2013 Happy Holidays Barbie

The last of my un-boxed holiday dolls! This one is a paradox- as I purchased her last year before my 25 days of Christmas dolls- and I was given the SAME EXACT DOLL as a gift by a dear friend for Christmas who knows I love and collect Barbie. I received her in December from my friend as a gift and had already purchased her on Mercari. Since I had not de-boxed her, I saved my doll from my friend and just sold my doll that I had purchased, since I did not need two. I have not had that dilemna before ! She is a lovely doll and I was originally looking to purchase her in the African American skintone because that doll looks amazing in this dress, with the white and silver, she is a lovely doll, but the prices are outrageous. So my budget called. 

      

                                                                                 

 

2015 Happy Holidays Barbie

I purchased this doll sometime in March on Mercari, when I purchased the 2002 Happy Holidays Barbie at the Barbie Palooza sale. March was such a busy month getting ready for Easter and I had so many dolls to take photos of that I had to put the Christmas dolls to the side and I also had my Va Fashion doll club project to work on, so I had limited time for photos.  2015 Happy Holidays Barbie is a gorgeous doll, but a word of warning- this doll DOES NOT come with a stand, which is disappointing. I am really peeved as now I have to go through my stand collection or go on Ebay and buy some stands, which is not cheap. Onto the photos!

2002 Happy Holidays Barbie

You might have remembered this Blog Post   from March 8th when I posted about the Va Fashion doll club's excursion to the Arc of the Thrift for the Barbie Palooza sale and I purchased a number of dolls- including the 2002 Happy Holidays Barbie. I also have purchased two other Christmas barbie dolls- 2015 and 2013 and have since deboxed them. In this post I will be showing the photos of 2002 Happy Holidays Barbie and she is lovely. SO FAR--- I only have two more dolls to acquire on my list - 2009 and 2018, as well as this year's -2026 holidays' dolls to be complete with my Holiday collection. Then I can move on to the special editions. This doll is a truly, lovely doll with velvet on her gown, her face is lovely, jewelry, a matching purse, stand, and shoes. A very sweet and lovely face. 

                                                  

I also took photos of her with the tree in a darkened room so you could see the effect of the tree with the lights. I will be doing seperate blog posts on the other two dolls. Enjoy!

Happy Birthday Gene Marshall!

Today is April 17th, traditionally  the birthday of Mel Odom's sweetheart of a doll, Gene Marshall. In the book 'Gene'  he had her birthday as April 17th. I forget the significance of this date. Here are photos from my archives of Gene and friends celebrating her birthday.