Monster High Prom

I've been wanted to do a few "Prom" shots ever since I finally got a Gil to go with my Lagoona, but I didn't have the right clothes.  Thanks to the miracles of ebay I've got a tux for Gil (an altered one from "Twilight" Ken) and an adorable handmade beaded dress for Lagoona.

Oh Gil, it's going to be the best night ever!


Mom, you're embarrassing me with all the photos, I feel like a fish out of water!


Ah, that's better!

Let's dance!

And then you've got to kiss the girl!

Oh Gil!



Edited to add hilarious photo shoot moment - me putting Lagoona down for a moment while I finished getting Gil dressed and seconds later one of my kids yelling "Mom, one of the kitties has your doll!"  He got her away from the cats before the ripped her to shreds.  Our cats LOVE to eat mohair!

My custom Lagoona Blue

In some ways Lagoona's my favorite character, but I've never quite been satisfied with the dolls.  In general they don't look as sweet as I see her being but worse still the two I've gotten have had very greasy hair that just didn't seem right at all.

I've had a custom Lagoona in my head for a while now. I've only done one Lagoona custom and she didn't want to be the one I had in my heart set on. So when a Skull Shores Lagoona appeared at Target I snatched her up. I wanted a really soft sweet face with closed eyes so I just used pastels and pencils and didn't use any paint at all.  I'd been looking for blond mohair for a while but hadn't found the golden sand I was looking for.  My cats came to the rescue aka partially destroyed one of my bjd wigs and I managed to salvage some of the mohair for my Lagoona.  I blended in a bit of blue mohair too although I'm not sure it's visible in these pics. I'm really happy with how she turned out!

Monthly photo challenge: Words

Poor Marie, she will always be associated with the phrase "Let them eat cake!" which she in all likelihood never said.  But words are powerful - the phrase followed her nonetheless and to this day still personifies the cluelessness of the very rich about the very poor.
These didn't come out exactly how I imagined them but close enough.


This is my Volks Anais in a SODA 18th C gown.

Lone wolf

I finished repainting my Clawdeen Wolf this afternoon.  Once I'd wiped her face and could see what she looked like "nude" I knew exactly what I wanted to do with her and she came together rather quickly.  I really like how delicate she is and how nice her new mohair style looks, she seems a bit sad but I think she's just a bit of a loner.

Custom Draculara as Marie Antoinette

So I've been working on this for a while and think I'm finally at the satisfied with it point.  I rerooted her with a combo of blond a pale pink mohair and then pinned it up and glued flowers in and made the dress.  I still need to make or mod some shoes for her but my Marie Antoinette Lala is ready for her big debut!

Garden Labyrinth

I've been meaning to get this posted for AGES but never seemed to manage to wade through all the photos to organize them.  We've got these short little hedges in the front of our house that are nearly perfect for a doll-size hedge maze, so I've had the idea of doing a maze photo shoot.  I took a ton of pictures but finally managed to pared it down to my favorites.

I'm bored, isn't there supposed to be a hedge maze in this Garden?


Ah ha, what's this?


It must be the entrance!


I wonder how big this thing is?


Wait, maybe I should go that way


Another dead end?


This is getting a little spooky...


I need to get out of here!


Hey, that must be the way out!


I'm running home!




This is my Volks Carol in an outfit I made.

The Haunted Dollhouse

This just came through on the Make blog feed and I thought it was something you all might appreciate. It's on a very small scale but that's part of the beauty and wonder of it.

http://blog.craftzine.com/archive/2011/08/haunted_dollhouse_from_the_blo.html

All her pics are here on flickr.