From Paperinside you can get instead some of the creatures from Alice’s world, I love for example the caterpillar! So jump here and grab them!

And of course a nice paper doll of Alice herself

Have fun!

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.

Look at this amazing group pictures, are they not the apex of glamour and fashion?

My favourites of the bunch are the Justin Giunta Barbie:

and Betsey Johnson’s doll

I especially love the necklace on the first doll, such a chunky funky chaos of chains and the gown of the second doll.

They are all so in tune with the fashion of the moment.

I think the people as Asos got inspired and they decided to “redress” Barbie as well (found via impossibleprincess)

And by the way, they are selling the dolls as well, at around 30 pounds, I think it is the cheapest price I saw in Europe at the moment.

He’s definitely Animal Lovin’ Barbie Ken from 1988, see for comparison here the doll how it appears in the original commercial from 1988:

She’s Great Shape Barbie:

isn’t she gorgeous?

In the background you can clearly see what looks to me like the Barbie Dream House from 1983:

the scene where they meet is so “cheesily” sweet

but then something obviously goes wrong along the way since he’s spotted gambling:

and at one point she seems not so happy with him anymore, it looks like they had already their problems back then:

I just wonder why he changes clothes and she doesn’t

Can’t wait for summer to come and watch it

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 ).

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?

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.

On the flickr stream of the artist you can even find a tutorial on how some of the Alender McQueen inspired shoes were made.

Pupa just released (or I just saw) 2 gorgeous collections, one inspired to Kokeshi dolls and one to Matrioskas. Here the 3 nice Kokeshi sets (but there are also some trousse ):

Wouldn’t they be also adorable gifts for the make up-dolls-fashion addicted one (=me)???

“Paper Illusions: the Art of Isabelle de Borchgrave” brings to us  the beautiful creations of the belgian artist, recreation of  the fashion of the past in paper. The few pictures I saw look astonishing.

And here the video I found on youtube, it has been filmed in her atelier (sorry, it is in german).

Alson on my shopping list (since a while!), “Barbie sogna Caterina de’ Medici”:

The book describes step by step the creation of an OOAK Barbie as Caterina de’ Medici, created for the event “Pitti Bimbo” in 2008. The text is english-italian. I found here a nice article but in italian, sorry  :-(