DIY Barbie Nursery
Custom designed nursery for Brooklyn. Hot pink, lime green, turquoise, black & white. Barbie art & DIY Barbie sunburst mirror. Upholstered twin bed & turquoise crib. Design & color palette intended to grow with the child.
Custom designed nursery for Brooklyn. Hot pink, lime green, turquoise, black & white. Barbie art & DIY Barbie sunburst mirror. Upholstered twin bed & turquoise crib. Design & color palette intended to grow with the child.
I created a Beach Barbie party for my daughter’s 4th Birthday to capture her love and fascination for all things Barbie.
This is the nursery I created for my daughter. We moved into our new house 1 week before I was due. All I had time to do was have it painted, put the furniture in and add a few things on the wall, but it wasn’t the way I had envisioned it when she arrived. Over time, took almost 1 year, managed to finally complete it.
For this party, I wanted the dessert table to help capture the children’s imagination just a Barbie does. So, I tried to design it as though it was actually a place in Barbie’s house. I found the perfect black and white striped fabric, for the background, which called back to Barbie’s original bathing suit. And then I chose a dressing table to display the sweets and used it as inspiration for many of the other elements. First I found the most beautiful corset cookies and chose to stand them up like a wardrobe of gorgeous Barbie dresses and displayed them in and around a jewelry box. I had the cake pops standing up in a make up bag like beautiful lip glosses. And I created a silhouette, inspired by the classic vintage Barbie silhouette, and used it as one of the icons for the party as I designed the paper goods. To create the “floral” centerpiece for the dressing table, I was lucky enough to find the perfect marshmallow roller pops . The favor table was laden with fabulous accessories which I was able to find in the Target dollars bins… pearl necklaces, bracelets, flower headbands, gloves and even little purses to hold all the goodies!