.

komodo dragon lizards:)  The scratches on the guy's arm are from jack the kangaroo, not the lizard.

Here are 2 little snakes.  Not sure what kind but I liked the 2 of them both peeking out at the same time.

Here I am at the museum. 

Check out my fancy hair, it's called a ribbon waterfall twist.  It's not really that hard to do.

And much to everybody's delight, Jack did finally come back out for a little while.  He has a stuffie kangaroo too:)

And finally one purim picture of Emma and Yoko reaching for a piece of hamentashen :)  That's Amaya and Sophia in the middle.

That's it for now.

A la prochaine, until next time.
Love
Lucie  :)

Looking for information about something on Lucie's neck

Hi Everybody,
Sorry to post not from a doll's point of view but I wanted as wide an audience as possible.  Yesterday I discovered some marks on Lucie's neck.  They look almost like an artist's mark but I am not sure at all.  She is copyright 2012 according to her tag but I got her in 2013. Yoko who is copyright 2013 does not have this on her neck.  It looks just like the ones on this preMattel Felicity that is for sale on ebay.   The marks look like this:

And here is a link to the ebay auction:

http://www.ebay.ca/itm/American-Girl-Felicity-1ST-EDITION-Pleasant-Company-Copper-Hair-Red-Lashes-/191084277479?pt=LH_DefaultDomain_0&hash=item2c7d82aee7

Does anybody know anything about this or what they are?

Thanks!!!
Toby aka doll mom or guardian on this blog :)

ETA:  Just checked all my dolls and 3 others have these marks too.  2 of them came back from the doll hospital with new heads and have these marks.  The other one I got in 2011.

Hinamatsuri 2014

Hi Everybody,
It's Amaya and Yoko.  Yesterday march 3rd was Girls' day also called the doll festival in Japan.  For more information, check this wiki link:http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hinamatsuri
and also our post from last year.
And for extra check out the amazing superinky's blog post about this.  We love her hello kitty hina dolls and are trying to get a set ourselves from the internet :):)
http://www.superinky.com/
scroll down if she has a new post by the time you see this.

Here yoko is telling to stop using my laptop and help her clean off the dresser so that there is somewhere to put our hina dolls.

 Cleaning off the dresser together.

Our hina dolls are stored in a beautiful japanese wrapping cloth. 

More set up.

Our dolls are a wall set.  Here they are.  This kind of set is very easy to store.

We made japanese food to celebrate.  These are inari (the pouch ones) and onigiri, the ones in between the 2 rows of pouches.  They are rice wrapped around filling made with molds.  In Japan these are often sold in convenience stores or vending machines as well as restaurants and grocery stores etc.

These are the molds for the onigiri.  There is an awesome japanese ikebana store around the corner and we bought the molds there.

That's it for now.  We were going to add some pics from Valentines' day that we never got around to posting but there are so many great ones that we decided to do an entire (very belated) valentines' day post after all.  Look for that sometime soon.

Amaya and Yoko  :) :)

Giveaway has ended

Hi Everybody,
This is Sophia and Emma.  We are rather disappointed to have to post and say that not one single person entered our giveaway even though some people liked the announcement on instagram.  We don't feel much like blogging just now, so look for us on instagram and we'll be back a little later when we get inspired or do something interesting.
That's it for now.
Sophia and Emma :) :)