As a toddler, 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 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 !!!
Photograph courtesy of the wonderful Mattel crew
We had our first name with the Mattel crew (the kindest, most artistic bunch!) on a Friday and the next Monday we have been at their workplaces perusing their classic Barbie furnishings archives, purchasing for our dreamhouse! I even received to convey Ida! It was unimaginable. The artistry and a focus to element that goes into constructing (or in some instances sourcing) all issues Barbie is absolutely inspiring.
We received to pick totally 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 all the time 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 crew 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!
Aimee from crew 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 photos and rendered a room that I may see Barbie and her buddies having a celebration in. The wonderful Mattel crew introduced my idea to life (the picture on the very high of this weblog publish is NOT photoshopped! It was truly constructed to Barbie scale–the material and textiles have been truly 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 children. 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, 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 interior wild little one on this jungalicious Barbie dreamhouse!
