31 day of Halloween - day 14: The Graveyard

31 day of Halloween - day 13: The Gargoyle

31 days of Halloween - day 12: the Skullies

31 days of Halloween - day 11: The Drowned Girl

31 days of Halloween - day 10: Catrina

31 days of Halloween - day 9: The Witch's Broom

Looks like I forgot to cross post some of these from instagram!

31 days of Halloween - day 8: the Monster's Bride

31 days of Halloween - day 7: The Monkey's Jaw

We have a mummified monkey, did you know that?  It's actually on display year round but it really freaks the trick or treaters out on Halloween. My husband's father was a high school biology teacher and we inherited it from him.

31 days of Halloween - day 6: Frankenweenie

I saw these models from the movie at the theater yesterday but forgot to post here
"Creepy Girl" and "Vampire Cat"

Enchanted doll goes resin!

Some of you fellow dollie-o-philes may already know about Enchanted Doll, Marina Bychkova's amazing ball-jointed porcelain dolls.  The dolls are amazingly life-like and all handmade and painted by Marina, often with detailed miniature costumes and accessories.  Apparently Enchanted doll is expanding into the resin market and while the dolls are currently still very pricy and only available at the shows she's going to, one can hope that eventually she may have a mail order service and perhaps a slightly less pricy doll.

You can check out a gallery of all of Marina's beautiful dolls here.  Just be forewarned - many of the dolls are nude and are made and painted to be as life-like as possible.

"Alice" photo care of Enchanted Doll

31 days of Halloween - day 5:The Doomed Bride

There's something wonderfully gothic about the doomed bride, whether vampire, ghost or corpse.  My personal favorite is poor Elizabeth Frankenstein, "throttled" on her wedding night by the dreaded monster as he wreaks his revenge on Doctor Frankenstein.

An outtake and many more on flickr here.

Monthy photo challenge: "Spring"

This was a hard one for me given it's very summer-verging-into-fall here. But I finally ended up using the last of the summer roses to give me a bit of the flora I feel like "Spring" needs. I'd been rummaging through old toys a while ago and ran across my tiniest doll, one that my mom bought for me in San Francisco's Chinatown when I was about 9. She's only about 1.5 inches tall and a little worse for the wear given her age but still rather sweet.
 

31 days of Halloween - day 4: Are you lost little wolf girl?

31 days of Halloween - day 3: Sitting in Mom's chair

31 days of Halloween - day 2: Poor little dead girl

She's so pale, is she as dead as the flowers around her?



Pullip Seila in my yard amongst the fallen bougainvillea blossoms.

31 days of Halloween - Day 1 - Sea skellies

Resin Angels had the brilliant idea of a "31 days of Halloween" daily photo challenge.  I *finally* got instagram (bauhausfrau) and may well do all the rest there (#31dayshalloween) but I'll probably cross post and today's I took using the hipstamatic app.

These are two Day of the Dead mer-calaveras that my friend Marilee gave me a while back.

I'd like to do some more sophisticated shoots but knowing my crazy life only a few out of the 31 will be fancy set ups.