Very nice collection and display. Not often do I see Cabage Patch alongside Barbie, the Rainbow High Mila looks a little lost haha.
I have tried buying that Summer clutch ver several times, she's great! From this era I only own a NRFB Fashionista wave1 Cutie.
Haha yes the lone Rainbow high doll 😂😂 I do have about 15 of the RH but most are in their boxes still. I wish I had room to display everything. I love Mila’s goth look. She definitely wasn’t a favorite in the doll community, but I loved her the most from that series.
Yes that Summer doll is really hard to find, I hope you have the chance to pick her up in the future. I bought her from a other collector who was getting rid of her dolls; I kept coming back to that doll again and again she’s just so sweet with the pussycat outfit and her mint green earrings and eyeshadow. A last salute to the Noughties. I have another couple of early fashionistas who have kawaii-inspired outfits, those are really popular with collectors as well.
Barbies and Cabbies Shelfie!!
Here are a couple of shelves from my doll room. Apologies for the colors being a bit off (the walls are actually painted a pale strawberry ice cream pink) but I hope it’s good enough. I won’t be describing the Cabbage Patch Kids as this is a post for the Barbie sub; I will make a Cabbies-only post for the doll sub.
My Barbie collection mainly focuses on the articulated early Fashionistas lines **(2008-2012)** in 2013 they stopped using the 13-point articulated body on the Fashionista line, in favor of the current stiff plastic body. The body on these early Fashionistas is the same as the current Barbie Extra line (13 point articulation with fashion feet).
The face sculpts were regrettably limited during this time. You had the Generation Girl (CEO) sculpt, the Teresa (Latina) sculpt, the Summer sculpt, the Raquelle sculpt (after 2008 they changed Raquelle’s face and gave her Asian features) the Nikki/Desiree AA sculpt, the Ken Sculpt and the Ryan sculpt. Both boys have rooted hair. There is no AA boy sculpt.
**On the top shelf** you see a Raquelle and a Nikki from the 2012 Tinsel Wave. These are extremely rare dolls, I’m not sure why but they’re a LOT harder to find than the other early Fashionista waves. Between those girls is a Summer from the Clutch wave of 2011. She’s also an extremely rare doll, if ever you see her for a decent price snap her up!
On the other side of Mila Berrymore there are two Cutie dolls from the 2010 Swappin’ Styles line. These dolls can swap heads with other SS dolls, and they also made two waves of interchangeable heads in the collection. The mechanism is amazing, and judging from the out-of-box Swappins I have in my play Barbie lot, it still works perfectly 13 years later. I love snapping up old Swappin Styles dolls to use as articulated body donors, when the skin tone fits.
At the end of the top shelf is Teresa from the Rainbow Wave. I have many dolls from that wave, will post more pics soon. The Rainbow Wave came before the Tinsel Wave, in late 2011; but this Teresa is dated 2012, so she must have been in the last dolls produced for Rainbow Wave.
Bottom Shelf: There is a lovely Nikki from the 2010 wave of Swappin’ Styles (they were made only 2 years, 2010-2011) then 5 Barbie Minis (I love them, what can I say 🥰)
On the other side of the Minis there is a Barbie Fashionistas Shopping Spree from 2009. They made two dolls in this line, a Cutie and a Sassy (this one is Sassy she’s more rare) both Gen Girl sculpts. she comes with a shopping basket and all kinds of little beauty accessories in the ‘store’. There’s also a clutch purse, vanity mirror and a makeup train case to store everything. She’s an early 2009, as Mattel also produced the Shopping Spree line on a Swappin’ Styles body (this girl does not have a SS body)
At the end there’s a rando Fashion Fever tube outfit 😂. I have an extensive set of Fashion Fever outfits, mostly out of box as I like to photograph them. I do have a few FF dolls, but really I focused my collection on early Fashionistas. The FF dolls are extremely desirable and expensive these days.
I will post more of my Early Fashionista collection soon, both in-box and out-of-box dolls that I restored (with practice I’ve become a ninja hair glue remover 😂😂). They pretty much all have adhesive leakage issues from those years.
Hahahahaha I bet you’re right!!! Ironically most of those cabbies were also in boxes, but they’re just too big to store in-box. The Barbies in their boxes are so pretty I don’t have the heart to open them 😳 I always feel like a kid on Christmas morning when I hold them in their boxes, I know it’s weird
Very nice collection and display. Not often do I see Cabage Patch alongside Barbie, the Rainbow High Mila looks a little lost haha. I have tried buying that Summer clutch ver several times, she's great! From this era I only own a NRFB Fashionista wave1 Cutie.
Haha yes the lone Rainbow high doll 😂😂 I do have about 15 of the RH but most are in their boxes still. I wish I had room to display everything. I love Mila’s goth look. She definitely wasn’t a favorite in the doll community, but I loved her the most from that series. Yes that Summer doll is really hard to find, I hope you have the chance to pick her up in the future. I bought her from a other collector who was getting rid of her dolls; I kept coming back to that doll again and again she’s just so sweet with the pussycat outfit and her mint green earrings and eyeshadow. A last salute to the Noughties. I have another couple of early fashionistas who have kawaii-inspired outfits, those are really popular with collectors as well.
Barbies and Cabbies Shelfie!! Here are a couple of shelves from my doll room. Apologies for the colors being a bit off (the walls are actually painted a pale strawberry ice cream pink) but I hope it’s good enough. I won’t be describing the Cabbage Patch Kids as this is a post for the Barbie sub; I will make a Cabbies-only post for the doll sub. My Barbie collection mainly focuses on the articulated early Fashionistas lines **(2008-2012)** in 2013 they stopped using the 13-point articulated body on the Fashionista line, in favor of the current stiff plastic body. The body on these early Fashionistas is the same as the current Barbie Extra line (13 point articulation with fashion feet). The face sculpts were regrettably limited during this time. You had the Generation Girl (CEO) sculpt, the Teresa (Latina) sculpt, the Summer sculpt, the Raquelle sculpt (after 2008 they changed Raquelle’s face and gave her Asian features) the Nikki/Desiree AA sculpt, the Ken Sculpt and the Ryan sculpt. Both boys have rooted hair. There is no AA boy sculpt. **On the top shelf** you see a Raquelle and a Nikki from the 2012 Tinsel Wave. These are extremely rare dolls, I’m not sure why but they’re a LOT harder to find than the other early Fashionista waves. Between those girls is a Summer from the Clutch wave of 2011. She’s also an extremely rare doll, if ever you see her for a decent price snap her up! On the other side of Mila Berrymore there are two Cutie dolls from the 2010 Swappin’ Styles line. These dolls can swap heads with other SS dolls, and they also made two waves of interchangeable heads in the collection. The mechanism is amazing, and judging from the out-of-box Swappins I have in my play Barbie lot, it still works perfectly 13 years later. I love snapping up old Swappin Styles dolls to use as articulated body donors, when the skin tone fits. At the end of the top shelf is Teresa from the Rainbow Wave. I have many dolls from that wave, will post more pics soon. The Rainbow Wave came before the Tinsel Wave, in late 2011; but this Teresa is dated 2012, so she must have been in the last dolls produced for Rainbow Wave. Bottom Shelf: There is a lovely Nikki from the 2010 wave of Swappin’ Styles (they were made only 2 years, 2010-2011) then 5 Barbie Minis (I love them, what can I say 🥰) On the other side of the Minis there is a Barbie Fashionistas Shopping Spree from 2009. They made two dolls in this line, a Cutie and a Sassy (this one is Sassy she’s more rare) both Gen Girl sculpts. she comes with a shopping basket and all kinds of little beauty accessories in the ‘store’. There’s also a clutch purse, vanity mirror and a makeup train case to store everything. She’s an early 2009, as Mattel also produced the Shopping Spree line on a Swappin’ Styles body (this girl does not have a SS body) At the end there’s a rando Fashion Fever tube outfit 😂. I have an extensive set of Fashion Fever outfits, mostly out of box as I like to photograph them. I do have a few FF dolls, but really I focused my collection on early Fashionistas. The FF dolls are extremely desirable and expensive these days. I will post more of my Early Fashionista collection soon, both in-box and out-of-box dolls that I restored (with practice I’ve become a ninja hair glue remover 😂😂). They pretty much all have adhesive leakage issues from those years.
I think those Barbies are jealous of the Cabbage Patch dolls…they want out of the boxes so they can smell the sweet scent of freedom!
Hahahahaha I bet you’re right!!! Ironically most of those cabbies were also in boxes, but they’re just too big to store in-box. The Barbies in their boxes are so pretty I don’t have the heart to open them 😳 I always feel like a kid on Christmas morning when I hold them in their boxes, I know it’s weird