Yeah, the catalogue was def half the magic, or maybe more. I don't think I ever bought any further accessories or clothes for Molly, but I did keep on flippin the catalogue pages :)

And, ultimately, Molly was pretty dope.

It's only a weird name thinking about it in retrospect, but it WAS pure magic in the 90s! I googled American Girl dolls now and it's just not the same, the style is just just like anything else out there, even if loosely based on the historical costumes. Largely bright and frilly. What was beautiful is that the old…

I really wanted Felicity, but my mother (who is very domineering) ordered me Molly against my wishes. I grew fond of her, but it wasn't the fantasy I had every time I flipped through the Pleasant Co. catalogue (I think reading the catalogue was as great as having a doll).
I also cut all of Molly's hair off.…

"Wear your edgiest shades when you meet her, and when she asks to try them on know that she's starting to come around to you."

That is, superposing the jacket and the POSE onto people I know.

Omg if any of my good friends suddenly exchanged their style for THAT bomber jacket, I would lol so hard.

Written, about the shaving kit: "She needs to recalibrate your standing in her life".

another thought... kind of interesting how much the idea of ghosts has to do with home and houses... like, there's a lot less stories of ghosts haunting our cubicles or libraries...
i guess they're potentially haunted too, but we're more rarely along in those places, especially at night. but cars at night on empty…

omg these are so scary, i love it! but still, i shouldn't have read them!! my husband and i just moved into a new house, and sunday morning he's leaving for work-related travel, and i'll be all alone here... these stories better not still be in my head...
also, as i read these i was at my desk, which is in a small sort…

Too funny that you post "The Jane Austen Rules"! I've never heard of it until now, but I am reading Mansfield Park and was just today thinking about the process I go through when judging characters. Sometimes I quickly realize someone's trouble, like Willoughby in Sense and Sensibility, or Henry Crawford in Mansfield…

I have the same hips, and I love that Kim positively ROCKS them, all the time. <3 <3