If you accept a adolescent in your activity who's crazy for American Girl dolls, you don't accept to go all the way to Atlanta, or adjustment big-ticket items from a archive this anniversary season. Leslie Phillips is your affiliation through her Southern Baby Boutique, amid central Five Gold Monkeys in Spring Hill Village arcade center, area you can acquisition shoes and accessories that will fit American Girl dolls as able-bodied as her own 18-inch-tall Southern Doll.
After affairs out of best of her banal aftermost year, which was her aboriginal Christmas to accomplish her 10-foot-by-10-foot booth, Phillips said she's accessible for the blitz this year.
Among the new items she's alms are an broadcast band of academy uniforms, cheerleading apparel and furniture, including applesauce beds and a best accouterment arbor that holds a baby and her outfits.
Some of her items, including best of the academy uniforms, gymnastics uniforms and a analogous brace of flannel pajamas and sleeping bag, are still fabricated by bounded seamstresses, but about bisected of her account is now banal in China, to accumulate up with demand.
Phillips, who works full-time as a dietitian at Springhill Medical Center, said the best accepted account for the dolls appropriate now is a creamy croaking on a leash. "Kids appetite the dolls to accept their own pets," she said.
Her own daughter, 8-year-old Ella, helps her actuate what's accepted with girls. Ella alike has a Southern Baby called for her, Ella Louise (the one with brown hair and amber eyes). Other dolls accommodate Madelyn Claire, who has atramentous beard and amber eyes; Sarah Kate, who has chestnut beard and dejected eyes; and blonde-haired, baby Sophia.
Carol Galloway, the administrator of Five Gold Monkeys - which she describes as "a jack-of-all-trades affectionate of store" that specializes in furniture, accessories, bolt and ability - said she loves accepting Phillips and her "very popular" berth in the aback of the store.
"She brings a accomplished altered audience to us," Galloway said. "It's a abundant partnership, because the bottom cartage she provides is wonderful. We're so appreciative of her."
In accession to the dolls and accessories, Phillips is accustomed Lokei antithesis bracelets for $12.
From now until Christmas, Phillips is alms a appropriate amount on her Southern Dolls: $75 for a baby with the accouterments of your best and a brace of shoes. And this Saturday from 11 a.m. to 1 p.m., accouchement are arrive to accompany their dolls in to Southern Baby Bazaar for a chargeless ear-piercing and a brace of earrings.
For added information, acquisition Southern Baby Bazaar on Facebook. Phillips said she will address items anywhere. Just accelerate her a bulletin via the Facebook page.
