Favorite Toy as a Child

When I was young, I loved to play with Barbies. I loved to dress them up, do their hair, and make up fun lives and stories for them. One thing I always liked to do was to set up weddings. I would dress Barbie up in her wedding dress and gather all my other Barbies around.
Another thing that my friends and I liked to do was pretend that our Barbies were certain famous people. We had a Justin Timberlake Ken, a Britney Spears Barbie (back before she was crazy), and many others. We would make them have concerts as well as do normal life type things. We had pretty elaborate stories.
One thing that I do not like about Barbie now, is that they make everything for her. There is no imagination that goes into making up lives and stories for dolls anymore. If you want your Barbie to be a doctor, there's a doctor's office you can buy with all the accessories needed. When I was little, I never even had a house for my dolls. I built them with blankets and Lego's. When my Barbies had their weddings, I made an area for them to do it in. I did not go out and buy a church. When we had Barbie concerts, we built the stages.
I think that the way I played with Barbies showed my creativity and my ability to make up stories at a young age. I have always loved to write, and these characteristics definitely play into that. I wish that the doll makers would make little girls use their imaginations more. That way no little girl can be cheated out of developing one.