Oh come on. This counts as an “artwork”. Haha!
I’ve been busy today, cleaning my room after maybe months of mess.
And my “Day 7” has already ended minutes ago. I hope this won’t be a sign that I can’t continue fulfilling my promise (to myself, actually. But I’ve been religiously doing it for the sake of practice and developing a sense of commitment)
And so, I have been cleaning my room. While doing so, I rediscovered a plastic basket filled with all the dolls that have survived misuse in my childhood years. They are mostly Barbie dolls. Then an Anastasia doll (from the animated film), two Bratz dolls, and two Betty Spaghettis. . . then some miniature Barbie dolls from McDonald’s Happy Meals.
I found some old swimwear tops that Mom wanted to throw away that I salvaged. I saved a lot of random fabrics from old broken clothes for this purpose. So I sat down and picked my fabric. It’s a spandex bikini top (too bad I didn’t take a photo of what it used to look like before I started cutting it)
this is what’s left of the bikini top
What I did was just to wrap it around a certain way, punch some holes and tied up the string. I used one of those ordinary Barbies with little pink shoes painted on their feet. Her limbs allow only a few poses. I wish Gymnast Barbie wasn’t broken. She would’ve been the one I used (unfortunately she lost her other arm and her legs became limp).
I obviously enjoyed my little photo shoot. It seems like Barbie did, too. And it’s her first time she saw banana trees outside my window, so she didn’t mind her bad hair day.
After the shoot, I checked my other dolls and realized that some of them looked better than the one I just used. *facepalm* Anastasia is more poseable, I just fixed her headlessness.
Elise Olarte 