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Make a Barbie doll size wristwatch

:) Impress the little girl in your life :)

Start with a brad -- brass paper fastener -- those metal buttons with two arms
that you use to fasten a few sheets of lined homework paper together with.

Cut a tiny circle out of sticker paper (address label, old floppy disk label)
and stick it in the middle of the brad button.

Draw watch hands in the middle
and minute dots around the perimeter of the circle.

Bend one arm around the Barbie doll's wrist. It's a bit long; bend it back and forth to
weaken the metal and break off part of the arm so it's more manageable.

Bend the other arm around the wrist, in the opposite direction.

Isn't that the cutest little thing?? My daughters thought so.

Then the oldest two (22 and 16) reminded me that for their Barbie dolls I made
boxes of cereal: Scrap corrugated cardboard cut into 1 x 2 inch rectangles,
and glued on little images of cereal boxes cut from magazine ads. Ok, so
the Barbie inventions are better for their little sister (age 8). I'm older/wiser.
                                                                       -- Sept 28, 2005

(You can also make a brass choker necklace for Barbie the same way. Draw a cameo)

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