I'm excited to be sitting down to write this review for the second time!  As you might remember, last time around I realized I'd for...

I'm back, as promised, with the second Day of the Dead doll, but first I want to outline my plans for the first Virtual Garage Sale even...

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...

In an attempt to balance out the novella-like Enchantimals post from last week, this week I'm going to feature two short and sweet post...

You might be surprised to see an Enchantimal review here today, since I reviewed the line when they first came out in 2017.  But I have a f...

Here we are at the end of Barbie Month .  The time flew by for me!  But this has been one of the most fun months of blogging that I've e...

I don't think I've ever anticipated a movie as much as I did Barbie .  And now I've seen it!  As one of my kids said, it felt li...

Writing two smaller reviews in one week didn't work out as well as I'd hoped.  Some family stuff came up, and everything always take...

It's only one week from tomorrow until the Barbie movie comes out!  My husband and I bought our tickets the other day and are getting r...

Hello and welcome back to more of Barbie Month here on TBP!  I may have gotten in over my head with this idea, which is pretty typical for ...

Happy July!  I decided that since the movie, Barbie , is coming out on the 21st of this month (I can hardly wait!!), I would make this Barbi...

Hello everyone!  My name is Ariel and I'm a toy and figure collector/enthusiast and an avid reader of this blog.  I'm here today tha...

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...

I feel like there are tons of new dolls coming out these days.  There's the constant stream of new Monster High releases that I was talk...

One of the really fun things about blogging is that when I have a few hundred pictures to sort and edit, I tend to watch a lot of television...

Spring is in full bloom here in New Jersey, which is always a spectacular sight to behold.  The number of flowering trees and bushes in this...

Welcome back!  First things first, I have a quick question to ask: for those of you who read the blog on your phones, how terrible is the ne...

I've been missing in action for a while because my husband and I finally took an honest-to-goodness, week-long, have-to-get-on-an-airpl...

I already wrote an in-depth review of the new Monster High dolls, but I know there's a lot of interest in the individual characters, so...

I have all of these carefully-laid plans with the blog, I promise I do, but then things keep coming along to derail those plans--often in a ...