Can definitely relate to how this hobby snowballs from just wanting a couple dolls from childhood, to just purchasing a newer doll from the store while asking yourself, "What am I going to do with these?", then purchasing another, and another, and...😉 The art gallery at the end is awesome, btw! Love the Shining carpeting in it 😎

@kadawalden

9 ай бұрын

It always starts with the childhood dolls, doesn't it! Lol! I'm so glad you can relate. Good eye on the Shining carpet! 😄😉

Kada I LOVE your story!! Your doll collecting is happy and joyful as it should be! I love that your husband shares it with you. I started collecting during COVID too!!! 😍🥰😘

@kadawalden

9 ай бұрын

That's so cool that you found comfort in dolls during COVID too, Bugsy! We have that in common. ☺

that picture of grandmas house with the kids sitting on the couch feeling weird with the dolls looking at them is what my house and kids look like at xmas and mothers day they cant wait to leave lol another great video.

@kadawalden

9 ай бұрын

Haha! I can imagine it’s a lot to see but I’d love to look at all the dolls. 😁

Thank you for sharing your story. Like you, I played with mostly Barbie as a kid but kept my dolls until I left home at 19. I gave my dolls to my eldest niece. In 1996, I was 30 years old and Christmas shopping. I went down the Barbie aisle and thought "I have a baby girl - I can get her a doll." The Sugar Plum Fairy came home with us that day. Then KB toys dangled the reproduction barbies in front of me, Enchanted Evening, Silken Flame, Solo in the Spotlight, and they too had to come to my house. I was saving them for my daughter. After maybe 15 dolls, I knew I wanted them for myself. I continued to collect and my daughter enjoyed dolls too as she grew up, so it was fun. I went on hiatus for about 10 years and thinned out some of the dolls but kept the rest. They are both in and out of box. I also was able to get different kinds of dolls as sales popped up. Many, many 60's and 70's vintage barbies showed up at the thrift stores and came home with me, also. A few years ago my husband and I bought a retirement house and it had a craft shed behind it. I decided to bring my collection there and make it a scrapbooking/doll room. Well, it is now packed full of my original dolls and so many others i've found. I also discovered Monster High and went nuts. You are good to keep your collection under control. Thanks again for sharing. I've enjoyed seeing your videos and dolls.

@kadawalden

9 ай бұрын

I love your story! Especially how you planned to give them to others but then you realized how much you loved them! 😍 That's so great that you helped influence your daughter to love them too. These dolls are timeless!

@CJMonroe1985

9 ай бұрын

@@kadawalden she collects monster high dolls and other odds and ends. It’s nice we can share that

Kada, you crack me up. 😂 i could totally see you in that meme with chris farley where hes looking at you and saying… “remember that time you took your barbie to work and your boss caught you? That was awesome” hahaha

@kadawalden

9 ай бұрын

🤣🤣🤣 Bwahahaha! You just made my day, Kimmi! 😂 PS. I love Chris Farley 😁

@kimmi6151

9 ай бұрын

@@kadawalden Ikr? I love chris farley too. Love that you share your Barbie shenanigans with us. ❤️

Hi Kada: I've been a doll collector all my life (I'm 53, ha.) and it NEVER gets old! So glad to hear about your collecting journey. We collectors have so much in common no matter what we collect. I could relate to every question you answered. Secret, I'm currently collecting older Monster High Cleo de Nile dolls! Love her shoes!

@kadawalden

9 ай бұрын

I'm so glad you can relate. You're right, we do have a lot in common! Cleo is my favorite too. 🥰

I have made 1:12 scale dollhouses and furniture and accessories for over 35 years and people mostly accepted that as a hobby. I still had several of my childhood Barbies and when a friend gave me a corner shelf I added a base cabinet and turned it into a house for those dolls. That started the collecting and dioramas. My story line takes place in the 70s but I have some modern dolls integrated in. For the most part, if I can't figure out how to include a doll in the storyline I don't get it. I have several dioramas, sleep and keep cases and the Country Home displayed all the time in my craft/doll room. People do not always understand the Barbies. Because of that first corner house, my sister started collecting. Having that shared interest has been a lot of fun.

@kadawalden

9 ай бұрын

I'm so impressed with dioramas, especially the high level of detail that 1:12 scale can get. That's so cool that you do those! 🤩

Fab video. I think a lot of folks hit that nostalgia wall in the pandemic. While I’ve collected Barbie in some form or fashion since I was a kid, it was however the lockdowns that super charged my collecting & there was a real mania to collecting gaps in the dolls & play sets that were “missing”. Especially as I moved states in the middle of COVID feeling disconnected to my new city, I definitely used Barbie collecting as an emotional anchor. Now I feel that there needs to be a significant slow down as pandemic life recedes. Love the insight into your collecting & collection. So glad I found your channel. 🫶🏻

@kadawalden

9 ай бұрын

It’s nice that we have that in common, Julius. I enjoy hearing the stories of people who had the same experience of nostalgia during the pandemic, and embraced it with a fun new or expanded thing in their life. Barbie was a huge positive that came out of it for me. 🥰

so glad to have found your channel! love hearing you talk with such passion

@kadawalden

9 ай бұрын

Aw thank you! And thanks for being here! 🥰

This was glorious! You are absolutely delightful. So great to meet you 🎉

@kadawalden

9 ай бұрын

Thank you! So glad to meet you too. Your channel looks lovely! 🥰🔮

Absolutely love your answers to all these questions 💖. You and you’re dolls are adorable 💖

@kadawalden

5 ай бұрын

I’m so glad you appreciated it! 🤗

I started collecting a few months ago when my 25 year old daughter bought me a Barbie for Christmas.

@kadawalden

2 ай бұрын

I love that you're just getting into this wonderful new venture! It was so exciting for me when I was brand new to collecting. 😍

I love your videos! Your videos are so entertaining and clever! I love the collecting info and I loved the movie re-enactments! Keep them coming. 🥰

@kadawalden

8 ай бұрын

Thank you so much! I love hearing that. 🥰💗

That was so much fun 👍! I liked how every question is answered with at least one doll in hand 😃 I started buying Barbie dolls again as an adult in 2019 I believe because that's when the Fashionista's line with diversity started to come out and I thought they were so cute 😍 Before that my daughter and I would rarely buy Barbies because we were into her AG doll collection 😎 I do love the birthstone beauties and wanted to collect them all but couldn't afford to do that so I only got the 1 that's my daughter's birthstone 😎 Did you hear they're going to make a PJ reproduction doll that's the next 1 that I can't wait to buy for myself 🤓

@kadawalden

9 ай бұрын

Ooh yes, the Fashionistas were new right when I got into collecting and I was thrilled by all the diversity and availability. My first one was the petite Black gal with vitiligo. Love! 🥰😍 I can’t wait to see the new PJ. I have a couple and she’s a lovely, understated lady. PS. I’m so glad you’re here and can relate. 😊

@MomLuvs2Collect

9 ай бұрын

@@kadawalden I have that same doll with the Vitiligo 👍🏼 I had PJ as a little girl and I loved her 😍 I just checked today to see if she can be bought anywhere but no sign of her yet 🤷🏻‍♀️

Great interview! I had Ballerina Barbie too, and the travel van (but mine was smaller i think). I had a pair of really flexible dolls that travelled from town to town in the camper van and put on gymnastic shows. It took me years to id them as Young Sweetheart dolls. They were surprisingly easy to find in good condition at a reasonable price

@kadawalden

7 ай бұрын

How fun! Always nice to meet another Ballerina Barbie fan too. 😀

Hi Kada! I am so much like you in my collectIng barbies and other dolls. I have several Robert Timber dolls. But a few years ago I went to barbies, more affordable lol! I do have some monster highs as well. I love looking at them, talking to them. Do you ever do head swapping. That's always fun for me, I will keep watching your dolly love videos. The always fun videos! Anita

@kadawalden

7 ай бұрын

Hi Anita! I’ve done only a few head swaps but I’m considering doing it more often. Definitely a space saver if I can just buy heads. 😆 I’m so glad you appreciate doll collecting too! 🥰