Today I’ve begun working on a pivotal chapter, so when I called on muses, I needed heavyweights. These three, to be exact.
I made her a new dress to celebrate two special birthdays. The first is Lindsey’s. Happy birthday, Lindsey! Hope to celebrate with you soon.
Today is also the birthday of the late, great Edward Van Halen. To celebrate his life and honor his memory, this girl’s holding a replica of the custom-designed Fender Stratocaster that King Edward named Frankenstrat.
The hair of the guy on the left is a tad suspect.
That doll is part of the Barbie Basics line that began to be released by Mattel in 2009. They were all created to look like models (the females had the Model Muse bodies that I loved designing for when I was doing the “Project Runway” challenges from 2008 to 2014), so his hair was likely Mattel’s version of a male runway model. He’s Model 15 from 2010 and is one of my favorites of all the male dolls. (The one you see in this particular photo has the Model 15 head mold, but a collector put his head on an articulated male body. I have the original and have been using him until this photo, when I used the modified one for the first time. The reason I bought him was to be able to pose him more easily with the guitar and at the piano, as he represents one of my musicians.)
Interesting (to me, anyway, ha!) is that this is also the head and body sculpt that was used for the Edward Cullen Twilight dolls. I genuinely had never realized that until now, because each version of the doll is so connected to character (mine in one case, Stephanie Meyer’s in the other case), that I see them in completely different ways. Tom and I compared both dolls, and we both think the noses look different, but that’s what the Internet says, so…
Two Edward Cullen dolls: