Happy Halloween!

💀Happy Halloween!👻

Halloween Season Part 3

Hello Ghouls and Mansters,

Here is Cleo deNile with another weekly blogspot. The photo above had been made again on the little cementry in our hometown, I thought it would be a great location for showing my Halloween costume outdoors.

Before I start to show you Clawdeens last Halloween creation for this year, there are some announcements you already know, kind of.

1. We will change the blog's name soon. It will then be "Calaminthe's Clawdeen & Fashion Doll Friends", most likeley, or "Calaminthe, Cleo, Clawdeen & Fashion Doll Friends". First one is shorter, though... but I want to be part of the name, so its not decided.

2. Of course, the blog then will get a new header and a new logo.

3. That means, Clawdeen also will design new T-Shirts for future giveaways.

4. Other Fashion dolls also will be included in the blogspot. There are enough "normies" in Calaminthes home, and they would introduce themselves too, from time to time. Either in reviews, or as part of giveaways, or with new Fashion Clawdeen designs, or else.

5. Main ones, Calaminthe promised, still will be Monster High, especially Clawdeen and me.

These are the future plans, and we want to start next week with those changes.

But now back to this weeks theme.

Here is the third and last dress Clawdeen designed this year for Halloween, and it is:

IRIS CLOPS AS EYES GHOUL

This costume is a little bit simpler as the two ones before, and Iris didn't want accessories because she didn't want to ruin her hairstyle.

Clawdeen will be happy to hear that Iris loves the dress. She likes eye themed motives, and her original earrings fit the dress perfectly.

The main piece of the dress is a mini dress, made from black panne velvet. Clawdeen glued on as many eyes as could fit in different sizes.

She originally planned to place the eyes completeley all over the dress, but they fell off again and again, and still do, and she has to fix them each time, and then she suddenly saw that more of them also would look like too much.

Also, I agree with Iris that the dress looks better with the eyes just going over one of her shoulders, its more stylish.

At the bottom Clawdeen added two layers of black tull to give the dress a more spooktaculair, or party-like look.

The back is plain and closed with snap buttons.

And the black suits Iris very niceley, of course the eye theme as well.

Well, and that's all for today.

I hope you liked the blogspot and we would be happy to see you back here next weekend.

Have a majestic weekend and a royal week, and

HAPPY HALLOWEEN!

Bye,

💖💝💖

Cleo deNile

Halloween Season Part 2

Hello Blogmonsters,

It's Saturday and so its again time for a new blogspot.

I am sitting on a bench at the beach promenade in Olpe-Sondern and enjoing a dawn, dressed in my Halloween costume. I realized that I never made outdoor pictures wearing it, so here it is!

Today, I want to show you the second new Halloween costume I made this year.

Please enjoy:

VENUS as FLYTRAP!

Well yes, its no surprising costume for her, but of course it fits.

When finishing it with the orange and black fabric, I wasn't sure how it would match her colour scheme, but I have to say I love how it came out, and Venus told me she is very happy, and its absolute her!

Venus' long green and pink hair is hold by a big black ribbon with a black bow and a scullette ornament. The bow and the ornament I had saved from one of the german MH magazines a while ago.

The costume has two parts, a top and a skirt.

Here is the top.

The black dotted, orange cotton material is corseted with the same black satin ribbon I used for Venus' hair accessorie, in the same manner as Ghoulias Zombie Bride Dress I showed last week.

The wide skirt is mainly made from the same material, but it has a big mouth sewn under with white felt teeth and pink batic cotton material.

In there, and over the whole skirt, I glued on rubber flys to make it more look like a halloween costume.

As you may have seen, one of those also is glued to the top.

The back of the skirt has five fabric leafs glued on, plus a ribbon around the waist.

Both pieces are closed with snaps.

Here is the whole costume again, this time from the side.

And we are at the end of todays blogspot.

I hope you liked my costume idea.

Bye for today,

and as always,

 a fangtastic weekend and a clawsome week!

💚💜💚

Clawdeen Wolf

Halloween Season Part 1

Hello Blogmonsters,

Clawdeen Wolf here with another weekend blogspot!

Before I start into Halloween season, I want to say something.

Thank you very much to those readers who gave feedback to be on how it should go on with this blog. it meant a lot to me.

Some of your comments are not even answered, but I will do it soon.

So, this is how things will change from now on.

It seems that the ones who commented like the blog as it is, with english language, self made doll clothes, nature pictures and Monster High mainly.

And this is how I -MAINLY - will go on.

But also, you will be introduced to other dolls that live in this house together with me, like Barbie, Harry Potter, Lammily, Bratz, Flavas and more.

There will be a mixture of reviews and self made stuff. But there will also be Giveaways from time to time.

 The name of the blog will change a bit in close future.

We think of "Calaminthes Doll House"

"Calaminthes Fashion Doll Channel" or "Cleo, Clawdeen, Barbie, Lammily and more".

Its not yet decided.

One thing is sure: You will still find a lot of the stuff you like.

Rest of October is already planned. All with Monster High. And I want to begin right now.

As I told you, I worked on some more Halloween Costumes for some of the Monster High Ghouls.

Today, I want to show you the first one of them, and until Halloween, you will find out which other ideas I came up with.

Now, here is:

HALLOWEEN BRIDE GHOULIA YELPS

This Halloween Costume is inspired by Tim Burton's Corpse Bride as well as by Morticia Addams dress, from the Addams Family.

Here is a picture of the back.

The dress mainly is made of a white jersey with a lace layer.

It has zombie like frings at the bottom and the long sleeves and a goth style.

The bodice is laced up with white ribbon on silver rings, with a bow at the bottom.

The veil is simple. It has an egg shape mainly, but I cut frings in the bottom part.

It is fixed on Ghoulias head with a rubber band hair accessory.

Calaminthe found three of these hair accessories at TEDI Germany. There are flowers all around the rubber, and there had been three different hairbands in the pack:

One white, one light blue and the third sky blue.

I took the white one and cut of some of the plastic "crystals" who had been holding the flowers, so that there had been just 5 left over, and I changed some of the white ones against some of the lighter blue.

And yes, that's it for today.

For next week, I planned to show you the second MH Halloween costume I designed this year.

I hope you liked this one.

For the ones who like my crochet pumpkin dress too, there is a tutorial how you can do it.

Here it is in english language:

Clawdeens Pumpkin Dress

Und hier in deutsch:

Clawdeens Kürbiskleid

Thank you, again, for your feedback. it was very important for me, it always is. Its good to get some feedback from time to time.

But also I want to thank my silent readers, without you the blog also wouldn't exist anymore.

CALAMINTHE IS BRAINSTORMING ABOUT THE FUTURE OF THIS BLOG.

Hello everybody, here is Calaminthe doing the weekly blogspot today.

There is some important stuff I'd like to discuss with you, important for future blogspots. I really would love to read what you think about this and that, before making a descision. If you are still interested in what I do, please read it all:

- Well, I decided to blog on next weekend. There are several things I can post, either reviews or Halloween Fashion.

- Today, I brainstormed which of my MH dolls are not yet pictured in Group Photos, and there are a lot. Some of them even are not here anymore in the original versions, but I still have the fashion. So, there is much, much photowork to do, still! Much stuff for Photo Specials in the future.

- I didn't plan a Halloween Giveaway this year. There is not enough stuff to give away. Maybe we will have enough at Christmas, but that also depends on how big the interest will be, and how much money I can spend on international shipping.

- For future Giveaways I'd like to know, if you would have interest in stuff for other dolls as well, like Barbie, Mc² and Lammily maybe. I still have a MC² doll I want to give away, but need to know how big the interest would be before changing everything.

- I also spend a lot of time with cleaning up my home at the moment and going through old stuff I eventually don't need anymore, and I found some cute things that are nice for Clawdeen and her Monster Friends as accessories for future monster fashion projects and also maybe for future Giveaways.

- Sometimes, I am not sure if I should go on blogging. There isn't much feedback anymore, I know that many MH fans already lost interest and during the last weeks, I am unsure if I should give up this Blog as it is and start on another, which then would be a mixed fashion doll review blog with just a little self made fashions, giveaways and other things. And that one would be in german too, there are already so many toy channels and blogs in english language.

- I's not that I don't care anymore about my international readers, I always was very prowd that so many people around the world seemed to like what I do and still are. I too still enjoy being part of all the international MH facebook groups, where I made great friends which I don't want to loose. But as I already said, there are already so many international doll and toy sides, especially some really great YouTubers who all do similar stuff.

For Germany, there are also some similar sides and channels, but not as much. Also, half of my readers ARE german, and I know they would feel more comfy having a blog in our mothers language.

- Its also a little bit tricky to blog since the laws about how to post things changed this year. There is so much one can do wrong, and I want to be a friendly blog, even for children, and not break any laws, of course. I don't sometimes dare to post links to other websites. I had many ideas how to go on just with MH in future, for example search pages where to get MH stuff yet, or maybe from time to time post cooking recipes that would fit the theme, but I don't know if I am allowed to. It is especially difficult when everything I do is written down in a language that is not my mothers language. To research words and phrases in english still is a big part of each weeks blogspot, and sometimes I am not really able to talk about what I want to, just because I don't know how to do it in a language that isn't mine and I learned when I was in school 35 years ago. Of course, though, its great to practice my english and communicate with people all around the world, always hoping to be better in future.

- It's not over yet as it is, I just brainstorm. Maybe next week I just go on as I always did, letting my Clawdeen and Cleo be the ones who talk and do things.

- If I would change, those two still would be two of the most important characters, but I also have so many other dolls that never had the chance to be "alive" or shown, like Barbies, a Lammily, Bratz Sasha, some few Disney characters and else. A short time ago, I bought some of the new Mattel Harry Potter dolls... there are endless possibilities.

I really would love to read what you think about all of this. Please comment, either on our facebook site or under the blog itselves.

Fall Outdoor Pictures

Hello Blogmonsters,

Another week has passed, and here is Clawdeen with another Saturday blogspot.

Well, weather was great the whole summer and most of fall too, so far, which meant, Calaminthe had a lot of time going out with the one or the other of us ghouls and make some new clawsome outdoor pictures.

I want to show some of them to you.

The above picture is number one.

As you can see on this one, she took me to an old cementry in Olpe, which never seems to be visited. Its in the middle of the town, and you really can make some nice pictures here.

Here is another one.

The other day Cleo was the one who was pictured at a walk. Here she is climbing a rock in the - also in the middle of the town - "Stadtwald", the "town wood", also called the "Gallenberg".

Here is another one. You see, this really is a little forest, no houses on the pictures, but they are close nearby.

The walk with Cleo ended in our little town park... its kind of too small to really call it a park, but there is this little pond, and there are nice possibilitys for some pictures, as you cann see here.

On another day Calaminthe went out with Draculaura, showing her one of the many woods near her home - its no act to reach them all without using a car or else.

On this picture Draculaura is resting lazily on a fallen down tree.

Here is a picture of her posing near an old treestump.

Another one, this time in front of a tiny little cave, maybe belonging to a wild animal...

And again one with Draculaura.

Here is one picture of Venus, resting on a wall under Olpes Witchtower.

Here is a picture of Frankie, also near the Witchtower, but this time on the upper side. Frankie is hanging on Olpes medieval townwall.

From there, you have a nice view over parts of our town. In the background you can see how close the woods are.

Here is another pic of Frankie from a slightly different view to focus more on the vines.

And here is Twyla. She is resting near our townhall, there is a nice little promenade one can walk.

Todasys last picture shows Twyla too, sitting on a sign explaining the nature in the brook called Olpe which gives our town its name. Maybe you can see a little bit water in the background, thats is another brook called "Günse" which meets the "Olpe" at this point.

Well, time to say goodbye for today.

I hope you liked the doll trips with Calaminthe in and near her and our hometown, Olpe.

Maybe the pictures inspired you to take your dolls on a walk and do some pictures too.

There are a million clawsome places out there that want to be explored by your own dollies.

A fangtastic weekend and a clawsome week,

💚💜💚

Clawdeen Wolf

REVIEW: Monstreous Rivals Draculaura

Hi all you ghouls and mansters out there!

I am Draculaura, and its review time again!

Today I want to present this look to you.

You will not get me as a single doll, because I am a part of the 

WELCOME TO THE MONSTER HIGH MONSTREOUS RIVALS BOX

See? Moanica D'Kay is part two of the double.

Here we are both still together in the box.

Here is a small review of the box.

Mainly it is pink and glittery, with the MH headline and logo at the right side, a "Welcome To The Monster High" banner and some ballons, the hint of the 2016 Boovie at one corner and some photobooth pictures of Moanica and me at the left.

At the back of the box you will find a big photo of Moanica and myself at the same festive party background, a picture of the school and a little bit story about what the DVD is about.

One side of the box is clear. At the other there are three more pictures of Moanica and myself plus again the MH logo.

Underneath the box you will find the small instruction that you are able to pull out and push back in the hand and ellbow joints of us dolls, together with firm infearmation.

Here you can see us two still pinned on the background display.

You will find a black scullette brush as part of us, which is really nice, but no doll stands and no diaries which had been part of earlier doll lines.

Well here are Monica and I together, freed from the display.

From now on the review will concentrate on me.

Moanica had a single version too which is identical to this one.

You will find her review by clicking on THIS LINK.

I really like this look. I don't know why, but it is not part of the 2016 MH boovie.

Mainly I am the vampire you know, with pale pink skin, black and pink hair and the signature heart on my cheek.

On this picture and on the one above you can see that my hair is styled to a ponytail that is a little bit on the right side. My bangs too are combed to this side and sprayed down.

I am wearing smooth blue eye shadow and grey khajal. My lips are hot pink.

This picture is about my accessories.

I come with a pink little purse that has the shape of a vampire mouth with fangs and a bat handle at the top.

You also can see that I have earrings with hearts motive and a batwinged heart bracelet and belt, all in light blue.

The dress I wear has a mesh collar part and is sleeveless.

The main dress is pink with a pattern of black flying bats that are outlined with blue. I really love it!

Todays last picture shows my boots. They are high and black and have bat motive details. I really love to have these!

And now it's time to say goodbye.

I hope you liked the little review. Moanica won't be happy not to be reviewed again in detail, but duh! She is not my beastie. The pack is called MONSTREOUS RIVALS for a reason, you know.

So,

have a vamptastic weekend and a fangtastic week,

💗💕💓

Draculaura