hi all! i recently got a pleasant company felicity (one of my dream dolls) on ebay. she looked great in the pictures (shown below), but when i got her she was stained with neon pink marker (also shown below). i’ve tried every trick in the book to get it out: baking soda, peroxide, acne cream and sun, baby wipes, clorox wipes, whitening toothpaste, and magic eraser. it’s all over her legs, face, hands, feet and arms and stained the white nightgown she came in. other than that she is perfect so i’d love to be able to remove the stains. please help!! is there something else i can try ??? (i will follow up with better pictures of the stains tomorrow!)
Grandfather sat down on the bench next to Felicity. “I know this little lamb won’t replace your Penny,” he said. “But perhaps she can be a comfort to you.” Felicity smiled at Grandfather. She hugged the lamb gently. “Thank you, Grandfather,” she said again.
Happy Birthday to Felicity Merriman. Today, she turns 255 years old. Last year, I did not have Penny in my collection for Lissie’s birthday. However, this year I do. She spent the day loving on and riding with her beloved Penny.
Reblogging last year’s pictures of Lissie’s birthday.
Grandfather came forward carrying the quintal vase filled with colorful flowers. In the center of the vase, Grandfather had placed the stubborn weed from Felicity’s garden. It had blossomed into bright pink flowers. Felicity smiled when she saw it. Grandfather smiled, too. “Aye, ‘tis your weed,” he said. “I decided that something that is so determined to grow must be respected. And I think someone as brave as you must be forgiven a mistake.” Felicity hugged him as hard as she could.
Felicity gasped as she looked around the room. The parlor was transformed. Huge bunches of flowers made the room look like a garden in bloom. At the center of it all was the table with Felicity’s favorite plates and the glass pyramid laden with a cake and tarts. The silver chocolate pot gleamed like a mirror. Felicity felt as if she were looking at a dream.
April 21st, 1775 is the day that Felicity turns ten years old, and it is a memorable day indeed. Felicity feels as if she has broken the trust of her Grandfather and her parents, and she wonders if they will forgive her.
But when she walks into the parlor and sees the table set for a celebration, she knows that they love her no matter what. Grandfather reminds her of this. “You were born on this day ten years ago,” he says to her, as he presents her with a vase full of flowers. “And with your birth began a joy unlike any other we’d ever known. We want to celebrate the joy you bring us, Felicity.”
I too wanted to celebrate the joy my Felicity brings me, and so I recreated her birthday celebration as best as I could with what I had. I based all of it on her retired party treats and dishes.
On the left is her chocolate set (the Merrimans drank hot chocolate instead of tea) which included a shiny metal chocolate pot. On the right is her party treats set which included the quintal (five-fingered) vase, glass platter with a cake and tarts and candied fruits, and a little shepherdess figurine.
First is the quintal vase, carried by Grandfather and presented to Felicity. He has filled it with beautiful garden flowers, a sign of the renewal of springtime.
In the center is the stubborn weed from Felicity’s garden. No matter how many times she pulled it, the weed always came back. “I decided something that is so determined to grow must be respected,” he tells her. “And I think someone as brave as you must be forgiven a mistake.”
My version of the quintal vase is made from baking soda clay and coated with several layers of super glossy Mod Podge to give it the look of porcelain. I used plastic straws to support the vase’s fingers, and built the clay around them so that the opening wouldn’t collapse. I used a needle to create crosshatch lines in the fingers. I bought some tiny white faux flowers and used fabric pens to color in a few of them with various springtime colors. The blossoming weed in the middle is a tiny faux rosebud.
Happy Birthday, Felicity! describes “the glass pyramid laden with a cake and tarts” set up on the dining table.
For the glass pyramid, I used a small glass plate from the dollar store for the bottom plate, and a plastic lid for the top plate. There are small clear plastic cups separating the layers. Her chocolate pot, to the right, is a thrift store find, which I think was probably a little coffee creamer pitcher.
The cake is made from applesauce-cinnamon clay. Those are the only two ingredients, and it dries very hard and durable and smells nice. I glazed it with Mod Podge and sprinkled it with salt, meant to look like sugar but without the risk of attracting ants.
The tarts, candied fruit, and marzipan strawberries are painted clay.
To mimic the little circular shaped look of blueberries and cherries, I poked the wet clay with the nozzle on a tube of tacky glue. For the strawberries, I mounted each berry on a toothpick and then poked them all over with another toothpick.
The plates are Mason jar lids I painted white, then glued on flower cutouts from some fancy scrapbook paper.
The mugs are made from clay and more flower cutouts. I shaped the clay around a prescription drug bottle, and twisted small snakes of clay for the handles. They’re coated in glossy Mod Podge. This was my first attempt at doll-sized mugs so they’re a little rough around the edges. Usually I would just use my tea set, but the story mentions that they’re Felicity’s favorite mugs, so I felt this scene deserved something a little more fancy.
The shepherdess figurine is made from painted clay, built around a very thin dowel to keep it from collapsing as it dried. I spent nearly a whole day working on this. First I found an auction listing of the original piece (there are a few versions of it, I think) and copied it as best as I could, using toothpicks and needles to carve out fine details. Then I painted it and applied a few coats of glossy Mod Podge to give it a ceramic look. It’s about three inches high. It’s not mentioned in the narrative, but appears in the illustration.
Felicity’s guitar is a dollar store find that I modified. I cut the pear shape of the guitar’s body from a piece of poster board, then cut the little flower motif from parchment paper. I fit it over the guitar face and reattached the strings.
And of course, Posie is Posie! She’s wearing a festive pink ribbon to match all the pink in Felicity’s outfit.
“What will you call your new pet?” asked Mother. Felicity laughed as the lamb stood on its shaky legs and wobbled right into the middle of some flowers. “I think we should call the lamb Posie,” Felicity said, “because that will remind us of where she will be if we don’t keep an eye on her!”
Happy Birthday to Felicity Merriman. Today, she turns 256 years old. This year, she rescued a horse she named Victor. She fed him apples and braided his tail. Just like she did for Penny, she wants Victor to have a great life after rescue, too.
These birthday gals have time traveled in order to enjoy each others’ company for their special days this week. Felicity is looking not a day over 10 on her 256th birthday today. And Molly can’t contain her excitement for her 87th birthday tomorrow.
Some Drawings of my Girls from my childhood because I’ve been thinking about American Girl a lot and at home classes means I must draw while listening.
So finally, after who knows how long I’ve been talking about it, I finally went and took pictures in one of Savannah’s historic squares. First up?
Reynolds Square! It was the first one we could find parking for and it’s fitting for who came with me today.
The center statue is of a man named John Wesley who founded Methodism in the late 1770’s. Felicity couldn’t stop giggling at his big nose!
John Wesley lived just a block or two away from the square his statue stands. That’s where the second “rising” of Methodism was; in his wooden house and the garden where he read, prayed, and meditated. (The first was four guys he met at Oxford.)
We both really liked this quote they had on the side of his statue. “While we live, let us live in earnest.”
(My mom helped me get the picture by practicing her ability to balance a doll on her palm. It was entertaining.)
And of course, we had to stop at Leopold’s! Y’all, when I tell you that this is the best ice cream in Savannah, I mean it! There is almost always a 45 minute long line out the door! And the history behind it…. Ok, I’ll save it for it’s own post one day. It’s worth it! It was such a great afternoon out.
Here are the two signs that were posted in the square of you’d like to learn more!
I saw this Ariel outfit when I bought Nanea’s and just had to get it as well. I knew it would look absolutely adorable on this birthday girl and I was right!
And the beach themed guest bedroom in my house was the perfect place to show it off! What do you guys think?
