Day at the Races

This one of my favourite of the red haired silkstones called Day at the Races.  She has beautifully soft, wavy hair and I also like her colouring.  There was a time when almost every silkstone that came out had the usual blue eyeshadow.  After a time I started to get really bored with the silkstone line as were other doll collectors but fortunately Mattel listened (for a change) and we now get more silkstones with different colouring.

Hopefully some day Mattel will start making the silkstones with articulated bodies as the lack of articulation has certainly turned many collectors off them.

In this picture she is actually wearing an FR outfit but I can't remember where that little leopard print bag came from.

Then and Now Barbie

Here we have the Then and Now Barbie that came out last year to commemorate the 50th Anniversary of the release of Barbie.  Not too long ago I found her for sale at TRU for only $18 and I needed a little pick-me-up that day so I decided that was a pretty good price and bought her.

She has a lovely face and such soft hair.  It took me a little white to find one that had the most even looking fringe but I finally got there.  LOL  I actually put her on one of the Barbie Fashionista bodies which are articulated.

It's nice to have these articulated bodies on the dolls as they do make for easier posing but sadly I find myself less imaginative with posing my dolls than some other collectors.  Somehow I find myself putting them in much the same pose when I take my pics.  LOL

Baby Blues

I love the 2-toned hair of this Barbie and her piercing blue eyes.  They probably don't show up so well in my pics but she just has the most amazing blue eyes.  I"ll have to try and find a blue outfit that will really make those eyes stand-out.

Luchia

This lovely is Luchia - another of the many FR dolls in my collection.  I bought her nude a couple of years ago from a fellow doll-collector.

I think she has quite a 20's look with her short bob and kind of resembles the character Catherine Zeta Jones played in the movie Chicago (sorry the name escapes me right now).  In this picture she is wearing the dress from Mastermind Veronique and a OOAK hat I bought many years ago.

Though you can't see it in the pictures, her hair is so stiff with some kind of gel/gunk that Integrity put in it that it would be impossible to wash out or brush.  And as a result if you saw her hair close up you would be able to see the hair net lines from her packaging.  Nothing a lovely hat like this can't hide and the problem to me is not that bad that it would really show up in pics anyway unless you took a super close up or something.

Graphic Language

This beauty is known as Graphic Language Adele - I think she was released in the 2nd or 3rd year after the debut of the Fashion Royalty (FR) line.  She actually came on the original non-articulated body but I gathered up the courage and did a body swap and put her on an articulated FR body.

The reason I was wary of swapping her onto an articulated body is because I have read of several reports on the various doll message boards of the early FR dolls bodies becoming very brittle over time - particularly in the neck area, but fortunately I had no such problem in this case.

She is one of my most favourite of the AA dolls.  I think she has such a lovely face and her neutral colours are very versatile when trying different coloured outfits on her (I have a thing for colour co-ordination).

Adele is wearing another of those single pak Barbie fashions I found not so long ago.

Beyonce Again..

Can you tell I really love this doll?  LOL  I just think she is so pretty and looks fantastic in these bright colours.  And I still think she looks a little bit like Beyonce.

Another Barbie Basic

I was surprised to see the Barbie Basic dolls appearing on the doll shelves at TRU, Target and Kmart here in Australia.  So many Barbie dolls - especially the collectibles - do not make it here in Australia, but when they do it's so nice to be able to actually see a doll in person.  Often that can change your mind about whether you want that doll or not.

After seeing this doll I decided I could not resist.  She has the ever popular Steffie face mold and what also appealed to me was not only a doll with a fringe (called bangs in America) but a brunette one at that.  I don't why it is but it is so rare to find dolls with fringes unless you know how to re-root a doll or get someone to do it for you.

In this picture the doll is just wearing some mix and match pieces I put together.

Miss Muffy

This silkstone named Muffy Roberts (no I didn't come up with that name..LOL), is wearing a Lucy fashion that I recently purchased from a friend.  The shoes and portfolio did not come with this fashion.

There was a short period when Mattel slightly changed the look of the silkstone doll faces.  Namely the eyebrows (they have more of an arch in them) but they seemed to quickly revert back to the original eyebrows as the dolls looked like they were angry.  However, I don't find Muffy to look quite so angry with the more arched eyebrows.

Sunday Best at her Best

I know it's been a while since I checked in and uploaded some new pics.  Sometimes life just gets in the way.  Anyway, above is the 2nd AA Silkstone that was released by Mattel called Sunday Best.  Here she is modelling a cute little Barbie fashion that I bought fairly recently.

Unlike when I first started collecting dolls (now about 11 years ago), the Barbie fashions today don't have any names in them.  These days they usually come as a single carded fashion or in a set of 3.  New fashions don't seem to come out as frequently as they once did but I am always on the look-out for something new.