3-eyed Demon & Julie the Fairy

I'm combining my next two babies because they both happened while I was in between cameras. I apologize for the crappy cell phone pictures that are the result.

An online friend had asked about purchasing Lilith right after she sold. She was in the market for a demon doll for her teenager's birthday. I decided to make another Crowley-type doll but wanted him to be a little different and thought a third eye would look really cool. Rather than just glue a plastic eye on the forehead, I took inspiration from an episode of Angel that has Cordelia growing an eye out of the back of her head. I thought the lids looked gross and cool all in one and that was what I went for here.

Julie the fairy came about basically because I hadn't yet done a purple baby nor had I attempted a fairy. She was named after a friend who found a doll for me to "improve" and sent along to me ~ that doll eventually became Baby Jake the werewolf ;) It took some trial and error to find wings that would work. I finally found some white ones ~ most likely for turning dolls and teddy bears into angels *giggle* and spray painted them black. Julie has black detailing, two different colored eyes and pointy fairy ears in addition to the wings. Her new owner changed her name to Veronica and has helped me out with a few pictures that you will see in a later post.

Even though I can't share clear, sharp photos here ~ I did love the way both Horror Babies turned out!

Boris the Mummy

Wow, I need to get my arse in gear and start posting on here more regularly. I'm way behind!

I don't know exact time frames anymore ~ like if I made this baby exactly right after Jake the werewolf. But...eh...close enough. LOL

Boris started out as the usual, larger Berenguer baby. I knew early on that I planned to make a mummy baby and the gauze maybe didn't turn out exactly like I envisioned it, but I still love the final product!

Being that Boris is an old, crumbly mummy ~ he is missing some body parts! His nose of course:

And some fingers

And toes

And half an ear

I used dark gray paint on him that turned out to be a beautiful color. I used regular medical guaze you can buy by the roll at a pharmacy. And the end result was a cuter, happier looking baby than I could have imagined!

Boris now lives with his brother Jake and his sister Lilith in California.

Lilith

Lilith happened when I had a few requests to make another demon baby & I was standing in front of my paints and thought "Hmmm...a pink baby would be cute!"

Lilith is smaller than the other babies. She is a 10 inch Berenguer instead of 14 inch. But she still has that adorable chubbiness! ;-)

Lilith is painted pink with black accents. The trio of horns was just to try something different and they are stubby little horns because I felt like they would look better on her shorter frame. I love the way the black horns and tail contrast with her pink "skin".

Lilith's eyes were replaced with bright blue cat's eyes. I think the combination of the cat's eyes and her expression make her look oh so cutely devilish! The cat style eyes are awesome because they are the kind that makes the baby look as if it is looking at you, no matter what position it is in.

Being that pink is my FAVORITE color, Lilith was a hard one to let go. But she has an awesome family now, in California and even lives with two of her brothers (who will be in future posts).

Dante

Dante is the baby who escaped from hell or the "maggoty" baby ;p

When I first picked up Dante, I had intended for him to be a werewolf baby, but that didn't work out and you'll see the werewolf baby in a later post.

I don't remember what started Dante on his final look. I think it was his eyes. I wanted to do something different than the red eyes I had been doing and I had the idea to have one empty eye socket or to have an eye hanging out of the socket somehow. I experimented with seeing if I could melt the "skin" around the eye and was pleasantly surprised by how cool the vinyl looked as it bubbled and melted and that developed into his whole body look.

Dante was the most painful baby I've made ~ my fingers were killing me after a few burns! I was using one of those long lighters ~ the kind you use to light a barbeque. It has a child safety device that means you have to press really hard and after a short time it got very difficult to hold down long enough to make the scorch marks. But I kept going and finished up for the night, all excited with how he looked. Then I woke up the next morning with blisters all over my fingers from holding the stupid lighter! LOL So finishing Dante up had to take a few extra days ;)

At first, I just thought it would be cool to have a maggot or two crawling out of Dante's messed up eye. Then, after I made a few, I decided that maggots all over his body would be super gross and way awesome. The maggots are made with Milliput clay, then painted and superglued to the body. The flash kind of blew out the white, but they aren't quite as bright and white as they look. I only painted them one layer so they kept some of the green of the clay and look kind of dirty.

I finished Dante with a snake that goes in through a hole in his ear and out through his empty eye socket. I don't have a clue where that idea came from, but I loved the way it looked! I would have preferred a more realistic looking color for a snake than purple, but it was the only one I could find that was the right size.

Dante went with George the zombie to a new home in Germany! He is probably my grossest baby so far ~ people *really* don't like maggots ;) and I think he's great because his look was totally random and just came together perfectly.

George the Zombie

After Ben decided he was going to be a lizard-type baby instead of a zombie, I still needed to create a zombie baby to sell.

This is George before I got my hands on him:

I had planned all along to give George a wicked cut on his cheek, but it was my son who gave me the leg idea. He mentioned it would be cool if I could make a doll that had its leg or arm cut off and bone sticking out. I still want to explore a severed limb with jagged bone remaining, but I did George's leg with clay and loved how it turned out.

George is painted with a medium green base with black, red, and white accents. His leg stump and face gash are both polymer clay and he has red plastic eyes. He wound up being one of my favorite dolls (still!) because his facial expression makes him look so darn fun and cute, even with his obvious zombie-ish problems.

George now lives in Germany with his brother Dante. More on Dante in a future blog!

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Harmony

Harmony "before"

Harmony was supposed to be my "for sale" version of Lizzie. She started off with intentions of being a vampire, but along the way something changed.

She is painted white with red accents and red plastic eyes and has a couple of cute little sharp teeth on the bottom.

The eyes just seemed to need to be painted as they were, but when I was done it was my son, J.T., who told me he thought she was a banshee. I thought that sounded as good as anything ~ I had heard stories of banshees as a kid and I was SO GLAD our family didn't have one because the thought of a screaming or wailing banshee terrified me ;-) It wasn't until Harmony was finished and listed that I realized that she even fit the description to a tee. Banshees are supposed to be pale with red rimmed eyes because of their constant crying. Cool!

I struggled with a name for this banshee doll and it was my BOFF (best ONLINE friend forever) who came up with Harmony. It was a cute name for a ghost doll that screams and cries so I loved it.

Harmony went to live with a family in MI. She was the first of their HeavenLeigh Horror adoptions. As of this post, they now have 4 HLH dolls!

Harmony with Crowley: