Queen of Squids

The height difference between my various dolls is always a great source of amusement/delightful for me. As an excessively short person (5') this is exactly how I feel when talking to most of my friends irl ;p I am liking Yasmin a bit more, though I later I might have a rummage through my old Bratz clothing stash to see if I can find her something better to wear.

True to my word Renee got restyled immediately, though she did get to keep her shorts XD She's wearing a dress made by @dollsahoy which was originally intended for a factory Blythe, but clearly has found the doll it was truly meant for. I love her even more than I expected, definitely a worthy successor to ReN(ol)ees of the past. I think she's going to be my new Emotional Support Doll for the time being.

One year ago today I posted this miniature Jim Henson's Dinosaurs photo I created using real figures, lighting and miniature sets.

I'm glad Ryan was Ken because now we can have a screen accurate Ryland Grace face sculpt

I put the shirt fabric straight through the printer and for the jumpsuit patches i used transfer paper

Putting rocky outside to dry i was afraid someone would steal it so i took some pictures there, my hand for scale

sneakily putting them on the wife's desk while she naps

her finding it

Here is my custom Bee Boy made with Porter Geiss' head, Heath Burns' body and custom printed clawed hands. I would have posted him far earlier but there was always an issue with getting the hands done that I felt like I couldn't post him yet. I really wanted this specific hand position that was only used on CAM Gargoyle and Puma but I didn't have any spare so 3d printing seemed like the best way to go since it reminds me of the hands from Bee Girl.

His outfit is Prince Bee from the OMG series and the wings are glasses I trimmed the arms off from OMG Fierce Queen Bee's glasses. I figured since he is a male bee he would have smaller wings compared to my Bee Girls.

I'm really proud of how his hair turned out since I still struggle with mens hairstyles but I think it looks really nice on him.

Here is all of my Monster High Bee dolls together. I don't know why but I really love CAM Bee's design so much that it scratches a specific itch in me and having variations makes me happy.

Create a Monster Bee Girl is one of my favourite Monster High dolls of all time so I've always wanted to do a boy version of her for my collection. However I didn't want to use Heath's head sculpt due to him having sculpted hair so I just kept the idea on the back burner until the inspiration hit me.

I got this stained Porter Geiss doll and while he is one of my favourite dolls too, I figured painting over his stains would be a good enough reason to work on my bee boy.

I rerooted him with black and blonde saran and had his hair curled up with pipecleaners for the longest time cuz curling saran takes awhile to do.

As for his face, I went with red eyes and some eye dots reminscent of a late 90s to early 2000s Barbie, as well as gave him compound eye pupils inspired by the CAM Bee girl's eyes.

I really wanted him to look different to Porter so I gave him sad eyebrows reminiscent of Rochelle's and blushed him so he would look sweet.

Using the magazine image from the X post, I did a reverse image search and found a Pinterest that labeled it July 2000, so I went to The Internet Archive and found July 2000, and it wasn't there.

I looked at issues around then, and found it in September 2000

Barbie photo from here

What might not be so obvious is that the text on the waistband area of the original is...not suitable for an American toy...

Using the magazine image from the X post, I did a reverse image search and found a Pinterest that labeled it July 2000, so I went to The Internet Archive and found July 2000, and it wasn't there.

I looked at issues around then, and found it in September 2000

Barbie photo from here

What might not be so obvious is that the text on the waistband area of the original is...not suitable for an American toy...

Last week I traded a dress for one that gave me MAJOR Volks vibes so of course, I had to drag out my brother for unpaid photography work 🙂‍↕️

Doll is Allegray l, a discontinued Volks F11

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📸 by @llw_.photography (IG)

👒 by @kopfgeschichten_ (IG)

Just making myself go blind with this reroot job, hbu?

Last year, BGBF sent a box of doll stuff that included a Malibu Francie. The doll's head was in rough shape, with the vinyl faded on the nose and part of the lip (exposed by rubbed-off paint), as well as the whole head having pits, but the body was in really good condition. As a joke, I put the tan Odile mermaid head, which he'd also sent, on that body, and the result was so similar to Teen Skipper that I kept the combination.

The head, though, sat in the head box, and I honestly thought I'd never do anything with it. I know it's common practice to touch up faded head vinyl with alcohol (I think) markers, but I don't have any and didn't want to spend money on this head, with the pitting damage, anyway.

I thought about the experiments earlier this year with de-yellowing old doll heads, in a jar of 3% hydrogen peroxide in the sun, and wondered: since this head had pigment that was already fading in spots, could I use the hydrogen peroxide treatment to bleach it to a more uniform color?

ANTHRO DOLLS. YOU ARE MISSING THE HUGE MARKET POTENTIAL OF ANTHRO. DOLLS.

because those AG-size plush dog girl dolls at Walmart are on clearance already