A Teenager's Dollhouse

So, the time has come once again to make a huge mess of my dollhouse as I dress the gals...and Connor..in their Christmas gear, lug them downstairs, and photograph! 

This, my dear followers, is the 2014 Holiday Family photo. Ain't gonna lie, it's not my favorite. The way I postioned everyone, Caroline ended up being out of focus, and not everybody could fit in front of the tree (cough cough Connor) because I have too many dolls in my little family! Well, not so little...

Here's the Christmas Card for this year. Feel free to print it out and share with your dolls. Go ahead. You know you want to. 

Ivy and Caroline! Ivy's shoulder is bugging me, but ya know. I decided to photograph at "feeding time" for my dogs, so I had less time to photograph. But this is my oldest doll (Caroline- 2007) and newest doll (Ivy- 2014)! I'm a nostalgic person that always does these kinds of shots. Deal with it. 

Dearest little Zoe in color and black and white. For my birthday, my parents bought me Addy's new meet outfit (Zoe is an Addy doll) and it is so beautiful. I took a photoshoot of Lindsey wearing it, which will probably be my next post. 

Sweet little Abigale! Can you believe that this photo was not using flash? Her iris are so simple, just using my photography lights washes them out! 

Lindsey. Not my favorite photo of her. At all. 

Caroline looking cute as always! Not loving the colored photo, but I like the black and white. 

Mia looking cute as ever. I'm surprised at how unpopular this dress was last year- I absolutely love it! 

Saige. And yeah, I know she's wearing a flower dress, but I don't have enough Christmas outfits. 

Lanie- who also happens to be wearing a spring dress. 

Molly. She's also wearing a spring dress- but whatever. Also not very fond of her portrait either. Taking these as the sun sets isn't the best idea, oops! 

Cute lil Connor. He wasn't very in to wearing a vest a dress pants, but still, how could you not love him? He really needs a fancy outfit. 

Kanani. Her eye looks a bit funky, but I'll deal. 

And here, is the family photo in color. I put them all on boxes and CDs like last year to give them different heights. 

And, this photo is very special. On top, is this years photo, and the bottom is last years holiday photo. It's crazy to see how the family has changed and grown in just a year. If you want to look at some true fetus Sweet Nokia Street, click here for last year's Christmas Photoshoot. It's amazing to see how my photography has changed (hopefully improved as well!)

I'm going to leave you all with this photo of Ivy and Caroline. I'm not fond of colored holiday photos, but I like this one. 

I also just realized that out Christmas lights change from white to colored as well, AND have found the perfect setting for Christmas light bokeh. This will not be the end of tree photos! 

I don't know if I'll talk to you all next week, but I hope you have a great first week of December- don't forget to enter our contest and I just updated my profile after a year! Check that out as well. ;) 

xoxo

chloe from sweet nokia street! 

(Told by Ivy!)

"Good morning Kanani!" I said to my sister. She looked like she was on the verge of panic. 

"Could you take these to the dinner table for me? Connor and Caroline forgot them, and I can't take them, the oven is almost done preheating..and I need the wagon they took so we can start hauling chairs over as well..." I told her I would do it but I didn't know the way- you see, our house doesn't have enough room for a table that sits 15 dolls, so the dining table is a temporary table set up every holiday, somewhere in Momma's house. 

Kanani told me Chocolate Chip knew the way and I could hook him up to the dog sled and he could take me. 

I felt kinda silly, because it was meant for winter in the snow, and I was parading around Momma's house. 

I found them setting up the table- canvas stacked on clothing boxes. Very classy. 

I pulled Chip in. 

Connor and I did the exchange, wagon, 

for silverware, cups, and plates. 

I decided to give Chocolate Chip a break, and haul him home. 

Saige and Abigale started hauling chairs to the table. 

We all came and sat down. While I had hoped to sit with Zoe, we both sat ta the two ends of the table. Family tradition for the two new dolls to sit at the ends or something like that. 

The food looked SO good! 

Quite a large table as well..

We don't really say grace in our family, we more so do a toast type thing. Being the newest doll, It was my turn to do a toast. I wasn't sure what to do, but I had a stroke of genius. I left the table really fast because I had to grab something. 

It was a red box with a fancy pattern. 

I opened it up to reveal a Chinese tea set. Momma got it for me soon after I moved here- she got in San Francisco- where I'm from! 

I made room and sat the tea down at the table. 

"There are only four glasses," I began, "Two of which, for Zoe and I, the 'newbies'. The other two glasses I would like to give to the dolls that help us all the most- Caroline and Kanani, because they do so much for us and I am so thankful." The teapot went around, and everyone filled their cup. 

"Um, I don't really know what to say, but I want to explain why I brought this teapot." I started my speech. 

"In my culture, a fancy tea set is always brought out on special occasions with family and friends. I wanted to bring something from my culture to share with my new family. Because it's special to me, and all of you are special to me as well. Uh, I think that's it." I sat down quickly, everyone clinked glasses and food was passed around. 

Happy Thanksgiving- may you have delicious food on your table and lovely people in your heart.

xoxo

Ivy

P.S. From Chloe: Happy Thanksgiving to my lovely followers! I am starting something new- I turning comments on private so I can go through them easier and respond to you all! ALSO- comment below your blog and your favorite blogs- in my absence in September- the blogging world apparently exploded with tons of new people who I'm having trouble keeping track of. I want to follow some new people! 

Also- if this post didn't fill you up- click HERE to read last year's Thanksgiving photostory! It's amazing to see how my blogging style has changed and photography improved.

Love, Chloe

(Told by Ivy!)

*Ding- Dong!* The doorbell sung this morning. Kanani was in the kitchen, pulling a fresh batch of donuts out of the oven. 

"Hello?" She called, "Can somebody get the door? I'm a bit busy!" 

I was, of course, the only one to hear her (you see, some of my siblings have "selective hearing"). I made my way to the front door grabbing a candy corn from the kitchen on my way.

"Thank you, Ivy." 'Nani smiled at me. I smiled back.  

I opened the door to find a young girl. "Um..hi..is it Girl Scout Cookie time already? My sister is a Girl Scout, so we buy cookies from her..sorry." I said. 

"Ivy? Who's at the door?" 'Nani called as walked to me. "Oh! Aurora, daring! I didn't think you'd be hear so soon! Come in, come in! Leave your shoes outside, its awfully muddy out there."

So in entered three little kids. 

Kanani gave a big hug to each of them. 

When she hugged the little boy, she turned around to me and said, "Oh! Ivy! Where are my manners? These are your cousins, Kristoff,"she pointed to the little boy,"Poco,"she pointed to the girl with short, black, hair who was standing in the middle, "And Aurora." Lastly, she gestured to the girl on the end in flower sweater and blonde hair. 

"Oh..um..hi?" Kanani shot me a glare. What?? What was I supposed to say?

Kanani shouted,"Connor! Come here!" We waited. "Connor! NOW!"

Connor rushed in. "Okay, okay, Kana- bro!!! Why didn't you tell me you were coming?" He went straight to Kristoff and they did a secret handshake type thing. 

Kanani whispered to me,"Kristoff and Connor are the only guys in the whole family. They have a special relationship." I nodded. 

"Why don't you go take the suitcase upstairs Connor?" Kanani said. (not asked- it was a command!)

Connor said okay and him and Kristoff were off. Then, 'Nani told me to take the girls up to see Zoe because she hadn't met them either. 

"Zoe! Zoe!" I called, but I knew it would be useless. If Zoe's jamming- then their is no way to get through to her. 

The room became slightly more awkward (if that was possible) because Zoe started singing. I kicked her hoping that she would get up.

She took of her headphones, and when she looked up, was surprised to see the little dolls. "Uh, Ivy?"

I sighed. "Zoe, these are our cousins, 'Nani suggested that we hang out with them and get to know them before lunch?"

So, we all sat together and began chit-chatting about random things. The conversation started out a bit slow, but, 

it picked up. 

xoxo

Ivy