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Viking Barbie and Ken

In 2002, my daughter Lisa's 5th grade class studied Vikings. When she told me she wanted to make clothes for her final project, I suggested small clothes, thus we produced this Viking Barbie and Ken. Here is what Lisa wrote about her project:
"I chose to make Viking clothes because I thought it would be fun and interesting and because I hope to grow up to be a fashion designer. Between searching for goatskin and capping Ken, I got together dolls, cloth, foil, gold fingernail polish, buttons and old jewelry, socks and slippers. I went online to check on colors and fabrics. I was glad to find that the Danes had red dye, because the linen I had was red. I could have used an old cotton sheet for the pinafore, but then it wouldn't have been realistic, because the Vikings didn't have cotton. I did a lot of sewing. I guess I must have threaded 43 needles. The hardest thing to do was making the hat, belt and shoes because the scissors and needle didn't go through the skin that easily. My parents helped. When I learned about Ken needing to hold up his pants with a drawstring, I looked for wool yarn. My nana had sent me a drop spindle kit, which came in handy, although it was very hard to use. I guess the Vikings had a lot more practice than I did. It may be hard to believe, but my Barbie doll started looking really ugly. Fortunately, I had lots of linen and could try making her dress again. When I did a little more research, I found out that ironing linen was ok (The woven fabric was ironed with a heated rock), so the new dress looked a lot better. This project was very fun and interesting but I don't thing my fashion career is much farther along." Lisa was teased by the kids in class because her dolls were ugly, but she insisted that at least they were accurate. I think Lisa will be studying history, and not fashion, when she goes to college next year.

Uds pensaban que solo habia Beetles de Barbie, pues no, tambien salio un edicion limitada de camiones "transporta no se que en la parte de atras", cuentan los coleccionistas que fue una edicion de 5 unidades