Virginia Museum of Fine Arts

The Virginia Museum of Fine Arts is my favorite place to go because its all about art! I love art. It's my favorite subject. My favorite part of the museum is the Faberge eggs (Russian eggs). But the Faberge eggs were not there so we went to see the 20th century art.

This is a wooden box that was painted by someone who copied it from a card board box.

                    

     This is a sculpture that is made out of old rusty parts of something but it's a face. Cool.

this I really don't understand. It's a robe with a rope that is attached to the robe and the ax that is in a piece of wood.

  this is not an older piece of art but my next favorite  it's light blue and white swirls it's beautiful.

I know what each of the symbols mean. This one means spring.

This one is summer.

This one is fall.

And this one is winter.

I did not get to see all of the museum but this part was fun. one part that we did not see was Budha 

watching him self on TV. but I hope I get to go back soon.

Kannani

This is Kanani my sixth American girl doll. I got her when I was 11 for my birthday.

As you can see she has a few outfit's. The one she is holding is is her party dress the one with the slippers is obviously her pj's, the one with the word ALOHA a white shirt is her casual outfit, the one in front of the paddle board is her bathing suit with a head band and a life jacket, the one on the other side of her is her luau outfit, luau means party picnic or cook out. That's it for the outfit's, now for the other things the paddle board comes with the paddle board of course and the paddle, if you can see Barskee Kanani's dog  the came with the accessories the accessories include the dog the towel the bag and the stuff in front of the bag, I got the monk seal by its self , the thing in front of the monk seal sticking up is the DAILY BREEZE the news paper, that came with the box that the paper is in and the ukulele and the snacks that are in front of it.

In the books Kannani's cousin, Rachel, comes to visit because her mom just got married and Rachael had to go to stay with Kanani and Kanani taught Rachel a lot of things like how to paddle board. Kanani's parents own a shave ice store and when Rachel was getting ready to go back to New York Kanani's parents made a new flavor "Rachel's Big Apple". They were  awesome books. I really enjoyed them. 

My you and me doll

I have two you and me dolls because my sister does not like them any more. My You and Me is the one with the brown hair, oh one thing I don't have glasses I just thought it would look cute. I got my you and me doll when I was 10 for my birthday.

As you can see I have a lot of outfits for them. I have 2 dogs, Pepper and Honey, I have 1 horse i named it Trooper because I do horse back riding and my favorite horse is Trooper even though it looks more like Jasmine my second favorite horse. On the horses rains is the riding outfit, next to the riding outfit is the crutches and the cast, next to that is 2 pair of shoes and an outfit,in front of pepper is a magazine for my dolls, in front of my american girl doll is the western riding outfit, my american girl doll is holding a suit case, in front of Honey is a blue jumper in front of that is a pink dress that is not american girl doll but its cute and fits, next to it with the bunny slippers is her pj's, next to the pj's is another outfit that is not an american girl outfit, and the last one probably my favorite above the pj's is the photographer outfit. I love them all.  

Rebecca

This is Rebecca was my Third American Girl doll. I got her for Christmas when I was 9 years old. 

Rebecca only has 2 outfits . I kind of lost her welcome outfit so she is wearing her school outfit. She is holding her winter coat and on the floor is her accessories. That's it of her outfits.

Rebecca lives in New York. She has four siblings, 2 twin sisters who are the oldest, she has a brother who is the second oldest, and she has a little sister. She is Jewish so she does not celebrate Easter. She speaks Yiddish and English. Every Friday her family comes together for a Sabbath dinner . She is too young to light the Sabbath candles. Her favorite book is Rebecca of Sunnybrook Farm. I think a very nice moment in her books is when she help's her cousin Ana adjust to her new life in  America. I really enjoy her.  

My First Homeschool Field Trip

Here we are in front of the sign of the Midlothian Coal Mines. This is by

far my favorite field trip ever for homeschooling. We learned 

a lot of things like that they used mules in the mines. They keep the mules down in the mines for their whole life so the mules went blind, but they took very good care of the mules, they were fed properly, they got good medical care too. 

Here are some pictures of the mines but we didn't go in them:

Here we are in front of the sign of the Midlothian mines.

This is the Mine that was there .

My brother found a big piece of coal. 

This is a piece of coal that some one found with a fossil print in it. cool.

My Second Home Schooled field trip

I'm Home-schooled and I went on a field trip to Magnolia Grange Plantation. It was okay. Here are some pictures of the kids room. The kids had to sleep 3-4 in 1 bed! There were 8 kids!!!

The kids would play at this table.

Here are some dolls that the girls played with.

this is the bed that the kids would sleep.

This is one field trip that I would not want to go back to because old houses kind of freak me out. My favorite part was playing the games because I got to play and make new friends. Out side there was an old well it was fancy. We got to smell some good smelling herbs.

Samantha

Samantha was my third American Girl Doll. I got her when I was 9 years old for my birthday.

She has a few outfits. The one sitting up on the right is her winter coat, It came with a hat. the one she is holding might be her school outfit, I'm not sure. If you can see a red corner of a dress, that's her holiday dress. The one in front is her night gown and robe. She also has a doll.

In the books , Grandmarry , Samantha's very strict grandma, wants Samantha to be a very perfect lady, but Samantha does not want to be a very perfect lady. One day she meets this little girl her age named Nellie O'Miley who works for a little boys family. Nellie has 2 sisters Bridget and Jenny. Samantha and Nellie become best friends. When Samantha decides to go stay with her uncle Guard Nellie's father dies and the girls go to an orphanage near were Uncle Guard lives. Samantha helps the girls escape and hid them in the attic of Uncle Guard's house. When Uncle Guard found out he was mad, but the girls stayed and near Christmas Uncle Guard tells Samantha that Nellie, Bridget, and Jenny are Samantha's new sisters!!!

Cute American Girl Purse

Check it out! I made a purse for my doll.

Here is how I did it.

1. Get a cute coin purse.  I got mine at the grocery store for $2.00.
2. Use 2 glue dots.
3. 1 ft. of ribbon. (Put the glue dots on each end of the ribbon and then put the ribbon in the purse like you see in the picture).

There you have it!  It is the perfect size for an American Girl Doll.  You can store lots of her things in it.

This project took no time at all.  I found the idea in my Doll Play book from American Girl.

My Trip to the American Girl Store

Here I am in front of the American girl store!!!

The American Girl store that I went to was the one in Tyson Corner in Washington DC. It was big. I looked around everywhere. There were 2 floors. The first floor was the history dolls. The second floor was down the escalators and it had the bitty babies, bitty twins and the you and me dolls. It was so cool! Here are some pictures of me on the second floor!

Down we go!

 I'm messing with a piano that actually makes music! 

 looking at the you and me dolls. I like their new outfit!

I decided to make a t-shirt! 

This is the girl of the year McKenna! I got her there!

Here we are checking out!!!

 We both got our bags! ha ha ha!!!

Josefina

Josefina was my second American Girl Doll.  I got her when I was 8 years old.  I only have the doll and her accessories.

In the book Josefina learns that she can be very helpful even though she is the youngest.  One time Josefina was going to the pond to do the laundry and she found a little goat that ate the flower off of her hair. She decided to keep the goat and name it Sombrita (little shadow).
I love her because she is from a country that is now one of our states, New Mexico. I also love her because she speaks Spanish and that sometimes she is very quiet, like me. 

My Very First American Girl Doll

This is Elizabeth.  She was my very first American Girl Doll I got, when I was 7 years old.  I got her from my grandma at Christmas.  She is Felicity's best friend, but I don't have Felicity.

On the right side sitting on the floor is Elizabeth's riding outfit.  It is a pretty pink color jacket and a white skirt. It came with a hat also.  The dress that she is holding is her summer dress. The green dress on the floor to the left is her springtime dress. The blue one is Felicity's tea dress.  All came with hats and shoes.

Elizabeth and Felicity are girls from the American colonial times and live in Williamsburg, VA.  In their stories  Elizabeth is funny and the girls always get into trouble.  One time Felicity got in trouble because she freed a horse from its owner who was being mean to the horse. The horse's name was Penny. In the end Felicity grandfather bought the horse so that Felicity could have her to herself.