A
friend took me to a party at the soon to be my good friend, Kari’s house for a
“Barbie Birthday Party” many years ago.
Kari’s house was incredible! She had tons of various toys and dolls on
display, glittery pink floors and the entire house were all decorated in Barbie
art. Tacky pink Barbie banners stretched across the ceiling, pink lights and
gold spray painted dolls hung on the branches of the ficus tree that grew from
outside through the crack in the living room window! 
So many colorful people in
wild costumes and hats from every decade of the Barbie doll! Spiked pink punch
with fruit slices, bowls of pink gumdrops and plates of pink cookies with
sprinkles. Kari was dressed as the Twiggy doll in a human-sized version of the Mattel
Twiggy doll’s original outfit. She had various performance artists doing erotic
performances featuring Barbie as their perverse theme. Plus, the best part was
that Kari had set up assorted Barbie craft projects to do in every room. In one
room there was piles of doll clothes, shoes, heads, bodies, arms, scraps of
fabric, X-acto knives, hot glue, colored foil, glitter, paint, scissors and
markers on a circular table so guest could create their own expression
featuring the iconic doll. I sat down beside a guy named Bichon who looked like
a kooky beatnik. We started to chat, hit it off and became collaborators on a
Barbie project. I stripped off the paint from a doll’s face with acetone. I
taped off her head, exposing her hair then spray-painted her hair black. Bichon
started to make a wedding dress from a few paper doilies. When the paint on the hair dried, I
pulled the tape off and repainted the make-up on her face. I found a tiny
bridal bouquet, added a black veil, a ribbon and colored the flowers to look
weathered. Bichon had finished the
elaborate wedding dress and it was spectacular! The dress had a long train in
the back, scraps of old lace with plastic spiders on the peplum, bows and
puffed sleeves with tiny Tic Tac breath mints glued to them. Kari gave prizes
for the favorite art creation so after the voting by the crowd; Bichon and I
won the contest!
The Bride of Frankenstein Barbie was our lovely creation that night.
Bichon
and I became great friends after that. Hope you making some fantastic Barbie
art in heaven, Bichon.
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