For those of you whose children want the Barbie Dream House, I would skip purchasing the over priced and cheap plastic actual Barbie brand dream house and check out any of the wooden doll houses from Costco at half the price.

http://www.costco.com/CatalogSearch...0701&langId=-1&keyword=barbie+doll+house

Kid Kraft is a nice brand. I have many Kid Kraft items and they are all good solid wooden durable quality items.

Plus the houses come with nice furniture.

chris1234, thanks for the reminder about getting sketch pads at the dollar store! DD needs some new pads and like you mentioned, keeping her supplied in paper has been an expensive feat!!