The story mentioned in the "Really Rosy" Barbie post

So I mentioned here that I had a story about how I got my Really Rosy Kayla Doll. Here goes!

Spanish 2 my senior year in college early 2004. We had to do a skit in Spanish as a group project. My group and I thought it would be fun to have a child's "playtime" skit and figured the class would get a kick out of it. So we decided it would be fun to buy Barbies and "play" while having the Barbies speak entirely in Spanish. So one day we all went down to the local Fred Meyer to purchase some Barbies.

Hip Barbie, Cali Girl (Cali BOY!) Ken, and Really Rosy Kayla. We wanted the classic blonde Barbie and one dark hair doll. Then Cali Girl (Cali BOY!) Ken. I think because he was the only Ken they had! Hip Barbie did not come in that wedding dress, we bought it so she could get married to Ken.

The whole skit was supposed to be that Ken meets the two girls, Ken wants to marry the blonde Barbie, Kayla gets mad, then the girls who are playing get mad at each other (each girl wanted Ken to marry THEIR doll), then mom has to come in and break up the fight. Skit over and we hope that our professor gives us 100%. Out skit was hilariously funny especially when we were acting out the scene were Ken meets the girls.

*I say in a deep man voice* "Hola Barbies"
*my two group mates say in a high pitched squeaky girly voice* "Hola Ken!"

After the presentation my group mates did not have any use for the dolls so them knowing that I loved Barbie dolls gave them to me. I don't even remember which one I bought. I think it was the Ken.

Fast forward to a few weeks ago. My mom bought a doll at a garage sale and she was nude so she put a dress on her. I was going to put on some knee high yellow boots I have and display it on my shelf. Cute right?

Well, look what I found when I removed Hip Barbie from her box.

I had the dress! Complete with shoes (never even removed from the plastic) and the purse she came with. I didn't even remember she wore that dress! After college when I stored her I just left her in the wedding dress so finding this dress was a treat.

Here is Hip Barbie wearing the entire ensemble.

I think that she will have to go on my shelf and the other doll I have will get to wear something different. No two Barbies should ever be dressed the same, agree?

~Anyone else have a problem calling that Ken "Cali Girl" Ken?~

Cute Faux-Fur Tops RESOLVED!

8/28/12 - Okay, kind of a funny story.....

When I first saw these tops I knew they looked really familiar. Blue for Teresa, Pink for Barbie, and I knew they were from a more recent Barbie (recent as within the last 10 or so years).

Through various Google searches such as "faux-fur Barbie tops", "floral tops", "floral faux-fur tops", I was coming up empty. So I posted it here thinking maybe someone could help.

I have a doll with the goddess head mold and red hair and was trying to search for this doll online. I tried searching some names of Mattel dolls and I tried the name "Kayla". I didn't find the doll I was looking for. But this is what I did find.

Photo from google.com search "Mattel Kayla dolls"

There she is!

After I saw this pic and found out she was the "Really Rosy" doll I kept thinking to myself that I had those boots somewhere and/or I had those boots at one point in my life.

After looking in a tub of my NRFB dolls, I found her.

I had my very own Really Rosy Kayla doll! With the box but no wrist tag. Funny story of how I got her. You can read it here!

Looking at the back of the box I also discovered that the blue top I have belonged to the Christie doll. There was no Teresa doll in this set. It also shows Kayla with white fur. Maybe they changed to purple mid-production? 

So in my garage sale doll finds, I had a Barbie that had the same body and hands as Kayla. So I put the pink fur top on her. Also her face mostly resembeled the Barbie on the back of the box.

Now I needed something for the bottom. I tried on a pair of jeans that didn't really fit well so I thought I would dress her in the pink skirt from the 1964 Satin n' Rose Fashion Pak #1161. I have another doll wearing the shirt, jacket, pants, and shoes so now I have a doll to showcase the skirt!

When skirts were made to be worn around the waist. Dress it up with cute pink mary-janes. Awesome. :)

Next up: Finding a Christie doll for the blue top. :)

~Original Post~

In my distressed Barbie finds, I also look for clothes. I have these two adorable faux-fur tops with a floral print. I know the pink is for Barbie and the purple and blue is for Teresa.

The help! I remember seeing these dolls in the store within the last few years. Any idea on what the name of these dolls were? And these tops don't seem to fit the "old" dolls very well (before Barbie was redesigned to have a smaller chest). Most of my dolls are from the 90's before the redesign so I guess I will have to get one of the newer Barbie's when I display them.

~Cute tops, would love to put them on a doll!~