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Barbie, you're beautiful
you make me feel

my Barbie doll

is really real

E 'changed little since 1959, year of birth of the first Barbie, for today.

The Barbie still generate phenomena of mass hysteria, yet upset the dreams of young girls, are still synonymous with exceptional grace. But they are no longer just a toy for girls: long Mattel launched the Barbie Collector site , addressed to an adult audience, who loves the doll and its implications for fashionistas and fashion.

I personally am going crazy. I grow a lot of complusioni purchase, from shoes to make-up, but nothing makes me happier than the useless beauty of all my Barbie, NRFB preserved, "never removed from box", as recommended by connoisseurs. I have a small collection that I will try to implement, starting from the ideas that I will post below.

After the celebrations for his 50 years, the collaborations with leading designers (from Laboutin at Dior, Vera Wang Zac Posen, by Tarina Tarantino at Diane Von Furstenberg , just to name a few), the collection and the idea in my opinion is the most successful of Barbie Basics .

The concept of this collection is very simple: they are dolls with the Model Muse Body, more lean and slender traditional breasted Barbie with different facial features, wearing clothes timeless, the must-have for every fashion addict:

The little black dress - Collection 0001

The Basics of Barbie Collection 0001 has also been reinterpreted by 12 of the most famous American designers, who have sold their works for auction to fund scholarships of Council of Fashion Designers America. Here the article.

Collection 0001 - CFDA

Collection 001 - Special edition - Red Dress

001.5 Collection - Little black dress revisited

Collection 0002 - Denim

Barbie are making really tempts fashionistas. Because in addition to the doll you can buy the set of accessories to customize your bike shoes, clutch bags, scarves, journals, and so on and so forth.

Barbie Basics - Collection 0002 - Accessories

The Basics Barbie are also low cost. In America you would gain more for the $ 20, in Italy for about € 40. I ponder every ten minutes a trip overseas to buy them all.

As for Barbie Collector Edition of the highest level, I want to tell the two series.

The first is the latest series (published in January 2011) Barbie Fashion Model Russia: five beautiful dolls, Barbie and Ken four, you can peek in this video:

The second is a bit 'more dated, but I adored at the time and still love it: they are reproductions of Don, Betty, Joan and Roger American TV series Mad Men, perfect in every detail.

My favorite without a doubt, is the collection of 006 Basics 1.5, Ekaterika Russia's Collection, Joan from Mad Men.

That I, in spite of the progenitor blonde, has a secret passion for red? ;)

What Pressure Point Will Start Period

the end of February ... Industry

few days will be my birthday, a few stories: the years go by and between work commitments, races against time and human relations are not always easy to manage increasingly coming to the fateful day without duly dedicated myself to myself.
So on the evening of my birthday from what I remember, I always have the feeling of falling from the clouds, for series we are in February? Because no one warn me? "
This year not to run into the same error, while not having the time to go out shopping, I found online purchases likely, inspiration and images that are a real balm for the 'soul and I want to share with our readers.

Writing and receiving letters is one of the things I love most, I like the porosity of the paper under your fingers, and I enjoy it even more incomprehensible to decipher the scriptures! Sweet on the online shop of Harvey in the line Flat Notes, there are small treasures of paper for lovers of old-fashioned communication, I have already chosen a few things to sort!

Read more: Sweet
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Harvey Sweet blog

I really like the work of Tara St James, I find it very interesting line F / W proposal this year from its brand by Tara St James NY Study. In particular, I hit the jackets and cardigans with materials and colors for men. Tara uses a palette of very personal, there is red, gray, orange, scorched earth of Siena, cement gray and blue. Sizes over size of the jackets are paired with dresses and skirts shaped very feminine.

Read more: Tara's blog

The entire collection to look at the website of Vogue

For some 'time I'm lucky to write and collaborate on this lovely online fanzine: Dance Like Giasai, thanks to this wonderful initiative I knew the photographs of Matthew Buffoli.
His images tell me stories of moments lived, relationships and specific, fleeting moments of a life that seems familiar.

Read more:

Mattia Buffoli official site

like Dance Dance Like Shaquille O'Neal on Giasai

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Cheap Kitchen: Valentine's Day Gift Box. Orla Kiely

Valentine's Day is a commercial holiday, no doubt, but against vo which is still a chance to say what you want to do well and of course a nice dinner tete a tete. And now that I'm venturing into cake design, including do a fantastic heart-shaped cake, but not all, the cake of all cakes for Valentine's Day. A cake shaped like a box chocolates, attached with chocolates.

Pure madness, but luckily the crowd Bakerella . beginning on n believe my eyes, I did not realize it was a cake, it was brilliant, so I told myself to "Laura try it."

The recipe I modified for my taste "chocolate".

You will need:
red sugar paste
white chocolate ganache
sponge cake with chocolate frosting to
philadelphia
The paste of the sugar found in specialty stores pastry.

For the ganache (the dose is for a cake of approximately 26 cm in diameter) :
600 grams of white chocolate
250 ml of fresh cream

Place the cream in a saucepan over medium / low and slowly bring to a boil (do not boil). Chop the chocolate and pour into the cream off the heat. Mix until you get a smooth and homogeneous. Allow to cool and then give cover with plastic, let it harden.

For the frosting philadelphia (the dose n ecessaria for this recipe is about half) :
240 grams of philadelphia
120 g butter
5 ml vanilla extract
250 grams of powdered sugar

Soften the butter with the robot or manually with a whisk, until creamy.
Add a little at a time and mix philadelphia; succe SSIV add vanilla and gradually the powdered sugar.

For the sponge cake with chocolate you can use the classical recipe that is found everywhere, even in the web.

The sponge cake is poured into a cake shaped like a heart, I n and I had a very large, so I opted for a rectangular pan. Once cooled sponge cake I made a heart.

Bakerella not stuffing the cake, of course I could not resist, so I chose to fill with white chocolate ganache , with which then, I also iced the cake (poor result as you can see from the picture but much better the last time!).

Now take the fondant sugar, wipe off with your hands like modeling clay and roll it out with a rolling pin and used in place of flour, icing sugar. Obtained a heart of 3 cm larger than the cake and spread a drop of ganache in the center.

Carefully lift the cake using a spatula and place it in the middle of a large heart sugar paste. Obtained another heart from dark red of the same size of the cake and smoothed the edges with the other side ganache.

Cut from dark red edges of the heart, must be higher than this because a couple of inches, do not forget, is a box for chocolates!

Now let the bon bon. There are balls ... cake! It is very easy to do.
Take the sponge is left to crumble and mixer; Join us at the frosting philadelphia. For the proportions I have done by eye, a compound must be compact and not too soft, so as to keep fit.
Place the balls on a baking sheet and place in freezer for 15 minutes.
Meanwhile, melt the chocolate in a double boiler (I used a flux to 70%). Dip a ball into the chocolate at a time (away from the fire), using a spoon and place it on a wire rack. Before the glaze dries, decorated with sugar, almonds, coconut flour to taste. Let the icing harden.


Put the bon bon in the cups, and then arrange them in the cake / carton.

Sprinkle the cake with love and kisses and is ready for your little heart!

ZAC!