Barbie Dreamhouse but make it Jungalow

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As a child, I utilized to physique worlds for my Barbies. I’d walk endless hours with my sister, Faith, crafting intricate realms, stitching tiny garments from vibrant fabrics, and fashioning furnishings from corks, toothpicks, and vessel caps! Early experiences similar these introduced maine to the magic of plan and inspired maine to go a decorator and artist. So you tin ideate however excited I was erstwhile @BarbieStyle reached retired astir what sounded similar a imagination collab: Jungalow designing a country successful Barbie’s dreamhouse !!!

Photo courtesy of the astonishing Mattel team

We had our archetypal telephone with the Mattel squad (the kindest, astir originative bunch!) connected a Friday and the pursuing Monday we were astatine their offices perusing their vintage Barbie furnishings archives, buying for our dreamhouse! I adjacent got to bring Ida! It was incredible. The artistry and attraction to item that goes into gathering (or successful immoderate cases sourcing) each things Barbie is truly inspiring.

We got to prime retired antithetic doll heads, assemblage types, and CLOTHES – ohio the clothes!

So precise chill to spot each the Barbie doll heads! Their hairsbreadth and marque up is ever connected point!

How amusive is this wardrobe selection?! We couldn’t halt oohing and awwing erstwhile we were making our selects. Too fun!

Aimee from squad Jungalow (left) recovered immoderate Barbie pants we request successful our size! And Jungalow’s precise ain Piper (right) having amusive playing Barbie’s stylist for a day!

After that, we headed backmost to the Jungalow workplace and I started concepting. I gathered inspiration images and rendered a country that I could spot Barbie and her friends having a enactment in. The astonishing Mattel squad brought my conception to beingness (the photograph astatine the precise apical of this blog station is NOT photoshopped! It was really built to Barbie scale–the cloth and textiles were really made with our prints, and they adjacent created teeny tiny versions of my books! ahhh!) and present I conscionable privation to chill with Barbie determination each time long!

My anticipation was to make a abstraction wherever Barbie could clasp her individuality and beryllium surrounded by a kaleidoscope of textures, hues, and works life. We recovered the vintage furniture, and upcycled and reinvented them, conscionable arsenic Faith and I did arsenic kids. But, this dreamhouse isn’t conscionable a play space; it’s an invitation for Barbie, her friends, and for each of america to nurture our ain creativity, observe our ain uniqueness, and revel successful the magic and the amusive of unbridled self-expression.