A riot of Canadian-ness!

I wake up this morning to hear the words:

"Wake up, sleepyheads! Rise and shine - no, wait, I don't care if you shine, just RISE!" MY sister Kit yelled determinedly while the other Kit stood off to the side in polite shyness.

Turns out, Kit was the Planner Of The Day. She even had a LIST.

"Okay, so first, we go to the coffee shop down the street for hot cocoa and brownies for BREAKFAST!" (Kit's favorite part of the day, of course).
"Then, we explore the shops and nooks along waterfront!"
"Around lunchtime, we hike to a lunchspot among the prettily colored houses."
"After that we take a class at the art centre on how to make hooked rugs!"
"And after a supper at an independant Chinese restaurant, we will go to _____ hill watch the sunset and pick flowers!"

Thats exactly how she said it.

And thats how the day went. It was glorious.


-Sonali

A Gleeful World - And not because of the show.

For a blissful 7 days, I can forget all about depression and spend my time in "heaven".
Lets not forget what happened this morning.

When we were all at the airport, Julia didn't let me out of the taxi to greet the mystery group of dolls. I thought it was funny how I, of all people, didn't know what Erin's surprise would be. I silently pouted in the taxi while the taxi driver tried to make small talk. Surprise, surprise, the small talk didn't work.

Suddenly my arm was being yanked. I popped out of the cab and into a huddle of dolls, as if I were Lady GaGa stepping out of a limo into an ambush of paparazzi and fans. Before I could register the situation I saw a glimpse of blond hair and blue eyes, and all I knew from there was that I was hugging Bethie and we were crying into each other's shoulders. It was if God came to take me to heaven, except much better.

Kirsten explained that we have a week to spend together. Its such fun to watch the families collide in such a way -- they have already separated into their own cliques! Aha!
Kristy, Elizabeth and Rebecca - The Drama Queens
Sonali and Bethie - The BFFs! :)
Julia, Lanie and Ruthie - The sweeties ('cept for Julia, of course)
Kirsten and Samantha - The "mothers"
Erin and Gracelynne - The Twins
Felicity, Felicity, Bailey and Julie - The Comedians
Chrissa and Chrissa - The artists
Kit and Kit - The Writers

Bethie and I have been talking in the backyard and setting up a tent for us to sleep in tomorrow night. Tonight we're watching Glee inside at 11:00 - sadly Glee has different times in Canada. I showed her how to make a flower headband and I showed her a preview of my AGMA video, she said she liked it. We will be up talking all night!

Oops, I just heard a clatter and the sound of Kit yelling "TIMBEEEER!". I better go check it out before we all have s'mores!

-Sonali and Bethie

Don't tell me to calm down!

Never fear, Grace is here. [not Sonali!]

I'm here to babble about the ongoing pressure and stress you receive in a value package when you get into the AGMA. I love the AGMA, I truly do. But that is what creates the tension. I look forward soooo much to moving forward and getting to do such fun themes - but how is that possible if I don't outdo myself in the current theme? Which is why I am never satisfied with the pictures that would have satisfied me before I started the AGMA, and I want it to be perfect. But I think I have to realize that its not going to be perfect and it never will be. That I have to try my hardest, and the product of it all is all that I can do. But that is easier said than done. Its so hard to erase the pressure I'm putting on myself..

And on another hand, Erin's birthday is tomorrow and the girls have planned their own evil plans for her. I hope they turn out well! I've got a good gift for her - and the gift Kirsten has for Erin involves something with flights.. eh, as long as they get home safe, without a scratch on their valuable little photogenic bodies. :P

-Grace

A to the G to the M to the A!

Dear Bethie,

"Do you have what it takes?"

I hear it repeated in the back of my mind every second. Its a horrible thing to keep hearing -- a nasal voice that sounds like a completely high-pitched Elizabeth asking me rhetorically in a nasty way if I'm "good enough" for the AGMA.

Why is that?
Because today Elizabeth came up to me and cornered me into the wall and said, "Do you have what it takes?", as if obviously I DIDN'T have what it takes. Elizabeth never thought I would actually make it into the AGMA, so I guess this is a shock for her. Mua ha ha, I guess.
Today we got our first assignment! Grace has spent every minute since thinking up of a totally different way to display the outfit we chose for this assignment. I think some people are forgetting that the whole purpose of this academy is to make the viewers want the outfit -- that, AND to have fun! I can't tell you too many details, but I think we will be doing something involving wildlife. And wildflowers. Grace did my hair in a lovely way and I think I look like a flower nymph! Eeeee!

See, there is something to be happy for, thanks to the reminder from Lovely Lanie Enterprises. Oh, I just wish you were here to help!

Love,
Sonali

I'm officially funkified.

I'm in a funk. A bad one.
Kit even said it. She came up to me and said, "You're officially funkified." Despite my sadness, I laughed.

Everyone else's lives are perfect. Erin unanimously won the vote for who starred in the music video -- go Erin. Kirsten has been accepted into a week-long ballet training camp. Kit got a little article published in the local newspaper. Elizabeth and Felicity are still fighting, but they both got invited to a "psychadelic" Nellie O' Mallie party, which, thank you very much, I am not invited to. Every other person in the family has some awesome thing happening in there life, but not me..

All I get is a depression and a weekend full of sitting in a corner sulking.
Thats it.
Elizabeth, Bethie, Elizabeth Clara Marie Cole, Bethie. BLAHHHHHHHHHHHH.

Bethie was/in a funk too. But unlike her, I have no cast party to go to where I get drunk on soda and end up vomiting in the bathroom. Instead, I get to sit at the kitchen table all day moping. La dee da dee da. But I do get dreams... and daydreams, too. And its not fair, I can't focus on my real life without them appearing. Even now, as I type, I'm getting distracted by the daydreams. They're of Bethie. The factory. Her sisters. Everyone Bethie-sort-of-type.

Its not fair!

-Sonali

Mispellings and music videos

Heres a break for the probably dreadfully boring personal profiles! :)

Today we were sitting in the corner of our whole little doll room whilst Kirsten taught us English and English literature. She has an insane little knack for it, I tell ya! The whole time Elizabeth was making faces at Felicity and passing her rude little notes. Felicity was fuming. NOBODY made fun of her.

So when Kirsten asked Felicity how to spell "witch", Felicity said very coolly, "Well, all I know is it starts with a B", and she glared at Elizabeth while she said it.

My mouth dropped open in amazement as Kit applauded Felicity.
Elizabeth stormed off and Kirsten scolded both of them later for interrupting the lesson. I would never have called anyone a...a... yknow!



All of us dolls have been thinking really hard on music videos lately. If anyone watches our videos on YouTube they might notice we LOVE music videos.. heh heh. So we got together and gathered up a list of music videos we will hopefully get to make for 2010!

LATE SPRING -
Alice ~ Avril Lavigne

SUMMER -
The Time Of Our Lives ~ Miley Cyrus

FALL -


WINTER -

But we also need your help! If you see up there, theres a song by Miley Cyrus. If you comment on my blog saying "Ew, I hate Miley Cyrus" or "she sucks! jump off a skyscraper, miley!", then I will block you from the blog. Yes, it is possible. This is a nice song and we will be using it as a song to tell people to let go and have fun, and it will be awesome, you can be sure of that! But I need YOU to tell us which doll should star!

Christine "Chrissa" Maxwell
Julia Rose Starr
Erin Lilly Violet McCartney
Kirsten Marcie Larson
Felicity Anne Merriman
Kit Margaret Hayden Kittredge

And which Glee song do you think we should do for a music video?
(not including Dont Stop Believing, sorry, and please DO NOT be a love song)


-Sonali-

One, Two, Three, Give it Up For Elizabeth Lee!

~ELIZABETH LEE COLE~

Elizabeth's born for the limelight. Without it her life would be incomplete for eternity, and we would be stuck with a grumpy sister with nothing useful to do to occupy her.
Elizabeth is a shopper, a make up lover, an actor, a singer, a dancer... she's a girly girl. You name a pink item, she's got it. You name a Hannah Montana item, she's also got it.

This girl was made alongside Felicity Merriman and sent to us during Christmas of 2007. But before she came, she never had an insane life. Nothing happened. It was dull. It was boring. "Every day was blank, with no highlight of the day, no things to look forward to...it was like the world was in black and white.", she says. Elizabeth hates that time of blankness, and she's taken it upon herself to make the most of her life in the meanwhile, end up on top of the world, and prove to those meaningless old days at the factory that she is worth something and she is not blank.

But sometimes (okay, a lot of the time) Liz gets it to her head that she's better than us and she deserves more and more attention and more beauty. Thats a problem.

In my eyes, she kinda relates to Kristy, except in a modified, less worse version..

-Sonali