On my thrift shopping Saturday-fun day this weekend I had planned to go to their monthly outdoor Flea market at Oddball's Collectibles and Claire's Antiques in Richmond , Va. Their shop was also open and there is a booth there devoted to nothing but Barbie and other dolls. One of the wonderful thing about Oddball's is they are truly a store for the collector- Christmas villages and ornaments, china, glass, jadeite, star wars, action figures, legos, blow molds, you name it, halloween, and the list goes on. I found not only two Happy Holidays Barbies there but also a grail doll of a set that I thought of only in my dreams - the Madame Alexander Mystery Blood Pool set - I found the doll referred to as 'Greed'. Madame Alexander a while back in 2003 created a set of dolls with a maid's outfit called 'Blackmail' and it came with a pool of 'blood' to lay the 'murdered' doll on. Each doll- Betrayal, Greed and Desire was dressed in a 1930's evening gown and came with a 'weapon' - a gun, dagger or candlestick, so you could play out your own doll version of a 1930's houseparty murder mystery. It was a fun set for scenes on the dolly message boards. I have already featured the doll I purchased, Greed in a previous blog post and today I am going to move onto Happy Holidays 2010 Barbie. This is a really lovely doll. Again, this is another doll that did not have a stand so I had to search in my box of stands for a suitable one for her. She also had a underskirt of cardboard that holds out her skirt very nicely, so I left it in, it looks better that way.
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