While spending hours super gluing action figures together i began plans for making a Barbie wreath. One obstacle to making a Barbie wreath is the difficulty in obtaining Barbies. Well, fortunately for me, Seth and Erica were on the lookout a few weeks ago when they spotted bulk Barbies at just $1 each. They picked out a dozen or so and bought them for me and called to let me know about the find. Well, i went and bought the rest of them. The problem is that there was one Ken in the bunch. I didn’t want my wreath to have any man-dolls in it so he became a dog toy.
Barbie bodies are quite a bit longer than the normal action figure so layout of the Barbies and the radius of the wreath had to be different than i had done in my previous project. Luckily, i have a habit of squirreling away even the least necessary parts and pieces because they might be useful someday. Well, the shelves that i made from spools that Angie gave me from the Shipwright’s had some hardware that i saved and i had a few pieces of metal from a project that i did about 8 years ago (no kidding) that i was able to reshape into a large hoop.
The next thing to do was to start attaching the dolls to the hoop. A little super glue goes a long way. Cena was kind enough to brush out the hair on the Barbies which made them so damn good looking that i almost changed my mind about putting super glue in their butt cracks. But the project must go on despite any resurgence of adolescent crushes.
Once they were glued in place they needed to be fully fused to each other. Super glue was then put on every point that they contacted each other and even in their arm and hip joints to keep them solid. Wrapping the wreath with a set of lights adds a festive seasonal flare to the piece. I did experiment with having the lights come from the Barbie breasts on one doll that Marley beheaded. There just wasn’t enough space inside their bodies to have the lights come through. The lights ended up only peeping part way through and instead lighting up their body cavity and showing seams in the plastic and the structural supports inside.
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November 30th, 2004 at 4:00 am
that’s one creepy wreath, dude
November 30th, 2004 at 10:10 am
thats hot…..
November 30th, 2004 at 6:59 pm
It’s kind of S&M-ish… And NEVER second guess yourself when it comes to super glue on butt cracks! Funny is funny!!
November 30th, 2004 at 8:51 pm
it’s kinda barbie-lesbian-orgy-ish, actually
November 30th, 2004 at 10:46 pm
…no wonder i’m so fond of it.
December 1st, 2004 at 1:53 am
That REALLY creeps me out, and I can’t put my finger on the reason why…
December 1st, 2004 at 6:16 am
i am pretty sure that this was originally my idea, but neither of us can remember. way to be a good helper, marley-girl!
December 1st, 2004 at 10:36 am
that…
is the funniest shit i’ve ever seen…
EVER!
that really looks like an installation at MoMA. very.. profuturus.
December 1st, 2004 at 6:45 pm
if it had a jar of urine and an american flag somewhere on it, you could make a million dollars. Or get a federal grant.
December 3rd, 2004 at 12:44 am
I think you should start a pool to see what you can get for it on Ebay?
December 3rd, 2004 at 12:48 am
put it up on ebay!! That’s a cool idea. I’ll bet it would $e!!
December 3rd, 2004 at 1:47 am
L@@K!!!!!! BARBIE WREATH!!!! UNIQE GIFT!!!!! NO RESERVE!!!!!!!! I dislike eBay capitalizing, excessive puctuating, symbol using sellers. “Dislike” may be too gentle of a word.
December 8th, 2004 at 1:15 am
you mean to tell me i can get a grant for all those full urine jars i have laying around!? whoo-hoo!
Carli-
“if it had a jar of urine and an american flag somewhere on it, you could make a million dollars. Or get a federal grant.”
May 6th, 2005 at 2:10 pm
The dog killed KEN!!!! Omg! You ken murderer! You should feel ashamed of yourself. And making Barbie apeer naked, with out her pretty pink dress! I hope Barbie’s revult againts you!
*~Alisa Rose~*
July 27th, 2005 at 11:30 pm
That is the most hysterical thing I’ve seen in a while. I spit out my gum on the keyboard from laughing so hard. Wow. That is priceless!
September 1st, 2005 at 3:10 am
haha..that is the most hilarious wreath i ever saw..
good job very creative =]
September 24th, 2005 at 12:12 pm
wow its like some huge plastic orgy!
October 12th, 2005 at 7:14 am
fuuny kind of collegehumor but very interesting i dont know how you do it way yo go man
November 24th, 2005 at 8:09 pm
i love it with the lights on. so does barbie.
May 21st, 2006 at 9:24 pm
That wreath makes me want to touch myself.
May 31st, 2006 at 1:21 am
very serial killer ‘ish’… this frightens me, i want my mommy!!!!!!!!!!
July 31st, 2007 at 1:24 am
why r people doing this to barbies :’(
NO NO NO
i like the one with the lights but NOT COOL letting the barbies with out clothes :S
October 22nd, 2007 at 6:40 pm
Whoa. Finally stumbled onto one of my own pages using Stumble Upon. Neat!