Hooray for Thanksgiving Break

Happy Early Thanksgiving, everyone!  I know everybody is probably excited to get a break from school this week.  I am hoping to take a little time and do some fun things with my dolls in anticipation for Christmas.  Photostories, decorating, and I even have a contest suggested by you to announce.  How exciting!
My family put up our Christmas tree last night and did some decorating.  Doesn't Kit look sweet?

Cookies

Kit and Ruthie did some baking today.  Didn't they do a great job of decorating the cookies?

Pencils!

I found a craft on Doll Diaries (here is the link http://dolldiaries.com/doll-craft-make-your-own-doll-school-supplies/) about how to make pencils for American Girl Dolls.  I tried it, and I thought I would show you how it turned out!

Here is the finished pencil.  Doesn't it look real?

I made a whole set of colored pencils, too.  For a pencil holder, I used a tiny Altoids box.

Here is Kit holding her new pencil.  Now she can really be a reporter.