Happy Valentine’s day

To all the happy couples like Barbie & Ken

I have these outfits, I’m just too lazy to dress them up & take photos. Maybe next year…

Mod Friends

Mod Friends came home when Walmart discounted them.

Mattel’s repro dolls have never been good sellers, the prices always drop as rotten apples fall from the trees. This set’s price dropped from $80 to $43. But it remains $80 on Barbie’s own website.  I suppose they are for a specific group of collectors who have fond memories of playing these type of dolls in their childhood.

Stacey, wearing “Cool Casuals” 2 piece set

Barbie, wearing “Flower Wower” dress.

Christie, wearing “Tangerine Scene” bodysuit & skirt

 

Happy Year of The Pig

Lunar New Year has begun.  Its  “Year of  the Pig”. 

Barbie Baked Fortune cookies

Barbie also adopted a Pig

Lets Spread Fortune around

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Perhaps you should eat less pork but more cabbages,

Wishing you happiness and prosperity

 

Hello, February!

Is Polar Vortex hurting you? but please think of these warmer days that filled with love

Late February days;
and now, at last,
might you have thought that winter’s woe was past;
so fair the sky was and so soft the air

—William Morris

To celebrate Barbie’s 60th Birthday, Mattel will remake “Busy Gal” Doll as a tribute to her successful careers.

Today is  “National Wear Red Day” –“Go Red For Women”  is the American Heart Association’s national movement to end heart disease and stroke in women.

Have a Fabulous February!

Barbie For Moschnio

Valentine’s Day is coming, Barbie wears her heart for you to see.

Happy Martin Luther King Jr Day

Happy Martin Luther King Jr Day

Keep your Dreams alive until they all come true.

It may take generations, torch on!

Golden Globes

Barbie has arrived at the Golden Globes.
she hits the Red Carpet with grace & beauty, Lady Gaga looks on… lol

My Barbie currently has an empty wardrobe,  I sold most of her outfits. but I managed to find this dress from the “Citrus obsession” Doll.

The photo below is from Last year, like many famous actresses, Barbie was dressed in black to support the “Me2” Movement at the 75th Golden Globes. I think I tweeted the photo but never posted on this site.

Debutante Ball

I was very disappointed when I heard that Mattel will remake “Busy Gal” & “Astronaut” to celebrate Barbie’s 60th Anniversary as a career girl. Both have been reproduced before, why making the same thing again & again if your new price can not beat eBay price?

I went through Mattel’s Vintage Archive on Barbie Signature website, and I think this “Debutante ball” sounds like a perfect choice for 60th anniversary.

I searched the dress on eBay and  found its very expensive,  and it bothers me that  the bodice of the dress doesn’t fit  the doll:

so I tried to make one for my doll:

Barbie Signature 2018

When I went through Barbie Signature website early this morning, I was surprised that Barbie released more than 40 signature dolls in 2018, but many collectors and I felt the wait for new dolls was long and there were no dolls for us to buy. Many BFC members couldn’t even find a chance to use their $30 quarterly shop rewards.

here is a list of the dolls that were released after Jan 1, 2018.

1. Barbie® Elegant Rose Cocktail Dress Doll FJH77
2. Barbie™ Midnight Glamour FRN96
3. Barbie® Proudly Pink™ Doll FXD50
4. Barbie® Yves Saint Laurent Doll Mondrian GCM97
5. Barbie® Yves Saint Laurent Doll Paris Gown FPV66
6. Barbie® Yves Saint Laurent Doll Safari FJH71
7. Barbie® Mod Friends Gift Set FRP00
8. Barbie® Faraway Forest® Fairy Kingdom Wedding Gift Set FJH81
9. Unicorn Goddess™ Barbie® Doll FJH82
10. Barbie® Styled by Iris Apfel Doll #1 AA FWJ27
11. Barbie® Styled by Iris Apfel Doll #2 FWJ28
12. Barbie® Styled by Marni Senofonte Doll FJH75
13. Barbie® Styled by Marni Senofonte Doll FJH76
14. PUMA Barbie® Doll DWF59
15. PUMA Barbie® Doll AA FJH70
16. Barbie® Laurie Hernandez Doll JH69
17. Barbie® Ibtihaj Muhammad Doll FJH67
18. Barbie® Frida Kahlo Doll FJH65
19. Barbie® Katherine Johnson Doll FJH63
20. Barbie® Amelia Earhart Doll FJH64
21. Barbie™ 2018 Holiday Doll FRN69
22. Barbie™ 2018 Holiday Doll FRN70
23. Barbie™ 2018 Holiday Doll FRN71
24. Barbie® Birthday Wishes FXC76
25. Barbie® Birthday Wishes FXC77
26. Barbie® Birthday Wishes FXC78
27. Barbie Graduation Day Doll, Raven Hair FXC75
28. Barbie® Mrs. Whatsit Doll FPW23
29. Barbie® Mrs. Which Doll FPW25
30. Barbie® Mrs. Who Doll FPW24
31. Barbie® Jurassic World™ Claire Doll FJH5
32. Barbie® Jurassic World™ Owen Doll FJH57
33. Disney The Nutcracker Sugar Plum Fairy Barbie® Doll FRN77
34. Disney Clara’s Light-Up Dress Barbie® Doll FRN75
35. Disney Clara’s Soldier Uniform Barbie® Doll FVW36
36. Disney the Nutcracker Ballerina of the Realms Doll FRN76
37. Disney Mary Poppins Returns Jack the Lamplighter Doll FRN83
38. Disney Mary Poppins Arrives Barbie® Doll FRN81
39. Disney Mary Poppins at the Grand Music Hall Barbie® Doll FWJ29
40. Wicked Glinda Barbie® Doll FJH61
41. Wicked Elphaba Barbie® Doll FJH60
42. Barbie® The X Files™ Agent Fox Mulder Doll FRN94
43. Barbie® The X Files™ Agent Dana Scully Doll FRN95
44. Barbie® Doctor Who Doll FXC83
45. Tomb Raider Barbie® Doll

Barbie signature has become a mini manufacturer that makes trashy souvenir dolls for Junk Movies.

Mattel almost has NO creativities of its own. It makes me believe that Mattel does not need “designers”, it only needs a couple of people who have a sharp Market sense and know which movies or fashion designers are more sellable than others and making dolls to resemble their costume designs is profitable.

I purchased Elegant Rose, Mod Friends Gift Set and the 3 YSL platinum dolls

I would buy Midnight Glamour, Proudly Pink, x-file Dana Scully, Dr. who Iris Apfel dolls if they are discounted, as I only like their faces or hair colors, so I would not pay full prices for them.

Hello, 2019

2019 has arrived, Happy New year from my dolls to yours.

Barbie will be celebrating her 60th Birthday soon.  Where have all these years gone?

May you have all the dolls you wishes for in the upcoming new year. Although the market is slow, Barbie is still under the spotlights.

sorry, Barbie didn’t get a new dress for the new year. as I was too lazy to make her one.

Make your 2019 sparkle, dolls!