Barbie Diorama: Retro Grocery Store : eBay Guides

This 1950's grocery store was a blast to make.  It is called Lucy's Groceries.  I looked up inspiration by Googling pictures of grocery stores from the period -- I fell in love with the poster of meat and vegetable crate labels.  So I printed up a bunch of those on photo paper.  Then I started collecting for the store:  the "vegetable" station is part of an old donut shop.  I painted it white and found the scale which I glued on.  The crates are actually full of vegetables for 1:12 scale -- if you think about it, they are a little small for Barbie, but playsclae fruit/veggies are either hideously expensive or ridiculously ugly (hollow plastic with seams showing).  I plan one day to make my own stuff from Fimo, but not today.

The meat counter was a blast.  It contains meat cuts that are acutally pencil toppers.  The doll is the Desi Arnaz doll in a lab coat (I put the name tag "Butch" on it).  The case is actually a Re-ment bakery piece, but it is much too low so I lifted it up on some legs.