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Even though Lawrence was very busy attending to affairs of state,  he always set aside some time every day to spend alone with his beloved Monica.  They both enjoyed taking a walk together ... and would often take the dog along.  Yes, they could have had one of the servants do it....  But it was the perfect excuse to take a walk...  and spend some quiet time alone together. 
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I spent the past two weeks photographing the last two parts of a story I started way back in 2012, and will be posting in the upcoming weeks. One of the scenes is a wedding. It involved all my non-fashion-size MSD dolls, and since several of them usually live in contemporary times, they needed to borrow some fancy Medieval gowns from their fashion size friends. Then after finishing photographing the actual wedding, I thought some of the ladies deserved a few special photos of their own....  Benny, Kassia, and Iris looked beautiful in their borrowed gowns...  I love how my ladies can share outfits, and like usual Kassia offered her elaborate white gown to the bride. So she deserved something special...
Benny looked beautiful in purple...  ...and Iris looked stunning in Naomi's wedding gown....
  Three lucky little girls had the opportunity to play with Jan's Hallmark house ornament collection....      And finally the last of the fairytales I drew from my little sister to colour so many years ago....             Unfortunately that was the last drawing I did, and the story was never finished, so the ending was left to the imagination. But since all the other stories had a happy ending, this one probably would have as well. *I've put all the stories in an album in Favourite Photos & Stories 2026... so you can revisit them to get a chuckle at any time... Ye Olde FairytalesOne more fairy tale which I drew for my sister to colour back when I was a teen.....         to be continued....I had Sarah and Elliot Henri standing on my workspace looking so beautiful together that I wanted to take some portrait shots of them together with our Christmas tree in the background. Since the tree is partially in front of a window, the photos needed to be taken at night so the tree wouldn't just be a silhouette against a washed out white background. But night shots provide their own special lighting challenge. So, that evening I cleared off the end of my work table and moved it further into the room, posed the dolls, lit the candles, and tried taking a few photos with just the ambient room lighting...  But I didn't like how the wall light to their left turned everything yellow and washed out their faces. So I hauled over a photography light (standing off screen to the right) which casts a white light  ..and reshot the photos with the much better, more natural lighting....  Some special holiday photos of Sarah and Elliot Henri....     I had needed a stable for a couple of new scenes for the Christmas at the North Pole book, so had set one up on the dining room table....   It worked so well in photos, that I thought I'd use it for some other scenes as well, including Baron and Naomi and their children. But all the Christmas decorations had to go first...  I had put the stable together using all kinds of stuff I had on hand. I used a different fabric to cover the table, and used a mix of different wall units for the walls. The horse's stalls were suggested by using the styrofoam arch and pillars set against the wooden 'cathedral railing', and the wooden dividers of the stalls themselves were the head and footboards from Baron and Naomi's bed.  Then I added props one might find in a stable. I had purchased small bales of hay at Michaels years ago for some Halloween photos, and kept them in a large zip lock bag. Several had fallen apart over the years, and I sprinkled the loose hay all over the floor. After finishing the photography, I gathered up most of the bits of hay to save for future use, (yes, I keep EVERYTHING) and then vacuumed up the rest, as well as the dining room floor, and other rooms in my house that the bits of hay had wandered into.  |
AuthorMartha Boers is an award-winning Canadian doll maker and costumer specializing in fantasy and historical-style costumes. Archives
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