6 years of ABBAFan456's Blog

Today marks 6 years since I first created my blog and I honestly can't believe that it's been that long!  I remember when I first created this blog so I could share pictures of my ABBA dolls and my very small collection at the time.

Seeing as I haven't posted a collection update in quite some time (mainly because I haven't gotten anything new in a while... ), I decided to do one to celebrate. :D  Also this is a great way to document how much I've gained over the past 6 years.

I'll start off with the records since they're pretty special.  Here I have Voulez-Vous, the Album, and Greatest Hits Vol.2.  I recently got into Cospalying and while at a convention I was lucky to find Voulez-Vous for sale for $1, and f course I had to grab it.  The Album and Greatest Hits Vol.2 are from my dad.  I love all of these records and hope to someday get more. :)

Next are these incredible singles that my best friend Eleonore gave to me.  I feel so special having these and I'm so grateful to Eleonore for sending them to me.  Thank you so much!! <3

Here are all my CDs plus a cassette tape from my grandpa's house.  Arrival, Story of a Heart, and the Kristina CD are all from Eleonore (thank you again my friend! <3 ), Classic ABBA was given to me for my birthday, ABBA Gold is from my mom's CD collection, A and the Live album my dad got for me, and I found the 20th Century Master's collection at Goodwill.

Next are all the books.  Pop Story and ABBA by Calvero are gifts from Eleonore, I got ABBA the Treasures for my birthday, my dad got me ABBA the Scrapbook, and I bought the photo book.  I love all of these books so much and reading them is always so much fun.

Here I have a copy of the ABBA Intermezzo magazine which features my book, the first version of my Story of ABBA book, and the two variants of my revised edition. :)

This is what I like to call the Great Wall of ABBA.  I have even more printed out photos on the wall, but they couldn't find into the frame, haha.  Anyways, I have three incredible posters, the one of them live in 1979 is from ABBA the treasures, the hat one is from Eleonore, and I bought the Fernando one from ABBA the museum.

And of course here I have all four of ABBA's autographs.  I got Agnetha's in October 2013 and Frida, Benny, and Bjorn's in January of 2016 with Gorel Hanser's help. <3

Here are a few things that I have from ABBA the Museum.  I bought the coasters and the ABBA keychain, and the lanyard, VIP tag, pencils, and bag are from Eleanore. <3

And here are my ABBA dolls in their new 1974/75 costumes. :D

I hope you enjoyed this quick look at my ABBA collection. :D

Benny's 1975 costume

I have officially completed my 1974/75 costumes for my dolls.  It feels so good to actually complete making a whole set of ABBA costumes and it's only March.  I feel so good about myself, maybe I'll actually be able to make more this year? :D 

Anyways, the reason why I saved Benny's outfit for last is because it's very simple.  It's just a jacket, scarf, and pants.  I'm not 100% satisfied with the outfit because the fabric was hard to work with, but it's alright. :)

For a more detailed post, feel free to check out my sewing blog, Sew Amazing.

Bjorn's 1975 Costume

 I've finished Bjorn's costume from 1974/75 to go along with Agnetha and Frida's costumes that I made earlier. :D

This is the probably the third time I've made this outfit, and I'm finally satisfied with it.

For a more detailed post, you can check out my other blog Sew Amazing. :D

800 subscribers!

Just a few weeks ago I reached 700 subscribers, and now I'm at 800! :O  I'm absolutely speechless.  I know I've said this a bazillion times, but I am soo honored to have so many people following my channel and enjoying the random videos I put out.  It's so amazing, and I am so thankful to every single one of you who took the time to subscribe to my channel.  It really makes me smile thinking that there are so many people who enjoy my work.  Thank you so much. <3

Bjorn's Overalls

As I've been working on Bjorn's outfit from 1975 for my doll, I noticed something interesting about Bjorn's overalls that he wears.

We all know that Bjorn's outfit is an orange striped shirt with a pair of white overalls.  The overalls seem to made of a satin, and on this picture below, Bjorn's pants have some silver detailing to them, (three on one leg and two on the other... okay... xD ), and they also appear to be quite short.

Bjorn's overalla also have silver details around the top.  (You can really see the satin on this picture. :) )

In this picture, Bjorn's wearing that outfit again.  Except there seems to be something different.  The front panel has the same detailing, but the pants have two layers to them, and are quite long.  Plus the silver details at the bottom look more like a fringe.

The straps of the overalls seem to be a bit wider as well.

At first I never noticed the difference, but not it seems quite clear that Bjorn has two different overalls.  Seeing as the design at the front of both the overalls is the same, I'm thinking that Owe Sandstrom reused the same front panel and just swapped out the straps and the pants, but it could also be that he remade the whole thing, which I understand since I remake things all the time, haha.

I also noticed that in this picture where Bjorn is wearing the same overalls but a different top, Bjorn's pants don't seem to be a satin anymore.  The top of the overalls looks satin, but the pants seem to be made of a more slinkier fabric that has a shine to it, but it's not satin.

Now I don't know if I was the first to notice this or I just never noticed until now, but I hope you enjoyed this quick blog post. :)