First of all, I want to thank Hannah for stepping in and reviewing the 18-inch ily 4EVER dolls last week! I've been learning the ropes ...

September has not gotten off to a great start for me.  First of all, my newest rescue dog, Kit, was recently diagnosed with heart disease an...

Thank you to everyone who wished me well with my arm injury!  The cuts are healing slowly and of course the scars will have good anecdotal v...

Okay, so I know that Disney live action remake movies are not everyone's cup of tea.  I have a few of the naysayers in my own family--an...

Many of you (and most of Twitter) have been excited about the new Disney ily 4EVER dolls for a few weeks now, but it's taken me this lon...

I always try to avoid writing reviews that take three days to read.  I really do.  I have mixed success with this, though ( the Monster High...

Well, I missed celebrating the one-year anniversary of the blog re-start.  That's typical.  I can't believe it's already been a ...

Over the years, I've chronicled my increasing frustration with the Disney Store and its Classic Princess dolls.  My problem with the com...

I've been going to Toys R Us every week for the past month, trying to find something new and exciting to review.  This is often a slow t...

This is my second comparison review of dolls from the new live action  Beauty and the Beast movie.  You can find my review of the Hasbro an...

Last year, when I was re-thinking this blog and figuring out how to keep it in my life, I made a few resolutions.  One of them was that I wo...

I'm sure many of you have heard of subscription boxes like Loot Crate and Birchbox.  The idea is that you sign up to receive a mystery b...

It seems impossible to me that it's already December.  The sunny, 50 degree weather here in Maine certainly doesn't help me wrap my ...

The Pixar movie Inside Out was released on DVD last week, and to celebrate I decided to review two different versions of Sadness--my favori...

This post is a companion to Melissa's great comparison review of the Tinker Bell dolls.  Thank you for all of the helpful background in...

I have already reviewed the Disney Descendants Mal doll by Hasbro, but before I found her--unexpectedly--at Toys R Us in early July, I had ...

The Disney Channel is releasing a movie at the end of the month called Descendants .  This show is set in a modern-day imaginary kingdom and...

After limping along for a few months, my valiant six-year-old computer finally reached the Point of No Return.  It might have--just a though...

I'm back!  For those of you not on Facebook, I'll fill you in: I was in a bad car accident right after the Phicen review, and I brok...

I'd like to thank Emma for her suggestion that I take a look at the new Disney Store mini Animators' doll playsets.  Not only is thi...