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 into 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, looking for our dreamhouse! I even received to convey Ida! It was unbelievable. The artistry and a focus to element that goes into constructing (or in some circumstances sourcing) all issues Barbie is basically inspiring.
We received to pick 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 pictures 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 picture on the very prime of this weblog submit 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 flora. We recovered the classic furnishings, and upcycled and reinvented them, simply as Religion and I did as youngsters. However, this dreamhouse isn’t only a play house; it’s an invite for Barbie, her mates, and for all of us to nurture our personal creativity, have a good time our personal uniqueness, and revel within the magic and the enjoyable of unbridled self-expression.
Come on in, let’s play, create, and have a good time our internal wild baby on this jungalicious Barbie dreamhouse!
