It looks like Mattel is going to release this year a modern version of the Superstar doll and Quintessential Barbie.

Here is Barbie Superstar:

To be honest the doll looks cute enough but not as the original, ok…ok…the original was MY DOLL as a child so perhaps I’m just sligtly partial. Still…what should I say? I’m not thrilled about the short dress and the big head.

I love instead the Quintessential Barbie:

I’m normally not a big fan of the model muse body but I find this doll so chic in her simplicity. The eyes paint looks amazing and I love the dress and…OMG..did you see the bag? She’s just Barbie: pink and glamorous. I hope she makes it to Europe and I’ll buy two of them, one to debox and one to keep NRFB.

Most probably I’m the last one amongst dolls collectors to have seen her but in case I’m not  here she is:

Computer Engineer Barbie!!! The 126th doll in Barbie’s I can be serie!!! The laptop unfortunately looks quite…welll…you know what I mean, but I LOVE the top she’s wearing and I would like a closer look to the bluetooth headsets. And here below she is together with the News Anchor Barbie, I think I could like her as well. Both dolls are scheduled for release in winter.

Thank you to Impossible Princess for the heads-up about them and here some history about the doll (by the way I think I could get addicted to this blog ).

The toys/dolls situation here around is pretty miserable but Saturday I decided to check in Kaufhof what they had and behave and behold!!! They had all the 3 Barbie in Pink dolls for 9.99 euros. For the moment I picked up only 2 of them:

I admit I  wanted them mostly for the clothes and accessories than the dolls themselves, this is why most probably I will end up buying the third one as well.

Then I found this adorable Beatrix Potter duck or 2 euros at TK MAXX, I couldn’t leave her there all alone

and this cute San Valentine mini teddy bear in a book shop for 5 euros:

The girls were delighted;-)

And what have you all been buying recently?

My sister-in-law and I had a dolls day a couple of weeks ago. We took lots of pictures, talked of course about dolls and …Played around

Here are some pictures of the meeting, Dani was just totally taken by Brad (who wouldn’t?):

As you can see he got quite a warm welcome The dress she’s wearing was made by Ursula.

The other girls in meantime were taking coffee and pastries:

Arianna also showed them some new pieces she acquired for the house:

and at the end of the day Ursula even prepared a super-funny comic read it here.

This week I’ve been pretty sick with a terrible flu I have no idea where I got from , still I managed last weekend to go to a Barbie fair I thought it was just a mild cold, I didn’t realize it was just the beginning

Anyway…I really splashed out this time! I bought the Diva Jazz Baby:

I love her! She has the most beautiful face I saw on a Barbie in a long time and she comes with lots of accessories, included 3 wigs.

Then I couldn’t resist and bought also Feelin’ Fierce Dani:

and…the Jonathan Adler sofa! I cannot believe I spent so much in 1 single day

I posted some pictures of them on my flickr account.

I was browsing around for some quality reading (AKA dolls reading) and I found the digital version of “Fashion/ Forward“, a mini magazine (a supplement to Dolls Reader) dedicated to fashion for dolls. I love that the outfits and accessories are presented and described as in real fashion magazines.

Brenda Cox is one the designers reviewed in this issue, look at her beautiful creations for our favorite doll: Barbie! and start to dream

Don’t miss though the preview of Gene paper dolls and the review of the a steampunk bride dress and pattern for Ellowyne: you can download the instructions and patterns itself here.

The only disappointment is that you cannot download the mag as PDF file but..oh well…we’ll survive.

If after this dolls and fashion galore you are still lusting for more check out the Dolls magazine. From the home page you can download (as PDF!!!) the digital preview of their December issue. They are just few pages but really nice I’m totally in love now with Goodreau Upside Down Oz collection!

ok…ok…I’m a bit single minded…but not really! I don’t always lust after dolls or dream about miniature furniture. Sometimes I also get fascinated by paper (dolls, models, craft) and I have a soft spot for fashion, even just looking at clothes lift my spirit and if I can buy even better. I love for example the new blog I stumbled upon:paper fashion! I’m tempted to write to the owner and ask to post a nice paper-doll as freebie, it would be stunning!

Another blog of fashion illustrations I like very much is Flushbunny, look at the fashion sketch inspired to Jem dolls, don’t you love it? And let’s not forget the fantastic Irina Ivanova’s flickr stream.

But here are my faves

I would really like to post tons of links, I think fashion illustrations are just art on their own and they remind me very often of beautifully crafted paper dolls (ok, so perhaps after all I AM SINGLE MINDED).

And this reminds  me also of what is most probably next on my wish list (the one for things I can actually get ): it looks like a nice set

It comes with patterns, a paper doll and much more.

And a new Barbie calendar for the year to come:

I will let you know if I ever come around buying them

So…for the first time since I opened my blog I didn’t post anything in a full month! September has been for many reasons a long, stressful, sorrowful month and I admit the blog went to the last place in my list of priorities. I decided though that I need a bit of cheering up and since I cannot always go out for shopping (sigh) I thought here is a good place to start with

What about starting with my shopping? LOL

In August and September I received many Barbie things I actually ordered the months before. Here are some:

My Barbie Fashionistas:

I deboxed till now only Sassy and Wild. You can see more pictures on my Flickr stream.

Then I got from Amazon the book I pre-ordered few months ago: All  Dolled Up by Jennie D’Amato:

It is just gorgeous!!! The illustrations are amazing and it comes with some reproductions of leaflets and booklets from Mattel. Here some pages:

Get it!!! You will not regret it

Then in Italy I picked up from my brother the Vogue special issue that came out in summer with the Barbie Booklet. I have no sister to ask to so he had to do it for me LOL. It is stunning as well, the only thing I don’t like about it is the small format, it would have been great in A4:

Last but not least the Barbie scarf I bought at P&C at the beginning of August:

and whatt have you all been up to?

Stay tuned…the posts will be coming again

You have to know I’m fascinated by Dirndl (and  tracht) dresses. I love this kind of clothes both for me and my dolls, but while I own a couple of them for my fashion dolls (the ones I have were produced for Petra) till now I just found the courage to buy for myself just a landhaus style dress (especially because real Dirndl are pretty expensive).

So, imagine how delighted I was when I saw the creations of Lola Paltinger. I loved both the version for real women:

and the one for Barbie:

I actually visited her site and oh…gosh, anybody has a couple of thousand euros to loan me? I just love the “Lollipop and Alpenrock ” collection as much as the “Happy Heidi” one. This of course are modern interpretation of what a Dirndl is but if  I could afford them she would have just gained a new customer (not to worry though in 3 weeks I’ll be in Italy and I can play the Lotto, the jackpot is the biggets in Europe at the moment).

If you instead want to see more pictures of the Barbie dirndl she created stop by Mattel

Yesterday it was flea-market time and the weather was great!!! So happy about it

Here is what I got: a small card game branded Barbie. It is for small children. You need to find the missing pieces matching the pictured items. I liked it because there are pictures of lots of Barbie fashions. My husband spotted it:

then some Barbies included a Superstar, one with the Stacie face and a Dee-Dee (I think she is called so):

They are all in need of a good wash.

With the same lot I got a Sindy doll, with the most delicious red lips I ever saw:

and a Todd, with a nice face but ruined hands

The seller wanted 25 euros for the 5 dolls, I offered 15, at the end I paid 18. I would have been more satisfied with 15 euros but I decided to take them anyway.

Then I absolutely fell in love with her:

She has a Skipper face and body. The hair are much more reddish than what the camera picked up and she has green eyes. She will be a perfect addiction to my Skipper collection.

And then I picked up this NRFP clothes (I love the “Ken PJ”):

The cowgirl outfit on the left is a freebie for a friend.

Ah…almost forgot. Last piece, for 1 euro, this LLL outfit and pixie tail:

Today I worked but fotunately it was very quiet and raining, so a perfect weekend.

I hope you enjoyed yours as well.