REVIEW: Boltin' Bicycle Frankie Stein

Hello Blogfriends!

You know something voltageous?

I now have a bike!

Oh, I forgot to introduce myself, but I am sure the ones who read this blog already know me.

Yes, this weeks blogspot is all about me, the look I am wearing today and about my bike.

If you like it and want to know how this doll set is called, I am:

BOLTIN' BICYCLE FRANKIE STEIN

With luck, you still may find me out in the stores.

The Boltin' Bicycle playset is one of the rare playsets Calaminthe brought home, and I am very happy about the fact. It was not planned, but the price had been low and so she grabbed me.

Well, here is how I look in box.

As most of the Monster High boxes, mine is mainly black with spider web design and a plastic window to have a look at the doll.

The window has the shape of a - well, in this case very wide - coffin and has a yellow and white frame. On the bottom left there are some cute little drawings on blue that fit the doll theme.

On the right you will find the Monster High logo with scullette, and on the bottom, a very cute artwork of myself riding the bike and my name.

At one side of the box the artwork and logo repeats.

And on the other side you have the logo again, this time together with the drawings.

Here is the back of the box.

There you will find the drawings again and also the coffin shape, this time in blue with white.

In it is a foto of myself and the bike, my name and the hint in several languages that I am the daughter of Frankenstein.

Also you will find the usual firm infearmation.

The box can be opened at the sides, and you then can pull out the background display with the doll.

The background is mainly blue and black with a bit yellow and white again. It is part striped and partly shows a park scenery with a tree, a hanging in the tree bag or maybe sign, some lamps, a bench and a stone path.

The boxes bottom also shows you a technical drawing of the doll and how to handle it. Calaminthe forgot to take a picture.

And after you have freed me from the background, this is what you will find:

me, the Frankie Stein doll with jumper, shoes and helmet, and the bicycle.

There is again no brush and not a doll stand, and also no diary.

But, amongst all the text on the back of the box, you can find this in several languages:

"Frankie loves to ride her bike! She can ride lightning fast, but sometimes she likes to just cruise around the park and wave hello to other monsters".

First, I want to show you my bike in detail. Here is how it looks when I am not riding it.

Lets begin with the pedals. They are silver coloured plastic and have the perfect shape to place the shoes I am wearing on them so I can sit on the bike properly. You can move them like real pedals.

When I am not using my bike you can find that there is my signature scullette on them. Isn't that voltageous?

Here is a close-up of the handbar. I hope I translated it right.

My hands really can be placed on it, again savely, so I will not fall down when you want to play with me riding the bike.

Its silver plastic again, mainly shaped as a lightning bolt with nuts at the end. At the front there is a hand to hold it. Isn't that an electrifying detail?

The bikes frame mainly is blue, but there is a black checkered sticker with some signature motives I love personally, as a stitched heard, my Frankenstein Scullette and lightning bolts.

The chain (I again hope that this is the right technical translation, if not, please tell me) is silver again and doesn't move together with the pedals. But thats a little detail that doesn't matter too much.

The fender (mudguard?) is bright yellow.

Here is the back wheel. Those DO move. They are mainly silver and have lightning bolt shaped spokes. The tires are black.

Also at the back wheel you can find the bike stand.

You can pull it down and high, but its to week sadly to hold the bike with doll. It hardly can hold the bike alone.

Well, and here is the saddle. it is black and there wouldn't be much to tell about it, but at the back is a transparent holder to clip into the back of your doll, so she - in this case I - really can sit savely on the bike.

I really like the bike, its a fangtastic toy to play with.

Well, but now to myself, the Frankie doll that will come together with the bicycle.

Lets start like this:

Mainly, I have the wider rebooted body, but with some little differences or surprises. I will show them to you later.

First:

This is my helmet, shown in profile. It is blue and you can open and close the strap to take it on or off.

There are some stud and bolt designs, and again a lighting bolt.

When taking it off, I have long and straight black and white open hair. On this picture it looks messy, but when brushed out it turns out to be smooth and silky.

And here is body surprise number 1:

I have the old head mold.

Calaminthe didn't take a comparing picture, but maybe you can see it:

my forehead is not as huge as usually on the rebooted dolls.

This might be a big plus for those who loved the classic MH dolls better.

I guess it is because this way the helmet isn't too small, maybe.

I am wearing pink eyeshadow, bright red lipstick and a little bit blush on my cheeks.

Surprise number 2:

My body is a mixture between the full articulated reboot body (which has movable ellbows and hands that can be pulled out to dress me and knee jointss but painted on scars) and the stiffer budget line doll bodies (which don't have ellbow and knee or hand joints and molded on scars).

In this case: You CAN bend my ellbows and knees but NOT my hands. Those are molded on the arms. You CAN pull out the ellbow joints. This is a good compromise to still make it easy to dress me.

The scars are molded.

Surprise modus off.

Well, here is my cute jumper.

It is mainly black with blue and yellow lightning bolt pattern and has four straps: Two blue and two black ones which is a cute detail.

I really think its cute.

And here are my shoes. All black, but matching the look.

This is the last picture.

My personal opinion, yours may be a little bit different, decide yourself:

This really is a great playset. The bkie is worth its money totally and I am worth it too.

I am totally fine with molded on hands and scars, as long as you still can pull out the ellbows to dress me and as long as you can move them.

How the body is made is a must for this set, so I am able to perfectly fit the bike and the helmet.

Time to say goodbye.

I wish you an electrifying weekend and a voltageous week!

I am off now, biking, of course!

Love and kisses,

💙💛💙

Frankie Stein

Winter Fashion 2018

Hello Blogmonsters!

Time to rest from all the doll reviews, isn't it?

There are still many to do, and since this week we had again two new doll versions, it seems there are again two more. Totally, this week, we still have six more dolls and three more Minis we didn't show to you.

This week, though, I want you to show my latest winter collection. Its really about time.

I wanted to make more but now stopped it at the moment because I want to make a fashing costume and a valentines outfit first, so they are ready right in time when needed.

Maybe, after it, I have time for more winter, sleep wear or else.

Afterwards, there are some nature shots of Cleo I want to show you.

Well, let's start with the first fashion, which is the one I am wearing right now.

I felt that id was time to make some winter clothes again for myself, and this year it is a purple plush coat, brown-purple herringbone pattern skinny pants and a brown high collar top which you can not see on the pic because my coat is close.

Also I crocheted a purple lurex hat and completed the look with another pair of golden ball earrings.

My little brother Barker got a blue pullover, olive green pants, a camouflage pattern hat with blue pompom and a matching scarf plus a pair of self made, khaki winter boots.

For my sister Pawla I made olive pants as well and a purple, black and white pullover from recycled material.

She has new self-made boots as well. Hers are purple with gold glitter, and she is wearing a purple lurex crochet headband.

Also, she got a pipecleaner toy which I meant to be a white werewolf doll, but it didn't come out too great. Nevertheless, she told me she thinks its clawsome.

Well, the only family member so far that didn't have winter clothes yet was Weredith.

She got a turquise baby rumper with white fake button border with glued on buttons.

I wanted to make a hat, hood, headband or else for her too to keep her little head warm, but it didn't work.

At least, she is all covered with fur and I guess, this is keeping her warm enough.

The only ghoul left without winter fashion so far was Kelpie Blue, and so I made fashion for Lagoonas little sister as well.

To warm her head she got a crocheted hat as well from white, blue and green mottled yarn. The top of her ears peek through a bit, but she said she is warm enough.

She also got a dark turquise sewn pullover from striped lurex knit material together with purple jersey fabric pants.

 And a pair of purple winter boots, also self made. The soles are made from foam rubber, as well as those of my siblings. The base is papier mache, in this case covered with purple material I cutted from an old umbrella.

Little Tip:

For all those who want to make doll clothes themselves:

I really love this umbrella material.

It is silky and can be used for so many things, as you can see. I made rain coats, shoes and other clothes from it so far in different colours and I guess I will use it again.

So whenever you want to hrow away an old umbrella that is broken or else, make sure to cut off the fabric first and save it for upcycling projects.

Another Tip:

I wouldn't have been able to make shoes without watching videos of these two Youtubers and use their know-how for my own projects:

Walkercolours and PipeCleanerCraftsB are two YouTubers defineteley worth more then one look.

Not only their shoe tutorials are fangtastic.

These two are two very good channels when it comes to MH doll clothing or doll accessories.

Even though I am sure I never will be as professional with my own projects as those two, I learned a lot of how to make things from them. Also, it just makes fun to watch them finishing their own projects.

Well, back to other things. At the beginning, I promised you I would have some more pictures of Cleo walking in the nearby woods (while I was working on the winter outfits at home).

These pictures had been taken here, near Olpe-Rhode and the Lake Bigge.

Here are the beast:

And with this last picture, I want to say goodbye for this week. Time to wish

A fangtastic weekend and a clawsome week,

💜💚💜

Clawdeen Wolf

REVIEW: Electrified Ari Hauntington

Heloooo anybody!

Here is Tash...

I mean - Ari Hauntington with the weekly blogspot!

And as you see (and Clawdeen kind of told you yesterday on her facebook site), it is review time again.

I want to show you my latest look.

MAYBE not the latest you can get in the stores, but with a little luck, you can.

You can see me, though, in the second new MH Boovie this way, and you can call me:

ELECTRIFIED ARI HAUNTINGTON

Yes - my box already is reviewed. Not mine, but the Electrified boxes themselves.

Mine has of course my own name at the front, and it nevertheless makes sense to show it because this is how you can find me in the stores.

Here is a look at the backside.

And us Electrified dolls are, when you look at the very bottom right, dolls where you still can pull out ellbow and hand joints.

This makes it easier to dress us and maybe create bracelets for us too.

On top, there is a nice artwork of me, and the hint that I am one of the so-called "Hair-Raising Ghouls" too. And under my pic, you can see that you also can get a Hair Raising Silvi Timberwolf and Draculaura.

When pulling the black background display with dark neon spiderwebs out of the box (well, pulling is not exactly right, you have to destroy the box which means that the background is also a bit destroyed at the corners, as you see), you won't find a brush or a doll stand.

Just me, as you can see me.

Here I am, freed from the box.

I really LOVE my look and especially my hair.

What do you think?

Here are the details:

My eyeshadows are purple at the lids and blue under the eye, and I am wearing a fuchsia coloured lipstick.

On top of my hair I have a neon pink chain headband with a treble clef fascinator.

As long as pinned at my hand, it fits just fine, but as soon as you cut it off you will see that your doll easily can loose it off her head.

Maybe you can fix it with a rubber band, if you want.

As every Electrified Ghoul, my hair is crimbed and fully. The main colour is purple, but at the front I have a royal blue sidepart that is not crimped at first, hold together over my ear and then crimped with the rest of my hair.

I love this hairstyle, even though the rubberband lets this streak distant from the rest, and thats not so fine. I don't know though if this is just a personal problem or if all the Aris have this.

If you are not sure what I am speaking off look at the very first picture in this blogspot, you can see it better at the close-up.

And now here is my dress.

Its not mainly black as most of the others but has a dark purple, has a loose but straight fit and short sleeves.

The pattern of the fabric shows musical notes and ghost chains in purple, blue, yellow and white.

At the bottom there is a blue plastic material ruffle, very stiff, but also very nicely looking.

Over it I asm wearing a loose belt, neon pink with a piano keyboard design and chains at the bottom.

I first thought it was the same molt of Basic Operettas belt, but that one is very different, and Basic Ghoulias belt, who also has the keyboard design, doesn't have chains hanging down.

So it seems this is a brand boo design.

Todays last picture shows my shoes which I absoluteley love!

They are matching the complete look in colouring and have, next to each of the straps, little musical notes molded on.

Over the top there are chains again and at the heel, there is a musical note "hole".

I hope you liked my review, and its time to say goodbye.

Have a  bootiful Sunday and a spooktaculair week,

👻👻👻

Ari Hauntington

REVIEW: Garden Ghouls Cleo deNile

Hello Ghouls and Mansters,

and a happy boo year!

Here is Cleo deNile with the first blogspot of 2018.

Can a year start nicer then with a brand boo look?

Not for me.

And of course I will share it with you.

Clawdeen is working on winter clothing, and there are six more reviews to be done - just at the moment.

Mainly not the latest dolls, and three alone with me, so, its the beast I start the first one now.

And show you how I look as

GARDEN GHOULS CLEO DE NILE

Well, the flowerish box is already reviewed in Toraleis review, and mine looks similar. Of course instead of her name, you will find mine.

The back also looks the same.

And on the bottom you will find that you can pull out my wings as well, but not the ellbow and hand joints, sadly.

This makes it hard to pull over self made bracelets and, worse, crochet or knit pullovers with long sleeves.

The good thing is: You can't lose the joints anymore.

When you pull out the nice display off the box, you will see that accessories like doll stand, brushes and diaries are not included.

Just me and my wings.

Those are pinned loosley onto the display.

They have joints so you can move them and you easily can push them into holes in my back.

My wings have an ancient egypt design and remind a bit of scarabs, maybe.

They are turquise, blue, yellow and red and match my style just perfectly.

And here I am with wings and all, out of the box.

To have wings is a really nice thing. Who has ever heard of a flying mummy?

I just love it, it feels like it would make me even a tiny bit more majestic as I usually am.

Well, I will not wear those wings always in the future, but its nice to have the opportunity.

On my head you will find yellow glasses with the shape of bug antennaes. I really like how they match the insect theme of this look, but when you pull them down to my nose after carefully cuttingt them out of my hair, they turn out a bit too large.

And here is my make-up. Of course I am wearing my usual egypt style khajal and the little blue jewel under my eye.

The rest of my make-up is a bit lighter then I usually prefer it too look.

I am wearing a apricot eyeshadow that matches the lipstick and some of the details on my look, and under my eyes I have rows of turquise dots.

My hair has turquise streaks and is mainly black. My bangs are combed to the left side this time.

Here you can see the length of my hair and that it really is mainly black.

This is my Garden Ghouls dress.

Its a one-shoulder dress with a second black mesh layer over the skirt.

This layer has shimmering turquise glitter all over and is sewn on the dress at the hip with a small blue belt.

The dress itselves has a wonderful pattern with scarabs, partly normal, partly open-winged that also seem to look floral in the yellow vines that are also part of the pattern.

The motives colours are apricot or maybe more a flamingo red, turquise and yellow on a black background and repeat the colours of the wings and make-up niceley.

Here are my shoes.

Again they are in my favourite colour, golden.

They are spooktaculair peeptoes with a big golden scarab on the front and studded straps that end in two bobs.

Well, this is the end of todays review.

I guess next week you will find another one.

Calaminthe could find many cute double and triple selves of some of us ghouls.

Just let yourself being surprised who it will be next week.

For this week, its time to say goodbye and wish you the usual

Have a majestic weekend and a royal week!

💝💋💝

Cleo deNile