Queen City Beautiful Doll Club Show update

 The Aug. 28 Queen City Beautiful Doll Club did not have the outcome everyone expected.  Even with all the advertising, free admission and people desperate to go shopping, the customers did not come and it proved to be a slow tiresome day.  I made $24 and spent $25!

I spent months preparing for the show, reorganizing my doll merchandise, but my new arrangements did not really merit any attention.  I ended up selling two sets of small dolls--Tyco Quints and Mimi & the GooGoos, two Barbie clone swimsuits and a Barbie princess movie friend.  I bought a Barbie storybook, Ken's Secret of Pleasant Manor outfit and a Skipper Best Buy.  There was more I saw that I wanted, but I didn't feel right buying them.

One hope had been that visitors to the EnterTrainment Junction exhibits would wander into the doll show in the party room after they were done going through ETJ, since there was no additional fee.  That didn't happen.  Since I have always dealt in playline Barbie as opposed to collectible Barbie, many of my customers have been children.  I saw very few children yesterday.  So few people at ETJ brought their kids to the doll show.  I wonder why?  Everyone was wearing masks all day.

I doubt I will be setting up a sale table at any more doll shows for at least a few years.

Checked another item off bucket list

This is another one of those "bucket list" Barbie photo ops.
I love the wooden jewelry cabinets that are for sale at Christmas.  I did receive a nice large one for Christmas years ago, and over time I've collected others at garage sales.  Almost everything you see in these photos are actually jewelry containers (except, of course, for the dolls and their clothes).  The largest cabinet was my original one.  The chest of drawers has a music box that plays "Fascination."
Yes, the couch is a jewelry box--the seat lifts up.  The gray beaded "ottoman" has a padded strip inside to hold three pairs of earrings.  It originally held three pairs of pearl studs, but I have only two pairs left.  The "mannequin" holds numerous pairs of wire earrings.
Last but not least, the table runners/throw rugs are actually bookmarks!
Although I don't have any idea on the dates of the jewelry boxes et al, both dolls and all the outfits pictured are from the early 1990s.  They are:
1991 Fashion Play Barbie in 1991 My First 4839 lounging pajamas
1991 World of Beauty Shani in 1992 Sizzlin' Style 5969 pants suit
1990 Fashion Find 9968 (the dress with the drop waist yellow skirt)
1990 Fashion Accessories 8120 five purses
1991 My First 4853 fuchsia coat
1991 Easy Living 772 lavender knit dress and bright pink heels (I think this looks more like a nightshirt)
1991 SuperStar Barbie print dress with the drop waist blue skirt that came with the 1991 calendar

It always feels good when Barbie sits down on a comfy couch
and takes off her high heels.

Both Barbie and Shani wear lounging pajamas.
Shani has on gym shoes, which are much more comfortable!

Shani admires Barbie's coat and print minidresses.

Now you can see the high heels that the girls threw in the closet!

Here is a view of some of Barbie's purses.

my additions for the weekend

I placed two non-doll items for sale on etsy the weekend of June 27 and 28.

Warriner's English Grammar and Composition
https://www.etsy.com/listing/816317236/warriners-english-grammar-and?ref=listings_manager_table

Sarah Coventry jewelry box
https://www.etsy.com/listing/817192188/early-1970s-sarah-coventry-jewelry-box?ref=listings_manager_table

etsy placements June 26

These are the items I placed for sale recently on etsy:

Baby Tender Love
https://www.etsy.com/listing/830117661/mattel-baby-tender-love-1970-with-many?ref=listings_manager_table

Little Pictorial Lives of the Saints hardback
https://www.etsy.com/listing/816210842/little-pictorial-lives-of-the-saints?ref=listings_manager_table

3 toddler items of clothing 1960s
https://www.etsy.com/listing/820537681/3-1960s-babytoddler-clothing-items?ref=listings_manager_table

Allied Eastern walking doll 1960s
https://www.etsy.com/listing/823375707/23-inch-pm-sales-allied-eastern-walker?ref=listings_manager_table

And then there were Pink Stamps, part two

There three Pink Stamp coupon booklets in 1991, numbers 0007 1031, 1032 and 1033.  Membership was again $2.  The insides of the booklet, with the enrollment form, are identical for all three.  However, the outsides have slightly different messages with the different stock numbers.

You could join the Pink Stamp Club through June 30, 1991.

Booklet 1031 came with least expensive outfits and had only one Pink Stamp.

Mid-priced Barbie and family outfits came with booklet 1032 and two Pink Stamps.

The most expensive outfits, such as the Private Collection series,
had booklet 1033 and three Pink Stamps.

The back of the packaging for the 1991 outfits
did not show the clothes in that line;
rather, it had a Pink Stamp enrollment form.

And then there were Pink Stamps, part one

The big Barbie fad in 1990 and 1991 was the Pink Stamp Club.  Barbie and family outfits had one or more Pink Stamps on the the packaging which could be accumulated and redeemed for Barbie-themed merchandise.  The most popular item was, of course, the Barbie television set.  My first post will just focus on 1990.
There were two booklets for that year, one unnumbered and another numbered 0007 1032.  Otherwise the booklets were identical.

Although the TV set was the most popular item,
the one I should have purchased was the coat exclusive to the Pink Stamp Club.
It was a revised version of 1988 Private Collection 4509 white fur coat.

The Fashion Fun Guide, a small but thick magazine,
was the best part of the Pink Stamp Club membership.

The pink coat was featured in one of the pages of the first Fashion Fun Guide.

Even though I lived on top of a hill in a city,
the analog pink Barbie television never had good reception.

Barbie fan club forms in the 1990s

The last year of the 20th century for the Barbie fan club membership was in 1991.  The price dropped since the number of magazine issues dropped from 10 to four a year.  The cost was now $7.47.
However, in 1998 a different sort of club was formed for adult collectors.  Some of commemorative dolls were sold through mail order as were a few exclusive outfits.  I am showing you the mail order form that I received.

The last Barbie fan club form was in 1991

All that was included with the 1990s Barbie fan club
was a magazine subscription.

The front of the mail order form for the 1998 Barbie Collector Club
showed some of the dolls for sale.

A Barbie fan club for adults!  How cool!