You can be what you want to be. 💕

Life in plastic is so fantastic. . Doll lover, rescuer of orphaned fabrics, and living in my own little Barbie world. . Find me on Instagram @fashions.by.kate

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Meeting the new guy.

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Billie Jean King 🎾

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My recent Post Christmas Amazon Pick ups:

- a Dream Ella Extra Iconic Aria doll, as she's super cute, I adore dolls with pink hair, and with her pink hair & heart shades she's literally just me (Carly) as a doll. She's also incredibly gorgeous in person like omg.

- The Hori Fighting Commander Octa fight pad for PS4/PS5

- an HDMI Splitter so I can Stream my PS3 (I don't stream as often as I'd like to but hopefully that can change soon)

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My Extra Iconic Yazmin doll from Walmart. I honestly bought her for her clothes, knowing that my barbies would be fighting over them. The $20 price was totally worth it. Plus I already have a Yazmin bathing suit doll with straight hair. I gave this new doll to my sister, along with the shoes. I'm looking forward to buying the other Iconic Ella dolls. Their clothes are fantastic.

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What’s that saying? Art imitates life? Yeah, this was me yesterday morning. No idea if I ate something bad, had a virus, or overdid it on my workout, but it was not fun or pleasant. Thankfully I seem to be over it now… 😔

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Cruising with Barbie.

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In the world of doll relationships, only one of you has to be bendy. 😏 #Drake&Morgan

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Kimi 💙💖💚💜

So Extra.

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Drake doll edit...

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Recently, I was commissioned to make a custom Barbie for my husband’s coworker. She was looking at a group she was in on Facebook, and stumbled across a photo of a necromancer Barbie. Hubby saw it and immediately said, “My wife could probably make that for you!” She said that would be awesome and even offered to pay me for it. :D

So I looked at the picture and knew right away where to get an outfit, and the rest of the props I could make myself with the exception of the dagger. For the doll, she wanted it to look as much like her in real life as possible - and hubby said her hair is a shade or two lighter than mine. I knew right away which doll to use. My hair shade is so weird and it’s hard to find a match, but lighter is no problem! And my Walmart actually had the doll in stock, and she was a super cheap one, so win-win! And I had an extra body at home that had more articulation (and a non-painted-on outfit) that was the right skin tone. Woo! And I had a ton of extra black shoes - so many that I took a picture of them and let her choose which ones she wanted haha.

Next up came the face paint. For this dark/gothic look (that’s what she’s into and what she wanted), I looked up how to give dolls a smoky eye makeup effect. Then I experimented. I wound up using a small paintbrush and watering down black paint, then lightly brushing it along the eyelids to pull off the look. I replicated the effect for under the eyes, and then I mixed some purple and black paint together to get the lipstick. And I also added some black paint to the fingernails - to which my husband said, “How?!” LOL It blows him away how I can work with such tiny things! :D

I also managed to find some teeny tiny charms on Etsy of a pentagram and an ankh, so I used my little jewelry tweezers to put them on chains. The pentagram was only available in copper, so I painted it silver to go with the theme better. So then it was time for the photo shoot, and she was ready to go! The client absolutely loved her and paid more for her than what I spent on making her. :D That’s a nice feeling, that she was so pleased with her! So here we are, the inspiration, before, and after!

Inspiration:

Before:

After:

Painted fingernails:

Full body shot showing the boots and ankh necklace:

Face makeup (pardon the fuzz, that came from the dress and I didn’t realize it until after I took the pictures lol, I did wipe it off!)

Pentagram necklace:

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I love this

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The pagan in me loves this so much.

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By Jane Pica

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you know what I want. you know what I really really want. barbie in a pirate movie. we’ve had musketeers we’ve had mermaids WHERE is my barbie with an eyepatch and wooden leg WHERE is my ken and barbie doing romantic swordfighting and most importantly WHERE is my high quality remake of the original film trilogy

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Spring has sprung... 🌷🌱

Which means time for some new looks for my dolls. 👕👖👚👗💃🏼🕺🏻

Steven and Stella are excited for baseball season.

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Morgan and Drake are ready for fun in the sun.

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Hana looks so pretty in this flowery sundress.

Joanna, Karly and Kate are so happy to ditch their winter wardrobe for brighter and more fun looks for warmer weather.

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Oh and new shoes 💕 Everyone loves their new shoes.

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from myfroggystuff

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90s Barbie Avon Collection discovered in a family members basement!!!

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Happy Trans Day of Visibility everyone! Hope all my Trans Friends and Fans have an awesome day today. Also wanted to show off my 3 trans dolls! L to R: Stephanie, Hailey (based off my awesome amazing girlfriend), and Trent!

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In honor of Ken Carson’s 61st Birthday this week (March 11, 1961) I’ll be posting some images from Mattel’s Barbie Collection. Here’s Ken through the ages…

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So many handsome Ken dolls out there. 💕