Re: Question for ALL. How did your collection develop/grow?
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As a kid I had Barbies. Lord, I wish I had kept those Barbies.
I've spent quite a bit of time chasing them back down again and for some (1st Parisian Barbie with Steffie face I'm lookin' at you) I can't quite bring myself to pay the amount they command now. The first Barbie my mom bought for me was a Malibu Barbie when I was three or four years old. She was special ordered from the Sears catalog and arrived bagged instead of boxed. I remember that clearly. I preferred Barbie to baby dolls. And my Barbie dolls were there to take care of the horses and dogs. ![Laughing :lol:](./images/smilies/icon_lol.gif)
Sometime around the age of 11 or 12 I "outgrew" my dolls and they went to the attic. (The Breyer horses remained on my shelves and I still have them.) Observe my office before the dolly hordes invaded.
![Image](http://i25.photobucket.com/albums/c68/JuliannaMKH/lime.jpg)
I still liked to go to Toys R Us and look at the dolls, especially during the time they had the glass display case of all the collector Barbies. I never really took enough of an interest to buy any of them.
Fast forward to about 2005. A friend showed us a blog where someone had these super realistic dolls. It was a CP Lishe. She had Masterpiece Eyes Caribbean eyes in. And she was the most beautiful thing I'd ever seen. I started looking at prices and stumbled onto DoA. At that time there was no way I would even consider paying that much for a doll.
But I just kept looking. In the meantime I stumbled across a booth in a local flea market that had a ton of gently played with Barbies. I picked up a several at a $1 each. My favorite at the time was a Midge doll.
![Image](http://i25.photobucket.com/albums/c68/JuliannaMKH/dolls/barbie011407013.jpg)
Animal Print Fashion Fever Barbie
![Image](http://i25.photobucket.com/albums/c68/JuliannaMKH/dolls/011607007.jpg)
About the same time I stumbled onto Fashion Fever Barbies and the well made clothing packs they had at the time. I startted collecting the colorful gals and their clothes and did up until they changed over to the shorter troll body. I was active at a board called Fashion Fever Barbies that is now The Doll Cafe. I learned some basic customization tricks like how to swap heads and rehairing. I also discovered Model Muse Barbies. They weren't as common as they are now. My first MM was the 2006 Hard Rock Cafe Babs. She's still my favorite.
![Image](http://i25.photobucket.com/albums/c68/JuliannaMKH/dolls/020907058.jpg)
I am by no means a MIB kind of collector when it comes to Barbie. There are some that remain boxed but far more that have been deboxed and redressed repeatedly. I also dabbled in Silkstones but realized more and more I was putting off the inevitable. I wanted an ABJD.
I began researching to see if there was a resin doll in the 1/6 scale. I found Soom's Mini Gems and was enchanted with Uyoo. I found one for sale on e-bay and did the deed. Around May of 2007 Lizzie, and Elf Uyoo arrived. I was so excited!
![Image](http://i25.photobucket.com/albums/c68/JuliannaMKH/dolls/Uyoo/lizzie62107009.jpg)
Never being able to do things in a small way I brought home a second hand Mini Gem Aren. A few months later I ordered a Mini Gem Sosle with a full body blush. I don't think many people liked her as much as Uyoo and Aren. I don't think I've ever seen another one on any of the boards I post on.
Meggie - my MiniGem Sosle
![Image](http://i25.photobucket.com/albums/c68/JuliannaMKH/dolls/Uyoo/073107025.jpg)
Somewhere in all of this I discovered The Junky Spot. I wanted to do faceups! I wanted MOAR DOLLS!!!
So I purchased a couple of 1/6 scale Obitsus and basic eyehole heads. Rose and Lilly were born.
Lilly:
![Image](http://i25.photobucket.com/albums/c68/JuliannaMKH/dolls/Rose/obitsu003.jpg)
As you all know at that point it was just a matter of time. I got Faith (AoD Fei) as a Christmas Present in late 2007 and it all just went to hell from there.![Laughing :lol:](./images/smilies/icon_lol.gif)
Faith:
![Image](http://i25.photobucket.com/albums/c68/JuliannaMKH/dolls/Fei/Faith121209.jpg)
Now I have a little bit of everything: resins of various sizes, Obitsus, Barbies, LIV girls Pullips, Monster High, a small collection of vintage Babs and Skippers, a 1/6 volks dollfie, a Moxie Teen, three Harajuku girls, two ellowyne Wildes and a partridge in a freakin' pear tree. XD I've had to slow down a lot due to space constraints. But I think I'm hooked for good at this point.![Laughing :lol:](./images/smilies/icon_lol.gif)
The very first Resin Christmas. :p
![Image](http://i25.photobucket.com/albums/c68/JuliannaMKH/dolls/xmas005.jpg)
P.S.
![Image](http://i25.photobucket.com/albums/c68/JuliannaMKH/dolls/smhappyface.jpg)
![Laughing :lol:](./images/smilies/icon_lol.gif)
![Laughing :lol:](./images/smilies/icon_lol.gif)
Sometime around the age of 11 or 12 I "outgrew" my dolls and they went to the attic. (The Breyer horses remained on my shelves and I still have them.) Observe my office before the dolly hordes invaded.
![Image](http://i25.photobucket.com/albums/c68/JuliannaMKH/lime.jpg)
I still liked to go to Toys R Us and look at the dolls, especially during the time they had the glass display case of all the collector Barbies. I never really took enough of an interest to buy any of them.
Fast forward to about 2005. A friend showed us a blog where someone had these super realistic dolls. It was a CP Lishe. She had Masterpiece Eyes Caribbean eyes in. And she was the most beautiful thing I'd ever seen. I started looking at prices and stumbled onto DoA. At that time there was no way I would even consider paying that much for a doll.
![Laughing :lol:](./images/smilies/icon_lol.gif)
![Image](http://i25.photobucket.com/albums/c68/JuliannaMKH/dolls/barbie011407013.jpg)
Animal Print Fashion Fever Barbie
![Image](http://i25.photobucket.com/albums/c68/JuliannaMKH/dolls/011607007.jpg)
About the same time I stumbled onto Fashion Fever Barbies and the well made clothing packs they had at the time. I startted collecting the colorful gals and their clothes and did up until they changed over to the shorter troll body. I was active at a board called Fashion Fever Barbies that is now The Doll Cafe. I learned some basic customization tricks like how to swap heads and rehairing. I also discovered Model Muse Barbies. They weren't as common as they are now. My first MM was the 2006 Hard Rock Cafe Babs. She's still my favorite.
![Image](http://i25.photobucket.com/albums/c68/JuliannaMKH/dolls/020907058.jpg)
I am by no means a MIB kind of collector when it comes to Barbie. There are some that remain boxed but far more that have been deboxed and redressed repeatedly. I also dabbled in Silkstones but realized more and more I was putting off the inevitable. I wanted an ABJD.
I began researching to see if there was a resin doll in the 1/6 scale. I found Soom's Mini Gems and was enchanted with Uyoo. I found one for sale on e-bay and did the deed. Around May of 2007 Lizzie, and Elf Uyoo arrived. I was so excited!
![Image](http://i25.photobucket.com/albums/c68/JuliannaMKH/dolls/Uyoo/lizzie62107009.jpg)
Never being able to do things in a small way I brought home a second hand Mini Gem Aren. A few months later I ordered a Mini Gem Sosle with a full body blush. I don't think many people liked her as much as Uyoo and Aren. I don't think I've ever seen another one on any of the boards I post on.
Meggie - my MiniGem Sosle
![Image](http://i25.photobucket.com/albums/c68/JuliannaMKH/dolls/Uyoo/073107025.jpg)
Somewhere in all of this I discovered The Junky Spot. I wanted to do faceups! I wanted MOAR DOLLS!!!
![Laughing :lol:](./images/smilies/icon_lol.gif)
Lilly:
![Image](http://i25.photobucket.com/albums/c68/JuliannaMKH/dolls/Rose/obitsu003.jpg)
As you all know at that point it was just a matter of time. I got Faith (AoD Fei) as a Christmas Present in late 2007 and it all just went to hell from there.
![Laughing :lol:](./images/smilies/icon_lol.gif)
Faith:
![Image](http://i25.photobucket.com/albums/c68/JuliannaMKH/dolls/Fei/Faith121209.jpg)
Now I have a little bit of everything: resins of various sizes, Obitsus, Barbies, LIV girls Pullips, Monster High, a small collection of vintage Babs and Skippers, a 1/6 volks dollfie, a Moxie Teen, three Harajuku girls, two ellowyne Wildes and a partridge in a freakin' pear tree. XD I've had to slow down a lot due to space constraints. But I think I'm hooked for good at this point.
![Laughing :lol:](./images/smilies/icon_lol.gif)
The very first Resin Christmas. :p
![Image](http://i25.photobucket.com/albums/c68/JuliannaMKH/dolls/xmas005.jpg)
P.S.
![Image](http://i25.photobucket.com/albums/c68/JuliannaMKH/dolls/smhappyface.jpg)