PrettyTiny Film Company -- Alliecat's crew (Jan. 19)

[TrueFan]

Nice to see Red again. I was just looking at some of the photos I took of her in Chicago.

[Alliecat]

She sure got around.  I think travelling dolls are the coolest idea

It's that time again... Time for the legendary Best Party Ever... the PTFCo minis Christmas Party!  Yay!! 











It's fun to add Sunsette & Scarlett's PEI-souvenir scooter to the scene.  Thanks to top-heavy models and awkward angles, this one shot took 40 minutes to get set... and then I had to leave it cos stuff in the oven was done, and come back and actually shoot the pic after supper



The sweetest little choir voices!



Sooo many minis that we have an overflow party room!



Merry Christmas!

[Alliecat]

I took Petra & Celeste along housesitting.  Sit #1 was only 5 days including cleanup/departure day, and my departure was delayed both by an annoying dryer [insert rant about hi-tech wannabe-spaceship electronic washers & dryers] and by a photoshoot!
Sit #2 includes a cat who is into EVERYTHING, so all the dolls will have to stay packed away when not on camera.  Also the weather is not looking good, ex-pect to be iced in tomorrow, so here I am posting dolly photos at 10pm with no supper yet, because why get up early??


The weather was so gloomy the whole 5 days that I barely got any photos, of either cats or dolls.









A very precarious shoot balancing the tripod on the stairs.  I really liked the decorations in low light, but just couldn't make this one work as I wanted it.  Oh well!




Some of the hosts' cute decor.



So I had to shoot them with Rudolph out in the front yard before leaving!

[fishy]

Great photos!

[davidd]

The Legendary Best Party Ever looks as legendary as ever -- maybe even more so with the addition of the festive red motor-scooter!

The house-sits almost sound like more work than they're worth -- except I know how much it can be worth just to get out of the house and be someplace different. Yeah, "smart" appliances are dumb. Give me a simple timer and a start button.

The driftwood reindeer are certainly fun!

[TrueFan]

love their festive outfits!

[Alliecat]

The house-sits almost sound like more work than they're worth --

Not sure how that computes from what I wrote, but, while there are some bad ex-periences (the members' forum showcases what can go wrong), when you get a good one it's a nice change from the usual, you meet interesting people and have feline company, can ex!plore places without forking out for accommodation, and sometimes you get to stay in really cool places.  And do cool things, like, oh, let's say solar eclipses.  And it's a great feeling to know that people who have trusted you, a stranger, with their home and pets are then glad they picked you as a sitter: mission accomplished.


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Things To Do When Snowed In On A Housesit, #17.


It was soooooo quiet and peaceful here, down in a hollow surrounded by trees with no neighbours in sight, which was so wonderful, that the night it dumped a foot of snow I went out and spent about 1 1/2 hours making a snow cat! 



Turned into a lot bigger project than I planned when I started making a first little snowball.



It was So Bleepin Cold after that, highs around -14 and probably in the -20s with the wind chill, that I lasted 10 minutes and a half dozen pictures and that was it!  There's a cute little lighthouse in the yard, and on a couple of days there was a tiny bit of late sun.

[davidd]

The snow cat looks quite sizeable! A fun project as long as the sun was out.

Do you only house-sit for cats, not dogs?

[fishy]

The snow-cat! (♥u♥)

[Alliecat]

Yes, cats.  I'm not really a dog person.  Sat with a dog locally here a couple of times; she was very good and liked to jog with me.  It was kind of just a favour for the owners, acquaintances, and a paid sit.  Otherwise, it's always cats.  They can generally be left alone longer while you go ex-ploring, and don't have to be picked up after, let in & out 8x a day or walked for an hour 3x a day after 6am breakfast etc. And cats are so clean.
I actually made snow-cat in the dark.  It was just so peaceful with enormous snowflakes falling and so quiet.  And it wasn't hellishly cold like it turned a couple days later.

fishy, I'd happily send you our snow to make your own 

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Look how cute Yuki is out of her stock.  Most of the crew put on party outfits for Christmas.  (I wonder what Sofia the pirate would look like in a fancy gown )  I really should've waited for another day to do these in better light.  But it being all of 7 degrees on the back porch, I decided to shoot them anyway.





Samurai sisters?









All the Dals with their holiday outfits. 
This was an example of "difficulty of shot increases ex.ponentially with number of dolls", as they are a bit floppy and kept falling over, and then the wind would blow the backdrop...



They really are fun-loving; they just pretend they're grumpy...



I was too lazy to stick all the custom album covers back on.  They probably have different tastes than Dawn & Daesani anyway.  What do we suppose they'd like?

[TrueFan]

I love your fierce girls all glammed up!

[davidd]

Gorgeous blonde girl steals the show! What a fox!

The 1970s style stereo turntable (with a smoked plastic lid) looks impressively realistic!

[Alliecat]

The "Teeny Tiny Turntable" is great.  I bought it for the "Retro Memories" photo contest.  It plays bad tinny music from the 3 records.
Daesani is a fox   And once upon a time I didn't think that blonde wig would work for her, as she'd been a burgundy-redhead since shortly after she arrived.

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Early with pic-a-week this week.  We got a lot of snow last night.  No making of snow cats in this neighbourhood, sigh... Just a few quickie shots of Noelle out back.  I had thought of having her dancing in the snow, but it was so deep and she's so shiny new and clean, and the bottom of her slippers is felt, and I decided I didn't want to get her wet!  So a bunch of hand-held shots.




















All hand-held except this one, in which she is standing in a baking dish pushed into the snow.  Yes, I cheated with Photoshop to hide the edges.







Thanks for looking

[davidd]

These are "quickie shots?"

This is a stunningly beautiful series of snow photos, with perfect eksposure in all the highlights.

That you kept the hair and costume looking so nice while setting up scenes outside in the cold is astonishing to me.

I think maybe it's time for me to retire from dolly photography and defer to the masters of the art like yourself.