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I took my Barbie dolls to Paris, and this video shows the highlights! #CurvyBarbie #PetiteBarbie

Yes, you read that right! I went to Paris in 2016, and I took my Barbies with me.

Today’s video has been on my YouTube Channel, ChellyWood1, ever since my trip to Paris. Although passersby thought I was pretty weird, taking photos of my dolls in various locations around the city, I have no regrets.

When I got home from my trip, I pieced all the photos together into this little travelogue for Barbie friends Tabitha and Vanessa (i.e. Petite Barbie and Curvy Barbie).

The image shows Tabitha (a black Petite Barbie) and Vanessa (a Latina curvy Barbie) in a photo frame, on top of a text box that reads "Adventures in Paris Part 1" with a graphic of the Eiffel Tower alongside the text.
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I noticed that these fun little “doll play” videos haven’t been getting as much watch time on YouTube lately, so I thought I’d share them with all of you.

Have any of you taken photos of your dolls in various locations, when you took a vacation? And if so, where did you take pictures? Were there any awkward or problematic situations that came up during your photo session? Please feel free to share your dolly travel stories in the comments!

I actually had a homeless guy in Paris walk up to me and try to take my doll away while I was photographing her. I must have given him a horrified look because he brought her back and apologized!

The Chelly Wood doll stands on a street in Paris with the Eiffel Tower rising above her in the distance. She holds a camera out in her right hand, but her expression, with its open mouth, is one of shock mixed with anger, as the doll has a cartoonish open-mouth of horror superimposed over the face of the Liv Doll that's used to represent the real Chelly Wood (a doll clothing designer).
Please visit ChellyWood.com for free printable PDF sewing patterns and tutorial videos for making doll clothes to fit dolls of many shapes and all different sizes.

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5 thoughts on “I took my Barbie dolls to Paris, and this video shows the highlights! #CurvyBarbie #PetiteBarbie”

  1. Supercute!
    I’ve never brought any of me dolls abroad with me. The most loved ones are vintage and fragile and I am to scared to loose them.
    Anyway I can tell you that here in Europe we have a low cost flying company named Easyjet (please, feel free to cancel the name in case it is not allowed) and few years ago they were selling only onboard a serie of lovely teddy bears.
    Few after they started a picture contest asking passengers to make and send them some pictures of the teddies taken in locations they could reach by their flights and after that they were published on the onboard newspaper. Teddies had lovely clothes too. I was so lucky to have few of them but I have never brought them anywhere, too scared even for them. 🙂

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  2. Hi Chelly!
    I never took my dolls anywhere, but I have only restarted my doll collection in February. My “Barbies S2 The Ocean” would look lovely in a trip to the beach, though.
    Well, I have an alternate version of the story of the homeless man who tried to take your doll. We, grown ladies, are not the archetypal doll owners. Maybe he saw a Barbie standing there, and no little girl around. It must have been a forgotten doll. It was the look on your face that told him that this was not someone’s lost doll, it was yours. “Oh, desolé, madamme photographer, I didn’t mean to steal your model!”

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