Happy Blogiversary/Merry Christmas/Happy Holidays!

Hey everyone! Katherine here. How is everyone doing? I thought I'd do a small post because so many things have gone on since we've last posted! I hope everyone had a Merry Christmas (if you celebrate it)!

Here is the dolls annual Christmas photo:

Last week was A Doll's Life 5th year anniversary!!! It's weird to think that it's been five years, where has the time gone? I hopefully will be making a post about our blogiversary soon, and post some throwbacks, the dolls old family photos, and more! Stay tuned for that!

If you have a blog, how long have you been blogging? Comment below!

A Doll's Life 4th Blogiversary

Guess what day it is? Yep you guessed it - A Doll's Life 4th Blogiversary! Yay!

On January 3rd, 2015 Saige created this blog. The doll family then grew from there. It was originally just two sisters blogging - Samantha and Saige and then added 5 more sisters. 

  

The first ever picture posted on this blog 

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one of the most recent pictures taken! :)

We have a total of 86,926 pages views.

Counting this post, we have 419 posts.

Thank you so much for following and supporting us through the journey of A Doll's Life!

On Friday My Thoughts on the New Release will be up so stay tuned for that too!

Giveaway with DreamWorldCollection!

Hello everyone! I'm so excited for this post!

Back on January 3rd, A Doll's Life had it's 3rd year blogiversary! To celebrate this milestone A Doll's Life is having a giveaway! 

DreamWorldCollection has so kindly sponsored an outfit for this giveaway. A BIG thank you to DreamWorldCollection!

Are you ready to see what you could win?

You could win this Urban Explorer outfit for 18 inch dolls!

It comes with a pair of brown boots

A cute paperboy hat

It comes with a jacket which closes with Velcro

And this adorable dress! 

Are you ready to find out how to win?!

-HOW TO ENTER-

1. Follow A Doll's Life 

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2. Have your parents permission if you're under 18

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3. Live in the US or have a US shipping address

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In order to enter you must comment below your name, if you have your parents permission (if you're under 18), how you follow A Doll's Life. If you have a Google profile just say that you follow with your Google profile. (Your username will show up when you comment) If you are an email follower specify you're an email follower, BUT you must let me know what your email address is. You can either let me know your email address in the first comment, or in a separate comment if you'd like. I will be moderating comments so the comment with your email will NOT be published and I will not give it away.

That's it! That's how you enter!

Would you like extra entries?

Like and follow A Doll's Life on Facebook +1
(tell me under what name you follow me with)

Follow A Doll's Life on Instagram +1 

(tell me your account name that you follow with)

             Share the picture below on your blog, Facebook, Instagram, etc. +1 for each entry. 

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This giveaway ends February 27th at midnight CST. I will announce the winner the morning of February 28th. 

Don't forget to share and earn extra entries in this giveaway!

Good luck!  

If you have any questions comment below!

<3Katherine 

A Year in Review/ 3 Years in Review

Hello everyone! Katherine here. I thought I would post a Year in Review/ 3 years in a Review for today's post.

In three years A Doll's Life has had a total of 79,273 page views. We've had views from all over the world. Some of the main countries are - United States, Canada, Russia, France, Portugal, Poland, United Kingdom, Brazil, Singapore, India. Thank you all to my US followers and all of my international followers! (Not all are listed)

A Doll's Life has published 350 posts in three years. (Counting this post 351)

2015 had 130, 2016 had 123, and 2017 had 95 posts.

The post with the most views is Meet Anastasia


This was the first picture ever posted on here.



The blog started out with two sisters blogging.....








And added 5 more sisters within 3 years.

All of us have learned a lot about blogging and photography. We are also so very thankful for all the wonderful people we have met on here.

Thank you for all of all followers through out the years! We couldn't have done it without you.

Let us know how long you have been following A Doll's Life! Have you been following us from the beginning, have you followed later, or are you a new follower? Comment below and let us know!

If you have any questions for the doll's and I, comment below. :)

Also, next week's posting should be an exciting post! (It has to do with thanking you - my followers)

<3Katherine

And the Winner is.......

Are you ready to see who won this pajama set from Blondie's Dolls?

So I wrote down every entry and gave each one number and then if they had extra entries they got another number.

Then, I went to random.org put in the amount of entries 

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Drum-roll please!

And the winner is Lainey Dunlap! 

Lainey please email me at: bellalovesdolls15@gmail.com

The winner has until Wednesday February 1st to contact me and to claim their prize. If they fail to do so I will have to pick another winner.

Thank you to everyone who entered and a big thank you to Blondie's Dolls for sponsoring this giveaway!

  

Q&A + Last Day to Enter!

Hello! Bella here. Today I have two important announcements. First off......

Today is the last day to enter our giveaway. Click *here* to enter before it's too late!

Now onto the second announcement.....

A Doll's Life is having it's first Q&A!!

Recently a couple of people asked me some questions (which I will answer with all the other questions) and I thought "Why not do a Q&A?"

So comment below a question(s) for me or for any of the dolls! Anastasia, Samantha, Saige, and Katrina are willing to answer questions so make sure when you comment below that you specify to whom you're asking the questions. 

Next Friday the dolls and I will post the answers to the questions. So you have until Thursday to ask us questions. 

Get commenting and don't forget to enter our giveaway if you haven't already!

Have a great day!

-Ended- Giveaway - with Blondie's Dolls!

Hello everyone! I have a very exciting post for you today! In *this* post I gave a hint to what I was doing for A Doll's Life 2nd blogiversary and I stated that those who guessed right would get a shout-out. One person guessed right and that was Christian Homeschooler! Now that you already know it's a giveaway, are you ready to see what A Doll's Life is giving away?
This giveaway (as I've mentioned before) is to celebrate A Doll's Life 2nd blogiversary and to thank my US readers. Are you ready to see what we're giving away?

 Blondie's Dolls is the awesome sponsor of this giveaway. Back in November, when I went to Missouri, I came across this shop. If you are ever in Hermann, Missouri you need to check out this shop.

Thank you so much Janet for sponsoring this giveaway!

(She posts the outfits that are available at the shop on Blondie's Dolls, and you can email her if you would like to purchase an outfit.)

This set includes:

Doggy slippers

A pink pajama set with pink, white, and brown polka-dots.

And a knitted pink robe.

-HOW TO ENTER-

1. Follow A Doll's Life

(mandatory)

2. Have your parents permission if you're under 18.

(mandatory)

3. Comment your favorite thing about A Doll's Life 

(mandatory)

4. Live in the US or have a US shipping address.

(mandatory)

Here's a form to make is easier on both of us. If you're an email follower, tell me that you follow by email. Then in a separate comment say what email you followed with. (I will moderate the comments so your email will stay private and I will never give out your email) If you're a Google follower, tell me your username that you follow with.

Name: 

How you follow:

Favorite thing about A Doll's Life: 

That's it! That's how you enter. 

Would you like extra entries?

-EXTRA ENTRIES-

Like and follow A Doll's Life on Facebook +1 

(tell me under what name you follow me with)

Follow A Doll's Life on Instagram +1 

(tell me your account name that you follow with)

Take A Doll's Life Survey +1

(comment below that you've taken it)

Like and follow Blondie's Dolls on Facebook +1

(tell me under what name you follow it)

Share the picture below on your blog, Facebook, Instagram, etc. +1 for each entry. 

(may share multiple times for more points.)

The giveaway ends on Friday, the 27th at midnight CST. I will announce the winner the morning of Saturday the 28th. (The winner will need to contact me by email before Wednesday, February 1st.)

Don't forget to share and earn extra entries in this giveaway!

Good luck!

A Doll's Life 2nd Blogiversary!

Two years. Wow! January 3rd, 2015 Saige wanted to set up a blog.It feels like just yesterday! We both had been reading blogs like American Girl Fan, American Girl Place, Alone in a Doll World (they changed their direction of the blog), Vinyl Girls (they don't post anymore) and a couple of others. They inspired Saige and I to start a blog. (She took all of the credit even though I helped.) Two years ago Saige and Samantha were the only ones in the doll family. That was in 2015.

This was the first picture posted on this blog. I took it using my FujiFilm camera before I switched to using my sister's Canon Rebel T3. My FujiFilm wasn't bad, but like the picture above, it didn't take very clear crisp photos.

Then, Saige posted this on the blog. *cringe* Samantha's face isn't in focus, the picture is grainy, and yellow. To show you how much I improved, I'll show you a recent photo of mine that I took.

No editing, straight from the camera. See the difference?

This blog has grown so much in 2 years.

This blog now has 76 followers. (57 Google followers and 19 email followers) (Last year we were at 50 followers.)
 39,634 page-views! (That's insane!) The most viewed post was the first Fabulous or Fail? and it was 608 page-views! I've had page-views from around the world! Belgium, Japan, Germany, Russia, Poland, Mexico, France, New Zealand, Portugal, Singapore, Malaysia, Canada, and United Kingdom. Hello to all those people who viewed my blog around the world! (And who follow me from around the world) (And a big thank you to my US readers. :) ) And, 255 posts.

People have found my blog through searching "free peoples sequin skirt" and "a doll's life declamation speech" how they searched that and found my blog I have no idea.

This year has been the best for this blog. I made three friends this year from blogging. American Girl Doll Artist (Link is to her blog) and her sister. Thank you so much AG Doll Artist and Catlover02 for being my friends. I loved being able to Skype both of you and I hope we can meet some day since we live in the same state. And my international friend Lydia who is my online BFF. I'm so happy that we've gotten to be friends! I love how we both love each other's countries that we live in. I really hope some time we can meet up even though we live 7,789 miles away from each other.
 I'm so glad that Saige decided to start this blog because I've met so many wonderful people and wonderful doll bloggers. Not all of them are my friends, but in this tight AG blogging community everyone knows everybody and it's so nice. Sadly, it seems like more and more people either go to AG Instagram or quit doll blogging all together. But we aren't focusing on our sad things today.

We're celebrating!!

Now, I'm planning something for the celebration, but it's not quite ready yet. I'll give you a hint, and you'll probably be able to guess. "Sponsor" (hint)--- guess in the comments below! If you guess right you'll get a shout out from me. :) (Unfortunately the surprise is for my US readers only.)

Thank you all who follow my blog, read each post, comment on the posts, and leave wonderful feedback. I want to thank everybody who supported Saige and I: Shelby-Grace, Gwen from Alone in a Doll World, and BadKittyProductions. They were my first commenters. My top commenters from this year, were Joan, Marilyn and Marion, Lydia, Light4theLord, and others, Also, a big thanks to Tenley for loving my blog design and telling me how dedicated I am to posting. You help me and the dolls keep blogging. :)

Thank you all so much for supporting for supporting A Doll's Life!

Comment below what you think the surprise is!

P.S. Don't forget to follow by email so you don't miss the surprise!