Barbie Interlude: Party & Play Stacie

I found my beloved Stacie doll when digging through a box of old toys at my parent's house. She was in surprisingly good shape for having spent 10-20 years in a toy box. I really loved this doll as a kid, and she has the scars and frizzy hair to show it. But I had…

Dolls of History

This summer I had the chance to visit a Toy Museum that had a lot of dolls. This was located in Munich, Germany. I love German dolls so naturally I was excited to check it out! When I arrived at the museum, I learned that the dolls come from all over the world, and they…

Coffee in Josefina’s World

I love coffee! But would my historical AG dolls have loved it, too? This is my second installment in a series of posts investigating coffee in the historical dolls’ worlds. The first post looked at coffee’s rise to popularity in Felicity’s Revolutionary America. Today I head forward in time to explore coffee’s place on the…

Coffee in Felicity’s World

I wanted to share my love of coffee with my AG dolls by getting them their very own (historically accurate!) coffee sets. But I didn't know the first thing about the history of coffee. Would my AG dolls have drank coffee as obsessively as I do? How would they have prepared it? Starting with Felicity, I investigate how AG historical dolls might have took their cuppa.