Monthly photo challenge: Adventure

I've been neglecting my boy bjds of late so I thought I'd give one of them a turn, here's Valentine (my migidoll Ryu) off on his adventure.



In a way this shoot is a long time coming.  Back when we lived at the farm we actually had a fairly large section of woods we could hike into.  I always meant to take some of the dolls up there for a photo shoot but somehow never got around to it.  In our yard here in LA we have a sort of overgrown stand of tress and hedges screening us from one of our neighbors.  The kids love it because there is a "hideout" inside the mass of hedge and trees, and it turns out to be a nice stand in for "woods" for the dolls too!  :)

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!