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| Killarney |
Posted - Dec 07 2013 : 09:56:04 AM
For me it was the year I finally got a Real Barbie and Midge not the imposters! LOL! Only the Midge in the Bridesmaid dress is mine from childhood. We always passed down our dolls to younger cousins. The rest of these, I was given or bought at Flea markets and Garage sales and some I restored for friends. The midge in the Prom Dress, I restored for a high school friend in Mountain View, Arkansas.
Sometimes all that is needed is a little cleaning and hair shampooed and re-styled and clothes mended and cleaned. I used a child's toothbrush to curl Midge's famous Flip back up!  .JPG)     
Connie
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| Killarney |
Posted - Oct 21 2014 : 2:37:02 PM
I remember Jane West!, Marybeth that is too funny!!!Lora, I remember my cousin getting that same dream House and Denise, 30 years later I'm still finding Holly's Barbie accessories in drawers! LOL!!
Hugs! Connie
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| Marybeth |
Posted - Oct 11 2014 : 12:37:00 PM
I am too old for when the Barbi craze started. I didn't want any dolls I just wanted a horse and that is why I married my husband. He promised me a horse and a farm and all that stuff and I/we got it all. My kids (all girls) didn't want dolls either just hot wheels and ponies. Well my youngest wanted a Cabbage Patch doll. So no Barbi memories. Well actually I do. A little girl I baby sat---no day care then---had a Barbi and she told me the two bumps on her front were extra stomachs. I said where did you hear that and she said here Mom told her. It weirded me out.
MB
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| Sandy Rose Cottage |
Posted - Oct 11 2014 : 11:47:13 AM
I wasn't much of a barbie girl growing up. True to my farmgirl roots even then, I loved my Jane West doll!
She was such a independent strong woman. She was always saving my brother's G.I. Joe from danger!
Sadly she was lost some years ago...
Nancy
Farmgirl #6066
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| levisgrammy |
Posted - Oct 07 2014 : 1:46:36 PM
Never remember having a Barbie but my girls had them and all those little accessories. I was always finding them in the strangest places. My oldest had the Barbie car.
Denise
Farmgirl Sister #43
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| FARMALLChick |
Posted - Oct 07 2014 : 1:27:41 PM
The year I received the Barbie Dream House. I was 8. It was something that I had been asking for all year. It was 3 stories of pure pink and white bliss. I also got the Barbie Corvette that year too. It was Pink with an attached remote control. I was in sheer heaven that year.
"Courage is being scared to death and saddling up anyway" -John Wayne
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| Killarney |
Posted - Aug 16 2014 : 7:21:28 PM
Holly. I love your Barbie pictures and story!
Hugs! Connie
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| Autumn |
Posted - Aug 08 2014 : 09:32:51 AM
My birthday is Dec. 13th which is close to Christmas, so I can't recall whether or not it was on my birthday or Christmas that I received my favorite Barbie doll of all time, Glitter Hair Barbie. She was so rad looking with her huge palm tree earrings, I loved her. I even remember the way the glitter gel smelled. I liked her so much that I bought a NIB Glitter Hair Christie doll when I found it in an antique shop a few years ago. It was an impulse buy and I'll probably sell her, but a part of me has trouble letting go lol.
I also really liked the Barbie featured on the cover of a Barbie short story book I had. She's wearing this hot Christmas dress that I always wanted when I was little. I still remember it to this day.
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| Killarney |
Posted - Aug 06 2014 : 10:51:03 AM
Kim and Grace I loved your Barbie stories and Pictures!! What a great find grace!! I just now saw them! Better late than never! LOL!
Hugs! Connie
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| Cozynana |
Posted - Jan 06 2014 : 10:52:54 PM
I remember sitting on our neighbor kids cement driveway under a canopy and sewing clothes by hand for our dolls. I really wasn't into playing with the dolls. I just wanted to make the clothes for them. I can't say that I was good at it, I just enjoyed the process. |
| katmom |
Posted - Jan 05 2014 : 10:16:07 PM
Connie, my dad was career Army so we moved every 2 years...since we could hardly take anything except the basics... my Barbies were my constant companions... over the years Barbie along with my Girl Scout uniform disappeared... :>(
So I thoroughly enjoyed looking at yours... Thank you..
Oh and recently I found a (in great condition) Dream Date Barbie Game... 1960... whoot whoot!
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| Killarney |
Posted - Dec 26 2013 : 4:02:06 PM
Thank you Nicole!!!
Connie
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| texdane |
Posted - Dec 22 2013 : 7:10:07 PM
Connie,
What an adorable, classic, very cute photo. Love it.
Nicole
Farmgirl Sister #1155
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| Killarney |
Posted - Dec 21 2013 : 6:26:57 PM
Thanks Lori, there are not many pictures of me other than school ones. This is the only Christmas Picture of me as a child. I have one of my brother too. and I cherish them!
Hugs!
Connie
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| crafter |
Posted - Dec 20 2013 : 09:34:54 AM
Connie-
Oh how I love that picture of you!!! Reminds me of some of the pictures my parents took of my brothers and me!! Love...love...love it!!
Lori
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| Killarney |
Posted - Dec 20 2013 : 09:03:18 AM
Marianne, thanks for sharing with us and Heather I am laughing out loud!!!! Barbie did have a Horse and I think it and the campers were from the 1970's. I will check my catalogs. I have so enjoyed reading everyone's Memories and what was your favorite and what makes you smile! This pic is the year I go my Skipper Dream Room and a Skipper! and we had that tin tree with the color Wheel!
Connie
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| nndairy |
Posted - Dec 16 2013 : 7:31:07 PM
It's funny but my favorite Barbie memory is more about my Grandma than the Barbie. My Grandma had arthritis in her knees really bad and she was always getting after us kids for cracking our knuckles. We used to take the Barbie legs and bend them so they'd make the popping sound behind grandma. She's get after us and we'd giggle. She knew it was the dolls, but at the time we didn't know that.
I do remember getting a Barbie horse one year though. I'm not sure if it was really a Barbie horse though or just one the right size for a Barbie. I was like Winnies kids - I wanted a horse so bad!! My parents weren't like Winnie though. A horse is still on my "one day" list. My littlest sister was into the Barbie's though. I remember Skipper. And a dream house. I don't remember a camper though. It looks pretty cool though. When did it come out? Probably a bit before my time. Love the stories though. It's neat when generations can share the same cherished memories.
Heather
Farmgirl Sister #4701
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| rough start farmgirl |
Posted - Dec 16 2013 : 6:59:44 PM
OH! I loved my pop out camper for Barbie. That photo brought back fond memories. I remember one beautiful dress. Always my favorite. And one of my Barbies reminded me of Mary Tyler Moore. We used to watch the MTM show together!
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| Killarney |
Posted - Dec 12 2013 : 6:32:51 PM
Mel, Thanks for sharing you Christmas memories with us! That first Barbie is still the most sought after and collected! I have seen pictures of the Miss Revlon Doll , she is such a pretty doll! aww what fun! a child size sewing machine that really worked!
Connie
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| Kirksmom71 |
Posted - Dec 12 2013 : 3:43:37 PM
Amazing! I received one of the first Barbies in 1959. I was 11 and it was my first Christmas back with my Mom. She (Barbie, not Mom) :) had black hair....no blonde! I also received a Miss Revlon and a tiny sewing machine so I could make clothes for them.
My best to all,
Mel
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| Killarney |
Posted - Dec 12 2013 : 2:56:46 PM
Got the Barbie tree up! The tree was a store display that was my Great Aunt Mattie's. .JPG) .JPG)    
When I was 5, My Aunt Anita was 10 and she got Barbie and 3 of the first line of outfits,Solo in the spotlight, Enchanted evening and my all time favorite "Friday Night Date" I got to play with it some by the time I was 8 but only supervised by my Granny! My Aunt Anita still has her doll and most of the outfits.
The Barbie case ornaments have a re-moveabletiny Barbie in each one.
Connie
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| Killarney |
Posted - Dec 12 2013 : 08:45:54 AM
Vanessa, Suzanne and Nini! ( I had a pair of those Pilgrim shoes in the 70's! LOL!!!!) OOOOOOOOOO I love reading your Barbie Stories!! I don't think your ever to old to love Dolls!! My god-children and all girls , no mater what the age, that come to my house, love to play Barbies. Quite some years ago, I had a Barbie themed Tea Lunch for a few close friends and used my Barbies for the Table Centerpiece and gave them the Barbie Hallmark Ornament for that year. I have a Barbie tree, with just those ornaments, but don't have it up yet, I am so behind this year decorating! Hallmark ended the collection after 13 I think, but you can find them at junk stores really cheap, 4-5 dollars. Keep those Barbie Stories and Pics coming!! My Daughter loves reading all the Holiday forums when she comes over! She is 37 and she still collects Barbies, she has many of her own and she got the Paul Frank Barbie for Christmas a few years ago, and he came to Memphis for a art Exhibit and he signed it for her. She was over the Moon! LOL!! The girls she works with will say, lets skip work and go to your Mom's and Play Barbies! Hugs!!
Connie
Imagine....#3392 Here's some when I was restoring them for other people. My Hubby got used to Barbie clothes drying on towels all over the house and bodys and heads in the sink! LOL! |
| Ninibini |
Posted - Dec 11 2013 : 1:12:04 PM
Oh my gosh, you are bringing back such memories!!! I received my first Barbie.. Oh my gosh, was I seven, maybe? I got the Barbie Fashion Show set, but my parents got me a Dawn doll instead of a Barbie (Remember those?? I loved my Dawn dolls!). They didn't know... Neither did I, really. I'll never forget my Fashion Show set, though. I didn't even know what a fashion show was! LOL! Later that winter, my dad returned from a business trip with a Malibu PJ doll for me (Barbie's cousin??) to go with my fashion set... I treasured her for-e-ver. Then I remember getting the camper the next year from my grandparents (loved the fold out tent!), and then the Barbie airplane after that... And a Skipper doll... We LIVED for Barbies - winter, spring, summer and fall! I especially loved the airplane because it came with a cart and little dishes and my Barbies could sit at the table to dine... I used to pretend the plane was her home... Oh my gosh... And do you all remember that New Barbie smell? Oh! I still get a charge out of that to this day! LOL! And the shoes... They all looked like high-heeled Pilgrim shoes to me! LOL!
Okay... I'll let you in on a secret... A couple of years ago I was babysitting for our neighbor's girls after school. I couldn't resist, broke down and bought a dollhouse at the junk shop (it was like new), and then slowly added furniture, Barbies, clothes, accessories.. you name it. Later, I found a fold-up Barbie cottage for like $10 at the junk shop, too, and it came with almost all the original accessories. At 47 years old, I have the coolest Barbie house set up in the world! All the little girls in our life love playing with it when they come to visit! I always say it's for them, but deep down, it's for the little girl in me. It's such a joy for me to see the girls enjoying them as much as my and my sister and our friends did growing up. My hubby says thank goodness we didn't have a little girl - he'd be broke for Barbies! Just wait 'til I have a granddaughter! LOL!
Awesome collection, Connie! Just awesome!!!
Thanks for the memories, girls!
Hugs -
Nini
Farmgirl Sister #1974
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| LuckyMommyof5 |
Posted - Dec 11 2013 : 12:29:02 PM
Nicole - all my girls are crazy for Monster High and American Girl, too - even the 3 year old!
I managed to save most of my "big" Barbie items - like the mega long camper from I think 1983 (?) And the condo (where the roof opened to be a terrace patio) and handed those down to my girls. I also managed to save and keep track of my original Parisian Barbie, 2 of my Kens and a Skipper. My girls have asked Santa this year for the new three-story Barbie Dreamhouse and a doll each to go in it (Barbie and three of her friends - I think Midge, Teresa and Summer?) I am PRETTY sure Santa is going to fulfill their wish (wink).
Farmgirl Sister #3243
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| Audra Rose |
Posted - Dec 11 2013 : 11:29:04 AM
My sister and I had Barbie, Midge (who got left on the bus and dissappeared), Casey, Francie, Skipper, a couple Kens and a GI Joe (I still love a man in uniform). When I was in high school shop class I made an 8 ft long 2 1/2 story doll house from plywood. Each room was decorated and had carpet. My folks thought that it would be a little house- boy were they surprised! They gave it back to me when we lived in San Antonio but I donated it to the Baptist childrens home with some of the newer Barbies. My original ones are still with me.
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| Killarney |
Posted - Dec 11 2013 : 07:17:56 AM
Nicole and Stephanie, what sweet memories for you with Superstar Barbie! I can tell by your writing how cherished she was to you!
Nicole I love the American girl dolls, Molly is my favorite! They are really precious!
Connie
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