Hi there!

Today everyone is getting ready for the 4th of July festivities.  The residents of Pleasantville are all dressing up to go watch the fireworks tonight, as well as hear a speech from Mr. Merriman and a concert by Nafy and the Kitty band.

 Nafy is trying to finish her new dress for the fair before tonight, because Mammy has told her that she must finish it before she's allowed out of the house!!

Mr. Merriman has been talking to himself in the mirror for parts of the morning occasionally bursting out in to  "We hold these truths to be self-evident, that all men are created equal, that they are endowed by their Creator, with certain unalienable Rights, that among these are Life, Liberty, and the pursuit of Happiness......."

Suzanne and Cristal have spent the morning getting dressed in their new gowns. Suzanne is in the middle of debating whether or not to put red and white feathers in her hair since she's wearing a blue cress. Cristal keeps telling her that it would clash horribly, but Sonja keeps telling her that it looks "So patriotic dahling!"

Mrs. Windmill is getting her house ready for her annual 4th of July BBQ that she holds every year for family and friends.  She's always excited about holding parties at her house because that means that Laura and Paul will come home for a little while.

Well that's all for now! Happy 4th everyone!

Solana 

Posted by tinuviel_156 at 12:38 PM EDT

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Hello everyone!!

It sure has been a long time since I wrote a blog! =)  Things have been running smoothly in the town of Pleasantville lately except for various outbursts from Cristal's sewing workshop. 

Cristal lends the sewing room to certain people who need to use a sewing machine, and unfortunately Ana Valasquez and Suzanne Wickon both need to use the sewing machine to make new dresses before the county fair.

Suzanne and Ana do NOT get along. Ever since Ana laughed at Suzanne's singing one afternoon at sewing circle, Mrs.Wickon has disliked her very much.

Suzanne has been losing her temper quite often in the sewing room because she keeps trying to find a way to insult Ana (In a polite way of course!) but Ana keeps out witting her!

 Haha.... that's it for now ! I have to go eat lunch. ;)

 Solana

Posted by tinuviel_156 at 2:43 PM EDT

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Hello!!

Right now I am on the couch typing on Greta's laptop, and I just thought of how we have a very funny and interesting living room.

We have a dance floor with carpets and couches on top, a huge mirror on the wall, a dollhouse mansion in the corner, a TV in the fire place, a corner where Greta does all of the computer and business work, and instuments in their stands all along the dance floor.

Most people think we have a VERY large house to fit all of Pleasantvile inside, but we have a relatively small house.   We leave all of the doll houses up year round, but some people still think that we have to take them down and set them up between photo stories and updates.  That would be hard! lol

It's so neat that the internet can show our doll website to people around the world. It's like they can all come and visit our house even though they are miles away. =)

Thanks for reading!

Solana

Posted by tinuviel_156 at 12:25 PM EDT

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Hia!

Greta is editing the movie right now! It is so special to watch a new scene every night! I'm soooo excited for all of you to see it.

Anyways, today I'm planning on playing either in the Merriman's or the Montoya's.  Usually when we are playing dolls it's pretty late, and so we end up playing a lot in town square because my dad is asleep. (Meaning we don't want to wake him up by playing dolls in the Merriman's or the Montoya's which are in his bedroom.) So when there's a chance to play with those family's we usually do. 

Mary Stuart (the Merriman's governess) has been very busy lately. Taking care of Nancy Merriman can sometimes be a hand full when she refuses to go to her singing lessons, and goes to play "cops and robbers" instead.  She also has to keep preparing Felicity for court, and is now spending a lot of time doing what Felicity's daily duties were, so that Felicity can have more time to work on all of the 10 court gowns that she needs to make. Luckily Rachel isn't very hard to deal with except for when she doesn't want to wash the dishes.  William on the other hand is following in Nafy's footsteps, and likes playing a part in all of Nancy's adventures. 

Well that's it for now!

ttyl,

Solana

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Hellooooo!

Well today we were supposed to do a show, but we looked at the calender this morning and the show is actually next month! So we have a whole empty day ahead of us in which I am hoping to get in some doll play. =)

The new bank is in town square now! Lisa is really excited about how nice it is, so she cleaned up the inside of the bank yesterday and made it look extra spiffy to hold up to the outside.

The ladies gathered for a sewing circle at the Montoya's last friday. Everything went well until Mrs. Merriman asked someone to play on the piano to entertain the others while they sewed.  Dolores played Amazing Grace and then Mrs. Wickon began to sing "Queen of the night."  Ana Valasquez and Dolores began to laugh at how high some of the notes were which really made Mrs. Wickon mad. She stopped singing and left the rancho in a huff saying that she would never come to a Montoya sewing circle again.  Oh dear....

Everyone in Pleasantville is doing their spring cleaning now and getting all of their spring and summer dresses out in anticipation of the next few months.  I'm really excited about spring too! When we went on a bikeride yesterday there was even someone having a barbeque!

Well tata for now!

Solana

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Hola!

I am so excited, we are going to finish filming today!!!!!!!!! YES! Then Greta and Willow can start editing it. So we're half way done with the movie. lol I am so incredibly excited about all of you seeing this movie finally!  Too bad it's going to be a while.  It will all be better for the wait though. =)

The snow melted at the Larson's farm yesterday, I love how green the grass looks after being covered with snow for so long.  A change in scenery can sometimes be so refreshing.  The Grumpy Troll is very crowded these days; right now Lisa, Creme, and Mr. Wickon are all eating breakfast. The Grumpy Troll came out with a lot of new things on the menu recently, including a French breakfast, a Scottish breakfast, an Irish breakfast, a sweetheart mocha, and a drink called the heart warmer. I wish I could eat breakfast there!

I'm going to go and help my sisters set up the next scene now, Happy Valentine's day! 

Solana 

Posted by tinuviel_156 at 11:51 AM EST

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Hello!

Well, everyone is finally getting back to normal. Hooray! It's been a while since anyone did their chores in the Montoya Rancho, but they all did them just a few days ago.  Fransisca, Ana, and Mama spent a lot of that day arguing about certain things, it was pretty funny!  They all have such feisty tempers, that one of their arguments can be pretty amusing. =)

Juan, Antonio, and Tomas are another interesting group.  Tomas likes to make up songs about food with the help of his sons, He'll ask each of them what their favorite dish is and then add them to the song.  Also Mr. Montoya recently re-did everyone's chores so now Juan and Antonio have some funny ones like "Take Dude (the lizard) on a walk by the river" and "Sit quietly for as long as your mama tells you." lol

Nafy filmed another blog yesterday! I hope that Willow will have enough time to edit it before tomorrow, because I can't wait for all of you to see it! 

Solana 

Posted by tinuviel_156 at 1:06 PM EST

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Hellllllo!

Hey, we have a normal living room again! ;)  We just finished taking down all the stuff that was everywhere in our living room, because we finally finished that part of the movie! Yayyyy!

Right now l really want to clean the Parkingtons and the Merrimans, because their houses are a mess!  Mammy definitely needs to get on top of stuff, seeing as the feast meal still is being prepared!  

Laura challenged Lisa to a skiing match yesterday; whoever gets to the bottom of Mt. Pleasant first wins!  (And the looser has to pay for breakfast at the grumpy Troll!)

Well, not much else has happened other than we have started watching "Road to Avonlea" with my dad again, (I looooooooooooooove that series!) watching the episodes, I find more and more things in Avonlea that Pleasantville is based off of. =)

Happy last day of January! I can't wait for spring!!!!!!!

Solana 

Posted by tinuviel_156 at 11:28 AM EST

Updated: Sunday, 31 January 2010 11:30 AM EST

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Hello, hello, hello!

Much cleaning and organizing has been going on in the doll houses lately!  Alex finished the feng shui in her house, and Laura Windmill moved in with Ali, Meg, and Angelica yesterday!  Celine has been moaning about this for the last few weeks, because "All my kids are growing up and leaving me!" As Celine would say.  She's pretty much changed her mind though, thinking of how she can totally re-do her house.  =)

My dad's racing to finish the bank today!  He's trying to finish before the weekend's up, so he's in the garage working away while singing along to all of his favorite country music on the radio.

I'm going to work on fixing up the Windmill's house today; it looks pretty empty right now without Laura's stuff, so I'm going fix it up a bit.  We're also going to try and get some more scenes done today for the movie.

I really have the spring cleaning fever right now!  I feel like going through all of the doll houses and cleaning every thing up right now!  I always seem to want to do that during this time of year! Hehe... ;)

Well, see you next Sunday!

Solana 

Posted by tinuviel_156 at 1:52 PM EST

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Howdy!

Lots of interesting stuff has been going on in Pleasantville lately!

A few days ago John did his rounds on all of the houses, (he checks to see that they have eaten, their pets have eaten, etc.) and he collected all of the people who didn't do all of those things, because they all had to spend a night in jail .  So last night all of the Parkington maids, Kaya, Katharine Purr, Lara, Britta, and Angelica did their odd chores as well. ;)  Poor Alison ended up with mucking the privy, and Angelica had to clean Bamboo Terrace's crab tank. Hehe...

The cooks at all of the restaurants have been very busy lately, lots of people have wanted to have a quick meal before facing John's inspection, and people like Lisa and Suzanna like to dine out a lot.

Lisa was attacked by a wolf a few days ago!  She was extremely shaken, but Mr. Larson got there to save the day.

Mammy and Felicity are spring cleaning the entire Merriman house, Mammy insists that every room must be perfect, and a dress that doesn't have a snap on the back must not be worn until it has been mended.  Nafy's amount of dresses to wear is shortening, because most of her dresses have either popped open or ripped because she doesn't like to wear her corset. 

Well, that's all for now!

Solana 

Posted by tinuviel_156 at 12:11 PM EST

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