I'm so excited.. and I just can't hide it!

OK y'all so I'm officially about to explode because of this post I saw on The Young Black and Fabulous blog (YBF aka theybf.com)today... As some of my subscribers know I'm a barbie girl living in an adult world that shuns my barbie addiction. But, the editor-in-chief at Vogue magazine must be feeling my pain because he, Frank Sozzani, just announced that they will be featuring Black Barbies in next months issue. Swelling, swelling, swelling, swelling KABOOM!!!!!!! Excuse me y'all my head just exploded! This is a great feature for the magazine; a magazine of which has been call out for their lack of African American female aesthetic. I'm really happy to see Barbie featured because my grandmother Georgia Von Noble was the model for the original Black Barbies...Some history on the Black doll:

"Colored Francie" made her debut in 1967, and she is sometimes described as the first African American Barbie doll. However, she was produced using the existing head molds for the white Francie doll and lacked African characteristics other than a dark skin. The first African American doll in the Barbie range is usually regarded as Christie, who made her debut in 1968.

Interesting, considering that my grandmother is a proud Black woman with blue eyes, more slender features and gorgeous BROWN skin... I guess they had to cater to a much wider audience though... NEwho I have to feature some pictures and I will keep y'all posted on the Barbie news... I'm going to go collect my self!! (pun fully intended)

My beautiful Grandmother...



























Even though this juxtaposes the point it rings a lot of semblance of truth... Its a wonderful quilt but Kyra Hicks (google her baby)

Updates 2.0!!!!

Can you believe it! I'm at 6 months...and to think my family told me to take them out and get braid extensions. HA! I think I'm slowly convincing my mom to look into locks...(pray y'all) She's been pressing for a while but its taking a toll on her thickness! (tear) But here you go a little visual look at whats I've been up to these last few!
I've got a lot of growth going on! It's nice to see my hair in pictorial form because I can see the different

A little growth against the paper for contrast!
Don't mind me looking super tired!

Aren't his locks nice!!! My boo's locs are 3 years in the making!

A picture of the inside inside!!

Me and my baby being dumb...Curls!

Rockstar status!

My sexy boo again aren't his locks bomb!

A picture of a sculpture at my parents house. I love it!

Me and my freak em' dress about to go out on the town

The diva is unleashed...More pictures to come in time!

Beautiful Black Iconography!

This Dread Barbie are also super cute.. I saw them on Naturally Beautiful's blog. Of which I absolutely love btw!!!!
On: http://www.bebarbie.net/2008/07/unique-barbie-doll-re-roots.html
One can find the Dreadlock and Natural Barbies! They're by a woman named Vanessa!!! I love them... I can't wait to buy so I can support this Black female entrepreneur! Very Cool











































I love her! I wish she was around while I was growing up! GEESH! Luckily, I came from a household where my dad was quick to throwaway the white dolls I got from my predominantly White peers as presents. I know, its extreme but he'd buy a new one in its place. I had maybe at best one white doll and I seldom played with it. We eventually tried to make it into a white Ken doll for our friend. Unsuccessfully, of course. We need a petition for Black parents and peers alike to buy Black dolls for our children. Regardless how foolish it seems, it affects our psyche.

Feeling that black beauty!

I'm back ladies!!! And if there's gentleman you too!!! I'm trying to get my "Brunsli" on A.K.A I'm trying to be an avid Blogger! There's so many thing I want to journal, especially with my locks begin. Which reminds me I must include some pictures of me. Oh wait, I mean get a camera! Lol I use the computers at school like I don't have one right here. MAC's are magical though. Mind you I'm three months in the game so these should be pretty extensive. There's been so much progress within my hair! I never cease to be amazed at what my nappy hair can do! So many, too many cultures seem to be sub-consciously addicted to the euro-centric standard! But I've always adored every elements of my own culture. I remember being a little girl living in Bellevue, WA a suburb of Seattle and seeing this beautiful young black woman she had the best Afro I'd ever seen, which in general was kind of a rarity outside of my house and church. I remember randomly walking up to her and asking her how she got her hair that way...she giggled and said she washed it and told me my hair could do it too. I was so enamored from that day on! I love our hair and I wish we all did too. Anywho here's the pictures...Wow, that's a tangent!

These are regular phone (not even computer phone) pix . Sorry for the crappy resolution. Sorry, shoulda put them against paper.! Will do next time... the day they were done... at my house in DC; the day they were completed, Dec 21st

They're at their cute runty stage! I kinda liked this; I reaaaallllly missed my Afro volume though! Here I am visiting home...LA, at my sister's house; probably a week and a half after I did my hair initially. Excuse the boobage my sister is like 3sizes small then me but I'm in her "magical Lycra dress" ...as she calls it.

Here's pix from the inauguration. The best part of going to Howard University on the dawning of the first BLACK PRESIDENT is that you get the opportunity to experience alot of the hoopla first hand...and first hand we did. These are some more sorry depictions of the awesomeness that was the Inaugural Concert. Me and my girl Nikki had a blast. ( She's my other natural in our house, I keep trying to convince her to get her lock on....she's apprehensive, rightfully so!) This is us and the people, the people, the people. plus a little Washington Mt. the city was electric that weekend. we my sister and my boyfriend had a blast eating out. It was so crowded people sat with new random people at tables just to eat. needless to say only Barack could do that. i also met Blair Underwood in a random occurrence. all this culminated up to the Inauguration of our 44Th president Barack Obama. I'm just truly blessed to be able to experience it. I also attended the inaugural celebration...that experience is another blog entire in itself. I'll give you all the good, the bad, and the certainly ugly of that event. LOL

Here's some videos of my last couple months. i love the freedom of my Braidlocks and honestly, I'm proud when people ask if there Sisterlocks. i smile and say, " no. actually their Braidlocks..." and go into my whole educational spiel!