Buy Me, I'm On Sale

The Barbie Collector Shop has selected dolls on sale right now. The Birthstone Girls are still a steal $12.95 (except for Caucasian Peridot who is sold out). Cynthia Rowley is on sale, and so is Ferrari Barbie Doll. She is only 49.99 at this time. This is one doll that was beyond my price range at the time so I bought her nude. There are a few dolls at 9.99 and vintage repro dolls are discounted as well. Maybe now might be a good time to head on over to the shop. If you do, please be sure to click on the links here and support the site! Happy Shopping!

Goodbye Miss Peridot, Hello My Melody

I was browsing around on some doll blogs here at Blogspot. I decided to click on one of the Barbie Collector site ads and help out a fellow blogger. (I can't click on my own, that's a no-no!) I started browsing and realized that Miss Peridot is now sold out at bc.com. Luckily, I already have this beauty. I checked on ebay and there are still quite a few at good prices. Since this great 12.99 birthstone doll sale I've bought four extras for re-bodying. All the Caucasian dolls have the same skin tone. The AA dolls have two varying skin tones. I think I'm going to order four more AA dolls to save for future projects. I re-bodied a few of the dolls onto BB bodies and they look great. These Steffie dolls are so versatile.

While browsing around I noticed the My Melody doll. I had really forgotten about her. I pre-ordered several dolls already and just pre-ordered Hello Kitty Apple Tree but not My Melody. Actually, I'm not sure why because she is so cute. I think I'll use my next bc.com reward on her . . .

Another Doll Week, and Increased Ebay Activity

It's the start of a new week and I'm very proud that the work on the Grand Opening continues. I don't want to say much more but I hope that many new and exciting things are in the future for the Cafe.

I've made some changes to my identity over at Barbie Collector. In the five years I've been there I've only had two avatars. The first was Katiana Jimenez Barbie. I guess I picked her because her designer is Latina and I've always thought that doll was so pretty and I wished I looked like her. LOL. I had that avatar from 03 to 06. In 06 I picked the Monte Carlo avatar in honor of my love for the Model Muse dolls and the darker skin tone. I changed again today to the Opal Birthstone from 2003. The doll is pictured in one of my recent posts. It's such a shame that she was the only doll from that collection with that skin tone. She is just so precious. So, I wonder how long it will be until I change avatars again. I am changing my nick there too. I used my real name when I first signed up. Maybe that's not a good thing so I'll post my new nick soon once the change goes through. It's kind of a process, lol.

As if I have nothing better to do, I've been stalking Ebay a lot more than usual. Lol. I'm always looking for cheap mm bodies for donors. It's really hard to beat the current sale on the birthstone dolls at Barbie Collector but I found a lot of five mm bodies that are great for re-bodying. The one that really caused me to "Buy It Now" was a nude 70s Cher. I've been wanting an extra one for ages. I'll keep my original NRFB so I'm thrilled to have one to re-dress. The four other dolls are Marisa Pretty Young Thing, Marisa Beach Baby, Lily Pulitzer and Jeff Gordon. All the perfect skin tones for girls awaiting their plastic surgery. As a bonus I also got the Stacey doll that comes with Lilly. If anyone wants to buy some heads or even Stacey please leave me a comment and I will contact you.

Now here is another of my recent re-bodies. She is 2005 Sears Holiday Barbie on Aquamarine Birthstone's body. Again, just a quick head pop and she looks beautiful in the Aquamarine outfit. She'll probably stay like that for a while. It takes ages for us to redress our girls. She is currently on display in the doll room (Steph's room).

Still Cleaning Up and One More New Girl

I've been working very hard cleaning up the galleries for the grand opening. Looking through the various galleries and deleting many pictures also brought back some memories. The Mattel playline has really changed in recent years. It seems like the playline is really trying to separate itself from the collector line with the body changes and head mold and head size constantly changing. But then again, Mattel adds Model Muse dolls to playline with the Top Model collection. It's hard to know what direction Mattel will go in next.

On that note, there is always Ebay and I could always go back and buy dolls I missed out on! Speaking of new dolls, today I ordered the AA Dallas Cowboy Cheerleader. I'm really eager to get her. She's the last one I need from the set. I haven't de-boxed the Blonde or the Hispanic doll but I'm sure as soon as I receive the last one I'll have a little de-boxing party . . .

Here is another doll I worked on last weekend. With the Barbie Collector $12.99 sale I picked up two extra AA Birthstones. One of them was Opal. I thought she would perfectly match the Birthstone Opal from the last collection. I'm quite fond of this doll because she was the only one with this skin-tone in the entire collection. In addition, very few Hispanic or African American dolls are made with the Mackie mold and this is one of them. In addition, my birthstone is Opal. I'm quite pleased with the way she turned out.