Showing posts with label Barbie. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Barbie. Show all posts

Wednesday, March 26, 2025

31 Days of Crafting - Day Twenty-Six - Bonus Barbie Birthday

I know Barbie has already had her birthday this month and I've already made her a card, but my niece needed a card for a birthday party and who doesn't love more Barbie projects?!?




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Sunday, March 9, 2025

31 Days of Crafting - Day Nine - 66 And Still Looks 18!

HAPPY BIRTHDAY BARBIE!  My favorite doll has been around 66 years I can't even believe it.  I have loved her my entire life and this year it has grown tenfold as I've introduced her to my nieces and they love her as much as I do.

This was NOT the planned layout for this card, but I was crafting with the aforementioned nieces and well, accidents happen so I decided to make a small change and here we are.  I still love it though.

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Wednesday, March 13, 2024

31 Days of Crafting - Day Thirteen - He's JUST Ken!!!

Look, ya'all.  He's JUST Ken.  This "I am Kennough" BS really pisses me off.  He's the boyfriend.  The side piece.  And let's be HONEST.  In the movie, Ken is portrayed as douchey and a complete and total waste of Barbie's time.  (And NO I haven't seen the movie but I do have eyeballs and a brain so I can think for myself, thank you!)  And maybe you didn't come here to hear a diatribe on all the things that are wrong with the Barbie movie (there are a lot of them!), you came here to see a card.  And we'll get to that.  But as it is MY blog, I can rant if I want to.  And I'm going to!

I mean in the pictures I've seen, the movie captures many of Barbie's sides.  I don't recall a creepy, douchey Ken doll that looks somewhat stuck in the 1980s, do any of you??

I make a card for Barbie every year, but I haven't made one for Ken in awhile.  Five years, in fact.  It's not that I dislike Ken, because I don't.  It's just that, well, it's NOT ABOUT HIM!!!!  It's about HER. BARBIE.  That's how it's always been and that's how it always should be!  And the way the movie twisted and turned everything makes me kinda sick.

There will be more at the bottom of the post if you so desire to read further ranting.  Otherwise, here's my card!

Yep, I put Barbie on it too this time, probably because original Ken, while reflective of the times, is not cute at all.



Just a few challenges:

Thanks so much for looking (and reading!) and happy crafting!  Laters!!

**I haven't watched the Oscars in years, but the fact that everything at said Oscars was about Ken is just barfy.  My SIL wanted me to watch Ryan Gosling's "performance" and I really have no words.  Everyone says "Oh you can tell that's his voice!" to ignore the facts that A) he can't sing and B) he can't sing and C) the song sucks.  All valid points that everyone seems to ignore.  NOW a friend wants me to point out that Ryan's "singing" isn't as abysmal as say Billie Eilish or Taylor Swift, and I will admit that, okay?  But he's still an actor not a singer, and you can't change that.  But REALLY.  What was his hair in the movie?  His wardrobe?  And why should we feel bad for Ken?!?!?
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Saturday, March 9, 2024

31 Days of Crafting - Day Nine - Bombshell Birthday

HAPPY BIRTHDAY BARBIE!!  My favorite doll turns 65 today, and as always, I made a card to celebrate it!

I also want to note that while I have been posting birthday cards I make to honor Barbie here on my blog since 2014, I don't really know that the world made such a big deal out of "National Barbie Day" before the whole movie/speech/Kennough thing.  (Want me take on all of THAT?  Scroll to the bottom, or wait until my post on Wednesday!!)



Just a few challenges:

Thanks so much for looking and happy crafting.  Laters!!



***BARBIE PSA HERE*** As a lifelong Barbie lover, I have made the not-at-all difficult decision not to watch the movie.  It's nothing against Margot Robbie who, from what I've seen on television, plays the part--despite that RIDICULOUS SCRIPT--quite well.  She has the look and the personality to embody the doll we all grew up loving.  But that's where all the good about this movie ends.  Let us not forget too, that Greta Gerwig initially wanted that COW^ Amy Schumer to play this role!  The movie is just not what Barbie is about.  And look, it's CALLED Barbie, and yes, it features many, many, many Barbies (one of the better aspects of the film), but it's too much about Ken.  Poor Ken.  Oh get over yourself!  Women have taken a backseat to men everywhere since the beginning of time, and she goes and makes the Barbie movie about KEN?  Are you kidding me?  And then there's Gloria and her "speech".  Have any of you seen or read the speech?  It's RIDICULOUS.  It may have held some water had it been written in 1959 when Barbie was introduced, but today?  It's utterly indulgent and insulting to women everywhere!!!  I've seen women in shirts with this speech printed on it, and I just shake my head.  Do they actually agree with all that BS, or do they just support it because they think they're supposed to?  UGH I hate it.  I hate it all.

^I apologize to cows everywhere for that analogy, I think most of us would rather have a real cow in our homes than be anywhere near Amy Schumer 🤮🤮🤮🤮🤮

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Thursday, March 9, 2023

31 Days of Crafting - Day Nine - Happy Birthday Barbie!!

Happy Birthday, Barbie!!  For four decades I have loved this doll.  I cannot wait to share the magic of Barbie with my nieces.  (Conflicted about the new My First Barbie dolls.  What are you thoughts??)

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Wednesday, March 9, 2022

31 Days of Crafting - Day Nine - Happy Birthday Barbie!!!

Happy happy birthday to my favorite toy, my favorite doll, my favorite childhood memento, Barbie!!!  On this day in 1959, Barbie was released for the first time.  63 years old and not one gray hair! 😉  I still have so much fun looking at the Barbies when I'm at the store, and I cannot wait until my niece is old enough to share my old dolls with her!  I hope she loves them as much as I do.

Lots of challenges for this special card:


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Tuesday, March 9, 2021

31 Days of Crafting - Day Nine - Glamorous Birthday

Happy Birthday to Barbie!!!  My favorite doll, my favorite toy, something I still love and look at whenever I'm out shopping (which hasn't happened for a YEAR! 😠😠😠 ).  Barbie has been a huge part of my life, and a fashion icon for 62 years!!!  Everyone's favorite doll will always have a special place in my heart.


I usually do the card with a girly stamp, but this year I wanted to do something different.  I took a die and created Barbie balloons.  I love how it turned out.  I feel the stones on the bottom of the strings are balloon weights.  I like that I did something really different this year.

Just a few challenges:


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Monday, March 9, 2020

31 Days of Crafting - Day Nine - Happy Birthday To the World's Best Doll!

Happy birthday to my favorite toy!!!  Barbie was introduced sixty-one years ago!!  I make a birthday card for Barbie every year, and this year, I decided to make a girly card that WASN'T a birthday card.  I got a card like that for my last birthday and I thought it was awesome.


Just a few challenges:


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Wednesday, March 13, 2019

31 Days of Crafting - Day Thirteen - Happy Ken Day!!!

Happy Hump Day!!!  I'll bet some of you think today is a celebration of guys named Ken, but in actuality it's a day to honor Barbie's boyfriend!  Ya'all already know I love Barbie, and I celebrated her birthday with a special card on Saturday.  I thought Ken should be celebrated too, but I didn't make a birthday card this year I went with a love card.  After all, Barbie and Ken have had an on-off relationship for 58 years!!


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Saturday, March 9, 2019

31 Days of Crafting - Day Nine - Happy Sweet Sixty Barbie!!!!

HAPPY BIRTHDAY BARBIE!!!

Ya'all know this day is really important to me. I've loved Barbie dolls since I was three years old.  Today she's sixty years old, and I think that's the most remarkable thing.  Every year I celebrate the doll that brought me so much joy as a child, even as a tween.  She's still bringing me joy, just in a different way.


I rarely put details inside my cards, but I did add something inside this one, because it's a special card.


And I just wanted to share the showcase photo I took of this card, too.  I never had an original Barbie of course, but she's very very special.  I found these minis last year at a Hallmark, and I adore them.  The one on the left is Totally Hair Barbie, who was my favorite doll I ever had.  I had really long hair as a child so this was super special to me.  The doll on the right, of course, is the original 1959 Ponytail Barbie. Can you believe she was $3?  Outfits were $1.  Crazy!!!



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Friday, March 9, 2018

31 Days of Crafting - Day Nine - Looks Like She's Thirty!!

It's time now to celebrate the second most important woman in my life, Barbie.  I don't remember getting her for the first time as a three year old, but I also don't remember my life without her.  I played with my Barbies until I was older than most I'm sure, and continued to make clothes and accessories for them long after that (I wanted to be a fashion designer for awhile--my inability to sew kind of threw a snag into that one!).  I still love her and continue to treat myself to a Barbie now and then, especially those with "current" fashion.  She's an icon, she's had every career under the sun, and at neatly sixty, she looks no older than thirty and that's based on what she's wearing!!


Several challenges for this awesome card:


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Thursday, March 9, 2017

31 Days of Crafting - Day Nine - Happy Birthday Barbie!!!

My favorite doll, my favorite toy, my favorite everything Barbie is 58 today.  I have so many wonderful memories of playing with this doll.  My Barbie dolls weren't just models and beauty pageant contestants, but they were astronauts and nurses and lawyers.  They owned soda shops and Pizza Hut, one was an ambassador for UNICEF.  Barbie could be ANYTHING, whether she was wearing a Dollar Tree dress or a Donna Karan coat or a cut off sock (don't act like you didn't do this).  She was always inspiring to me.  She's still inspiring to me.  And every year I make a birthday card that celebrates her, because she deserves to be celebrated.


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Wednesday, March 9, 2016

Thirty-One Days of Crafting 2016 - Day Nine - Happy Birthday Barbie!!!

Barbie is 57 can you even believe it??  This doll has always been such an important part of my life.  Sometimes when I'm at Target or Walmart, I still walk down the Barbie aisle and reminisce.  (I might also have bought an outfit last year for the very Manolo-looking shoes that came with it, which I may or may night have painted the soles of red.)  Every year, I make her a birthday card, because without a doubt, she was and will always be my favorite toy.


Just a few challenges:


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Monday, March 9, 2015

31 Days of Crafting - Day Nine - Barbie Girl

My favorite fashion doll--my favorite toy actually--is turning 56 today.  Barbie influenced everything about my childhood and a great deal of my adult life as well.  Everyone is always so quick to judge her, belittle and demean her.  They really should step back and take a good look at themselves, because Barbie has stood the test of time for over half a century.  She's been a president, a UNICEF ambassador and held a position in each branch of our military.  She's represented many foreign countries, impersonated all of Hollywood's great actresses (and a few horrid, pathetic ones, but that's not really the point) and has always been something POSITIVE for girls to play with.  Yes, Barbie is tall and thin, but she doesn't worry about whether or not she has a thigh gap and she doesn't waste her life posting coffee photos on Instagram.  Maybe kids play differently today, but my Barbies went to work, baked cookies with a wind-up mixer and always decorated for Christmas.  I have wonderful memories of playing with the dolls, even into my teens.  I'm so grateful that she's still around, even though I think on a much smaller scale than before.

I wanted to make a birthday card, I figured that was fitting.


The balloon is a shaker!  I just love how it turned out.  It's also shimmery, though you can't quite tell in the photo. Barbie's shoes and headband are shimmery as well.


I'm of course entering some challenges with this special card:


Thanks so much for looking and happy crafting.  Laters!!
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Sunday, March 9, 2014

Happy Birthday, Barbie!!

Fifty-five years ago, Ruth Handler released what I think is the greatest toy in the world.  The Barbie doll is and always will be my favorite toy.  From the time I was three until much later in my teens than you'd expect, Barbie was pretty much the only thing I wanted to play with.  Ever after I grew out of playing with them, I still wanted the dolls. I'd try to fix the ones I experimented with, or whose hair disintegrated (that whole cottony hair thing? Not Mattel's best idea!) and for awhile tried to make clothes for them.  I never stopped loving the doll though.  Never stopped buying them, never stopped wanting a collector's dream room to fill with dolls I could never afford.  Barbie always represented that girls can be ANYTHING they want to be.  She never apologized for who she was, no matter how much people tried to knock her down.  Her blonde hair, her figure, even her eyeliner made her the subject of ridicule at times, but she's always been beloved, and she'll always be a huge part of me.

I wanted to make a birthday card to celebrate this milestone in Barbie's life.  I don't have any Barbie stamps that aren't children's toys--because there aren't any--but this is a pretty close substitute I think.


I'm of course linking to some challenges:

Thanks so much for looking and Happy Birthday, Barbie!  Laters!
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