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1963 vintage Ricky doll is animated and watches a 1932 clip of a Dog Western where there’s a shoot-out over cheating at poker!

Barbie and Ken, Midge and Allan, and Francie and Richard...if my vintage dolls were real, they would be in love.

I'm working on a graphic novel right now (Beauty and the Beast), so I thought I'd use some early 1960s Barbie art to display inside one of the templates I used in my graphic novel work.

I remade the mom-made Barbie outfit from 1961-62 for Francie, and was actually able to make two outfits out of the one!

Here’s an old one…from 2022, Ricky Sherwood and Francie Fairchild. Francie trips on her pilgrim shoes and takes Ricky down with her…she hates to wear shoes.#francie#artdolls#dollmakers#vintagestyle

Well, not quite couture, but almost. I bought a mom-made 1961-62 Barbie dress at a jumble sale about two weeks ago, and remade the old outfit into two new ones for my 1966 Francie Fairchild doll…see how I did it! Please like follow! Cheers!

Francie debuted in 1965, first in Japan, then here in the USA in 1966. She was brought out as Barbie’s Mod cousin from England. She was 10 inches tall, 16 years old and of a slimmer build than Barbie. She even came with eyelashes and later a variety of hair styles, bendable legs and a twist and turn waist. She appear here in dresses I made for her in the Mod style of the era. Please like and follow and thanks for watching!

This is just a brief how-to on how I place shadows to anchor images in my doll photos.

Vintage Barbie doll commercials that range from 1960-66, including Ken, Midge, Allan, Skipper and other dolls and items in the Mattel line. Mattel in the early days concentrated on quality and traditional roll models.

Little Ricky and his pony with all the tack! Early 1960s vintage toys. Please like an follow! Thanks loads!

A number four Barbie (1960) and a first addition Ken (1961) meet at a grand ball. The ballroom backdrop is from the ‘Barbie and Ken Little Theater’ that came out not long after Ken made his debut. Ken’s outfit is an original 1961 tuxedo, and Barbie’s is one I constructed from a damaged Barbie wedding gown. I dyed the fabric and reconfigured it into a ball gown. Please like and follow for more Barbie nostalgia! Thanks for watching!

Last weekend I found a few vintage items for Barbie. A 1962 partical outfit from Mattel, and a mom-made outfit that I will remake into something (hopefully) better.

Just a short blurb on a find for Barbie lovers, especially vintage Barbie doll collectors…

My number four Barbie that I received for Christmas in 1961 with her original wedding gown! Thanks for watching. Please like, follow and comment!👰🏼

Ricky invites Francie to the annual work picnic by his employer...but when he gets to her house, he finds she isn't ready...she insists that she it, and they get into a bit of a tiff. (1965 Francie Doll in an original creation by me, in the peasant style of the Mod era of the mid 1960s. Ricky is my own art doll, but he wears 1961 Ken doll fashions.)

This No. Three Barbie from 1960 is posing in a mom-made outfit from 1960. I believe my mother made this for one of my original Barbie dolls, but I'm not certain. She was an excellent seamstress, but this could be a clone outfit as well...Thanks for watching!

All dolls are from 1960-61. Each doll is dressed in original vintage clothes made for Barbie and Ken in 1960-61. The doll clothes made for the Barbie line from 1959- 1968 were unsurpassed in quality, and details.

Here are all the songs from the three 45 record album 'Barbie Sings' released in 1961 and advertised as "6 Terrific Teenaged Songs." Bill Cunningham is the voice of Ken, and Barbie's songs are by Charlotte Austin. Full color, three sleeve album cover with lots of pages with full-color artwork, and the words to the music to sing along with. Please like and follow! Performer – The Daniel-Darby Orchestra Vocals [Barbie] – Charlotte Austin Vocals [Ken] – Bill Cunningham Words By, Music By – Eliot Daniel, Ken Darby, The Daniel-Darby Orchestra Written-By, Conductor – Eliot Daniel, Ken Darby

#1874 Fab City Barbie outfit from 1967, remade for Francie Fairchild back in the spring of 2023. It was a fun project to re-design this fantastic dress originally made by Mattel for Barbie, and recreate it for Francie. **Just to clarify, the rosettes were all printed on, but in the original, there were only nice silk fabric rosettes on each printed on. I put on on every one that I used bright pink fabric paint on top the silk.

This is an outfit that I made for Barbie based on a 1946 outfit by Leslie Morris called Spice Velvet. The Skirt is made from silk velvet, and the top is wool Jersey, with a crocheted wool bottom attached, and finished with long wool Jersey gloves.

Ricky is dressed in his ‘Saturday Show’ out fit 1963 from Mattel. Skipper is in an original Mattel outfit too, also from 1963. The theater in the background is one located in the midwest, and was built in 1939, and was completely restored to over the last ten years. The song is by Rick Nelson.

Ricky gets his first tuxedo for the ball, and Honey west finds out who her mark is, and removes an obstacle as things heat up for those involved in the Soviet intrigue.

"The talent agency founder and World War II veteran sang as Ken in commercials, on the record set ‘Barbie Sings” 1961. Bill became the voice of Ken in commercials released in the same year the Ken doll, with his red swimming shorts, was released by Mattel in 1961, two years after the iconic first-ever Barbie doll, dressed in her famous black-and-white striped swimsuit, was launched. "Bill sang as Ken on the 'Barbie Sings' vinyl, boasting “Six terrific teen-age tunes sung by Barbie and Ken”, alongside Charlotte Austin as Barbie." From a UK news source last year. Bill died on July 15th, 2023 at the age of 96.

This is not a how to, but a quick, rough overview of the process I used to make Richard Sherwood. I have used this same process to remake Monster High dolls in the past as well. I remade Richard in late 2022, and it took me two months of working off and on on him. If you like doll art, and are interested in re-scultps and re-paints, you might pick up so ideas from this!

Various Barbies from 1960 - 64 (one American Girl barbie 1964, and one reproduction Barbie from 1998) Most clothes are original Mattel from the 1960s, and some are created by me for Barbie. Kens; are one fist addition 1961 (in Hawaiian Honeymoon outfit) and the other two are from 1963 (molded hair) all in original 1961 outfits. I wish I had a time-machine to send myself back to those days! Woke anti-culture is killing us!