Monster Crafts

Happy February, doll-friends! I'm so glad January is finally over, as it felt for me that it lasted for way too long.  Today's post is going to be short and sweet, but I just wanted to share with you my latest Video Tutorial. It's one of those "Boho landscapes" you see trending on Pinterest, this time in green tones. You might remember that I painted a similar one in warmer tones back in 2022 (check it out here ). This time, I made it using green tones. I don't know what it is, but lately I'm obsessed with green. Check it out I hope you enjoy the video. If the embedded coded doesn't work, you can watch it here . Please subscribe to my channel if you haven't already and like the video. If you could share it with others it would be very helpful. I'd love to get to 100 subscribers before the end of the year. A little secret about this painting: it's not the one I had originally planned to make. I did try to paint something else, but it ended u...

Happy 2025 dolly-friends! Long time, no see.  I have been very quiet since my last post in October 2024. You might already know I've been busy with both my job and my German classes. But apart from that, I also haven't been very motivated to work on anything doll related. I haven't done a Christmas-related post for the first time since 2020. I had my German test right before Christmas, which took a lot of my time then. But even when they were done, I just didn't have the energy to come up with any photoshoot ideas. Well, hopefully this year I will find the right motivation for it when the time comes.  Back in November I started working on a new wall for my dioramas, but it didn't work out as I planned. I tried twice, and both times I faced issues. I thought of trying a new material for this, but I searched high and low in my area and couldn't find it. I was on holiday that week and didn't want to order online for it to arrive at a later time, and then be sit...

This was definitely not the post I was planning to make, but turns out it was the post that I felt like writing. To be fair, I have been very busy with both work and my German classes. On top of that, I've had doctor appointments and other things that have kept me busy, so I haven't had much time to work on anything doll-related, despite how much I wanted to. Since it hasn't been possible to make any sort of craft project, I thought it could be a good idea to do a short doll review, because those are much easier to do, and I have a ton of dolls sitting in their boxes. Today is finally time to review Barbie Looks #16, which came out ages ago, but I really want to talk about her. Mr. Monster bought her as a gift, but I can't remember if it was for my birthday or for Christmas. Anyway, she's been sitting in her box for way too long. This doll came out with the third wave of Barbie Looks. Contrasting with the first two waves that had more muted color schemes, this wave ...

Hello again doll friends! I can't believe I've managed to find time to post twice in a month, even if this is a short post.  As I mentioned on my Board and Batten tutorial , I wanted to make at least two more walls with that same design. Since I had already done this for the blog, I thought it would be a good idea to make a video for my YouTube channel, which hasn't been updated in over a year.  The footage isn't great, but I hope it's helpful. It is quite hard to film while working on a larger project like this. Smaller projects like the miniature paintings were so much easier! Mr. Monster did help me a bit this time around, so I could get a better angle.  I painted this wall in the color Blue Harbor by Americana Acrylics . I personally love the color blue, even though it's not super trendy right now. I don't know about you, but I feel like the combination of the board and batten + the color gives the wall a coastal vibe. Let me know what you think.  I wo...

Hello and welcome back to a new post on the Travelling dolls series, a series where I take my dolls with me on trips and talk a bit about the places that I visit. This is the third post of this series, and so far you seem to enjoy these type of posts.  This year I won't have any holidays from work until September, so we weren't planning to travel this summer. However, it turns out that there were two days of bank holiday falling on Thursday and Friday, so we had a nice mini-holiday of 4 days. This is long enough for a quick escapade to somewhere that isn't too far away. So, we picked Teruel, which is roughly 3 hours drive from where we live. Teruel is the capital of the province of Teruel, Aragón. Teruel is well known for its gastronomy, being very popular the ham from there (jamón de Teruel). It's also well known for it's beautiful towns and the mudejar style buildings that still remain ( Read more about Mudejar architecture  in this article from UNESCO ) . We do ...