#WAS SO SCARED OF CLAWDEENS HAIR it’s so long in this set

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Got the ghoul spirit pack finally since I was waiting for it to go on clearance again ^^ I have so many plans 4 them and I feel much more comfortable restyling them since they were cheaper.

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Final part of my Collection, Group photos! I mean, they’re all group photos but these are ones that fit better outside the other groups.

As always photo ids in alt.

The Wolf Fam. Basic Clawd, Frights Camera Action Clawdia, Dance Class and Ghoul Fair Howleen. Not a day goes by where I don’t miss Howleen’s original orange hair colour.

Basic Torelei Stripe, Zombie Shake Purrsephone and Meowlody, and Basic/Scaris Catrine Demew. Catrine’s hair is a hard mess and I have no clue how to fix it

My Hybrids and Fusions. Clawvenus, Lagoonafire, Dracubecca, Cleolei, Sirena von Boo, Neighthan Rot and Avea Trotter. It’s been so long Neighthan’s hair elastic cracked and broke while I was unpacking them.

All the rest of my boys. Ghoul Spirit SloMo, Save Frankie Jackson Jekyll, Basic and Scaris Deuce Gorgon, Basic Invisibilly, and Ghoul Fair Heath Burns. I had completely forgotten I got Billy until I started looking for my MH stuff

Characters I only have one doll of. Basic Nefera, Casta Fierce, Marisol Coxi, Gala Elle Eedee, Field Trip Gigi Grant, Sweet 1600 C.A. Cupid, Basic Rochelle Goyle, Frights Camera Action Viperine Gorgon, Basic/Scaris Jinafire, New Scaremester Twyla Boogeyman, Gala Mouscedese King, and Lorna McNessie. I wish I could’ve gotten a less crowded picture but the middle row was hard to pose

Great Scarrier Reef Toralei, Kala Mer’ri, Posea Reef, Peri and Pearl Serpentine, Draculaura, Clawdeen, and Frankie. If I can find Lagoona I will finally have at least one complete line.

My Create a Monsters. The Vampire, The Sea Monster, The Witch, Deluxe Inner Monster and the Skeleton, Bee Girl, Triclops, and Ghost Girl add on packs. I’ve always loved CAM and I Hope they bring it back even if I never mix n matched the pieces. I also have the whole Cat Girl but she’s been co-opted by a Very Special Ghoul.

This is The Very Special Ghoul in question. I wanted to get into doll customizing but didn’t have the skills or focus at the time to do it. But I didn’t care much for the Cat Girl CAM, mostly because of the ears being clips it made the whole thing look bad so I took her and turned her into the only Successful Custom I’ve ever done, modmads humanized Notebook from Dont Hug Me I’m Scared. I love her too much to just set her back to rights so once I get a spare body I’m going to recreate her. I have a spare head and the yarn hair should be moveable. Her dress is completely hand made and she’ll need new shoes as her current ones belong to the Bee Girl add on pack and she’ll be getting them back.

And finally all my Thrift Finds. Amanita needs a reroot and most of her accessories, her previous owner also cut her basic dress. A bare mouscedese im debating customizing or turning into her city ghouls look, SKRM Lagoona, I found her entire outfit for $10 so all she needs is her forearms and a reroot and she’s good as new (a victim of my customizing attempts), Gloom Beach Jackson who’s missing all but his swimtrunks, a bare wave 2 Draculaura missing her forearms, Dead Tired Ghoulia probably in the best shape only missing her slippers glasses and brain puffs. Classroom 2-pack Ghoulia who may need a reroot and definitely needs that ink removed from her face. I think I could make her a new lab coat at least as well (I’d also like to find her the matching Cleo). Ghouls Getaway Elissabat in decent shape, only missing a few accessories im hoping to find, and a spare Ghouls Alive Clawdeen that I put one of Clawdeens last fashion packs onto but it looks Weird to me due to her head.

And that’s everyone so far. I’m hoping to expand my collection more now that I’m finally getting a decent job and have access to online shopping. I’m also excited to add the Gen3 ghouls to my collection. I love Monster High!!!

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I meant to post this yesterday but I crashed before I was able to proofread it. Also please ignore the state of my nails, trimming them is a sensory nightmare and I have a bad habit of putting it off for too long.

These are the dolls I got from eBay. The first group is a batch of five, the listing said MH but two weren't - still bought it since the dolls looked nice.

I was disappointed that this Draculaura was a post-reboot doll with less articulation but a doll's a doll. Her head is on super loose and loves to look backwards. Looking at her with fresh eyes it looks like her head might have been pressed down too low, so I might be able to fix that?

2008 Clawdeen, her joints are super loose and handling her scares me because of that.

Mermaid Toralei, unfortunately missing her back fins but otherwise in good enough condition.

Madeline Hatter from EAH, I couldn't get her coat off without ripping her hands out but thankfully they snap right back in. The sculpted on leggings and gloves are... interesting. I can work with that though.

A Barbie. Love the scrubs but the face is a pretty small canvas to work with.

I also bought a single head on eBay so I could have a fitting sculpt to work with.

Casta Fierce, listed as for OOAKs only. Probably chopped the hair off to dissuade collectors from buying, feels pretty spiteful tbh. Plus I could have saved that hair to use on a different OOAK, I'm thrifty! Still, it's a more mature face with a more neutral expression, just what I needed.

I had one more order arrive today yesterday, though not from eBay.

Hair for my first project, from RestoreDoll.com. The photos on their site aren't too good, the blue is darker than I expected, but I still ended up with a perfect color combo!

Lastly, I bought some dolls at a thrift shop thinking my my orders wouldn't arrive a day early in order to give myself something to do today yesterday.

No known brand and minimal articulation, but their face sculpts are pretty cute and their dresses would be too if made of nicer materials. They're only a tad bigger than the other dolls I bought, so tweaking patterns between the sets won't be too hard.

All in all a good haul. I do have an order coming in from Etsy, including supplies I couldn't find in stock anywhere else but I didn't order at the time to avoid breaking the picket line, and hair for a project I didn't think of until later.

EDIT: @spooky-pens​ has IDed the last trio of dolls as Hairdorables, big thank you to them!