This is a fairly quick return to an older doll subject, and won't be a long post, but I'd promised it in the review itself.
Mattel's Skullector edition of banshee Scarah Screams is a doll who celebrates the festival of Imbolc, a Celtic marker of springtime. I didn't realize it, but she was actually dropped and shipped at about the right time to commemorate the holiday, as she was in buyer's hands before Imbolc's date of February 1...but even February 1 would be well ahead of any spring feeling where I live, and I'm surprised it's so early in Ireland as well, since it's halfway between seasonal equinoxes, and I can't imagine Ireland is any springier at that time.
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| Scarah couldn't get her springtime on at the time I got her. |
I made do with fake plants and some patterned backdrops and photo backdrops in January, but sufficient real verdant scenery to shoot the doll against was always the goal. I upheld my IOU to take Scarah around.
Here she is against a tree, with the sky edited greener. This creates quite a fantastical bright faerie feel, I think.
I got a few pictures of Scarah in patches of green leaves.
I got some moodier pictures at the base of a tree.
Then I sat her in the branches, and got my resplendent cover photo.
Scarah is still a beautiful doll with inexcusably messy hair quality. I also need to get some thin black elastic cord to loop through her headband so I can keep it tight on her head. For now, though, I'm pleased to have gotten some pretty springtime fantasy photos with her.
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