The Barbie thread - lets get creative
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Whit4you | Wednesday, October 16, 2002 - 05:56 pm     Ok since alot here have daughters.. or granddaughters, or will soon enough. Lets think of all the great ideas for barbie 'stuff' I remember alot of things I used for barbie 'furniture' back then. Thinking we could have alot of fun here. Like using a blank CD for a coffee table? We'd need something for the base though... Well I have a ton of ideas for this thread if anyone wants to go for it... Thinking like of ways to make outfits for barbie? Decorations for a barbie house.. .you know all that stuff |
Pamy | Wednesday, October 16, 2002 - 06:24 pm     Forget the kids! I collect Barbie's!! They even have their own room at our house. Can't wait to hear all the clever ideas! |
Car54 | Wednesday, October 16, 2002 - 06:58 pm     LOL, Whit I knew it was just a matter of time before you started this thread! HAHHAAHHAHAHAH! |
Twiggyish | Wednesday, October 16, 2002 - 07:04 pm     When I was a child, we used tissue boxes for beds. We'd use the tissue as a bedspread. To make walls for our dollhouse, we'd open books and use them opened as walls. For your CD table base, try using a spool of thread. It's fun for children to use their imaginations. |
Strawberry | Wednesday, October 16, 2002 - 07:12 pm     I used to use empty spools of thread for chairs. I even glued some together and made a couch for my barbies. I used crayons and colored the spools so they could look cooler. So, I'm w/ Twiggy on the spools of thread for CD table base. I was a little spoiled and had the Sunshine Family house w/ the dolls. I used to take the roof off of their plastic house that folded up and let my barbies play in there. I also used to take my barbie doll hot pink clothes case and use that as part of her house too. |
Sia | Wednesday, October 16, 2002 - 10:01 pm     You can make really cute ottomans from empty tuna or chicken cans. SCRUB the can scrupulously clean, dry it thoroughly and stuff it with cotton or polyester fiberfill. Cut a circle just larger than the can, accomodating the mound of stuffing you need to make it sufficiently padded and glue that to the upper edges of the can. This layer holds the stuffing in place while you do the rest of the work. From any fabric you wish to use, make a three-piece cushion cover (circle for bottom, long rectangle to go around the can, and tufted top for the seat) and hand-sew them together to fit the can snugly. Presto! You have a very nice ottoman.  |
Pcakes2 | Thursday, October 17, 2002 - 08:12 am     I too, and a Barbie collector, and I have the original Dream House with the yellow elevator, and Barbie Camper. Ahhh, the memories! |
Sia | Thursday, October 17, 2002 - 03:43 pm     This is an amusing story a friend of mine told me several years ago: "P" was the youngest of four children, three of whom were girls, in a family where money was in short supply, especially, it seemed, around Christmas. One year the girls got their yearly collective "big gift" and it was a Barbie doll house, which delighted my friend (who was about 9 or 10 at the time), but disappointed her two teen-aged sisters. P was carrying her new treasure down the street to play at a friend's house a few days after Christmas, but DROPPED the house HARD on the sidewalk. The back side of the doll house flopped down, exposing an entire section of the house that she previously didn't know existed. P was so excited about finding the hidden half of the doll house that she ran all the way home to tell her mother--who was so ECSTATIC for her daughter that she phoned P's father AT WORK to tell him the news. The dad hadn't known about the hidden area, either, so the three of them were deliriously happy about it. I don't know if the discovery made the older sisters happy or not. |
Hippyt | Thursday, October 17, 2002 - 08:44 pm     You can make an awesome Barbie patio out of popsicle sticks. Chairs,deck,tables. You can buy bags of colored popsicle sticks at the dollar store,add some glue,a little imagination. The kids love making them,and it's so cheap.Of course they hate the part where the glue dries,lol! Twiggyish,I used tissue boxes as beds for Barbie too! And tissues as blankets.Great minds think alike! |
Danzdol | Friday, October 25, 2002 - 08:23 am     I used "handme down Barbies" (that people gave me) as the maids...isn't that awful?????? and the new ones were the house owners. I used mounted pillows and made pretend that BArbie was hiking through various trails. |
Babsbunny3 | Tuesday, October 29, 2002 - 05:24 am     Shoe boxes were nice cars. Also I would use shoe boxes as her walk in closet. I do not have children but collect Barbies myself. I was wondering what is the favorite Barbie of all of you? Is there a Barbie you covet and love but cannot acquire or afford? For me this would be the Vera Wang Wedding Barbie...the first one with the black trim on the gown. I swoon for that Barbie! I love her face and the gown is just simply absolutely out of this world. |
Babsbunny3 | Tuesday, October 29, 2002 - 05:25 am     Danzdol, that is hilarious! Those poor hand-me-downs! Always scrubbing and cleaning. That is so cute. |
Sia | Tuesday, October 29, 2002 - 05:43 am     Danzdol, that IS awful, but it's really funny! I don't think I realized at the age I was when I played with Barbies, though, that people HAD maids!! Wish I had one now!!!  |
Danzdol | Tuesday, October 29, 2002 - 10:09 am     I think I got the maid idea from the soaps I used to watch with my mom and movies. I have the Gone with the Wind Barbie collection now...they are soooo pretty. It's 4 of them.I need the Ken as Rhett Butlet though. For my bday, my hubby just bought me the Harley Davidson edition Barbie and the motorcycle-it's very cool but I am also missing the rugged looking bike rider Ken. My husband has a thing against buying me the Ken's for some reason. |
Zachsmom | Tuesday, October 29, 2002 - 11:16 am     "but I am also missing the rugged looking bike rider Ken." Me too..oh..you're talking about dolls.. |
Draheid | Tuesday, October 29, 2002 - 12:00 pm     ZM!!!! Behave yourself!!!  |
Ariasmum | Tuesday, October 29, 2002 - 12:56 pm     This is such an amusing thread. Sure brings back childhood memories. My daughter has lots of Barbies and little Kelly dolls. I just keep getting her more and more because Kelly's little friends are so gall darn cute! I think I enjoy them more than she does. I made salt-dough food for them and painted it with water colours when it dried for a more realistic effect.(hotdogs, burgers, a roasted chicken, bread, donuts, pizza, fruit, etc.) I did that when I was a kid too. As soon as I learned handicrafts, I used to sew or crochet little outfits and blankets. Felt is a great fabric to work with because you don't have to worry about the hem fraying. I would make dressers out of tiny boxes and playpens and cribs from the plastic pint boxes strawberries come in. I loved my Sunshine Family. I was thrilled when we got new neighbours and their little girl looked just Sweets. |
Ariasmum | Tuesday, October 29, 2002 - 01:04 pm     Forgot to mention that for Aria's birthday this year I made the Barbie cake. You know, the one where you stick a Barbie in the middle of a cone-shaped cake and decorate it to look like her skirt? It turned out really well. The trick is to hollow out the centre of the cake with a paper towel tube before inserting Barbie and make sure her hair is up out of the way of the icing (and candles) To be safe I put the candles in the ice-cream instead. I froze the ice-cream in a heart-shaped cake pan so it looked like a cake too. |
Curlyq | Friday, November 01, 2002 - 10:04 pm     I collect Barbies, too. The two I always coveted were the Bob Mackie Queen of Hearts and the Bob Mackie Madame du Barbie. Anyway, I remember when I was a little girl my sisters and I used to tape matchboxes on top of each other to make nightstands. Since each box can slide open it's like a little chest of drawers and you can put small things inside. |
Katlady53 | Saturday, November 02, 2002 - 09:21 am     My dad worked for the phone company, and he was always bringing home those little complimentary princess phone key chains. I used them for my Barbies. I still have my original Barbie but she looks pretty bad after my kids got through with her. And my original Midge has an inverted nipple now. Go figure. |
Pamy | Saturday, November 02, 2002 - 10:00 am     In my collection I have many special Barbies but there are 3 that I treasure the most. 1981 Happy Birthday Barbie...for my 18th bday my Mom and Dad had carefully opened the box and put a diamond ring in the little box Barbie was holding, it was my first diamond ring and I was so happy and surprised Bob Mackie Gold....my Mom splurged and got me this in 1990, at that time it was almost unheard of to pay 100.00 for a Barbie Bob Mackie Neptune Fantasy....I wanted this one so bad, but it was sold out everywhere so I kinda gave up on it, that Christmas my Mom searched the USA and found one, I cried when I opened it, she was just as excited as I was to find it. The added bonus to those 2 Mackies is that in 1999 for my 1st wedding anniversary my hubby took me to Vegas where Bob Mackie was signing dolls(1st and only time he has done this) and I got them signed by Mackie!!! I have no idea what they are worth now but I would never sell them cuz they are so special to me |
Katlady53 | Saturday, November 02, 2002 - 07:30 pm     Wow, you have a great collection, Pamy! I *love* it that your parents put a real diamond ring in the Barbie box! What a special thing to do! I started buying my 21-year old daughter Barbies on holidays a few years ago as sort of a joke. But now I'm thinking they just might be an investment for her someday! |
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