For Twig

I have a friend on Facebook that has touched my heart.  I help fund her children's book venture and I hope to meet her one day.  Her name is Twig and she's a fairy! http://www.twigthefairy.com/   My daughter's love to read her books and wonder what Twig is doing.  This picture is for Twig!

We caught a fairy using Twig's Fairy Catching Kit!  This is Ghoulia the Scary Fairy!  Zoe isn't sure what to think!

This is our Fairy Catching Kit.  It comes with a jar, moss, fairy food, sparkly stones and a bottle of fairy dust.  You put the food inside the jar and with the lid off place it on a window sill with a trail of fairy dust leading to the jar.  Then you wait for a fairy to fall asleep inside and pop the lid on!  You have to remember to release the fairy or you may loose socks, or keys, wake up with crazy bed head or get terribly knotted shoe laces!

To see more of what happened when we left our Fairy Catching Kit out please go to my Deviant Art page! http://halogirl81.deviantart.com/

Kiss Kiss,

Angela

Lagoona Blue's DOTD dress modification

So today I've decided to share how I modified Lagoona's DOTD dress.  When I bought this doll I was really excited because I thought her hair was super awesome and totally unexpected.  I want to give props to Mattel for releasing a female fashion doll with a mohawk!  My only problem was something just wasn't right with the dress... it was missing something...  Glitter!!  It wasn't shiny enough! Lagoona is a water creature and I felt that her dress needed to look like it was wet.  So here it is!

I used two different glitter fabric paints, silver and opalescent.  The silver was also holographic.

She's such a happy model!  So easy to work with! (Clawdeen is a diva and can get snarly and Cloe is such a princess!)

You can see how the light catches the glitter and the clear paint. It has a very nice shimmer to it when it moves.

Over all it took about two days of painting and drying and painting some more! I did 2 layers and now the dress is a bit stiff and the doll can't sit down but that's the price of beauty!

Kiss Kiss,

Angela

Introducing...

I've been sick the past week so I've decided an easy thing to write about is an introduction of all my dolls...

This is my Alice in Wonderland doll by Liv.  I only bought it because I love Alice in Wonderland.  It's the only one I have buy I am hoping to get the rest in the set one day.

These are my Tinkerbell dolls. From the left they are the live action movie version, ballerina princess and one that I only bought because it was on sale for $5.  I usually much more picky about Tinkerbell's face and dolls in general.

This is my POP! Batman collection... I know they aren't really dolls, but they[re so dang cute!  I really want the Disney Villains because I think it takes a lot of talent to make villains cute!  Seriously, The Joker is way creepy cute!

My Dead Tired MH collection... Lagoona and Clawdeen are on my list!

My Dawn of the Dance MH collection.  I will post some close-ups of Lagoona because I modified her dress a bit...

My Fearleading and Gloom Beach box set... I have opened my Fearleading box since I took this picture because I have a photo shoot in mind for http://halogirl81.deviantart.com/...

Gloom Beach and my crown jewel, SDCC Ghoulia!

One of my all time favorite Barbie's EVER... I Can Be a Computer Engineer Barbie!

And finally my Fashionista Barbie heads!  Oh and my Fashionista Barbie and Ken...

Well, this is all the dolls I have on display right now... I'll be going through my garage  soon and I'll get pictures of those dolls soon!

Kiss Kiss,

Angela

What I did Yesterday!

I made my own profile on http://halogirl81.deviantart.com/!  I've looked at other people art on this site for years and decided that it was time to submit some of my own stuff!  Be prepared to be bombarded with MH Fanart!  


Kiss Kiss, 
Angela

Presidents Day

Here is another Deviant artist to check out: http://fabuloucity.deviantart.com/gallery/ He's got some really cute drawings of the ghouls and of some Disney princesses. 


I don't really have any plans today. I think I'm just gonna chill and maybe come up with a wish list of the MH things I'd like Mattel to come out with, like more clothes for the MH boys, like a Casketball uniform for Clawd and letterman jackets for him and Duece.  Maybe I'll help my daughter Ella design a shirt with the MH kit we bought awhile ago and haven't made yet. Maybe I'll clean out my garage and find something awesome that I forgot was in there.  Or maybe I'll just cuddle up with a blanket and Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows (yes, I'm reading it again!).  I might even plan out a surprise party for my birthday and leave the plans somewhere (next to the toilet) that my husband with find them!  So many ideas!  Wish me good luck and have a Fang-tastic day!


Kiss Kiss,
Angela

Skull Shores Ghoulia Close-ups!

Ok, here they are...SS  Ghoulia's close-ups!

Still in the box...

The back of the box showing the four other dolls in this series...

The card that came in the box, on the other side is a map...

Unboxed!

Her shoes are decorated with blood drips...

I <3 her crimson lips!

Her earring is a rib cage, lol!

and the other is a blood splat!

Mini brains arranged to look like a flower...

Blood drip bracelet and a brains design on her cover-up...

Without her cover-up...

A close-up of her face without her glasses...

Finally, her skull coconut drink with a bone umbrella and brain shaped bubbles!

This is definitely one of my top 3 favorite Ghoulia's!  Her hair is super cute with it's retro vibe. I totally like this summer look way more than her Gloom Beach look!  I wonder how much fun her design team has coming up with all of her quirky zombie accents! What's your favorite character and your favorite look?

Kiss Kiss,

Angela

Ella's BFF

This is Giant Wurf's Mom

This is Wurf

My daughter Ella has a best friend.  Her best friend is a brown stuffed dog that she named Wurf at 2 years old.  Recently, Ella found Wurf's Mom at Toys R Us.  Wurf's mom is a giant floppy dog that's $50 and my husband and I decided that Ella would have to save up a buy it herself mostly because Ella has no concept of money and because of how proud I was of myself when I was able to buy my American Girl doll when I was 10 after saving up for 2 years.  Luckily Ella has many people to con, I mean, ask for odd jobs to earn money so it has only taken her 3 months to save $50.  That means this weekend we are trooping down to Toys R Us to get Wurf's Mom whom she had already named Queenie.  I'm excited because I'm hoping to find a Monster High doll that I don't have yet or at least a clothing pack! =)

This is Zoe with Draculaura and Ella with Frankie. Ella is wearing her first Monster High outfit from Justice.  It says Scary Cute on it and it's true, Ella is scary cute!

Kiss Kiss,

Angela

Rescuing Queenie!

So we just got back from our trip to Toys R Us so that Ella could rescue Queenie, the giant stuffed dog she decided was her BFF, Wurf's long lost mother.

Queenie is HUGE! 

Getting her up the stairs was a struggle but Ella wanted to do it one her own!

Mother and daughter reunited!

Zoe deciding Queenie is a good place to nap!

BTW, Zoe is 3 if that helps with scale =) 

Kiss Kiss,

Angela

PS Close-ups of Skull Shores Ghoulia tomorrow! I'm so sad, the Monster High aisle @ Toys R Us was devastated so I didn't get anything new today.

I'm so excited...

Hey Fiends! I'm am so excited!  First I would like to share a link to MHScreamQueen's link on Deviant Art because she has some of the best original Monster High photography I've seen and she has made one of the best OOAK MHOC's with Draculogan!  Her talent is so great that she is regularly voted onto the front page on Deviant Art and she has fooled may people into thinking that Draulogan is a real MH character!  So here is her link: http://mhscreamqueen.deviantart.com Make sure you check it out!

Draculogan's profile as seen on MHScreamQueen's Deviant Art page.

The other reason I'm excited is the new Ghouls Rule line of MH dolls that are going to be coming out for Halloween along with MH's first movie release by the same name!  These dolls are gore-geous! 

Draculaura has the most fabulous bat costume ever!  

Frankie is a couture witch!

Cleo the mummy queen!

Clawdeen is a fiercely furry werewolf!

I wish I had a full shot of Clawdeen, I'll keep looking!

This is a picture of all the dolls and the movie @ the 2012 Toy Fair where the MH Create-A-Monster Design Lab was also showcased.  With the lab you can create your own OC Monster!

 Seeing these new dolls makes me want to go out and buy all the dolls I don't have yet so that when these come out all their friends are waiting!  

Update on my Skull Shores Ghoulia, she's out of the box and has posed for her close -ups so I will be posting those pictures with descriptions tomorrow!

Kiss Kiss, 

Angela

Skull Shores Ghoulia!

I got the Skull Shores Ghoulia tonight!  I was trying to find C.A. Cupid @ Wal-Mart, of course they were sold out, when I came across Ghoulia.  It's the first Skull Shores I've seen in person because I've been avoiding toy aisles due to money constraints (meaning this recession sucks!), but I had a little extra cash today and was hoping for a miracle and I would find Cupid, but I'm happy with Ghoulia. Plus we are going to Toys R Us tomorrow and who knows what I might find. I will be posting pictures of Ghoulia soon!


Kiss Kiss,
Angela

What My Daughter Did and Why It Sent Me Over The Edge

My daughter Ella is 5 3/4 years old. She says that the 3/4 is very important.  Her birthday is on April 1st and is coming up soon.  That is not relevant to this post other than to give you an idea of why she did what she did. Basically, she's young and dumb. =)  So, Ella was at school and I was cleaning the playroom and making her younger sister Zoe help.  Zoe is 3 and not very good at cleaning up the HUGE messes she makes in the playroom while Ella is in school.  Well, stupid me, (I'm not young but still pretty dumb) had let them play with my AGD, Kirsten. Kirsten was the very first thing I had ever saved up to buy for myself and because American Girl dolls are so expensive it took me 2 years to earn enough for her and shipping!  I thought that if I took the original clothes off...

 and put on a new outfit bought @ Target (Yay Wal-Mart and Target putting out cheaper clothing for AGD sized dolls!) that there wasn't much they could do to my doll. Plus I made sure to have the "Do NOT cut the dolls hair!" talk with them before I let them borrow the doll.  So imagine my surprise and anger when I came across this...

Ella was in HUGE trouble! Unfortunately for her, I found the doll around 10 AM and she doesn't get out of school until 3 PM.  Plenty of time to calm down you say?  Not me. I got angrier!  I took the doll with me to school, and the look of terror on her face was priceless.  I was so mad at this point I couldn't even speak to her. Trembling with anger I drove to my husbands work to pick him up and was silent the entire way home. I stomped to my room and slammed the door like a 13 year old!  My husband played mediator and found out the story of what happened and reported back to me.  It was all Zoe's fault!  What?  It clearly says Ella on both cheeks of the doll, right?  Well, Zoe had asked Ella to tattoo the doll like Mama and Daddy.  Oops.  Still steamed, (hey, that kind of anger takes time to come down from) I asked my husband to take both girls (at this point I was mad at Zoe too because it was her idea) and get some baking soda because we were out, and that was supposed to be able to wash the crayon off.  Ella volunteered to pay for the baking soda with the money she has been saving up to buy Wurf's Giant Mom (that's another story and also oddly, about Kirsten).  Touched, I scrubbed Kirsten's face and all the crayon came off...

So, the moral is don't share treasured stuff with your kids until you are prepared to deal with whatever stupid stuff they do to it!

Kiss Kiss,

Angela

I love toys.  I like buying them for my daughters and we always have to check out the toy aisles when we hit Wal-Mart or Target.  Because of this I noticed the new monster dolls as soon as they hit the shelves and I got super excited because they were fashion dolls but edgier than Barbie and cooler than the Liv, Bratz or Moxie Girlz dolls.  Finally a fashion doll that appealed to my gothic sensibilities!  We started out slowly and my girls each picked out a rag doll.  Ella got Frankie Stein and Zoe picked out Draculaura.  I found this a bit odd because Ella loves pink and will usually fight to the death to get the pink one of anything but I wasn't going to argue when she picked something different for once.  Well, they loved their rag dolls so much that the next time we were in a toy aisle and they were allowed to pick new toys they chose the Gloom Beach versions.  As I opened the boxes I fell in love with the concept of being able to switch the arms and legs to create new looks and the individual styles of the characters.  When we bought the "Going to School" (as Ella named them) Frankie and Ula-D I read the diaries and noticed the codes and this lead to the discovery of the website and the webisodes.  All three of us were hooked!  The next time we bought toys I grabbed a Frankie Stein for myself and was soon making excuses to go to Toys R Us to find the next doll.  I started stalking Amazon, Ebay and other sites to find better prices and pouted over the fact that Ghoulia Yelps didn't have a doll yet.  I was and still am obsessed. I now have 32 Monster High dolls displayed and more put away because I don't have the room to display them all.  When I decided to put some away I picked my favorite version of each character and restyled them with a combination of Monster High clothes and Barbie clothes that I was able to "make it work" (I love Tim Gunn!).  So, here are my restyled Monster High girls!

I starting with Ghoulia because she is my favorite!  Ghoulia is wearing Frankie's dress and shoes, Lagoona's mesh leggings and a Polly Pocket purse shaped like a record.

Lagoona is my second favorite. I just LOVE her eyes!  Everything is Lagoona's except the shorts, which are Ghoulia's and the water bottle is Barbie's.

Frankie is wearing all of her own stuff!

Clawdeen is wearing her own stuff too except the fierce fake fur vest which is Barbie's.

 I love her claw ring!

Cleo is wearing her own bandages and skirt, but the mesh knee-high socks, shoes and blet are Clawdeen's and the vest is Barbie's.

Ula-D is wearing a Barbie skirt as a dress and a Barbie belt and purse.  The stockings and shoes are her own and the rose is Polly Pocket's.  Lagoona let her barrow her bracelet. 

Kiss Kiss,

Angela