Inside the American Girl DOLL SHOW in Saline, Michigan! What it Was Like and What I Got. 

I worked for Pleasant Co before bought them out. It was the best then and the best seasonal job ever. My girls loved it. Not the same since Mattel took over.

You got some great little finds. I love getting those random pieces, too. Sometimes I may only want one piece of an outfit and not the whole thing.

I use to go to the doll shows in Northern California in the early 90s, I was collecting Barbie. They are fun, you do meet up with regulars or friends and the deals were amazing. These were the years before eBay, Macari and posh mark. So it was a real community of people who were all shopping for the same things.

Oh I wish we had something like that out here in the land of mildew!(Seattle). I would love to be a vendor!!!

That news boy cap is everything!! I would absolutely love to have one. I wish I could go to an American Girl doll show. I’ve only been to one doll show when I was a child. They only had like one 18” doll vendor. 😅

That doll show looks amazing. I wish there was one like it here in SW Ontario. I love it when you show a named set and I realize have a couple of the pieces. I have the top and pants to the Ruffled Hoodie set but didn't know they went together. I agree that the short sleeved hoodie is weird but it would go nicely with one of my hand knitted sweaters. Thanks, Kristi.

I’ve never been to a doll show but would love to! 😊

Wish for more AG Doll Shows. Hope you let us know if you hear of one. I am in Alabama but still want to know. Love your videos. I am still learning.

There are never any AG sales near me! Sometimes I check out the doll shows for AG. I’ve gotten some great deals, but I’m not allowed to get AGs from them anymore because I’m always so impulsive and never bond. 😅 My favorite way to score secondhand deals is still thrifting. It’s the thrill of the hunt for me. ❤

I loved this! How fun to meet fellow AG lovers in person, and to score so many great items at fantastic prices! Thanks for being so detailed in your descriptions, too!

Jealous of the mini Amelia book. It goes with the 10” Amelia rag doll AG sold, a little small for the 18” sadly. I want to scan some of my full-sized books to make miniature. I love Amelia! The nod to Amelia in the twins’ computer set had me obsessed. ❤

Looks like a fun show. I wish they had more events like that in Canada. I would definitely go. Thanks for sharing your experience and your haul! I love that you saw Nadia and another viewer there!😊

The yellow and grey tennis outfit is from the early 2010s. It’s one my daughter had so I now have it.

That sounds amazing. I personally love many different types of dolls, so most doll shows are exciting for me. 😊 I think I've only been to a doll show once with my Nana (another doll lover) when I was a child.

I was at a doll show about 15 years ago, and it was nothing like the one you went to. It was mostly a bunch of dusty old porcelain dolls, Franklin mint "collectables" , Barbies and even some not so charming homemade ones. 😂 It sort of cured me for good. Maybe i was particularly unlucky, but none of it seemed relevant. Happy for you to go to a fun one.

It was so lovely to see you both there! I’m so glad you had fun and were able to find some goodies!

Wish you would have come to the Strongsville (Ohio) Doll Show Feb. 25. Beautiful weather that day. I had a good day. Sold 2 of 3 AG dolls and many of my handmade doll clothes.Sent my daughter around to scout out other tables.Doll stands $1-2. There were not as many AG dolls as were in August. But there were at least 8. Maybe you will come August 18, I think is the date. (Northern Ohio Doll and Teddy Bear Show)

Thanks for sharing about your experience there. I sure wish we had something like that here in Ohio. I am curious as to how it got started and find it interesting they do not charge to get in. It would be a fun time to be able to have a show that was nothing but AG/18 in doll related. Did you have the chance to get to speak with anyone who was an organizer for the show?

I went to a toy show today with 0 dolls that weren’t barbie sized. This is such a dream!

I so regret being teacher tired that day.... I'm about an hour away so I hope I can go next year.

This sounds like a really fun doll show! The shoes alone are worth the trip! I have that ruffled hoodie outfit and I don’t think I’ve ever used the hoodie for the reason you mentioned, if you need a hoodie, don’t you need long sleeves??

Those blue sandals go to the 2013 plaid party dress. 😊

I agree…I don’t much care for Isabel’s tennis outfit. Maybe if everything wasn’t sewn together and the pleats went all the way around, I’d feel differently. The older tennis outfits are better.

This looks wonderful! I definitely want to come next year, as this is only 90 minutes away from me. The selection of odds and ends also sounds wonderful. And my toy ban is only for 2024, so I'll have some money saved up for 2025. :) So fun! Thanks for all of the great details! I believe it's pronounced Sah-leen. :)

I knew nothing about the Amelia books until this video. I had to do some research.

The blue sandals that you showed at the end came from the plaid party outfit. Looks like you had a great time.

Was this a one time event? Love the gems you all found.

I wish I were anywhere near this doll show! I saw Nadia and another agig friend post about it and it seems like my dream doll event. I did get to go to a local doll show this past weekend that I had never been to before and wasn’t sure what to expect. it was mostly older Barbie and other vintage dolls, which is fine by me because I was obsessed with vintage Barbie as a kid and I still love to see them. Not much AG, but even so I did have a lucky find. I’d been really wanting Grace, and someone there happened to be selling a beautiful NIB one with her charm bracelet and earring set. She wasn’t a steal but I think she was a fair price for a NIB long retired goty. She’s precious! A little early birthday treat 😂. Also I loved the Amelia books as a kid! I thought the journals full of drawings were SO cool. When I was imploring everyone to give AG’s new journal books a chance I was absolutely thinking of Amelia, and they definitely have the doodle factor, they could just stand to be a little longer.

What a fun AG show! Your got pretty thing on great prices 💜

I wish we could have gone, but trying to conserve money after Christmas/Birthday and going to the Titantic Exhibit next week... better to not take in the temptation! 😂 Hopefully next year!!!

Rosalie is stunning! Is she a CYO you created?

We never have stuff like this in SoCal 😢

Not me seeing doll show & thinking that it's like a dog or cat show but for dolls! A blue ribbon for the best in the historical category! 😆😄

When you mentioned the headband that you got that eas missing from your CYO outfit, i started wondering what kind of inventory system you keep or is your memory that good? Mine is starting to fail me in little ways like that. I would love to hear your solution.

Are you seriously allowed to keep the green dessert cups from the cafe? I’ve gone for years and have been told that I can only keep the daisy?

How do you find out where these shows are and when?

That show sounds so cool! Unfortunately, I won't be able to make it to next year because I'm on the East Coast, and it's just too far for me to travel. I'm very, very fortunate, though, in that my grandmother was a doll and teddy bear collector (and, to a lesser extent, my mother --- my father even has a very small number of dolls). She mostly collected antique porcelain dolls, and was friends with woman who ran a doll store and museum -- Mary Merritt's Doll Museum , which sadly no longer exists. As a kid, I went to a *lot* of doll and bear shows. They were mostly generalist shows, like you said. I've never even heard of an all-ag doll show. But ag wasn't that collectable by adults back then, and I haven't been around dolls shows in a loooooong time.

You took affordable options from other people to make your own profit to cover your items? That’s kinda whack girl, I love your channel but that’s super opportunistic and really goes against the spirit of doll collecting