We're deep into the Barbie days at our house and I'm totally in my element. I have my own credit cards and I COULD have the Barbie world of my dreams if I wanted to.Amanda asked for a Barbie house for Christmas. Yes, this is the kid who already has a big old Barbie house. But there was a part of me that wanted that big old perfect Barbie world. For a while there I was thinking I should be practical and just get some furniture and let them use our bookshelves as rooms (which they do anyway).
I ended up impulsively buying her the collapsible Barbie house in the top two pictures... on clearance at Mervyn's so Scott couldn't tell me to take it back, ha! But before I did, I set up one of those ebay search thingies that sends me an email whenever some fun Barbie world thing comes up. And I haven't turned it off yet.
When the 1962 Vintage Barbie house showed up today I had to show it to Amanda and tell her that I used to play with a house just like it when I was a kid... and that before I played with it, Auntie Deni did and then Auntie Darin... She was wowed....
Then I decided DUH
I should post it here.By the time I got the house, most of the furniture was long gone. I think maybe I got the TV/stereo thing though. It was a very cool house with or without furniture.
Somewhere buried on this sisters blog, Darin and I discussed Skanky-Ho-Goes-to-the-Bar Barbie so imagine my delight when another of my emails from ebay offered up the playset above, that no little girl should be without... Does it get any better than this? It's the Skanky-Ho-Barbie-Bar!
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ohhh, a “Barbie Does The Bar!” set...I’m feeling so much better! I was feeling a little inadequate that I didn't know what "divan" meant in Chicken Divan, much less what a "ramekin" was...I mean, i could guess, but...shoot, two sizes of skillets is a bit overdoing it in my kitchen these days, when I came upon Barbie Does the Bar. And you're still good to your original promise when you & Deni created the blog—there would be more to this cookbook than cooking!
I’m so easy…45 years later, and I'm still enraptured when I see Deni’s “Barbie Dream House”. And remember all the hours of fun. It was truly Glorious, in all its Cardboard Wonder. It was That Good of a Toy, the Real Deal, before they started making stuff out of Dumb Plastic. Mattel at its Best. I was going to say Mattel just didn’t make toys the way they used to, until I remembered…Barbie #5, Latina Barbie. My dream Barbie. Luckily I got mine for a lot less…but, it’s just like the painful line from childhood, “Accessories Sold Separately.”
http://cgi.ebay.com/Subversive-Jewelry-Justin-Giunta-One-of-a-kind-Barbie/250571444993
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