A Pirate Ship

Did you girls just see Andy Cumberland leaving our house?

He was helping us with our Pirate ship

Ooh, a Pirate ship

And Maddie likes Andy

Oooooohhh

We're just friends, or trying to be, I guess.

Sombrita don't eat the pirate ship

  

Pirate captain, pegleg and a hook

look at the range of pieces

this fits over and can be removed from the captains cabin

the ships wheel turns

the cannon rotates

anchors away

cabin boy and cook

the masts go up

and up

So where's it gonna go?

Josefina's party dress

velcro at the wrists

tiny buttons and real button holes

Cousins in the sun

What do these 5 girls have in common?

They are cousins by face mold.

When I first seriously started looking at American Girl dolls, this was the face mold that caught my eye most. American Girl when it was owned by Pleasant Company released this face mold in 1997. American Girl wiki has a good description of the mold, and a list of the dolls released that are using it

Dolls with the Josefina Mold

Historical Characters and Best Friend Characters

• Josefina Montoya
• Nellie O'Malley
• Elizabeth Cole
• Julie Albright
• Rebecca Rubin

Girls of the Year

• Marisol Luna
• Chrissa Maxwell
• McKenna Brooks
• Grace Thomas

American Girl of Today, Just Like You, and My American Girl

• JLY #28
• JLY #53

Josefina face mold - on Josefina

Rebecca's version - Tzeitel

Julie's version - Llewellyn

Grace Thomas  - Bryndl (left of picture) and Bridget (on the right)

American Girl Hairstyles

This hair style was in the May 2015 American Girl Catalogue

and just looks really good. American Girl stores do not exist in Australia. I googled and while waterfall hairstyles have been around for a while, it was the first time I'd seen it, I watched this You Tube DIY Faux Waterfall Headband | Cute Girls Hairstyles to get a gist on how it is done

and tried it on Josefina

I need more hands or clips or something to keep the tension

so tried it again

kind of happy, I might have made too many twists between the falls

but practice will make it better

Cute Girls Hairstyles have lots of very pretty styles to play with