Come on, Barbie, let’s go camping. Check out this ‘Barbie camper’ made by a PA family

It all started when Wendy Krammes’ 7-year-old daughter Jazmyn asked her parents for a “real Barbie camper.” Wendy assumed that her daughter — who already had her own Barbie-sized, flaming pink Barbie camper — meant a people-sized, regular camper.

She was spectacularly wrong.

Wendy found an old camper in good condition on Facebook Marketplace in October. The couple who owned it had kept it in a barn and all of the bells and whistles worked like new. Once they got the camper home, Wendy asked Jazmyn — “Jazzy” for short — if she was excited.

“She said ‘No. Now we have to work. The work begins now!’ ” Wendy recalled.

“It’s a real camper,” Jazzy had told Wendy. “We have to turn it into a Barbie camper.”

Before the Barbie-fication of the camper began, the camper itself, tags and license cost about $2,300. But the camper’s decor has cost more than $1,500 so far — being a Barbie girl doesn’t come without a price!

“[Jazzy’s] rule is if it’s not pink, it doesn’t belong. Not pink — or purple,” Wendy said. “But there’s got to be exceptions to that because they don’t make everything in pink.”

The camper’s two tables were covered with sparkly epoxy — one a pale pink, the other a much hotter shade. The inside of the kitchenette drawers were each lined with Barbie stickers and decorative paper. Even the refrigerator was covered with a wallpaper of a cloudy sky bathed in the dusky hues of pink and purple — complete with Barbie-branded lemonade inside.

“People thought we were a little crazy,” Wendy said.

Both Wendy and Jazzy were Barbie fans far before Greta Gerwig’s film starring Margot Robbie and Ryan Gosling was announced last year. But Wendy thought the timing could not have been more perfect — as the movie’s release drew nearer, it became increasingly easy to find Barbie-branded merchandise.

The camper’s exterior was originally white, but is now partially pink. Despite her husband’s initial wishes, the whole camper will eventually be pink, Wendy said — although that wasn’t the original plan.

“When my husband found out [about the Barbie theme] he was like, please just tell me you’re not gonna paint the whole thing pink. That’s all I ask,” Wendy recalled. “And we’re like, no, of course not. Well … every so many weeks, we add another pink stripe outside.”

He’s totally caught on now, Wendy admitted.

“The more we went along with the process, I think the more fun we had with it,” Wendy said.

Wendy isn’t quite sure when the whole the camper will be finished — but Jazzy hopes it’ll be in time for the Grange Fair.