Advent Calendar, Day Thirteen!

 Hello Dear Readers,

 Day thirteen already! I made my goal of getting all of the presents for my sister and her family wrapped and they are currently are on their way to them. Now I need to focus on things for the family I live with. I have a few things already and some planned ideas, but need to get my act together and actually get that finished. But first, our door!

 Today's door is a little one all the way in the corner of the calendar:

 We open it to find....

 A little train engine. 

 It's cute but ... kind of random. I like the calendar overall and I know they need to make it a certain way to make it affordable, but some of these days are so lackluster. I just wish if they were going to give us an undecorated plastic piece we'd get more. I don't want to make it feel like I don't like it, I do I really do. I just feel slightly let down on some days when we're just getting pinhead sized pieces of plastic and that's it. 

Not to be a Grinch, lol. See everyone tomorrow! 

Advent Calendar, Day Twelve!

 Hello Dear Readers,

 Bit more productive yesterday, but spent the afternoon resting, but wasn't able to do much sleeping. I'm a lot better compared to Wednesday, but I'm still really tired and not back to normal. This thing kinda hits hard, then slowly eases off. 

Anyway today's door is a medium sized door.

 

We open it to find...

 

...more candy canes in a far too large for them door. 

 Here they are on the tree:

 

 Only have to more spots left on the front of the tree. Looking forward to having it filled! See everyone tomorrow!

Advent Calendar, Day Eleven!

 Hello Dear Readers,

 Feeling a tiny bit better today (can keep food down) and working on getting what I need to get done done so I can get back to bed. That includes our daily Calendar Countdown. I did manage to buy a doll today, I'm not *that* sick. 

Today's door is a medium sized tall one (with some bonus cat hair)... 

 We open it to find.... 

 

Candy canes! Can't have Barbie brand candy canes without a pink one, it's required. 

 Our tree is really filling up! Four more spots left to fill on the front. I plan on shuffling the ornament around, but will have to be careful so the holes don't get blocked. 

See everyone tomorrow! 

Advent Calendar, Day Ten!

 Sorry for this being late, I'm super sick. I spent all of yesterday sleeping and when I wasn't sleeping, I was trying to get back to sleep. I have had this thing before, so I just need to rest and ride it out. The one time I went to the doctor over it they said it was just "allergies" and sent me on my unmerry way. So I'm riding it out, as usual. 

 

Anyway, today's door is a long but short one: 

We open it to find...

 

Some Christmas ornament!

 

 Our tree is starting to get decorated! Honestly, these are a little unwieldy and hard to put on. They don't slot in all the way because of the rounded backs, I wish they were flatter so they would fit in better like the bows.

 See everyone tomorrow!  

Advent Calendar, Day Nine!

 Hello Dear Readers,

 I am mostly done with my Christmas cards. I have one I need to hunt down the address for and two I need to ask someone for the addresses for. The rest of them all done and ready to go out into the mailbox. I also started my wrapping yesterday. I got the presents for my niece and nephew wrapped and boxed up. Now to do the ones for my sister and brother-in-law and the early stuff will be done. Progress! 

Our door today is this teeny tiny one at the bottom: 

Putting the mini in Mini Barbieland

 We open it to reveal....

 Two teeny tiny plastic bows. We have more decorations for our tree! I'm so glad we got the tree first because otherwise I promise I would have lost these. They are so so small. Luckily Mattel put tape on top of them to keep them in place in the box and when the tape came off it took the bows out of the plastic because otherwise they'd still be in there. They went immediately to the tree: 

 See everyone tomorrow!

Advent Calendar, Day Eight!

 Presents came, still not wrapped, but I did start on my Christmas cards. I don't have many to do, but I'm about halfway done. They're threatening snow today in the afternoon so I'm not even going to bother putting the cards I finished into the mail today. I did do a little crafting yesterday. The cards I bought came with a printed page with tiny little images of the cards in the box. So I put tape on them and cut them out and now I have six tiny little Barbie cards: 

 They're not perfect, but not too shabby for a paper print out that most people would just toss. They're not super great about staying open. I might stick them in a book to help flatten them, but I just know I'll forget about them!

Onto our door, today's door is a rather large one with the image of the holiday house on front:

 We open it to reveal...

 A tree! The irony, I just put up the Hot Wheels tree, then we get a Barbie tree. This tree however can be decorated. It has a bunch of holes for decorations to be added into. It has holes on both sides, which I appreciate being able to decorate the front and back but they go all the way through and while we just have one decoration currently, it looks like the tree has been shot. 

 We do finally have a place to put our wreath, but in my opinion it looks a little odd. Are wreaths on trees a common thing? My experience they go together, but not on each other. I guess it's a mini Barbieland thing. 

See everyone tomorrow! 

  

Advent Calendar, Day Seven!

 Hello Dear Readers, 

Currently waiting for Amazon to deliver the Christmas presents I have on order. I need to get them wrapped up sooner than later. My family isn't seeing my sister on Christmas this year, but there's plans to see her on this Saturday so I need to have all of the presents for her and her family wrapped and ready to go. I also have a few things for me in there in the order... 

But I am waiting patiently... ish. 

Anywhoo, onto our door: 

 Here we have a medium sized door. We open it to find....

 

Another mini figure! I also don't think this is based on an actual doll, which is a shame, I'm a sucker for plaid. I also like the red tights, as long as she actually gets tights and not color the legs red. (Looking at you Disney). 

I also spent some time today revamping Mini Barbieland's display. Our new figure joins the display along with a "snow" covered ground, and a tree from a Hot Wheel's advent calendar I got a few year back. 

I have a few more things from the Hot Wheels Calendar I'll be adding, I'm glad I found it, I just talked myself out of buying some Polly Pocket Christmas sets to be able to add some things to Mini Barbieland yesterday.

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 Such a scenic sight. Although, do you hear that noise coming from the Holiday house?

 Holiday Barbie has returned!!!

 And she takes her proper place in front of the Holiday house. Snowboard Barbie is just happy she doesn't have to share anymore, but Cutie Reveal Barbie has moved into the Ski House.  

Advent Calendar, Day Six!

 Hello Dear Readers!

 Still cold, but no snow like they were threatening for yesterday.

Today we have another small door: (I know I keep saying that, but they're smaller than the other small doors) 

 We open it to find....

 

A wreath! It's a small little green plastic wreath. I will mention that when I was trying to take it out it slipped into the bottom of the calendar slightly and we almost lost it until we opened the door below it, but I was able to shift it back into place. 

 It's got a post on the back, but ... we don't have anything to put it on yet. I checked the house and I could have missed it, but I didn't see any place for it to go. Maybe tomorrow? 

See everyone then!  

Advent Calendar, Day Five!

 Hello Dear Readers, 

 

It's cold and I don't want to do anything, so my holiday plans have stalled in a big way. Right now I'm working on the mental preparation to do my Christmas cards. I'm usually doing them at the last minute, but I want to win this year, instead of sending them out in shame.

 Anyway, onto our door. We have another small one: 

  Opening it we find....

 A bear! Oh my! It looks like a cute teddy bear, but I'm not sure if it's a toy bear or a real bear. In Barbie's world it could go either way. I will mention that they do put little indents along side the items to help get them out, but my adult sized fingers struggled getting this bear out. It almost stayed in there. 

 It is very cute, it's got a heart shaped stand so it can slot into play sets just like the dolls. 

I also dug out my lone Mini Barbieland figure and added her to the display (Holiday Barbie is still MIA, but I've only done half hearted attempts to look for her if I'm being honest).  

 She was a gift from a dear friend. She's from the Cutie Reveal series and I think is a puppy? She comes with a little puppy figurine too. 

 I still am really impressed with the level of detail to put on these figurines, especially the faces. They are tiny little things but they have pretty good details added. 

 

See everyone tomorrow! 

Advent Calendar Day Four!

 Hello Dear Readers, Day Four. We are chugging along! 

 

Today we have another little small door:

 

Opening it we find...

 A present! Well, a present box. There's nothing inside it. I guess Barbie hasn't been *that* good this year. It's a cute little plastic present, the bottom is totally open so unless you put in a fake bottom you can't keep anything inside. It's a little big for Mini Barbieland in my opinion, it's about the same size as the chair from the Ski Chalet: 

 

I will say that it works really well for a small present for actual Barbie scale dolls. Ryan Gosling faced Barbie Movie Ken was kind enough to pose with it for us: 

Insert clever Barbie Movie pun here that I can't come up with since I haven't seen the movie in ages.

If it was a touch longer it would fit the dog or the snow person under it:

You can see it's a tiny bit lifted on one end at the bottom, but I just realized it might be possible to put the figure on one of the heart shape holders and the box should fit over it. (But I think regular Barbie is just going to steal this for her stuff). It would also actually be really cute for Kelly sized dolls too. 

 

See everyone tomorrow!