Summer’s dress and hairpiece by: Becks. Full set in my Flickr Top Model photos.
Happy St. Patrick’s Day from a real doll
Tag: fashion
When Aunt Becky was allowed to dress them
Dear Daniel–What was that? “Somethin’ about Alabama foolishness?”
Daniel, nearly three, and Josh, one-and-a-half, exuberant about their new shirts.
Hump Day Happy — Late Edition
This has not been my day to do anything with photos, computers, or cameras, so I’m very late posting. I found something absolutely scrumptious on Flickr. If you want to see an iconic group of Barbies, including the delectable Audrey Hepburn, check out madalosso.laura’s Icons set.
People’s ability to create something fabulous for Barbie always awes me. I felt it on Sunday night when I saw Mark’s Oscar dress for Figaro, and again when I saw Timothy’s latest creation for Nikki. In person, Tim’s classic design gives the illusion of constant movement.
Nikki has agreed to be a doll and find you something from this book to be happy about if you comment with a page number between 1 and 611, and another number between 1 and 25.
Red Carpet Time Delay
Originally, LJ-TV meant to bring you the glittering arrival of celebrities to the red carpet at the 81st Annual Academy Awards. Beautiful Lupita Fernandez, Latin singing sensation and star of Mexican telemundo Rebelde, was poised to interview all of your favorite stars of the big screen.
Can you tell I’m cleaning house…
…and shooting photos of random items before I put them where they belong?
Uneasy lies the head that wears a crown.
William Shakespeare, Henry IV
Photo Friday, No. 132
Current Photo Friday theme: Costume
My grand-niece Rome, princess in blue jeans.
What you haven’t seen on TV
The night wouldn’t be complete without a glimpse of Mattel Top Models Lacy, Nikki, Figaro, Summer, and Barbie arriving at one of the many 2009 Inaugural Balls.
Best wishes to our new administration and congressional members, and a fast recovery to Senator Kennedy.
Who are they wearing? Becks, of course.
I wouldn’t forget this…
Thank goodness LJ managed to reappear so that I could recognize that today is the birthday of venusunfolding. In your honor, Johnnie, I’ve shot Jazzie (who recently played Keelie on Runway Monday) wearing a vintage Mattel coat (with matching purse) over a sweetheart of a dress made for me by my mother, lo those many years ago when no one thought it was bizarre for me to play with dolls.
And you, my friend, STILL don’t, and for that, I thank you, and celebrate your kindred spirit. Happy birthday!
BOO!
two little ghouls and a goblin are intent on carrying out
the master’s evil orders (i.e., “Sit. Stay.”).
Well, mostly.
And FrankenAnkle just wants to run the grounds and guard us from children of the corn
and other scary things.
Pictured: Margot, Rex, and Guinness, then EZ the Miracle Dog.
A word about pink
Mattel Top Models Summer, Teresa, Nikki, and Barbie wear pink
in my designs for Breast Cancer Awareness Month.
October is National Breast Cancer Awareness Month. The breast cancer awareness movement began when the first Susan G. Komen Race for the Cure® was held twenty-five years ago, in October 1983, in Dallas, Texas, with eight hundred participants. By 2002, more than 1.3 million people participated in races throughout the U.S. and other parts of the world.
The first pink ribbons connected to breast cancer awareness were handed out at the 1991 New York City race for breast cancer survivors. In 1993, Evelyn Lauder of the Estée Lauder Companies founded the Breast Cancer Research Foundation and established the Pink Ribbon as its symbol.
During this month, many companies adorn thousands of products with pink ribbons, color their products pink, or otherwise specially package them with a pledge to donate a portion of their sales to support breast cancer awareness and research. Several advocacy groups reject such commercialization as a marketing ploy, and question the use of possible cancer-causing agents in some of the very products sold to raise money. Even Barbie was in the middle of the controversy in 2006.
I might not buy a product specifically for the purpose of raising money (say, a pink Dyson vacuum cleaner, because for one thing, it’s out of my price range), but if I’m buying something I use or need anyway, it’s nice to know some of the money will go to breast cancer research. You already know which side I’m on in the Unrealistic Body Image Doll versus the Develop Your Imagination Doll battle. Politicize dolls if you must, but I had a step-grandmother who had a radical mastectomy and lived to be old enough for me to know her as my only grandmother. Her spirit, her love for my grandfather and my family, and her kindness to the bashful child I was, made her beautiful, and no Barbie has ever made me see her any other way.