Barbie holiday weekends

when meg and I were little we loved Barbie's! I mean L_O_V_E_D! them!! we were always so excited to have a three day weekend when my dad would allow us to make a Barbie mansion in the hallway and leave it up for the weekend. we had a pretty good sized area outside our bedrooms and it was wood floors so it was the perfect spot to build houses out of building blocks. we were so creative, using our big crayon piggybanks as street lights, using my moms doll furniture from when she was a kid. no one stood a chance over us when it came to the best doll houses (or so we thought)…the neighbor girls had the real Barbie dream mansions but we never wanted them…we liked our make believe much better!

so several months back I pulled out my Barbie's (the few that I kept) along with my sisters Barbie carrying case and brought them home for London. oh I'm not sure who was more excited…me or her? she has played and played with them…well today my dear client ami brought me a bunch of her daughters old Barbie's and their paraphernalia! London was to say the least, beside herself with excitement. I have never seen so many ken dolls! and these ken dolls are all so different from the ones I had I couldn't stop giggling at the hair and the muscles! just so brought me back to those days, when life was simple! I loved the “heart family”dolls. I had the mom the dad, the kids. we would play with our strawberry shortcake dolls and star-something dolls with them too! funny how you get rid of things thinking your kids wont want them or there will be something better by the time you have kids but really the reason to keep toys for your kids is so that YOU receive joy when watching them play with something you treasured so much! just digging through that box right now the memories came back. I had forgotten how much I loved the little cabbage patch dolls and the miniature strawberry shortcake figurines…who remembers all this stuff?

 

the mess

megs old Barbie case

the new ken dolls…guess which one I like? londy says he looks like chopper cause of the muscles..lol

baseball player and the cheerleader (londy loves her)

the oldies! the one on the left I think was supposed to be from Switzerland? and the one on the right was my neighbor

Katie Stipe (I was in love with this dress) I had it when she moved, so yep…I pretty much stole it! only time I can remember stealing anything in my life!

strawberry shortcakes…I cant find any clothes for them…why are dolls always NAKED?

don't remember what these were called by they were some of my all time favorite toys

cabbage patches…they are soooo cute!

my moms favorite toys we ever owned..she has some at her house she wont give me back..lol

the ken who started it all today…I couldn't stop giggling at the hair while at work…I LOVE it!