Vintage 1998 Tree Trimming Barbie

This post is dedicated to another doll I picked up at Oddball's Collectibles & Claire's Antiques- Vintage 1998 Tree Trimming Barbie. This type of doll is referred to as a 'grocery' store doll, or the types of Christmas/ Holiday dolls sold in Target, Kmarts, or grocery stores around the holidays for about $8-10 dollars. They were extremely popular and were considerably less than the Happy Holidays 'collectible' line- which was not considered playline. When I look at what Mattel has done to the Happy Holidays collectible line- how the quality has gone down- shoddy boxes, low quality gowns and materials used, low quality dolls- the dolls are really dolls that you would give to a small child to play with- not for display with your silkstones or your Bob Mackies. (I will get off my soapbox now, lol) I think that is why I have begun to collect so many of the older 'vintage' dolls- yes the 1990s and the 1980s are considered 'vintage' now. I purchased this doll at the store out of box, in a baggie with her little accessory and her brush. I love her hair. I have shown her here with Caroling Fun Barbie around the tree, I am now going to look for some of the other grocery store Barbies too as they make a great holiday scene at Christmas time. They are really cute in their sweaters, especially with the holiday Kellys and Tommys. Enjoy!

 

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!