doll editorials

The dolls wrote the stories I think, but I made all this doll clothing (and in some photos, hair) from thrift store items and my own things: fabric scraps, children’s clothes, gloves, shoes, leg and arm warmers, dishrags, a purse, a scarf, a turkey bag, jewelry, a curtain tie-back, a necktie. I took most of these photos to apply for a doll styling job I wasn’t precisely qualified for (or overqualified for, in retrospect)

I didn't get the job, but I love the world I created here.

Electra is faking – she doesn’t like to read. Her philistine upbringing has left her a bit uncivilized. But it’s ok because she has great style

she has made friends with a lamp statue

she can read sheet music, to everyone’s chagrin

and she sometimes only plays with one hand

meet Boneless Cooked Virginia Ham (Electra’s bear)

no smiling in rock ‘n’ roll

found it. scarf! it matches her Sid Vicious padlock

Boneless Cooked Virginia Ham rides a motorcycle

space case

paparazzi shot

waiting for the sunset

Electra’s changed her hairstyle again

you rang?

she’s nekkid but don’t worry, this is a family show

face tatts for the apocalypse

very tiny fancy hairdo

this is not Boneless Cooked Virginia Ham. this is a much smaller bear. it's Boneless Cooked Virginia Ham's bear, Tarragon.

sunset horse ride. (if you know you know!)

got a date with some nail polish.

oops

never paint your nails while drinking

Electra’s fallen asleep with a cat and a book

Skelita. another lady in the coven.

even though she has no belly, just a rib cage

he’s on his way with a corsage of basil leaves

not afraid to dance alone tho

she thinks she’s hiding actually

she’s not actually very good at “incognito”

classic little black dress

what big paws you have

meet Art Mannekin, Boneless Cooked Virginia Ham's babysitter. He is watching B.C.V.H.'s bear Tarragon, so B.C.V.H. can go out on a date with Skinless Boneless Saltfish Fillet-in-Brine. If they marry, they will hyphenate their last names. Their first born, if a boy, will be called Organic Sprouted Non-GMO Ham-Fillet-in-Brine. They haven't decided on a girl's name yet. Slow down! That would be going waaaay too fast.

in his man cave

This is Squirl's girlfriend, Pamplemousse.

Squirl is worried she might be seeing another man

she’s just out having a relaxing ride in a swan boat

right now she is wondering, as you may be, how I’ve managed to underwater and kill a succulent

oh bloody hell .. someone call the fire department

sup frenz

zapping people on the dance floor with laser beams

only cry

and the zapping people with your eyeballs dance club

bzzzzzzzt bz bz zap

when you overzap, your eyeball colors melt

one must recharge the eyeballs

otherwise your eyes just stick there, in the uncanny valley

New Year’s Eve

drop that needle, DJ

* click click *

photo booth! Electra is such a camera hog

this is the best shot!

ok, this is the best shot. BFFs

it is a staring coven. it meets in the uncanny valley

hello witchies, may I join your coven

and toad tongues

(*those girls are weird*)

anyway I can avoid their spells with this teleportation ring if I really need to

marriage is for boring people

you made it to the end of the nonsense stories

she paints skeletons

she has seen Harold and Maude too many times

because her fingers are stiff, she only plays “Chopsticks”

god help us, slamming the keys like drums

kitty!

rummaging in her trunk full o' clothes, magic trix and nonsense

snoozetime in the magic trunk

2 tone vans (unity!)

Juliet with some digital enhancement (like a real editorial!)

ready for her brainy girl makeover (removes glasses)

stupid thing is in Russian

it’s because she has no hair, just a collection of wigs and curtain fringe

Operetta sitting in my medicine cabinet

must be the season of the witch

crazy little vintage thing I’ve put in a sundress. she’s 6" tall

I had to pull her hand through this split ring with pliers. they never complain

befriending or befoe-ing a gargoyle

bored.

several hours + Breakfast at Tiffany’s later…

glitter explosion

Ace has fallen asleep with Electra and a book

she’s choreographing a new belly dance routine

it’s lazy belly dance. the kind where you can sit down

Juliet is waiting for her prom date, dressed in a tie.

at least he said he was

Eletra’s wearing dark spex so no one will recognize her

few people can fit inside an industrial wire spool though so her size is giving her away

here’s our retro gal again, surrounded by lush fur

is the fur purring?

she might drown in here

Art Mannekin has his own pet squirrel named Squirl.

most of the time Squirl prefers to be alone

calm down, Squirl!

what light from yonder window! um, breaks? that’s too much to remember, Juliet doesn’t know

tis the east! and Juliet is (staring into) the sun!

it’s an unparalleled talent for gardening that I have

she’ll just wait here in the meantime and hop back in the tree when they arrive. it’s really an excuse to have firemen come over

very disco

i do not dance

it is the crying dance club

zap zap

pew pew!

this is how you know it’s time to go home.

it helps to blink now and then

zap stare recharged.

Electra and Juliet are going to a dance club. To dance, not to zap

dance dance dance

boom

no! Juliet says: this was the best shot, except your hand got in the way

did you forget about the coven?

the uncanny valley is full of zap air. like everyone stuck a fork in a socket

I have eyes of newt

and firefly juice

I think it’s adorable. what could go wrong

honey, that’s our engagment ring

I drive a Mr Softee ice cream truck. It’s *not* boring

your prize is in the mail

adulthood is for the birds.