As a toddler, I used to construct worlds for my Barbies. I’d spend limitless hours with my sister, Religion, crafting intricate realms, stitching tiny clothes from vibrant materials, and fashioning furnishings from corks, toothpicks, and bottle caps! Early experiences like these launched me to the magic of design and impressed me to turn out to be a designer and artist. So you may think about how excited I used to be when @BarbieStyle reached out about what appeared like a dream collab: Jungalow designing a room in Barbie’s dreamhouse !!!
Picture courtesy of the superb Mattel group
We had our first name with the Mattel group (the kindest, most artistic bunch!) on a Friday and the next Monday we had been at their workplaces perusing their classic Barbie furnishings archives, searching for our dreamhouse! I even bought to carry Ida! It was unbelievable. The artistry and a spotlight to element that goes into constructing (or in some instances sourcing) all issues Barbie is basically inspiring.
We bought to select completely different doll heads, physique sorts, and CLOTHES – oh the garments!
So very cool to see all of the Barbie doll heads! Their hair and make up is all the time on level!
How enjoyable is that this wardrobe choice?! We couldn’t cease oohing and awwing after we had been making our selects. Too enjoyable!
Aimee from group Jungalow (left) discovered some Barbie pants we’d like in our measurement! And Jungalow’s very personal Piper (proper) having enjoyable enjoying Barbie’s stylist for a day!
After that, we headed again to the Jungalow studio and I began concepting. I gathered inspiration photos and rendered a room that I might see Barbie and her mates having a celebration in. The superb Mattel group introduced my idea to life (the photograph on the very prime of this weblog put up is NOT photoshopped! It was really constructed to Barbie scale–the material and textiles had been really made with our prints, they usually even created teeny tiny variations of my books! ahhh!) and now I simply need to chill with Barbie there all day lengthy!
My hope was to create an area the place Barbie might embrace her individuality and be surrounded by a kaleidoscope of textures, hues, and plants. We recovered the classic furnishings, and upcycled and reinvented them, simply as Religion and I did as children. However, this dreamhouse isn’t only a play area; it’s an invite for Barbie, her mates, and for all of us to nurture our personal creativity, rejoice our personal uniqueness, and revel within the magic and the enjoyable of unbridled self-expression.
Come on in, let’s play, create, and rejoice our internal wild baby on this jungalicious Barbie dreamhouse!
