Kanani Restored

I have enjoyed working on Kanani the past couple weeks. I tightened her loose limbs. Before, she had trouble standing on her own. Now she is a pro! I cleaned her vinyl with a Magic Eraser twice to remove any dirtiness. I combed her hair, conditioned it, trimmed off a few split ends, and curled it for 48 hours. Time for the reveal!

 

 

↑  Her hair before...  ↑

After!

↑  Before...  ↑

After!

I am really happy with the way she turned out! I hadn't originally planned on conditioning her hair, but after I brushed it out and curled it once, it was prone to tangling and such. After conditioning her hair, it was sooo much better and shiny! 

If you want to see more pictures of her, check out her Ebay listing here. Kanani is such a cute and pretty doll and I am so happy I had her for a couple weeks and was able to restore her. Now she is ready to be loved again!

Kanani's Journey

I thought it would be fun to chronicle Kanani's journey!

Here she is in her box. The box is a little damaged.

Her hair is frizzy and tangled.

It's still a little curly though.

Her face is so cute! It does have a shine mark or two.

She doesn't have any marks on her cloth body. Her limbs don't have any dark marks, but there are some shine marks. It looks like she will need her vinyl cleaned, her limbs tightened, and her hair brushed, trimmed, and curled. I've heard it is possible to remove shine marks with toothpaste, but I can't seem to find any tutorials...

Anyway, I am excited for Kanani's journey!

Shopping Trip and Mini Haul!

Yesterday I went shopping at Target and a local toy store. I took some pictures of the Our Generation and American Girl items that they had in stock! At the end of this post, I will be showing what I ended up purchasing.

*warning: many of the following pictures are blurry*

The toy store had an end cap of Our Generation items. I had been to this store before and they had many more items than this, but this was all I saw yesterday.

They also had some American Girl mega blocks.

A few outfits.

Mini dolls.

The store also sold some used American Girl Dolls! As you can see here, they had Felicity and Rebecca. 

Then there was also #27 wearing Julie's meet outfit. I believe the doll on the right is #34. #49 is hiding behind the box to the right.

They also had Kanani.

#53 and Caroline. The mini doll is Samantha, but she is in a BeForever box.

Next I went to Target! They had 8 or 9 different dolls.

The section seemed slightly larger than it had been on previous visits.

Accessory and clothing sets were mixed together. They didn't have any shoes sold separately.

I had a gift card, so I purchased the OG Explorers accessory set! It was also on sale which was nice :)

I like this set because of all the little items it comes with that I'm sure Maggie will love! I will be doing a review on this set.

The other thing I got was from the toy store...

Kanani!!! She is in her complete meet outfit (I believe), with book, and box! Although I don't plan to keep her (I plan to fix her up and resell her), I am so excited! Her hair needs some work, her limbs need to be tightened, and her body needs to be cleaned. I will do a "before" post soon to give an overview on her condition right now. I can't wait to make this girl even more beautiful! Do you have Kanani? If so, is this her complete meet outfit?