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On 8/17/08 12:29 PM, in article ,
"lucretia borgia" wrote: On Sun, 17 Aug 2008 08:15:30 -0700 (PDT), lewmew opined: .. I would like to gather up every Barbie I could and have a big bonfire. It amazes me that women would still buy these damned things for their daughters ! * Think anorexia for one. If you think Barbies are bad, check out Bratz: http://www.thehandicrafts.net/static...blog/bratz.jpg MUCH worse - makes Barbie look positively prudish! Linda I don't care for those either - who designs these things for little girls ? Prolly the same people who design much of the slutty looking clothing in the girls departments. I expect I sound harsh, or dated, but I really feel quite strongly about it and always hated barbie, she wasn't welcome in our home and I wasn't old and outdated then ! I can't figure it out either. I wasn't a fan of Barbie when I was a kid; just didnąt "get it". If I wanted to dress up, I had dress up clothes that more or less fit me and plenty of imagination. Dressing up a doll, no thanks. NOW - for the moms with young girls, I love these dolls http://www.onlyheartsclub.com/ Clothing is modest and real. They are "real" girls, with pets and stories and "jobs". DD has just about out grown them, but unlike the odd Barbie, DD has felt no need to destroy them. Cheryl |
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Cheryl Isaak wrote:
Now - I'm going to point you in a different direction. Webkinz are the rage of the moment. DD loves them. They come in "Little Kinz" and "Big Kinz". DD loves them and actually will dress them up. Ah, but then we've got to buy Webkinz to custom-fit them to. We already own Barbies, and have patterns for them. -- Karen C - California Editor/Proofreader www.IntlProofingConsortium.com Finished 7/27/08 - MLI Christmas Visit WIP: Oriental Kimono (Janlynn), MLI The Teacher (gift to the library), Bethany Angel (Marbek) Retrieved from UFO pile: Marbek's Snow Angel, MLI Farmers Market CFSfacts -- where we give you the facts and dispel the myths Myths, with research cites: http://www.aacfs.org/images/pdfs/myths.pdf Newest research blog: http://journals.aol.com/kmc528/Lifeasweknowit/ |
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Jangchub wrote:
"Desperate Housewives?" What the hell is that? Never watched it. That's too bad. I watched the first season all in a go while I was recovering from surgery last summer and found it delighfully wicked and funny at the same time. The "Desperate" has to do with beinge expected to do it all and still be sane. Elizabeth -- *~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~living well is the best revenge~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~* The most important thing one woman can do for another is to illuminate and expand her sense of actual possibilities. --Adrienne Rich *~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~ *~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~* |
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Cheryl Isaak wrote:
On 8/17/08 2:28 PM, in article , "Karen C in California" wrote: Cheryl Isaak wrote: Now - I'm going to point you in a different direction. Webkinz are the rage of the moment. DD loves them. They come in "Little Kinz" and "Big Kinz". DD loves them and actually will dress them up. Ah, but then we've got to buy Webkinz to custom-fit them to. We already own Barbies, and have patterns for them. Only one of each size... $20 investment. The point of this venture is to make money, not spend it. Barbie is proven to be enduring, Webkinz are flavor of the month, and by next year our $20 investment might be worthless junk and no one want to buy what we've made for next year's sale. Besides, most of the clientele at this thing are grannies and great-grannies -- Barbie they will recognize, Webkinz they won't have a clue. -- Karen C - California Editor/Proofreader www.IntlProofingConsortium.com Finished 7/27/08 - MLI Christmas Visit WIP: Oriental Kimono (Janlynn), MLI The Teacher (gift to the library), Bethany Angel (Marbek) Retrieved from UFO pile: Marbek's Snow Angel, MLI Farmers Market CFSfacts -- where we give you the facts and dispel the myths Myths, with research cites: http://www.aacfs.org/images/pdfs/myths.pdf Newest research blog: http://journals.aol.com/kmc528/Lifeasweknowit/ |
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"Karen C in California" wrote in message ... Cheryl Isaak wrote: On 8/17/08 2:28 PM, in article , "Karen C in California" wrote: Cheryl Isaak wrote: Now - I'm going to point you in a different direction. Webkinz are the rage of the moment. DD loves them. They come in "Little Kinz" and "Big Kinz". DD loves them and actually will dress them up. Ah, but then we've got to buy Webkinz to custom-fit them to. We already own Barbies, and have patterns for them. Only one of each size... $20 investment. The point of this venture is to make money, not spend it. Barbie is proven to be enduring, Webkinz are flavor of the month, and by next year our $20 investment might be worthless junk and no one want to buy what we've made for next year's sale. Besides, most of the clientele at this thing are grannies and great-grannies -- Barbie they will recognize, Webkinz they won't have a clue. -- Karen C - California Editor/Proofreader www.IntlProofingConsortium.com Finished 7/27/08 - MLI Christmas Visit WIP: Oriental Kimono (Janlynn), MLI The Teacher (gift to the library), Bethany Angel (Marbek) Retrieved from UFO pile: Marbek's Snow Angel, MLI Farmers Market CFSfacts -- where we give you the facts and dispel the myths Myths, with research cites: http://www.aacfs.org/images/pdfs/myths.pdf Newest research blog: http://journals.aol.com/kmc528/Lifeasweknowit/ Excuse Me!!! Why would you think grannies, or great-grannies wouldn't know about the latest hot toy that their grandkids want? Some of us GOW's actually get out of the house on occasion and keep up with the trends. Some of us older folk even play games on one of those new fangled puter thingies and drive to stores and watch TV and nowadays we actually know how to read and write and get out of the kitchen. I do hope you were kidding when you underestimated grannies!!! Lucille |
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On Sat, 16 Aug 2008 22:46:15 -0700, Karen C in California
wrote: What are Barbie clothes going for these days? I used to sew a lot and often made duplicate outfits for the dolls to match ones I made my girls. A local church sold Barbie outfits a few years ago, and they didn't sell as well as you would think. Some people said their kids wanted the "real" Barbie clothes and most others didn't think anything should be more than $3, even some pretty fancy evening gowns. We ended up donating most of them to charity. At least the cost outlay is minor if you already have fabric scraps, trim, small buttons or yarn. I've still got a ton of the clothes and dolls in my attic waiting for my granddaughter to get a little older. I've got garage sale dolls I'm refurbishing and plan to add some clothes to a few of them for my youngest niece. Moni ---- Posted via Pronews.com - Premium Corporate Usenet News Provider ---- http://www.pronews.com offers corporate packages that have access to 100,000+ newsgroups |
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Jangchub wrote:
snip I think is one, another "Kath and Kim" where thongs are out with those F me backtoos. It just gets worse and worse. I agree with you wholeheartedly on this, but *please* don't dismiss 'Kath and Kim' until you've watched it just once. It's a comedy about a single Mum and her newly-separated daughter who has returned home to cadge, being too lazy to work. They're both incredibly dense and stupid and the whole idea is to lampoon the values being discussed in this thread. The mother is so caught up with appearances, she's raised her daughter to be exactly the same. Now, the chicken has come home to roost and she has to cope! It's extremely Australian humour, so I'd understand if not everyone found it to their taste. I find it so funny! Oh and BTW, the whole point about the thong showing at the back is that Kim is a 'great strapping girl' with a 'muffin top' (flesh spilling over her waistband) and 'fadoobadas' (flesh wobbling on her upper arms). She believes she is, in fact, a 'hornbag' (most attractive young woman) with flawless fashion sense. The actress who plays her, Gina Riley, is *so* brave! She appears in some of the most garish attire and looks - erm - dreadful. The show is written by the two women who play in it and most of the work is done over a kitchen table after they drop their kids at school. LOL! And now I'll have to borrow the Ugly Sister's DVD set and watch it all over again. |
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Lucille wrote:
I do hope you were kidding when you underestimated grannies!!! Lucille I happen to know this particular batch of grannies well enough to know that most of them don't compute (or if they do, the extent of their ability is sending an all-text e-mail). If we tried to tell them Webkinz is the latest fad, those who have never heard of them would simply think we're feeding them a line to make sales, and ask "don't you have any Barbie clothes?" because they know what Barbies are and know that they have bought Barbies for the tykes. Most will not be accompanied by grandkids who will confirm that they own Webkinz and want clothes for them, so I'd rather sell the grannies what they recognize and are comfortable buying than take the risk on making clothes for Webkinz (which I'd never heard of myself before now; none of the kids I buy for are into them) and bringing 90% of them back home while losing out on sure sales of Barbie clothes. Plus, we have umpty-ump patterns for Barbie, don't have to try to create our own for Webkinz. I don't know how good she is at making her own patterns from scratch. -- Karen C - California Editor/Proofreader www.IntlProofingConsortium.com Finished 7/27/08 - MLI Christmas Visit WIP: Oriental Kimono (Janlynn), MLI The Teacher (gift to the library), Bethany Angel (Marbek) Retrieved from UFO pile: Marbek's Snow Angel, MLI Farmers Market CFSfacts -- where we give you the facts and dispel the myths Myths, with research cites: http://www.aacfs.org/images/pdfs/myths.pdf Newest research blog: http://journals.aol.com/kmc528/Lifeasweknowit/ |
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