OG--Oh My! Seaside Beach House

Look what arrived today!

AG needs to listen up!

This OG Seaside Beach House was bought online from Target and was

*On SALE with an online automatically applied $25-off coupon

*Shipped for FREE and with NO SURCHARGES

*Shipped FAST (ordered on Monday and arrived four days later on Thursday)

Saga is on hand today to help with the initial unboxing!

The footprint of the Beach House is more compact than say, Grace's Bakery, but still hits the right note for plenty of play room. The picnic table will come out of the house to extend the "stage" of play.

So my "Try Me" signs--sounds for the kettle, stove, garbage disposal, and on the roof four more buttons for nature sounds.

Plates for more than just one place setting!

This lobster and salads offering really is what sold this set for me--it felt most sophisticated than some of AG's offerings. It appeals to my poppets who tend to be ages 13+.

Stove, oven, sink and mini fridge.

Paddles and life preserver are removable props!

Side door is adorable and really swings open. The door handle rotates and a latch secures the door shut. The mesh of screen window itself is a perfect realistic touch, not to mention the addition of the large flying bug clinging to the mesh!

Saga needs to call some of her poppet sisters to help with further unpacking of all these pieces! Stay tuned for more!

The Saga Collection

Introducing "The Saga Collection"

In my multi-month search for Saga, I had an abundance of time to imagine, plan, and acquire her wardrobe and accessories. The resulting colorful story board is a visual representation Saga's core collection.

I hope to eventually create these fun graphics for all of my poppets as a way to help me to keep track of my sprawling collection. All my poppets share and swap their clothing, but this way I can see with a quick glance who has made a primary claim on an outfit or accessory.

Additionally, with the recent rumor of the retirement of the GOTY line, I felt I needed to take a more active role in the creation of my own characters and stories. In other words, the GOTY line made acquiring new poppets and their collections a bit too easy and passive. In moving toward creating my own collection of "Saga Sisters" an entire new way of creatively interacting with my poppets and my collections has emerged.

Saga's Saga

A new poppet officially joins the family. Meet Saga!

Saga debuts wearing the new San Francisco/Bay Area Star Tee from American Girl (2016), black textured shorts from Grace's City Love Outfit (2015), and platform sandals from the Karaoke Outfit (1999). 

We thought we had a name all picked out for her before her debut, but within minutes of being out of her box she promptly claimed her name was Saga.

Saga is feisty, adventurous, and curiously introverted. She loves to take long hikes or explore in the woods, often by herself. She is equal parts country mouse and city mouse and is comfortable in cities as diverse as Tokyo, Paris, or Oslo. She writes and is intensely interested art and photography.

Finding Saga was a bit of a saga in itself. Saga is a Truly Me 54* who was revised in May 2015 with the addition of notches at the corners of her eyes. However, six months after her May 2015 debut the TM 54* disappeared from the shelves of the AGPSF retail store and the doll stocked in her place since then has been the older version without the notches at the corners.

Additionally, current inventory through online ordering seems to only yield the older model without the eye notches. I know this since I ordered her two different times online and disappointingly received the older doll. AG customer service was helpless in verifying if it even had the newer TM 54* stock with the notched eyes. So look closely when buying or ordering TM 54! The older version is also darling and has the almond shaped eyes but she is missing the revised eye notches.

I have not been able to determine if the company is simply trying to quietly get rid of older, original stock of this doll without the eye notches or if they have stopped production and are letting the revised TM 54* slowly empty off shelves in anticipation of using a similar notched eyes/hair-with-bangs combo on the rumored BeForever Pearl. BeForever Pearl (code name only) will be an Asian American girl living in Hawaii during the attack on Pearl Harbor. 

Welcome Saga!