{"id":686,"date":"2009-02-14T20:30:34","date_gmt":"2009-02-15T02:30:34","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.scottnkelly.com\/blog\/?p=686"},"modified":"2009-02-14T20:30:34","modified_gmt":"2009-02-15T02:30:34","slug":"american-girls-meet-valentine-chic","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/scottnkelly.com\/blog\/2009\/02\/14\/american-girls-meet-valentine-chic\/","title":{"rendered":"American Girls meet Valentine Chic"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/scottnkelly.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/02\/vdayag-1.jpg\"><\/a>I realized 2 things the other day &#8212;<\/p>\n<p>1. If my girls\u00a0were ever going to have any\u00a0outfits for their American Girl dolls (other than the 1 change of clothes they currently own) I needed to find a way to circumvent the $25 &#8211; $45\u00a0price-tag associated with\u00a0AG couture.<\/p>\n<p>2. Anything I sew for my girls can be miniaturized with some creativity and little to no up-front expense.<\/p>\n<p>A quick trip to the AG website confirmed that they\u00a0missed a surprisingly\u00a0obvious money-making opportunity and did not release a &#8220;valentine outfit&#8221; per se (although there were several deemed perfect for <a href=\"http:\/\/store.americangirl.com\/agshop\/html\/ProductPage.jsf\/itemId\/142421\/itemType\/TOY\/webTemplateId\/3\/uniqueId\/206\/saleGroupId\/141\" target=\"_blank\">valentine luncheons<\/a>).\u00a0Our bank account thanked them and I opened my cabinet of fabric leftovers to see what treasures I could find within.<\/p>\n<p>Here is the result . . .<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-687  aligncenter\" title=\"American Girl meets Valentino\" src=\"https:\/\/scottnkelly.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/02\/vdayag-1.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"470\" height=\"359\" \/><\/p>\n<p>The girls were very happy with their &#8220;2-of-a-kind&#8221; creations and I had so much fun with it that I&#8217;m already planning their easter dresses. I have so many pieces of material left over from the things I&#8217;ve made the girls over the years, I think I could dress these dolls to the runways of Milan and back again . . . or something.<\/p>\n<p>I should add, Spencer was equally enamoured with his gift and although it required little creativity on my part, he is a boy and was not at all hung-up on the fact that I didn&#8217;t sew him a Mario figurine or hot wheels car. He did, however, insist on equal billing at the Valentine&#8217;s Day photo shoot.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/scottnkelly.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/02\/mariovday-1.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-690  aligncenter\" title=\"Hotwheels that crash and a Mario that stands on his own - what more could a boy want?\" src=\"https:\/\/scottnkelly.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/02\/mariovday-1.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"264\" height=\"161\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I realized 2 things the other day &#8212; 1. If my girls\u00a0were ever going to have any\u00a0outfits for their American Girl dolls (other than the 1 change of clothes they currently own) I needed to&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[3],"tags":[13,175,224],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/scottnkelly.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/686"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/scottnkelly.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/scottnkelly.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/scottnkelly.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/scottnkelly.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=686"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/scottnkelly.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/686\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/scottnkelly.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=686"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/scottnkelly.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=686"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/scottnkelly.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=686"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}