Just Magic: Make Your Own Magic!

Here are some new adventures we'd like to see for our dolls. Keep sending them in even though the contest is over, just for the fun of it. They don't have to be serious or even likely; for example, I'd love to hear what accessories you'd expect to see from Rose's Reform School Adventure! If you want to illustrate your idea with sketches or photos, send those along too. When the contest ended, we forwarded the final list to Marian, LLC to let them know that we wanted more adventures! Unfortunately, for reasons you can read about in the Magic Attic Overview and History, nothing ever came of that.

Megan in Victorian Times

Megan is wondering what to wear on Halloween. The school is having a Best Historical Costume Contest. All the time eras she thought of having were taken by others! When she tries to talk to her Mom or Aunt Francis they are busy. In desperation she visits Ellie’s house and puts on a Victorian Servant Costume. She looks at the Mirror. Megan is in a servant girl’s room. She is called to do some chores. While she is scrubbing the floor of the garden house, she over hears a conversation about kidnapping ‘Lydia’. Lydia is the rich girl next door. Megan warns Lydia and the Police. The Police do not believe her. She hides by Lydia’s house and one night she sees a man hiding in the bushes beneath Lydia’s upper story bedroom. She calls the Police, and this time they believe her. The man is arrested and Lydia gives Megan her doll as a token of appreciation. All is well and Megan returns home. Ellie lets her keep the doll and Megan borrows the costume for the contest. Megan wins 1^st prize for originality!

Outfit: A patched pinafore apron and a simple white frock.

Accessories--A doll similar to Samantha’s Nutcracker doll, ‘gold’ medal with 1^ST on it, and a broom, dustpan, bucket, and a scrubbing rag.

Megan in Fairyland

Megan is writing a report on treecutting and treesaving. She’s written all the facts and what she feels about it. But the teacher says to write what it’s like really saving them. Megan thinks she should look in the mirror room. She sees nothing. But then she finds a fairy costume. She forgets about school, and slips on the costume, and the matching necklace and garland crown. She looks into the mirror…….and finds her self in a forest, right in the middle of The Fairy Counsel. There she learns about humans who are destroying the Forest. She goes as an ambassador to the humans and explains about how animals and plants and even people need the Forest. They finally understand her and the forest is spared. The fairies thank her and she comes home. The Report gets A+.

Outfit- Shimmery, gauzy, green fairy dress and flower head wreath.

Accessories- A necklace like the Medieval Princess one (AG), A ‘report’, a mini ’Tree’ , wings , a few of those ‘fairy’ dolls (mini) .

Chloe and the Runaways

Chloe is bored one day and decides to go to the attic. She finds some old clothes and a tin crown. When she puts them on and looks into the mirror, she finds she is “Lady” Chloe, queen of the Runaways, some orphans in London determined to get to the New World. Chloe helps them to the docks and on to a ship. But then a worker sees her. She tells the other Runaways to go into the ship. As the worker is about to grab her, Chloe sees her reflection in the sea waters and goes back to the attic. She wonders if they ever made it to America. Later, she looks in the attic and finds an old journal page telling about how a band of children called the Runaways got to the US!

Outfit: A old, patched dress and a tin crown.

Accessories: An old sack with a metal cup and a handkerchief for “stowing away”.

In Chloe's first adventure through the magic mirror, she becomes a volunteer at the Mercy Meadow Hospital where she learns the value of compassion and doing what we can to help. Her job is to make the patients' hospital stays more pleasant but mean Mr. Krumpton is making it hard for her to enjoy doing it.

Accessories: Hospital bed that raises and lowers. Medical kit with stethascope, blood pressure cuff, and thermometer. Hospital food tray. Puppets like those she uses to entertain the little kids.

I'll start off with the great Woodstock Adventure. I suspect that the girls were looking at one of those old psychedelic posters and just whooshed off to the big concert. I hate to even think what they might have as accessories. The only things that I made are the vest Cassie is wearing (the same vest as in her Gathering Eggs photo by the way. It is pinned in the front and gathered a bit in the back for that photo) and my mom made the shawl Kiri is wearing . I also made the jewelry.

Kiri has an extra outfit in case the weather turns warm. I made this outfit. It's a copy of a skirt and halter top I wore in the late '70's. I'm also sending a scanned close-up of the purse.