Taswegian1957

Fashion Doll Friday: Barbie Denim Basics 07


Denim Basics Barbie 07
April Reece

Today’s Friday Girl is another of my Denim Basics girls, her name is April.  I was very lucky to be able to buy a lot of my Denim Basics girls on sale locally which is fortunate because they have become quite expensive now. April is different from most of the other Basics girls, she is more lightweight and her legs are jointed differently from the others. Today she is wearing a floral patterned Fashionista dress and generic black shoes. Her other outfit is one of the Denim Basics outfits but not the one she came with.

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Published by Taswegian1957

I was born in England in 1957 and lived there until our family came to Australia in 1966. I grew up in Adelaide, South Australia, where I met and married my husband, David. We came together over a mutual love of trains. Both of us worked for the railways for many years, his job was with Australian National Railways, while I spent 12 years working for the STA, later TransAdelaide the Adelaide city transit system. After leaving that job I worked in hospitality until 2008. We moved to Tasmania in 2002 to live in the beautiful Huon Valley. In 2015 David became ill and passed away in October of that year. I currently co-write two blogs on WordPress.com with my sister Naomi. Our doll blog "Dolls, Dolls, Dolls", and "Our Other Blog" which is about everything else but with a focus on photographs and places in Tasmania. In November 2019 I began a new life in the house that Naomi and I intend to make our retirement home at Sisters Beach in Tasmania's northwest. Currently we have five pets between us. Naomi's two dogs Toby and Teddy and cats, Tigerwoods and Panther and my cat Polly. My dog Cindy passed away aged 16 in April 2022.

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  1. April looks great in both outfits, but the dress gives her a very nice, feminine look. Her hair is a lovely colour, and I like the way you’ve lighted it. The Denim Basics were one of Mattel’s nicer lines in recent years, but as always with Mattel, the distribution was a bit hit and miss. Great to see April highlighted in your Fashion Friday.

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    • Thank you. When Mattel brought out the Basics line it was the most excited I had been about any Barbies for some time and I really wish they were still doing them. The photos were taken around 6pm which is still daylight but for extra lighting I used my two small photo lamps. The wall behind April is actually cream coloured so I thought it was quite interesting that it had come out so dark. I tweaked it a bit in Picasa which gave it the blue tone. The camera doesn’t see what the eye sees sometimes.

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  2. Lovely gal, and it’s funny her name is April, because here it’s raining. I love the links. Getting to see her journey to your collection. I haven’t any denim girls yet. Have to see if I can find your Friday gal or the 04 red-head Amy. Great blog!

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    • I have been lucky that I did not have to pay full price for many of my Basics girls, they were either gifts or on sale. I think I only paid the full price of about $35 for two of them.

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