New artwork: Barbiecore pink sunset painting

Welcome back to my blog, my dear dolly-friends. How is November treating you so far?

As you've probably noticed at this point, this year I've been really focusing on making craft projects and filming them for my YouTube channel. It was something that I had really wanted to do for quite some time, and this year I decided to finally go for it. I love crafting for my dolls and, while filming tutorials can be quite tricky, it's really fun to learn along the way. Most of what I've been sharing are miniature paintings, which are very easy to do and quite relaxing to make. 

A bit in line with two of my latest artworks, I was searching for "Groovy" art over on Pinterest, and I came across  something similar to this. I have done landscape paintings before, like this boho landscape, but I liked the idea of doing one that was mainly in pink tones. At the end of the day, it's Barbie I'm crafting for. 

I decided to call this painting "Barbiecore Pink Sunset". At some point during the process, I thought I had gone a bit overboard with the pink. I asked people on Bluesky whether they thought this was Barbiecore, and they said yes. Anyway, enough rambling about the name, and here's the video.

If you watch the video, you will see that I decided to change the color for the sky. Originally, I wanted to do a lighter sky, but since Vintage pink was the lighter pink that I had, I decided to use it and, once everything was painted, see if I liked it or not. But let me know what you think. Do you prefer the lighter or the darker sky? 

I started working on this project back in September, but until last week I couldn't finish editing the video. YouTube is a lot of work and life has been really testing me lately. But finally, here it is, and I'm quite happy with the final result. I'm also thanking past me for deciding to prefilm as much as she could before the school year began. 

Now that I've shared all the details regarding the video, it's time to get personal.  After a few months of a series of unfortunate events, finally I have something positive to share. I've found a new job and I'm starting in a few days. I wasn't happy with my job, and since late 2024 I started seriously looking for a new one. It was also a part-time job, and it simply wasn't enough, as there are some personal projects I haven't been able to do because I didn't have enough funds for them.

 

And while the new job comes with some advantages, there are also a few downsides. Since it's a full-time job, I will have far less time to work on projects for Monster Crafts than I have now. This has made me really reconsider my plans for both the blog and the channel going into 2026. I will do my best to film another video to reach my goal of posting 12 videos this year, but I know that won't be possible to do next year. I will still be working on my channel, but maybe at a slower pace. I've also been prioritizing shorter projects over longer ones in order to be able to pump out enough videos, and I would love to rethink that and work on projects that I want to do for myself, not projects that I want to publish, if that makes any sense. 

Also, I would like to thank everyone for all your kind comments regarding my father-in-law's passing and Mr. Monster's injury. We're doing much better regarding both things, and he's fully-recovered and going back to normal life. 

If you've made it this far, thank you so much for reading me. I hope you're all doing well, and I'll see you as soon as possible.

Monster Crafts 

This post was first published on themonstercrafts.blogspot.com. If you see it published elsewhere, it's been plagiarized without my consent.