March 9th is considered to be the official birthday of Barbie as she made her first appearance on March 9, 1959 at The International Toy Fair (yes, the same Toy Fair that I attended last month and have been sharing reports on) on that day! In celebration of her birthday, BarbieCollector.com is having a 25% off sale – just in case you had a special Barbie on your wish list right now – and I made a collage of Barbie Birthday Inspiration from everyone’s favorite inspiration spot these days, Pinterest (follow the DollDiaries board).
Our Barbie inspiration comes from: (click on links to see the original “pin”)
7. Free Barbie Party Invitation
Do you remember your very first Barbie? I don’t but I do remember spending hours and hours playing with Barbie and her friends in my room, making furniture for them out of plastic cups, aluminum foil, cardboard and other things I could find. I really wish I still had all my old Barbies, but something tells me they got lost in one of our many moves or sold in a yard sale (better guess).
Happy Birthday Barbie!!
Firstie! Not a big fan of Barbie. I played with Polly Pockets when I was growing up but Happy Birthday!
My first Barbie was a Cinderella doll. She looks way different from my other Barbies.
Not my first Barbie, but the first one I remember getting and playing with was a gymnastics Teresa, in a tacky 90s gymsuit.
Happy Birthday Barbara!
How old is she now? 52?
I admittedly am not into Barbies anymore, though I do find that very interesting that Barbie is so old!
My mom used to make us barbie cakes!:D I LOVED THEM (and I STILL DO!)
funny that you posted about barbie I have been reading helen doll saga whitch talks all about barbie dolls its so awesome i cant stop reading the old posts thank you doll diaries for recomending this site
Happy Birthday Barbie!!
I still have some barbies, maybe i should start a collection
The only Barbies I had growing up were Malibu Barbie and Quick Curl Kelley. I also had a blow molded fake Barbie named Valerie. I remember making up all kinds of soap opera-like stories for them. My Springfield Collection doll has 3 Happy Meal sized Barbies (which are perfect scale for 18″ dolls), including Malibu Barbie!
umm, not a big fan of Barbie dolls from 1990-now but I loooooooooooooooooooooove the vintage ones!
I prefer AG myself
i cant remember my first barbie but I vaguly remember a brown hair prince barbie doll when I was 6
I remember my first barbie she was the special edtion princess doll she had a red and gold gown on and happy birthday
My first barbie had long blond hair , red lips, and green eyes.
i dont even remember what she wore!
I love barbies! My mom still has 2 of her from when she was a kid! My favorite ones to play with where always the kelly dolls I would have a barbie be the mom and then kellys be the kids and then we had a couple boy barbies they are only from princess kits though like the little mermaid and the journy to camelat. Me and my sisters used to have a favorite barbie that we would always fight over she had red hair with mini buns in the front and the rest of her hair down. March 9th is also my sister sarahs birthday!
I love Pinterest.
I don’t remember my first Barbie, but I do still have a whole box full of them.