Countdown to Christmas! Day Three!

Countdown to Christmas- Day Three! Today's doll featured is Happy Holidays Barbie 2008 

 

Happy Holidays Barbie 2008

This past Saturday on my thrifting haul I went back to Oddball's Collectibles & Clair's Antiques to pick up the Christmas Barbie I had to leave last time as I purchased two- I was staying within my budget. She is really gorgeous- but warning- she is a bear to get out of her box. Her box display is amazing- so if you a strictly keep in the box doll person, this is an amazing doll for the shelf. (I love to play so this doesn't apply to folks like me- lol) So here are the photos I was able to capture of this beauty. She did come with a stand , as most of the early 2000 Christmas dolls do. 

 

                                                                                   

Saturday- Yard Sale and Thrift Store shopping!

Yesterday I was looking forward to our church's yearly Haiti Yard sale and of course, my Saturday trek to Oddball's Collectibles & Claire's Antiques store. I intended to go to another indoor flea / antique store, but I decided to quit while I was ahead. At the Haiti yard sale it was for two days, 4-6 pm on Friday, September 12th and  8 am to 12 noon on Saturday, September 13th. It is really huge and they sell everything you can possibly imagine. Even though it looked picked over I found some wonderful vintage books and a wonderful little vintage Knickerbocker Raggedy Andy doll. 

I got some other vintage books, as well. Then it was onto Oddball's to pick up that other Christmas Barbie I had not purchased last week. I was hoping she was still there- and she was! This week I was able to look more carefully as last week there was a flea market and more customers, this week it was more slow. I not only purchased Happy Holidays Barbie 2008, I also found in another booth a seller had a basket of dolls out of the box bagged with their accessories- Tree Trimming Barbie- and she was mint! for $10. This was one of the grocery store dolls that they would sell in Target or your local Kroger or other grocery store for $8 or $10 back in the day. I could have waited and see if I could have purchased her at the doll show next week on Saturday, but I loved that her hair was perfect. 

I will have more blogs upcoming with scenes with the dolls, more to come soon!