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Painting doll furniture

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Dear Mattel:  Everything does not need to be pink and purple.  Also, your sculpture/designers do amazing work. It deserves to be seen! -Love, Ginger Fear not, plastic can be repainted. I found a wonderful clawfoot bathtub for $1.50 at a thrift store. (My husband says it's called a slipper tub, as in Cinderella's slipper, describing the higher back.) How beautiful it would look in normal colors!  You need: Barbie furniture steel wool spray paint super glue protective plastic or newsprint optional: beads to replace missing knobs optional: clay or tape  optional: paint thinner I disassembled the tub just by pulling hard or banging against something hard. (The tube was harder to remove- I wedged a tiny screwdriver from a watch repair kit along the inside to break the hold) I cleaned the tub and scrubbed it with steel wool. (I think it would have been wise to remove the little painting with paint thinner, but I didn't t...