New stuff from Canada!

I miss Canada so much, so it was nice to get some dolly love from Canada this week. Check out Maplelea’s newest items!

Charlsea’s Bee Friendly Sweater Set

Taryn’s Paleontologist Set

Leonie’s Quebec Comfort

Brianne’s Happy Horse Hoodie

Great White North 2020 (pink) and 2018 (red)

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And there goes 2018

Another year down. It went a lot like last year, with a little less dolly love. What did you do this year?

January 7. New dress.
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January 12. Meet Luciana!
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January 14. Taking Luciana home.
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January 21. Luciana settles in.
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January 24-28. Disney World (last trip before pass expires)
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January 31. Logan tries on girl clothes.
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February 11. Ready to travel.
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February 11. Practicing.
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February 16-20. New York!
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February 21. Snowy.
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March 10. My dad got a kitty.
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March 22. Lambs!
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March 25. Maryellen’s trailer.
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March 29. New Maplelea outfits.
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April 4. This is what 120 tablets of Albenza looks like.
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April 8. Cattle escape (they live two houses down–about a quarter mile!)
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May 12-13. Victoria.
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May 15. New Fluevogs.
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May 19. Half marathon.
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May 20. Orchestra concert.
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May 25-28. I missed Disney World, so I went without park tickets. Just hung out at the resorts.
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June 19. New neighbors.
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June 24. Shaw Island.
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July 1. Birthday in Disneyland (Paris!)
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July 1-8. Paris.
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July 27-29. Back to Victoria.
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August 2-9. England.
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August 5. Land’s End.
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August 8. Birling Gap.
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August 8. Canterbury Cathedral.
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August 10-12. Disneyland (not Paris)
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August 20. Air pollution, courtesy of California wildfires.
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August 24-25. House guest.
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August 26. Fluevogs.
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August 26. Lego Disney Castle.
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August 30. I ate my neighbors! They were delicious.
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August 31-September 3. Disney World, new annual pass.
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September 6-10. Yosemite.
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September 15. Fluevogs.
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October 5. Fluevogs.
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October 5-7. Salt Lake City.
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October 19-21. San Diego.
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October 24. Chili cook-off (I didn’t compete; I provided the prizes)
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October 29. Halloween Costumes.
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November 15-19. Disney World.
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November 26. Christmas Tree up.
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November 30-December 2. Vancouver.
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December 12-16. Disneyland.
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Maplelea Monday: Ringette anyone?

Today Portia is dressed in the Maplelea Ringette gear, which I bought around Christmastime.  For a long time it wasn’t available to ship to the US, but now it is!!  And isn’t it awesome?

You can’t even see all the stuff it comes with!  Portia is wearing shoulder pads, elbow pads, shin guards, a neck guard, a ringette girdle (hip/butt pads?), and gloves and a helmet!

I learned about ringette in the journal pages that came with the outfit.  As you can guess, it’s basically hockey.  It was invented in the 1960s for girls to play, because they weren’t playing hockey yet.  It was featured on “Hockey Night in Canada” in 1975.  It is different from hockey because you have to pass the ring before you cross the blue line.  And apparently hockey masks are different than a ringette mask.  The ringette mask has triangles over the face so you don’t get a stick to the face.

I’m so excited to finally have this very Canadian set in my Maplelea collection.  Happy Monday!

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Maplelea Monday!

It’s been a while since we’ve had a Maplelea Monday, and Monday is almost over, but it is a bit of a special occasion!  Meet Portia!  She’s a Maplelea Friend doll (Friend #12).  I bought her on amazon.

Her hair is textured like Addy’s and Raven’s

And she has a face mold that’s a teeny bit different from the rest of the Maplelea Girls

And I took her outside in Alexi’s Market Magic outfit.  Adorable.

Hope everyone survived their Monday; I’m super-glad I survived mine!

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