More monster modding

Still having fun modding MH dolls.  As per usual I have a bunch of different project all going at once.  I still haven't finished Bastet's hair mostly because the crimping bead ends take forever and are SO boring to do!!  One of these days I'll complete her though.

In the mean time I've been having fun swapping bodies.  My latest is putting the skeleton CAM head on Spectra's body.  I'm really NOT a fan of Spectra's mold but I love that ghostly body and I think the lines of the skeleton girl's sculpt fit a ghost much better.  My plan is to make Spectra's head into another Catrina, I think I might like her better with her whole face painted.

I also swapped Howleen and Cleo's bodies.  I want my Cleo to be a sort of fierce fairy type and the smaller body suits her.  And I'm making my Howleen into a werefox and wanted a larger body, I did keep the heads with their original hands though, so for anyone else interested in mixing monsters Howleen's hands will fit on a larger body and larger hands will fit on the Howleen body.  My Cleo is actually done, unless I decide to make wings for her.  It took me a lot of tries but I really like how she finally turned out!  The poor thing is naked until I made some clothes for her since Howleen's gear just isn't right for her.

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!

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!