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Not really a Barbie article but I just had to share with you guys my excitment. Today I just bought my second pair of shoes for my wedding. I have another pair, with a higher heel but I’ll only wear that at the church. This pair is for dancing. 
Don’t they just scream Barbie?? 
Hello again!
Here’s the post I’ve promised you with all the info and pictures from this year’s Italian Doll Convention. Because I’m an airhead I forgot to get my camera so I had to take the pictures with my iPhone. 
I so hate myself right now… Anyway I hope you’ll enjoy them.
Oh my I don’t even know with what to start! 
Let’s start with the gala dinner as I didn’t manage to go to the fashion show. I know…I know… 
Shame on me! I slept during the show! Oh boy…. But I was fresh for the gala dinner! My table host was the amazing Antonio Russo who is the president of the Italian Doll Club and has an amazing collection of 8000 dolls! Yes, 8000! Mostly vintage Barbie but also other dolls. He’s a lot of fun and I trully enjoyed staying at his table.
Just before the gala I met Kathie and Pete from San Diego. You may know Kathie from The Fashion Doll Review and her eBay store Kathie’s Fashion Dolls. They are such a fun couple and I had the time of my life talking to them. Their present for everybody at the table were some uber cute shoes made by Jennifer Sue. My dolls will soon rock those shoes like they never rocked another pair before. My present for everyone were some hand made and hand painted traditional vases from the northern part of my country. I can’t wait to see if someone will use them for their dioramas.
At the gala dinner we got a LOT of presents and I also won a Barbie Basics no 7 from the first wave. Yey! Each one of us had under our seat a picture of a flower and the owner of the camelia flower had to go to the front of the room and…play darts. Then, based on the points we got playing, we each got the chance to chose from a pile of very carefull wrapped presents. Some won dolls, some won other things with Barbie and I won the Basics doll. Yey! Then, based on the number I got assined when I sat down at the table I also won a Swarovski pen. Very, very cute!
Someone at my table won the center piece doll that was a beautifull OOAK made by a young Italian artist. There were some amazing center piece dolls in the room. I love each and everyone of them.
Ok, so I decided to participate also in the mass blogger interview done by I Luv Dolls. Here are my answers.
1. When did you start collecting dolls?
My first doll was given to me when I was little, like 6 years old. Then I started asking for more and more but got tired of dolls when I became an adolescent. My passion hit me again in 2008 when i discovered some great Collector Barbies on a Romanian online shop. That’s when I really started collecting and I have no intention to stop ever again.
2.What was your first purchase as a collector?
In the autumm of 2008 I begged a frind of mine that lives in NY to buy me some 80s Barbies of eBay. I wanted to pay him but he was so sweet and decided to give them to me as a present. Lucky me! I can’t remember now all of them, they were several, but one of them was Unicef Barbie.
3.How many dolls do you own?
I stopped counting after 200 so I have NO idea what so ever.
4.What is your favorite doll and why?
By far my favorite doll is Pink Splendor Barbie. She embodies everything I love about Barbies. Just perfect! The dress, the pale pink, her high couture hair, her amazing face and makeup. Just stunning. I hope someday to have her.
5.What doll or dolls are not your favorites and why?
Pullip dolls. I don’t like them at all. Sorry… They look to creepy to me.
6.What is the biggest challenge about collecting dolls?
Making my husband understand when money are flying of the credit card. 
He support me and my collection but I do fight with him when he thinks I collect way to many types of dolls. He would like me to stick to Barbie but I keep trying to make him understand that is not possible.
7.How do you display or store your dolls?
I have a special room in my apartment from my home town. I live in the capital of Romania and my aparment here is too small so I just keep a few dolls here. The rest are being shipped every month to my hometown. My mom makes sure they arrive safely and stores them in special boxes.
8.Have you ever been to a doll show?
Not yet buy I’m going in a few days to Milan to the Italian Doll Convention 2012.
9.When you travel, do you look for dolls?
Like duh! Of course! That’s the first thing I do.
10.What is your latest purchase?
A few Maxie dolls and a jointed Steffi Love. Can’t wait for them to arrive.
11.What doll is on your wish list now?
Empress of the Aliens Barbie and Mermaid Barbie. I have no idea how to get the second one without having to sell my kidneys.
12.What do you wish you didn’t purchase?
Like Madonna said: absolutely NO REGRETS!
13.What is your favorite doll related item?
My doll houses. I L-O-V-E doll houses. Please give me more!
14.How often do you photo your dolls and what doll is the most photographed and/or photogenic?
Unfortunately I don’t really have time to do this. I have a busy schedule and very impatient clients so I don’t really get the chance to do this.
15.Do you talk to other collectors in person or just on the web?
We started having doll meetings with the local doll collectors and I just love that! Also I often call them or meet them just for crinks. They will all me at my wedding in September also.
16.If you had the chance to speak to Mattel or other toy makers, what would you say?
I’ll tell you about this when I get my answer from a person at Mattel that is in charge with the European market.
17.What doll do you wish would be reissued?
The Mermaid Barbie 2012!!!! Please Mattel!!! PLEASE!!!!
18.What two dolls would you combine and how would you want them combined? (Muff style question)
I would definetly change the body on all Barbies with the ones used by Integrity Toys. Those are the best bodies, in my humble oppinion, and Barbie deserves such amazing bodies.
Ok, so it’s almost 7 oçlock in the morning and I couldn’t get much sleep tonight. I woke up at 6 and sat down at the computer to change the look of this blog. I’ve been actually thinking about moving my blog to Blogspot as most of the doll and Barbie blogs are hosted there. I’m so mad at Google for making Google Friend only available on blogs hosted on Blogger/Blogspot! It made thinks so much easier.
But anyway, here’s the new look. I got inspired by Robert Best‘s amazing drawing s and I just could pass the opportunity to do a minimalistic and bright look with the sketch for the upcoming Silkstone that you saw in Sandra’s amazing pictures from Studio P.H. 8442! What do you think of the new look?
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Now off to sleep again. I need at least one hour more. 
Simon from DollObservers.com kindly asked me to do a little interview with him about my doll collection. I was very happy to do it as I love that site and that community.
Click on the image below to read it.
As the new year has just started I have decided to do a wish list with all the Barbie dolls I intend on buying this year. Some of them are already out, some are collector, some are playline, some are dolls that at fist site I did not like. Also, I HAVE do admit I’m wishing the new Kardashian Barbies will be ugly ’cause I don’t want to buy them but I’m so afraid they’ll look amazing. 
Anyway, what’s your doll wish list for 2012?
So sorry for the delay but I’ve been away to my parents in law house in Buzau. I had a great Christmas with my husband, parents in law, brother in law and his girlfriend and I received a lot of wonderfull things. I got a Swaping Styles Glam Fashionista and a Gloria Furniture set plus a Classique Starlight Dance Barbie doll from my friend Andra.
Happy, happy, happy! What could a doll wish for more? Happy Holidays my dears and may all your doll drams come true.
