As a baby, I used to construct worlds for my Barbies. I’d spend infinite 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 change 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 staff
We had our first name with the Mattel staff (the kindest, most inventive bunch!) on a Friday and the next Monday we have been at their places of work perusing their classic Barbie furnishings archives, searching for our dreamhouse! I even obtained to carry Ida! It was unimaginable. The artistry and a focus to element that goes into constructing (or in some circumstances sourcing) all issues Barbie is actually inspiring.
We obtained to pick completely different doll heads, physique varieties, and CLOTHES – oh the garments!
So very cool to see all of the Barbie doll heads! Their hair and make up is at all times on level!
How enjoyable is that this wardrobe choice?! We couldn’t cease oohing and awwing after we have been making our selects. Too enjoyable!
Aimee from staff Jungalow (left) discovered some Barbie pants we’d like in our dimension! And Jungalow’s very personal Piper (proper) having enjoyable taking part in 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 may see Barbie and her buddies having a celebration in. The superb Mattel staff introduced my idea to life (the picture on the very prime of this weblog publish is NOT photoshopped! It was really constructed to Barbie scale–the material and textiles have been really made with our prints, and so they even created teeny tiny variations of my books! ahhh!) and now I simply wish to chill with Barbie there all day lengthy!
My hope was to create an area the place Barbie may embrace her individuality and be surrounded by a kaleidoscope of textures, hues, and flowers. 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 buddies, 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 interior wild little one on this jungalicious Barbie dreamhouse!
