Back in the 70s and 80s, you could buy a bag of colorful plastic accessories at a local "dime" store like Ben Franklin, but gone are the days of miscellaneous shoes, boots, purses, tennis racquets, and telephones...and gone are the days of Ben Franklin stores. In the stead of hodge-podge Barbie doll accessories are prepackaged outfits for $3.99 and up! You have to search Etsy or Ebay for the potluck accessories, and anyway, for what purpose would Barbie need the princess phone if not just for the way it pulls a room together. In these days of collectible dolls and nostalgic reproductions, imagination has gone right out the window. Where is all of the Pepto pink? The cheap imitations? Where are the felt dresses and pizza-box-support foot stools? Perhaps they are only gone but not forgotten...or somewhere out there is a young Phoebe Buffay building her own doll house with a slide instead of stairs, a licorice room with edible furniture, an aroma room, and a bubble dispenser.
Materials: plastic princess doll phone, pink plastic doll head cabochon, blue flower bead, pink and white swirled bead, pink coiled wire, pink and white bugle beads, lime green seed beads, coral bugle bead pieces, coral-pink wire
