Doing a VINTAGE American Girls puzzle (FROM MEMORY!)

[@KarenPuzzles]

I filmed this video last summer and only just got around to editing it! I hope you like it - and let me know in a comment if you were into American Girl as much as I was!

[@Joycemac]

Karen Puzzles I fine myself strangely attracted to the video of you putting puzzles together. Plus you give good tips on putting them

[@Skittl1321]

I'm almost s decade older than you but was OBSESSED with American girls. From childhood into adulthood. Not so much anymore though.

[@kittiesarethebestthingever8114]

I never had an American girl doll !

[@janicefreiheit3080]

I am a retired school librarian. I had several American Girl dolls for my library. I used them to display books about various periods in history. They were a big hit with the girls.

[@KarenPuzzles]

I never thought about using them in a library! That's awesome!

[@SecretSquirrelFun]

What a great idea 🙂🐿

[@arciafrench993]

I love when you talk while putting puzzles together instead of the fast forward, it’s very relaxing thanks

[@pete5668]

I like watching you do puzzles and narrate them.

[@cathyherme1934]

Ditto

[@AlexisTwoLastNames]

it is really nice. i enjoy just hearing Karen talk abt stuff lol

[@speedpaw8023]

As you were putting together the first section I could literally see THE PIECE FOR THE GIRLS FACE. And it was bothering me that I wasnt able to tell you while you were doing the puzzle 😂😂😂

[@corinnewatterson5556]

me too, I was stabbing the screen with my finger!

[@speedpaw8023]

@@corinnewatterson5556 😂😂😂

[@chocklad9]

Same hahahha

[@kristine5561]

I really like this narrating style video. It feels like a hangout. And I can relate to the not sharing sister story. My older sister was very similar. She hated sharing her stuff, but on very rare occasions she would give me toys she was tired of or felt like she had out grown only to later forget that she had given them to me and be really angry that I was touching her stuff. Older sisters are a struggle.

[@TheaCastles]

From a devoted South African fan: I just love watching your videos. Don't know anything about American Girl dolls. Binging your channel..

[@WishAtElevenEleven]

I really like this type of video, a combination of part narration, part time lapse. I wanted an American girl doll growing up, and I used to get all of their catalogs for the dolls and clothing, but didn’t have the money to buy one because they were like $100-$200.

[@megbartman6477]

I loved this video. My daughter was born in 1990 also. She won Felicity at age 3. That was the beginning of many years of American Girl dolls include a trip to Chicago to visit the American Girl store. We have wonderful memories. My daughter is now a scientist at the Mayo Clinic.

[@pete5668]

I do hotel reservations and customer service for a living and some of our hotels have American Girl packages where they supply an American Girl doll, a doll bed, and also milk and cookies. For just a little bit more, you can also go all out and have the room decorated in pink with curtains and various other pinkities, to coin a word. :)

[@PrincessKait1]

The song you picked at around 5 mins is the same song my company’s teleconference company uses for holds and waiting for the “leader to activate the conference” and let me tell you that was so jarring 🤣 been hearing this song at least once a week for y e a r s and had never heard it outside of teleconferences.

[@TheAGcollector101]

As an American Girl fan I love this! It can be hard to find videos about older products often so this is a treat! I really hope to find this at a yard sale or thrift store one day, I found two frame puzzles the other day at a thrift store and those were pretty cool too.

[@finnickpl84]

Fantastic puzzles! yesterday I bought a Jigsaw 500 pc puzzle and in less than 3 h I put them together 😀 I'am very happy because I discovered my new passion 😀

[@youdontknowmeokay4227]

PL, huh? Are you polish, by any chance? If so, me too 😁✌🏻

[@finnickpl84]

@@youdontknowmeokay4227 you are Polish?

[@madsli]

It's kinda interesting, I grew up in the 90s in Norway and we had a lot of the same books and cartoons and stuff for kids as America. However, the American girls is definitely one thing that we did not have over here. It's interesting to see the "small" differences between countries.

[@lydiajoy1823]

I was too old for American Girl dolls I think I was in my 30s when they came out. I live in California but I took a trip to New York City in the 1990s and happened to walk by a huge American Girl store. I had to tell everyone back home, oh my God these little girls were totally freaking out! They had these huge shopping bags and they were just beside themselves with joy. I thought, how are their mothers ever going to get them out of that store, they are completely delirious! I remember I thought it was hilarious but I really did not know much about the dolls.

[@mothmaiden4413]

Oh man. We were never the family to really have enough money to buy American girl dolls. I got Kit as a gift and LOVED her (She was the 1920's doll who lived during the great depression). This was also around the time they began to sell "just like me" (?) Dolls, or the look alike dolls. I begged for one, for sooooo long, and eventually got a little me. :)

[@sallydiehm9327]

This is a very fun video. I am much older than the American Girl dolls and my sons were not into them either. I enjoyed watching this puzzle come together. Thank you for getting me going on jigsaw puzzles again especially now that we have all this time at home on our hands. Keep up the good work. Didn't hear a codeword in this video but also watched "questions" this evening, so maybe I can still be your new favorite subscriber.

[@ablair24]

I really like the narration while puzzeling. Even if you're not talking the whole time, just the cuts of "I finished this tree" or whatever, make a nice video :)

[@karinheart]

I loved the puzzle, the narration, the comments, the lighting and angles. And even the missing piece made it real. I am from long before the ear of American Girls by 30 years. Still cute. And now I want to find some American Girl puzzles to do myself...thanks Karen!

[@vintage5729]

I could never do a puzzle without seeing the picture!!! My girls were born in ‘89 & ‘92, so we were into AG dolls!! Love watching you do them and talking along the way! I always hope to hear hints from you!!

[@Picklesboothe57]

Thank you for sharing Karen, I really liked it. No I was way too old lol. But in my time my sister and I would play with paper dolls. I still love them and collect them. It brings back memories of my childhood. Especially when it rains for some reason. My parents didn't have a lot of money growing up and paper dolls were pretty cheap at that time.

[@KarenPuzzles]

I literally also had a collection of paper dolls that used to be in the American Girl magazines 😂

[@shirleysrussell6235]

Yes, I had paper dolls, too! I spent a lot of time playing with them.

[@Ali-mv3jc]

My grandma sewed me a doll as a kid. I still have her now, she's beautiful

[@k.f.5436]

My daughter loved the American Girls books. She was born in 1989, and I happened to stumble upon American Girls. I didn't know anything about them, so I bought the Addy books for my 7 year old daughter Kristen. She like it so much I bought all the American Girl books and Addy doll... I even bought her the Addy dress. This video brings back memories.

[@Sarahle3]

I like hearing your stories while you work on the puzzle.

[@lilyludwig4323]

I had the same CD! Got it at the American Girl Place when I was 8. Good memories.

[@awkward567]

I'm about the same age (born in 91) and I was big into AG too. Some of my favorite puzzles in the 90s were Dr. Seuss puzzles! Tons of fun and silly stuff going on in the background made them really engaging.

[@Kreavit]

I think this is one of your best videos. Love to see you assemble in the blind and the mix of music and talking about old memories.

[@pagemayrand4956]

woah. memory unlocked. I started watching just because I've been bingeing all your videos... but as the picture started to come together, I remembered that *I* had the same puzzle as a kid! and had also completely forgotten about it. i was also born in '90! I wasn't *super* into American girl the way some were, but I did have Kit Kitteridge, and the matching outfit for myself! 🤣

[@River_wylde]

I LOVE AMERICAN GIRL . i was poor as a kid but i love getting the books from the library . felicity and molly were my favs

[@ourchannelak]

I can watch you do the puzzle and talk while I multitask for some reason I find your show very calming, peace 😊

[@RiteofWriters]

What an awesome puzzle! I was very into American Girl as a kid and was lucky enough to have a few dolls and books. Addy was my absolute favorite and remains so to this day. Thanks for sharing this, it was so charming and fun.

[@DuluthTW]

That was a lot of fun to watch and listen to. I grew up before AG dolls, but my 2 sisters and I had EVERY Barbie doll and Barbie House, Car, etc. Thanks for sharing!

[@ladeebug2u]

Enjoyed your narrative about the American Girl puzzle. Looks like a beautiful fun puzzle to do.

[@angiegold6134]

Love this puzzle and video!!!😊 I also love the narration!

[@Emily-ee4zw]

I love this video. American girl dolls were the best!

[@BT5KZ143]

I was obsessed with American Girls when I was young. My faves were Samantha and Kitt, who was the doll during the great depression. I only ever owned the Kitt doll but I had all of the books for the other girls. This is probably one of my favorite video of yours!

[@joytillotson6708]

I was never into them but I like to hear about them. I think they are good to use to help explain different era's to little girls. Way to go miss karen.

[@deborahkristensen9344]

Loved it! Fun video. I liked the way you narrated while puzzling. I had already moved abroad by the time American girls came out, so I knew nothing about them. But now I do! Thanks!

[@theoriginaledi]

I looooooove when you do this! As I've told you before, I used to love when you would do online puzzles and talk about random stuff. I was way too old for American Girl dolls, but this was nostalgic for me in a completely different way: It took me back to those fun videos! I hope you see fit to do this again some time! :-)

[@gordonglenn2089]

(more than a year later) I really did enjoy hearing you talking about the puzzle and your experiences while you were putting it together. I helped raise daughters just a bit older than you, but I do not remember The American Girls dolls at all. I'll have to ask them!

[@handxherz]

this is my favorite video of yours! I come back to it a lot - i just love watching you do the puzzle and casually chat what is on your mind - have you thought about doing real time puzzle videos? When you talk in your other videos about how long it took or give short glimpses of the progress or how you planned your puzzle day I always wish I could be there with you ;-)

[@simplecookin6997]

This is so cool when you zoomed it I found a piece!!! Lol

[@flowergrowersmith449]

Nice video Karen. It's good to have a different aspect - nicely edited. You must have a good memory too.

[@KarenPuzzles]

It all came back to me to the more I worked on the puzzle!

[@starrpony]

Cool puzzle! I had Molly and my sister had Addy. We used to get the magazine and the catalog. :)

[@KarenPuzzles]

Nice!

[@maggiemccarthy8766]

I used to get the American Girl magazine and catalog, but I only ever really cared about the catalog. I used to look through every month and find all the new products. I also got a Josephina doll when I was 10 for Christmas.

[@KarenPuzzles]

Yes, I used to read both of them cover to cover every month!

[@kellyhoward4449]

Loved this video! Gave me nostalgia from when I played with my Molly doll.

[@vocaloidhetalia5791]

I had this exact same puzzle! I loved it.

[@katherinewilkins8236]

I love this video karen. Its so genuine

[@feuilletoniste]

A delightful video of a truly delightful puzzle!

[@visionsofjanuary798]

I still remember my first American Girls catalog; it was only the original three, Kirsten, Samantha & Molly. That shows how old I am 😂 But yeah, I loved American Girls when I was younger, and I remember that poster. I never had the dolls, but I had several of the books, as well as some of the other activity stuff, like the paper dolls and a cookbook!

[@spilledfiction]

I loved watching this! I never had a full size American Girl doll when I was younger (think I had a mini Samantha, though, and read the books). I was really into the Magic Attic Club dolls, which had a book series as well!

[@KarenPuzzles]

I had a Magic Attic Club doll too! I had Heather and I loved those books so much!

[@gailcarsten7903]

I would have to see what the finished puzzle looked like so you're really good. Fun to watch.

[@vanyadolly]

This was such a lovely video. I'm not even American, but I wish we had something like this around when I was little to get me more interested in history. I'm over 30 but I still ask my sister for permission to touch some of her stuff out of habit. 😂 Older sisters can be so territorial. In mine's case it was her VHS and CD collections.

[@annabethwilliams8866]

Love this puzzle- I loved American Girls and had Kirsten. I also love to read so I love this puZzle- I’m going to check EBay!!

[@laurieluxenburg4754]

My daughters had the dolls, my youngest daughter played with them more. Emily ( the younger one) had Felicity the older one Katie had Kirsten. Emily had a lot of furniture for Addy which was really cool. My granddaughter age 6 is playing with them now and she is a jigsaw whiz so I would love the puzzles! Can we adopt you 🤣

[@thisgirlrocks6469]

Such a joy to watch ❤️

[@sherbrownsf2]

I'm finding this puzzle very interesting because none of us for a Long Time knew what it was about as you normally have a box you have a picture so it's been cool

[@annb5369]

I was obsessed with American Girl Dolls! And this was such a fun video to remember my childhood! I think you should do a live stream puzzle video.

[@KarenPuzzles]

I'm not really comfortable going live, but I've gotten a lot of good feedback about this narration style of video!

[@annb5369]

@@KarenPuzzles Yeah I get that. Your videos have made me get back into puzzles and I've started off slow but I love puzzling!

[@liabunnyears4249]

I really like the narration style 😊

[@jss302]

ughh I was waiting for 19:08 since you started the puzzle lol I've been staring at that piece! 😅

[@visionsofjanuary798]

Saaaame.

[@sophiakate2759]

I LOVE THIS American girls were my life and I like when you do these kind of videos

[@problematicdietcoke]

I really like the narration you did! You should do more narration puzzle videos!! I like hearing your plan for the puzzle and your stories:)

[@birchlotus]

I'm not American. I'm wasn't born in the 90s. And I don't know a thing about American Girls. But I'm loving this video.

[@neonknight27]

So here's what you want to do to maintain your conversation with the camera. step 1: Get the Ice and Fire series and read a chapter. step 2: Discuss that chapter while doing a puzzle. (earn extra credit by live streaming it) step 3: Go back to step 1.

[@gguerard]

Love this! Thanks Karen!

[@steveschmidt1843]

That sister doll thing will come up in counseling...pretty sure.

[@peggycrowley9534]

My daughter had Samantha, her bed, her school supplies and the picnic lunch including the food and containers. I think I got it for her because I wanted hr to have it. She enjoyed it but not her favorite toys.

[@WhattheBeck]

I actually really loved the stream of conciousness voiceover! I do a similar thing on my videos. It would be cool if you uploaded a music timelapse and a voiceover timelapse for some of these smaller puzzle timelapses

[@sophieyelena8942]

I love all your videos and this channel but I much prefer a narrated video of you putting a puzzle together. I tend to fast forward through the long time lapses because they’re so long and nothing really happens minute to minute to make me want to watch. So narrated videos are my favourite. You could do a Q&A to voice over your puzzle time lapses that would give you something to talk about 😊👍🏼💕

[@theedwardianwriter]

So much nostalgia! I was born in 99, so still in the range. A lot of my friends had American girl dolls, but my parents were really sceptical because I was never a doll-playing child in the first place, so instead I ended up with a good few books (I think I remember Addy’s, Josephina’s, Molly’s, Kirsten’s, Felicity’s and some newer girls too) but never any dolls. Definitely one chunk of my childhood that helped foster my hunger for history and the stories of women and minorities.

[@cynthiacayton788]

Very cute puzzle!i had Molly

[@KarenPuzzles]

Fun!

[@MilenaReads]

Really like these kind of videos.

[@mmmargh]

More puzzle-doing with narrations! Instead of a food mukbang it can be a puzzle mukbang!

[@MegaMindyLou]

I did like the intermittent commentary with the time lapse. It was fun.

[@icturner23]

It’s so nice to revisit childhood memories.

[@ConcreteAngelx3]

I wanted Samantha! My sister had Molly, a bitty baby, and two, I guess they were American Girl Me dolls? Something like that. One of them might have been mine, Idk, but we played with them together a lot. We were born in 1989, and 1991 so pretty much the same ages as you and your sister.

[@alexvillafuerte3045]

Eres increíble Karen ! Besos desde México

[@cindydriver9112]

Oh no, it isn't a weird video, I'm enjoying it.

[@courtneykappel370]

The KP binge continues…I never had AG dolls but went in the store in Chicago several years ago and had to pull my jaw off the floor. I’ve wanted an AG doll ever since! So did you kidnap Molly after this? 😜 This was fun to watch! So glad I found your channel.

[@thisisroxaroo]

American Girl dolls didn't come to Canada until 2014 or so. It's weird to think of how big of a thing they are in America and just never got here?

[@KarenPuzzles]

Weird! You should have had a Canadian Girl spin-off!

[@crochetingcanuck]

@@KarenPuzzles We do have an equivalent. They're stupid expensive though. maplelea.com/

[@adriennegonzales2636]

I was 9 or 10 when AG came out. Their marketing company did a great job of targeting houses with young girls ....I'd get a big glossy magazine every month of the dolls and I'd just read and reread it over studying all the pictures ❤

[@achild4363]

I love American dolls I’m excited

[@jorgejardim6941]

Plz do more of these

[@luvjenluv1]

i had a custom american girl doll, i still have her! my sisters had kirsten and elizabeth. i think they got rid of theirs though

[@simplecookin6997]

I love this!!❤❤

[@maddie77933]

Let Karen pick up her sister’s doll!! #justice4karen

[@KarenPuzzles]

Yess, I love the hashtag!

[@matthewbates9629]

Ah a puzzle where having a photographic memory would come in handy

[@rosiehernandez888]

I love watching you videos your 👍

[@Marketbug]

Exellent work!

[@ourchannelak]

It’s a great puzzle

[@dianegaus3561]

Thanks

[@darkoprerad]

Challenege for you: mix 2 different (but similar) puzzles in one box or bag and try to put them together. 😊 enjoy and please make video if you do this challenge. 🤗

[@joshglennie7969]

cool

[@anilkumarget9176]

Great video 🤩🤩🤩

[@maryquartuccio5521]

Love the video

[@carolmontague7106]

You didn't give a code word this time, but I saw it to the end. You were missing a piece. Anyway, my parents gave my daughter a Just Like You American Girl Doll when she was about eight. Emily, my daughter, is CRAZY about the dolls. She has every one of the dolls in that puzzle and then some! Thirty-one dolls at the moment. But we don't have the puzzle. Incidentally, Emily is four years younger than you. Yes, she still loves those dolls.

[@mrslaugh25smith38]

Yes i do

[@jenmckitrick]

How did you know which girl was in which spot?

[@KarenPuzzles]

I remembered that they were in order of the years that their stories were set!

[@DavidParkerism]

Yes I have American Girl dolls

[@shirleysrussell6235]

Karen, what is the white board you are putting puzzles together on? Today I went to Home Depot and looked at many things, but none of them were sturdy enough to hold puzzles and move them to another table. What are you using, and where can I buy the same? Thanks.

[@KarenPuzzles]

This one is just on a white table, but I'll often use a sheet of 20x30 foam core. You can get it at most craft stores or office supply stores!

[@catinkapuzzles7657]

I use "multiplex". thats what it's called here in the Netherlands. Google translate tells me it is called plywood in English. most commonly plywood comes in the wooden natural color. here you can buy a white laminated form. maybe you have an option in your stores to buy backboard for closets/cupboards. the cheap bookcases have these kind of white backboards too. here you can buy these separately too. Can't imagine that there are no options in those big American stores of yours... 😁😁😉😉

[@KateJanssens]

Lowes and Home Depot definitely have plywood in several thicknesses, as well as the bookcase backboard @@catinkapuzzles7657 is talking about. Look for something called 1/8 inch hardboard. Foam core is a lot lighter when you're moving puzzles around, but hardboard comes in bigger sheets.

[@lmramsdell]

Love this! I still have my Molly doll and my cousin had Samantha

[@AltoYardaje]

Never heard of American Girls before