...one more career for Barbie...
Oh, what to do with that over-loved, ratty haired fashion dollie your ten year old has abandoned. Consign her to the yard sale? Ye Olde (horrors!) Thrifte Shoppe?
Just recycle!
Break out the hot glue (or epoxy, or Gorilla), a bag of scrap cloth, chicken feathers, beads, foil, stuff from the craft shop, from the recycle bin. Be creative and create a Lawn Goddess, a Garden Faerie, an Angel for the top of the Christmas Tree.
No (gaaaack!) sewing required. Fence wire (one of the great mending tools alongside duct tape and gum)(get it at your farm or garden store) makes good wing armatures. Drill a couple of holes in Barbie's back (the size of the wire) and glue it in: works best if there are two holes per wing (no twisting and rotating). Bend the wire into nifty shapes, stretch old nylons over it, or use other gauzy stuff (or window screening). Spray paint and stencils can add designs to wings, or make cool tatoos. Hang with fishing line.
If her hair's a mess (it probably is), try conditioner, Cowboy Magic (or other mane detangler, found at tack shops and farm stores), or chop it off and replace it.
Put her in hot water: it softens the plastic enough to bend limbs farther (stick her in cold water when you have them bent just right).
Just recycle!
Break out the hot glue (or epoxy, or Gorilla), a bag of scrap cloth, chicken feathers, beads, foil, stuff from the craft shop, from the recycle bin. Be creative and create a Lawn Goddess, a Garden Faerie, an Angel for the top of the Christmas Tree.
No (gaaaack!) sewing required. Fence wire (one of the great mending tools alongside duct tape and gum)(get it at your farm or garden store) makes good wing armatures. Drill a couple of holes in Barbie's back (the size of the wire) and glue it in: works best if there are two holes per wing (no twisting and rotating). Bend the wire into nifty shapes, stretch old nylons over it, or use other gauzy stuff (or window screening). Spray paint and stencils can add designs to wings, or make cool tatoos. Hang with fishing line.
If her hair's a mess (it probably is), try conditioner, Cowboy Magic (or other mane detangler, found at tack shops and farm stores), or chop it off and replace it.
Put her in hot water: it softens the plastic enough to bend limbs farther (stick her in cold water when you have them bent just right).
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