As a toddler, I used to construct worlds for my Barbies. I’d spend countless hours with my sister, Religioncrafting 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 grow to be a designer and artist. So you possibly can think about how excited I used to be when @BarbieStyle reached out about what gave the impression of a dream collab: Jungalow designing a room in Barbie’s dreamhouse !!!
Picture courtesy of the superb Mattel workforce
We had our first name with the Mattel workforce (the kindest, most inventive bunch!) on a Friday and the next Monday we had been at their places of work perusing their classic Barbie furnishings archives, looking for our dreamhouse! I even received to convey Ida! It was unbelievable. The artistry and a spotlight to element that goes into constructing (or in some instances sourcing) all issues Barbie is de facto inspiring.
We received to select totally 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 once we had been making our selects. Too enjoyable!
Aimee from workforce Jungalow (left) discovered some Barbie pants we’d like in our dimension! 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 photographs and rendered a room that I might see Barbie and her pals having a celebration in. The superb Mattel workforce introduced my idea to life (the picture on the very high 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, 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 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 children. However, this dreamhouse isn’t only a play house; it’s an invite for Barbie, her pals, 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 inside wild youngster on this jungalicious Barbie dreamhouse!
