{"id":3006,"date":"2011-01-03T20:55:00","date_gmt":"2011-01-03T20:55:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeiswhathappens.ca\/?p=3006"},"modified":"2026-01-15T17:34:52","modified_gmt":"2026-01-15T17:34:52","slug":"how-many-barbies-can","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeiswhathappens.ca\/?p=3006","title":{"rendered":"How many Barbies can….."},"content":{"rendered":"\n\n\n\n
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…..dance on the head of a pin or dress a shop window.  This article in the Toronto Star fascinated me – it’s about the “Abandoned Barbie Project<\/a>” an undertaking by Dr. Sheldon Wagner, a 67 year-old psychotherapist who owns a store – gallery – at 100 Ossington Ave in TO.  The gallery is never or rarely open; but it is filled with Barbie dolls that have been rescued and re-dressed or not as the case may be and posed in “artistic” settings worthy of the likes of Andy Warhol!<\/p>\n

<\/a>Over the years Wagner has rescued abandoned Barbies from garage sales, flea markets, trash bins etc and housed them in his shop\/gallery and then turned, what he could, into art vignettes. I have somehow bonded with this artist\/doctor.  Most would consider him “a little weird”, but I understand his need to preserve childhood and to turn the power of “play” into an art form. <\/p>\n

I have knit dolls clothes – too many, too often and I have a store of the most exquisite knitted dolls’ clothes patterns – many in period costume, which I have re-sized for Barbie. I am waiting for someone to share my passion – most look at me, as though I too am a little weird. Except Penny, who buys my dolls’ clothes patterns and, I presume, knits them.<\/p>\n

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\nI understand from the article that Dr Wagner’s gallery will be open on Sundays in the new year. I feel an “outing” in the making – Penny are you available one Sunday….? Now apparently we will have to make our way through stacks of other toys and un-positioned Barbies to view the whole collection – but it will be something unforgettable, I’m sure.<\/p>\n

Dinner?  Well, what would Barbie eat? Hamburgers? Now, I haven’t had a hamburger since the first snowflake fell and really we are heading into Spring – I usually bypass winter – but I am going to acknowledge it for one day to go skating at the Brickworks – So lets do hamburgers<\/a>. This is billed as the definitive source for hamburgers – I love authorities – so enjoy!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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