slumber party revealed: follow up to *which book characters did you long to be in your younger years? *

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don't you just love a slumber party? comfy pjs, silly movies, telling your friends, old & new, your thoughts & crushes & dreams.... such fun! so i thought i'd invite you to the fun continuing series on the rikrak studio blog... the rikrak slumber party. here's a followup to the question i asked a little while ago: which book characters did you long to be in your younger years? thanks for your fun answers! be sure to visit all of the slumber party posts here and chime in!

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good golly!
isn't escaping to another world in a book just the loveliest thing?!
of course i was fascinated to hear which book characters all of you lovelies out there longed to be in our younger years!

what a fabulous cast of characters we have at our slumber parties! we'd make for a most entertaining bunch of young ladies, wouldn't you agree? { and based on some of our faves, get in a heap of mischief, too! }

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the most popular response was certainly lovelies longing to be laura from the little house on the prairie books. seems like those pioneer adventures (and pigtail braids!) had janet, rox, ilena & candied fabrics enamoured!


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another fave was the jane austen protagonist elizabeth bennet. and that dreamy mr.darcy would be yours: vadjutka, artmind & freckles!

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a favourite i had forgotten about was pepper sprout designs & denny's fave: that precocious pippi longstocking. (more great pigtails, too!)

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harriet the spy was karamae's fave. i always love a good sleuth, too, karamae!

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and just to make sure our slumber party mysteries had enough sleuths, jessica & little gray pixel longed to be nancy drew. *sigh* me too, nicies. me too!
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leslie dreamed of being one of those wonderful adventurers from swiss family robinson
(oh to live in a tree house!)

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and wendi wished to be abandoned on an island ... alone! like the character in Island of the Blue Dolphin. how adventurous!

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archaeology-loving plushroom soup adored her dad's vintage hardcover happy Hollister books, complete with wormholes! love it!ster

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and marian dreamt of being in a kaye gibbons book.
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elan vital anthology wished to be one of those fabulous bohemian elves from the elf quest series

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and another long time fave was the spirited anne shirley from anne of green gables. oh ness & elliven - isn't she fabulous? and then you could have gilbert blythe all to your selves!

*swoon*

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see you tomorrow, cuties (for the start of 7 days/7eco giveaways!)

thanks to all the rest of you who left fabulous answers, too!
and to all the anne shirley's, laura ingalls wilder's, nancy drew's and elizabeth bennett's out there - thanks for making reading such a fabulous adventure!

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slumber party { part 9 }: which book characters did you long to be in your younger years?

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don't you just love a slumber party? comfy pjs, silly movies, telling your friends, old & new, your thoughts & crushes & dreams.... such fun! join us! you can catchup with some of our other slumber party fun here: and for today's party question: which book character did you long to be in your younger years?

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a stack of books print by toxic guineapigs


as chilly winds blow outside, and we find wonderful ways to be cozy indoors, i so fondly recall winters many moons ago when i'd delightfully cuddle under my bed covers and keep warm on wintry days and nights with the fascinating characters in my favourite books! isn't a great book a wonderful thing?! and the characters in them dear friends we're inspired to be like?

so today for our slumber party i thought we'd reveal our favourite book characters from our younger reading days: characters we longed to be!

alrighty... here we go!

one of my earliest favourite book characters was laura ingalls wilder of the book & tv series fame: little house on the prairie. those pioneer tales, that good-clean fun, those one-room schoolhouse antics. i just loved it! i was especially smitten to become laura as i fell in love with the tv series. oh to be half-pint: bmy raided pig-tails running through the farm fields!let's be honest - i'd still love to be her, and married to that ... ALMANZO! .. *swoon!*

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another early favourite was the clever & beautiful young sleuth, nancy drew. a brilliant detective, i longed to problem solve like nancy, analyze like nancy, and since the versions we had at our home were the charming 1966-ish editions - dress like that late 60's fashion-guru nancy! (hmm.. i still adore that style!)

i was a little bit crushed when i found out that the "author: carolyn keene was a pseudonym for various ghostwriters! alas ... but that somehow added to the mystery & intregue!

as you might recall, i longed to be a spy or sleuth for many years.
of course i've given that up now as an adult.
of course. of course i've given that up.
i'm not a spy.
really, i'm not. :)

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well my reading tastes matured a wee bit, and i was soon smitten with jane austen's words, and most especially the matchmaker-y style of main character Emma Woodhouse. i fancied myself a young matchmaker before i'd read emma, and was inspired even more after reading! though the character seemed flawed in many fabulous ways, i thought emma to be dreamily delightful & a kindred spirit in many ways. and that mr. knightly! well ... that's another story!

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okay! so i've confessed!

so there are my choices for book characters i longed to be in my younger years! now... let's snuggle into our cozy sleeping bags, open another bag of sour cream & onion chips, crank up the pointer sisters, giggle & whisper and hear yours!

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