Random memories from my childhood.
I remember having one of the very early Barbie dolls that looked like this:
After Barbies, I went on to Little Kiddles and I really liked these guys. I had pretty much the whole set and figured I'd grow up to date a blonde-haired guy named Biff. (I didn't.)
Also big were these Kiddie Kologne dolls that had strange perfume smells.
There really weren't any kids in the neighborhood where I grew up so I had a lot of dolls and a good imagination.
I never had a shower in the house where I grew up so it was a bath every night before bed. My mom used to give me bubble baths with soap that came in these dispensers like cartoon characters. I must have had 50 of them lining the bathroom wall. Much to my grandmother's dismay.
And of course snack time was big after school and I would often opt for a space food stick
and wash it down with some Hi-C. Mmmm....good.
I also remember when the telephone company first came out with the Princess phone. My mom got one in her bedroom and I got the little mini phone on a keychain. When I got older and started dating, my mom got me my own Princess phone with my own number (mom was single and dating too) and we used to call each other from our bedrooms to say goodnight.
What would I find if I followed you down your memory land?
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Who am I?I was born on the Cancer/Leo cusp and share a birthday with Ernest Hemingway and Robin Williams. The similarities don't stop there as I can go from depressed to ecstatic without ever passing go. I feel scared most of the time though my friends call me brave and I find it easier to believe in my friends than to believe in my own abilities to make what I want out of my life.
Who am I? A wife, a mother, a daughter, and even, gulp, a grandmother.
Who am I? A writer who never gets tired of playing with words, even when the words are hard to find. A writer of books for children and articles for grown-ups and many things in-between.
Who am I? A motivational speaker, writing instructor, workshop leader and full-time follower of dreams.
Who am I? Read and find out.
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(lol, I had a typo there for a sec--I wrote "depraved!")
Thanks for the memories!
Julie
Troll dolls too!
Sorry to hear you're overwhelmed right now. Sending you some ((((hugs)))!
Yes, I lost a lot of my stuff to overzealous cleaning from my mom and then my first husband. Grrr.
Do you remember Dawn dolls and the Dawn Fashion Show? I loved my Dawn.
I hope things get better for you soon.
Thanks for the good wishes.
The plastic horses. My cousins would get the bags of cowboys and indians and I'd take all the horses. :-)
PS - In the Barbie family I was a big fan of Francie!
And Francie...yes. I always wanted Midge but my mother only bought Barbie.
I had Dawn dolls and Barbies -- in fact, my daughter has my first Barbie with the orange bathing suit and bubble cut hair (and yes, I know giving it to the kid to play with was a sacrilidge to Barbie collectors). She called that old Barbie the Mamaw barbie because it didn't look like a young woman...so it's Barbie's mom.
I always preferred tiny dolls. My favorite was a little doll with a short brown bob and the sweetest tiny face. The doll was about 4 inches tall and had actual kid proportions and I constantly made clothes for it out of leaves and flowers because she was a girl who shrunk and had to live outdoors on her own, surviving in the wild.
I love the image of you making doll clothes out of leaves and flowers. Your first wild child. :-)
I had a very tiny porcelain doll that my mother would hardly ever let me play withh but she was about that size too.
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Little Kiddles: Had one! Now have a shelf in the china cabinet for my collection. At Mattel, the original Kiddle designer would occasionally put a MIB on my desk!!!!!
Space food sticks: my favorite house to babysit had these... I loved them!!!
Also, Pepper? Giggles? Christie? The hop/skip thing you would wear on your ankle?
My mom wouldn't buy us the fuzzy wuzzie bear.
Thanks for the memories!
I don't remember Pepper or Giggles or Christie but yes to that hop/skip think you would wear on your ankle. I loved that!
when i was 5 my mom started collecting really nice dollhouse furnature for me. i have really really old and well made pieces that i haven't "played" with in years. having really no place to set it up, it stays in a cold dark, well padded shed outside. i really miss it. it is my earliest memories of playing "house". when I was maybe 7 or 8 I got a real 3 story (pink) doll house and started playing and collecting. i really wish i had time and energy to enjoy that again.
from as far back as i can remember, i was a dress up girl. very very girlie girl. that was me. oversized high heels, petticoats, skirts, dresses that spin!! to this day i have to have a lot of fabric in my skirts. now my "dress up" clothes have translated to victorian costuming, renaissance fair costumes, and a collection of patterns and hats and dresses that I wear in real life from the 1940s. I am also the keeper of a lot of clothes from my grandmother and her family. which are really cool to look at and fit into!