#sunsation

[coconutcyootie]

🔆 Hawaiian Tropic SUNsation Barbie 🔆

[barbiesince59]

Sunsation - 2001

[huariqueje]

The Sun At Tresaith Beach - Bill Bate

British, b. 1962 -

Oil on canvas,  92 x 122 cm.

[linaharutaka]

have these very quick designs ive made of lady like and sir ebrum when they got tiff. take it or leave it

[jenwien]

강아지 너무 잘생겨서 눈을 뗄수가 없었다. 꼬리,귀가 잘려서 맘아푸지만 몸집에 비해 목줄 컨트롤러에 말 잘듣는 도베르만. 털이 굉장히 빛났다. 카페 4분의 1을 차지할 정도로 몸집이 컸지만 한켠에서 얌전히 기다리는 모습이 늠름하다.

[viciousclothing]

[mewshuji]

beach vibes Sun kissed and full of beach vibes.

[random-racehorses]

Random Real Thoroughbred: SMOOTH SUNSATION

SMOOTH SUNSATION is a gray horse born in The United States in 1981. By GREY DAWN out of SATEEN. Link to their pedigreequery page: https://www.pedigreequery.com/smooth+sunsation

[fieryartemisproductions]

beach vibes

Feeling those irresistible beach vibes

[shunukitrash]

We're 17 days into June and I haven't heard them play that Sunsations commercial a single time what is going on

[the-re-farmer]

Our 2023 garden: summer squash, peppers and onions

Well, we have now planted as much as we can until we build the new trellis beds. The first job was direct sowing summer squash. I forgot that we have 5 varieties. Which worked out well. There were four empty mounds from yesterday, so prepping another row of six mounds meant two for each type. Much less than we would normally plant per type, but this year we seem to be more about variety than…

[luminousrider]

There is a flash of heat and light and, suddenly, Altena finds the world has shifted. There is no more kitchen, no more breakfast. They are outside? No. Not truly. Outside of this strange mansion, perhaps, but, if she squints, Altena can make out larger furniture and taller walls. Something they will need to figure out how to get past.

It isn't just the surroundings that have changed but her clothes as well. If this could even be called such. She's covered (barely) in some sort of metallic pink fabric. There is something at her neck as well and, when she reaches to touch it, she finds more of that strange hard material in the shape of a sailboat. It's painted to appear as though it is made of metal. Why isn't it just made of metal?

And her hair. As the face in the sun leans forward to inspect its toys, the light reflects off of long metallic strands in her hair. It flickers at the corner of her eye, distracting her until she notices her mother.

Ethlyn reclines on a chair similar to her own in similar state of undress. With her stomach exposed, her daughter can't miss the large scar. Quickly, Altena looks away and gets up to inspect the pool they're meant to be partying at. She knows what it is, how her mother got it. She doesn't need to ask. The shape is distinctive and familiar enough that she knows exactly what it is.

She says nothing. Instead she takes a step into the pool. The water barely manages to cover her ankles. It's like something a child might play in.

"Oh for Dainn's sake, what even is this!" she curses up at the sky.

@ladyleonster

Thankfully, Ethlyn didn't seem to take his choice of words personally – it was one thing for their captor to get delusions of playing house, he didn't need for she or her daughter to get the idea that he was trying to swoop into a position that couldn't accommodate him. From what he knew of the Lady Ethlyn, she seemed a reasonable sort in general, if a touch soft of heart, but she wasn't stupid. 

They both knew that he wasn't her husband, and that they weren't dear to one another. 

Raven's fingers twitched at the sound of their captor's voice once more, shaking and reverberating somewhere deep in his chest. It hadn't taken long for the sensation to make his skin crawl, but Ethlyn took over, reprimanding her daughter as instructed, and then him for good measure as she slid the glass away. 

His jaw clenched a moment, and he reached for the contraband glass in Ethlyn's hands, raising it in consideration before meeting Altena's eyes. 

He nodded once, a toast, an acknowledgement, before saying, "Bottoms up," and tipping the glass over to spill the contents on the floor, letting the glass drop from his fingers in a crash of glass. A touch spitefully, he made a sigh of refreshment and relief, as though he hadn't drank in ages, and stood to find a broom to gather the shards of glass. 

As he moved, he felt the air move around him, hot and crackling, though it didn't feel the same as the shuddering rage of before – it was almost a buzzing on his skin, the prickling sensation of pressing his palm to glass that had been in a hot sun for hours – and as his fingertips grazed the handle of the broom he suddenly felt a rushing of air pulled straight from his gut. 

When he blinked, they were outside. 

He blinked again, his brow knitting together, and the scene did not change back. Instead of the broom, he clenched in his hand a pair of tongs in that same strange fuchsia material, and though he no longer wore the atrocious open shirt, he found that what had replaced it was somehow worse: snug white netting scratched at his torso, and overtop it lie an apron, tied snugly about his hips. Craning his neck downward with a frown, he could make out the words KISS THE COOK in a lively block font, in that same tone of fuchsia. 

Raven raised his gaze, the smell of cooking meat filling his nose as he acknowledged that there was a roasting spit – of a sort? - before him, once more that fuchsia material, and along the edge of a shallow series of pools were boxy slatted chaise longues upon which Ethlyn and Altena reclined. 

He was irritated to find that their garb had changed as well, and that he was no longer the only one so exposed. 

POOL PARTY. 

The great shiver that always seemed to accompany the voice crawled up his spine, and Raven directed his glower outward to meet the creased eyes of the face in the sun, giggling in delight as it hovered alongside of the great white mansion where they apparently resided. 

Well, he supposed. It was a start. 

[fashiondolloftheday]

today's fashion doll is: Barbie Sunsation (2001)

[valleydoll]

Finally finished working on the 1980s Barbie haul I got from Goodwill a couple of weeks ago (didn’t really have to do much work all but one were in really great shape). I had to use a flash for these pictures since the weather has been so gloomy lately so these pics aren’t optimal but the dolls still look beautiful I think.

First up, Beauty Secrets Barbie from 1979 ( I consider this an honorary 80s Barbie):

Then the fabulous Golden Dream Barbie from 1980. This doll has all her jewelry but the ring was missing its crystal so I replaced that - tried to get a good picture of that but only partially succeeded. I’m looking for the arm sleeve things right now but will probably end up making replacements for those:

1981 gave us gorgeous Pink & Pretty Barbie and Sunsational Barbie and Ken:

From 1982, which was a great Barbie year for me personally as I got all three of these dolls over the course of the year for Easter/birthday/Christmas - Twirly Curls Barbie, Dream Date Barbie, and Angel Face Barbie (poor Angel Face had a classic broken neck/knob stuck in head/head shoved down neck situation so I made a replacement neck section out of Sculpey and fished the knob out and stuck it back in the neck and glued the replacement part in place. It actually worked out great, and since the replacement piece is in the back of the neck I didn’t bother to paint it for now):

Everybody knows these two released in 1983, Crystal Barbie and Great Shape Barbie (who I personally think is so so pretty). Crystal Barbie was missing a jewel from her earrings so I replaced that, again not a great pic couldn’t get the focus on the earrings really well:

1984 gave us one of the most iconic of the 1980s Barbies, Peaches ‘N Cream. This doll had her beautiful gown and boa but was missing the belt/sash. I made a quick replacement from some chiffon I had on hand. It doesn’t look like the original belt but I think it works for now and has the same general spirit:

And finally, the other doll that really defines Barbie in the 1980s - 1985’s Day to Night Barbie. The scarf was missing from this dolls outfit so I made a quick replacement from some ribbon I had on hand until I can get the real thing:

[barbielore]

Happy International Men's Day, Ken!

International Men's Day may be most well-known for the fact that every year, on International Women's Day, it trends on social media because of people asking why we talk about IWD and not IMD.

It is to raise awareness for some significant and important issues pertaining to men and men's health: statistics indicate that men are three times more likely to take their own life than women, and nearly twice as likely to suffer from medical conditions such as lung cancer and heart disease.

It also takes place in the middle of Movember, a men's health charity event that takes place across the month of November.

International Men's Day 2024 is "Positive Male Role Models". Mattel doesn't acknowledge the day the way that they do for International Women's Day, and I can't blame them; the Barbie brand is significantly more suited towards uplifting and encouraging women, and that's fine. If people want a toy brand to show the same support for International Men's Day I think that's totally fair - but there's no reason it should be Barbie.

That being said, I like any excuse to talk about various lesser known Barbie-line dolls, so I thought I'd take a moment to say so.

For example; I have spoken before about Francie, the first doll in the Barbie line to be portrayed as a Black woman as well as a white woman; and Christie, the first character in the doll line to be portrayed only as a Black woman. But did you know about Brad, the first Black male in the doll line?

There were only a few Brad dolls made in the early 1970s (Wikipedia cites 1968, but every other source I've seen says 1970) and he was Christie's boyfriend.

A few years later came Curtis, who used the same head sculpt, and who was paired with Barbie's friend Cara.

The first Black male in the Barbie line to be branded as Ken, rather than as a friend of Barbie and Ken, appears to be Sunsational Malibu Ken from 1982.

As you can see in this Barbie ad, he also has really cool hair.

[viciousclothing]

Vem aí! Sunsational Bëachwëar