[Enid] K is for Kenya Barbie's Scarf

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Kleptomania can be a wonderful thing.
Take this scarf, for instance.
That's exactly what Ms. Bray did!
Btw, taxes finished. Big refund. Yay.

52 Pick-me-up: Inspired by a Toy

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Thank you everyone for your kind sentiments on last week's post. I appreciated them very much.

This week's challenge is to dress like a toy. It could be the colors of said toy or whatever. Or just a picture of the toy if that's all you can manage.

Some of my favorite toys as a young girl were my Barbie Dolls. I played out many melodramatic scenarios with them -- often Midge was in peril and Barbie always rescued her. I sewed outfits for them and I think even hand knit a sweater or two. Those artifacts have disappeared, which is probably just as well.
In 1989 I started working at Mattel as a Barbie fashion designer. It seemed like a fun job to have at the time and I lasted there full time for four years. Here I am at my going away party on my last day:

See my matching Barbie? It's a custom doll that my coworkers made for me. In this case, the outfit inspired the doll. Close enough for this week.

What was your favorite toy? Link and tell!

52 Pick-me-up: Short Over Long

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Proportion play! Find something short (maybe even TOO short) and wear something long under it.
Go grunge and wear long sleeves under a tee.
Or go crazy, like I did:

I didn't start out dressing to match my scarves (like last week), but I found the perfect matchy scarves.
Short scarf over long scarf pure accident!

This was one of those outfits that started out with totally different items over the striped top and red pants.
I ended up with the above for lack of time.

I felt like this (which I've posted before, but it bears repeating):

Sporting the drop-crotch trend at such an early age!

My red and white scarf has a special past:

Dolls of the World Kenya Barbie, 1994
photo source: Barbie Collector

I designed it for Kenya Barbie and purloined some sample fabric!
This is one of my early digital print designs, that I worked up in U4ia (expensive proprietary software which Lectra now calls something else). The printing on the polyester base cloth shows equally on both sides, and it works well for both Barbie's cape and my scarf.

[Apologies for the wretched photo. Will replace with a better one tomorrow.]

Here's another short over long idea:

At my art reception, 3/31/2013

I now have the distinction of being "that crazy girl on Facebook", as described by one of Severo's old pals.
Hahahaha!

Special shout-out to Megan Mae and Keely, 
who first gave me the idea for this prompt, from their Fashion Challenge series.

Link up, my friends:

Seeing Red and Pink

Am I going to stop posting pictures of me in the pink Tibetian shawl [we have determined it's a shawl] and scarf?
No, get used to it. EVERYTHING seems to be matching them.
Barbie could have told me, if I'd only listened:
It's all about the pink.

PMS 232 is Barbie Pink

Here's some fabric intended for Barbie
that I never used
it's a gorgeous silk chiffon with
satin and silver lurex stripes
I "liberated" it when I left the job.

Hope you had a great V-day!

This outfit was inspired by Everybody, Everywhere
See more Pink Ladies here