Meowlody and Purrsephone

About a week or so before Christmas I was doing some looking on Toys R Us to find a price of a My Little Pony item I'm interested in, so I can write a blog about it here. However when I got online I decided  to check through Monster High to see if they had anything new. The thing that caught my eye though wasn't new, it was a restock for the holiday season of an exclusive doll set! I immediately ordered the dolls and they came in a couple days before Christmas.

Meowlody & Purrsephone

These two werecat sisters were an exclusive released back in April and were quickly sold out online. Their prices had gone through the roof on Amazon, but are now back down to a normal price which you can get by clicking on the link above.  If you are wanting to get it through Toys R Us's website, click here. Either way you'll get a beautiful set of dolls, and both ways of ordering it are pretty smooth and painless.

This set, because it is a double pack, does not come with everything they usually come with. For example,they do not come with stands for the dolls nor do they come with brushes.  Another noticeably lacking item is a pet for them, however it is explained within their Bio why there wasn't one. They had a bird years ago but one of them had developed an allergy so they had to give the bird away. So that seems to be the reason the dolls have no small pet with them, they probably won't until in the stories they get another if they do end up getting a pet. They only come with one diary, the twins have both 'written' in it instead of having two different ones. Out of all the things the doll set is missing, I wish they would have gotten stands with them, they won't stand up on their own unless their tail is against something.

Even with the lack of a stand, so many dolls come with them that don't need them it would be easy to get another doll's stand for them. I have not tried using another stand with them yet, but their tail seems to be different from the other werecat Toralei's, so I don't believe the tail would cause too much of a problem with a stand. The tail can move in a full 360 making it much easier to move out of the way if it is causing a problem. The dolls have beautiful hair that doesn't have the problem of falling out as certain dolls do such as Abbey, however they do have had parts glued together. The main part is their striped streak, however I have found another random part of their hair being glued as well which may just be a factory error with my dolls. Their outfits as always are well made, the twins proving to be like yin and yang with the opposite patterns and colors.  They both have a glove on one hand along with a bunch of bracelets on that arm, with the other only having one bracelet. Their style is rather unique far as Monster High dolls and is an interesting concept,  though their purses follow the usual  theme of the doll with these being red yarn balls.

All in all these are beautiful dolls and the only version of these characters out so far. I highly recommend getting them for your ghoul's collection,  they are well worth the price.

Monster High Scrapbook Kit

During this time of the year many people take hundreds of pictures of friends and family, of events and special times. A lot of people turn to scrapbooking afterwards, and your ghoul can too with the small scrapbooking kit.

Monster High Scrapbook Kit

I found this kit at Dollar General for five dollars, and it seems one of the few places to get it online is from amazon which you can find through the link above.  This kit is for doing scrapbooking on your wall, which makes it great for decorating your ghoul's wall with memories and Monster High. In this kit according to the front you get 60 pieces, most of it is actually the stickers that come with the set.

Above is what you get, though there is also a black and blue heart that is themed after Frankie Stein. It comes with two frames, which I tried to show by laying them on top of some of the sheets. It also comes with 4 scrapbook sheets, 3 being squares and the 4th being the heart I mentioned earlier.The rest of the pieces are gems, markers, and a variety of stickers which include the sparkling blue sheet. It is not visible from the picture but it is actually a sticker sheet with a variety of character themed stickers such as lightning bolts for Frankie, a pawprint for Clawdeen, and a bat for Draculaura.  The frames have a sticky side on them so you can hang them up, however the sheets do not come with a sticky side. I am not sure how they expect you to use it to scrapbook on your wall unless they want you to tape everything up. The way the scrapbook package is packed up is a rather big pain really, everything is in a small flat box in a tray you can pull out. However everything is taped together leaving you with scotch tape trying to stick to other parts of the kit if you don't use it all right away.

This kit is a cute thing to get for your ghoul to finish off your Monster High Christmas, especially if you can find it at a dollar general store.  I would recommend getting this set even if its just to take the set apart to use for other things, such as the stickers for other projects or the frames and sheets to decorate other things.

Monster High Craft Ideas for Christmas

If you want to fill your ghoul's Christmas with Monster High cheer, then one of the biggest things you can do is Monster High based crafts!

4 Cookie Cutters out of a set of 18

One of the things done most often during Christmas is baking cookies. However did you know you can bake Monster High themed cookies? All it takes is getting cookie cutters to do the special shapes for the cookies. One of the best ways to do this is to get Halloween cookie cutters, many will fit different things dealing with Monster High. There are several different sets out there but one I would recommend getting is the Wilton Halloween Metal Cookie 18-Piece Cutter Set . In this set there are several different shapes that can be used for Monster High cookies, and would be fun for your Ghoul to decorate. These cookies can be made with any recipes you want of course, and if you want to decorate them whatever you choose for it would work as well. There are several other sets of Halloween Cookie cutters out there such as these and these.

Clear Ornaments

Another craft you can do with your kids is make ornaments for the Christmas tree with them. There are several different ways you can do it, for one you can get clear ornaments and Monster High stickers to put on them. If they are ornaments that are clear, you can also take the top off to fill them with glitter to match the Monster High look. The ornaments above I got from Hobby Lobby, though there are several sets on Amazon such as these.  Also far as the stickers go there is a large variety of what you can get, the ones pictured above are actually from an item I will be writing about in my next blog. However other sets you can get include these and these. Another thing you can use with these clear ornaments is decorative tape, such as this Monster High Tapeffiti 5 pack , I personally have never used Tapeffiti before but from what I am seeing it is like scotch tape just with pretty designs on it.

A second ornament idea would require using the photo cards your child gets with the dolls, or even finding the images online to print out will work. You can make a simple frame ornament with craft sticks , the picture, craft glue , and a picture frame hanger . One way you can do it is just make a frame with the sticks, glue them together and then glue the card to the back with the hanger. Depending on the size of your picture you may want to cut the craft sticks in half so they will fit the picture better.Another way you can do it is to double the frame so there is space at the top to just slide the picture in without having to glue it in place. There is a variety of ways you can do this ornament,and you can decorate the frame in any way you and your ghoul want.

Finally a craft you can do to make your Ghoul's Christmas Monster High filled, is one that you have to do yourself unless of course your Ghoul is an adult. You can do a Monster High stocking for them, with one of your regular stockings and a Monster High iron on transfer. There are a few different ones available on Etsy, however there is a website specializing in iron on transfers with many different Monster High ones here.

I hope these craft ideas will help you fill your Ghoul's holiday with Monster High Cheer~! I have done two other blogs to give ideas, one being about stocking stuffers and the other about wrapping paper.

Monster High Wrapping Paper

Hey welcome to the second week of Holiday ideas to make your little ghoul's holiday monster high filled! This week there is Monster High decorated presents!

Monster High Wrapping Paper

Above is a square of wrapping paper I cut out from a tube I bought off amazon, link above. The graphics on it are great, featuring the torn ghoul design they have used on random items including a pencil case that was available when school supplies were being sold. The graphic sadly does not include my favorite monsters, such as Abbey and Spectra, but it does have the group that usually shows up on merchandise. Its standard wrapping paper that comes on a 30 inch tube, the total amount you get is 12.5 square feet.There are also a variety of gift bags that I haven't gotten, but I imagine are the same as regular gift bags of course, here and here.

These things will help make your ghoul's holidays a monster high one! Make sure to check back next week for the next holiday tip!