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#1Why are you called Ugly?

#2Will you ship or sale your dolls overseas?

#3Do you do custom/portrait dolls,if so what is the cost of them?

#4How do you get your eyes like that/where do you get them.

#5Why are your dolls so expensive?

#6What are your dolls made out of?

#7How long have you been making dolls?

#8What inspires you?

#9What was your first doll?

#10What is the price range of your work?

#11Can you teach/tell me about Satanism and or Voodoo?

#12How did you learn to do what you do?

#13How did you become a model?

#14How do you break into Alternative Modeling.

#15Do you do Lay Away on your work or can I work out a payment plan?

#16What does your Mother think of what you do?

#17Why do you make so much art featuring dead babies,don't you think that makes you a horrible person?

#18I'm doing a crappy no budget film,photo,website ect ect ect project,would you fly yourself out here on your own dime,do your own clothing and makeup,and be in the project for free?

#19I'm doing a crappy no budget film,photo,website ect ect ect project,would you give me some dolls,preferably the most expensive,hard to make and fancy ones you have?????

Why are you called Ugly?:I got that name because as a kid I tended to have a bad attitude and here down south instead of saying you are being bad or smart ass they say you are being "ugly",So because I tended to then and still do now behave that way people always said I was "being ugly" and the name stuck.

Will you ship or sale your dolls overseas?:Yes I'm more then happy to ship or sale something overseas.Just contact me through my CONTACT ME link of more info or a quote on shipping cost.

Do you do custom/portrait dolls,if so what is the cost of them?:I on occasion when time permits do make custom or portrait dolls,but I only make dolls of subculture people such as Punk Rockers,Glamrockers,Goths,Drag Queens or odd looking people in genral.Please make note that sometimes I get allot of doll orders so if you want a doll you may have to put money down to be placed on a waiting list to get one.I can do a doll of somebody as they look in their everyday life,but I prefer to make dolls in my style of doll making.As in the look of body rot/rigor mortis that all my dolls have.The price range of the dolls is, 500.00 for about a 19 to 20 inch doll,yes you can lay a way them,but is HAS TO BE FULLY PAID FOR IN A YEAR'S TIME.That price is for for a head only portrait.Meaning that I use generic porcelain hands and feet I pour and fire from a mold,but I sculpt the head from scratch.For head only type though it limits the costume to something that covers the parts where the arms feet are attached to the cloth body,such as long sleeve shirts and at least a skirt to the knnes.I can do a fully sculpted from scratch one but the price goes 100.00 up for those..The price can go up depending on if there is extra work involved like if I have to paint tattoos on the doll or if the costume is very elaborate.Also please make note that I am NOT Mattel,I make everything by hand,it can take me 4 months or more to finish a custom doll,so if you are in a hurry go buy a doll somewhere else.If you would like to see some examples of my fully sculpted portrait work you can check out these links Batty doll,the pic of the Batty doll is the one in the middle on the second row naturally next to the photo of Batty,Astaroth doll,Astaroth is a demon in the book of the Goetia,Twiggy doll, Caleb Storms doll and Divine doll.If you'd like more info on portraiture you may e-mail me.You can also inquire if I'm free to do them at the present time or if you can have your name placed on the waiting list to get one.To start on a doll I ask that you at least put a deposit of 50.00 down on the doll before I start.I will also need you to send me a few photos of the person the doll will be of from looking straight ahead,from the left and right sides and also looking down on the person's face,I will also need a photograph either snail or e-mailed to me of the person in the outfit you wish to have the doll in.There is no refunds of custom dolls or any of my dolls.

How do you get your eyes like that/where do you get them.:Contacts,AND yes they hurt and YES they are expensive and YES they are hard to get in.I get them from my Optometrist who custom makes them for me because I have

astigmatism in my eyes.So I don't know what company's sell them or where you can order them.P.S. Get your own goddamn look!

Why are your dolls so expensive? :Why are you so damn ignorant of art?My dolls are not expensive,especially my custom work,most other doll makers charge well over a thousand dollars for custom work.I do EVERYTHING by hand on my doll from sculpting,wig making and costuming.When you take into account the work and labor I put into them and the cost of the supplies they are VERY REASONABLY priced.

What are your dolls made out of?:I work mainly in Polymer Clay and Paper Mache but I will use just about anything that is strong and that I'm intrigued by working with.

How long have you been making dolls?:I made my first doll when I was around 16 and started trying to do it professionally at about 19.

What inspires you?:I'm pretty much a true surrealist in the fact that most of my work is dream inspired .Most of my work are things I see in dreams or because of my heavy involvement in the occult and Voodoo are things that are occult inspired.I believe some of my work is a voice for the dead.

What was your first doll?:My Cripple doll was the first doll I ever made.It was made as a birthday gift for my mother who has always collected spooky dolls and Halloween toys.

What is the price range of your work?From about 30.00 to around 500.00.It depends on what the dolls is and how much work and materials go into it.

Can you teach/tell me about Satanism and or Voodoo?:If you want to know about Satanism I suggest you go to www.churchofsatan.com that is what it is there for.

As far as for Voodoo or Santeria theses are good sites to visit for voodoo go here for Santeria go here.I'm a very busy person so I don't have time to answer people asking things like "what does Satanism mean to me",so please check those sites for answers to your questions.

How did you learn to do what you do?:I'm totally self taught with all my arts.I think art is something you are just born with.

How did you become a model?:Hell if I know.People just started taking pic's of me I guess because I was the weird girl that makes the spooky dolls.

Do you do Lay Away on your work or can I work out a payment plan?:Yes just contact me for info on lay away or a payment plan.

What does your Mother think of what you do?She is actually my manager and is extremely supportive of what I do.Since I can remember my mother was "goth" so unlike most children my unusual behavior and creative ideas were allowed to flourish.

How do you break into Alternative Modeling.I actually don't have a clue.I never wanted to be a model or even entertained the notion of becoming one.I got into it because people just started talking my pic because most of them knew about my dolls,so they liked my art and wanted to take a pic of the weird girl that makes the weird dolls.It was a really good *and free* way to get publicity for my dolls and art so that is why I kept doing it and still do it to this day.

The best advice I can give to any "aspiring model" is *I KNOW it sounds corny as hell* but be yourself.Don't try and be a bad or even good knock off or copycat of your fave model or rock star,because not only is that TACKYYYYY,but why would somebody want to take a pic of a bad copy of So and So when they could just go get the real thing.Plus you will piss off the model you copied real bad if they catch you stealing their look or concept.

Also get yourself a online modeling portfolio Wicked Talent is a good place to build yourself one or Model Mayhem ,but if you ask my two cents,Wicked Talent is better because it's only Alternative types on there,plus it's a small close net group so you are less likely to run into a dangerous person on there that is just posing as a photographer or model.The woman that runs Wicked Talent, Donna Ricci is a ALT model herself and a sweet lady to book so I highly recommend Wicked Talent.It's about 30.00 a year or 5.00 a month to have a WT profile so it's also inexpensive.

To set yourself up a portfolio you will need at LEAST 3 decent pic's of yourself.So either get a friend with a bit of talent with the cam to take your pic or dig around for photography students in your area that would be willing to do TPF which is trade or time for prints,in other words you model for them for free and they in turn let you use the photos for your portfolio.Once you have some pic's in your portfolio you can get on say the Wicked Talent casting board and see what photographers are in your area or will be in your area,then you can inquire with them if they would like to shoot with you.Again it will likely be TPF.

Speaking of TPF if you are getting into modeling for money you are in the WRONG business.Unless you are a very well known model you will very very very likely NOT get paid,about the only thing that girls known and unknown can be almost guaranteed to get paid work for is either nude,maybe if they are lucky just topless or erotica/soft core photos.Even then it's not a large amount of money payment for most erotica photos is about 100.00 to *if you are lucky* 300.00 a shoot.

Also if you are going to be a model I suggest you try and save up some money to travel around,That way if you are wanting to shoot with more then just a handful of photographers and you don't live in a major city or near one like say NYC or LA,you will have a chance to do that.

When you do go on shoots tell the photographers you are taking a escort and DO IT,preferably a male one.Even if you are a male model do not go alone.I don't care if it's the most famous photographer in the Alt photogphery scene,take someone with YOU.Better safe then sorry.If the photographer has a prob with that,you know something is fishy there and tell them thanks but no thanks.I have worked with some very well known photographers and even they never had a prob if I brought somebody along with me.So please do not feel weird about telling them you are bring somebody,they will not be offended,if they are again tell them thanks but no thanks.It's also good to ask other models you TRUST about photographers before you work with them.

Like I said I'm not a good person to ask about "breaking into the Alt modeling biz" because I'm not really a "model" I'm just a weird looking person people take pic's of,I never actively tried to get into it so my knowledge on how to start from the ground up is a bit limited.

I hope some of that info has helped some of you.

Why do you make so much art featuring dead babies,don't you think that makes you a horrible person?: It's kind of a long story why I got into doing allot of art featuring dead children.Mainly as with most of my art,it's because of dreams I have or have had.The first one that started it all was:

I had a dream that I was in this sort of shotgun house that was split into 2 apartments.
In one of the "apartments" was inhabited by a Punch puppet.He lived on a ledge/shelf in the apt and would walk back and forth and taunt me and generally annoy the holy hell out of me.
So I thought up a plan to get back at him.I went over to his Apt which was painted blue and red like his outfit and I offered to repaint it for him.He made some annoying remark and he even talked in the traditional Punch voice but agreed.
I started painting him into a corner on his ledge,He asked me what I was doing? I replied I was priming the walls to paint them and he asked something else I don't remember and I said "oh but I will paint my side too!I will paint mine blue" Then I backed him to the wall and painted him too so he would stick to the wall,then I painted over him and he became one with the wall so I got my things and left to go to a dance.
When I woke up I had this insane weird knowledge that I HAVE to make dolls of dead children,especially dolls of children killed by their parents.Then the word "Hellfire" kept running through my mind."

Since that time I have been making art of dead children I see in my dreams.

To answer the second part of the question.

I make art of dead children so people will be forced to look at the real horror and pain of it all.

Most of the time people have to be hit over the head with things to understand the gravity of the situation.If I were to say to you "a child was murdered" you would maybe picture a crime scene in your head,out in a field filled with cops ect,which is sort of a distant thought on it,now if somebody were to show you THIS *do NOT CLICK if you are squeamish*,it really brings it home doesn't it?

There are things in their world which are not pretty,children dying at the hands of adults and especially their own parents happeneds to be one of those,but just because something isn't pretty,doesn't mean it should be ignored,especially if it's a problem.

And I think if people have their noses shoved into the evils of the world,face to face they would actually grasp the reality of it,and not get the luxury of the media versions of it.I think if that were done allot of people would think twice about their actions.

If wanting to bring suffering to light makes me a horrible person,well so be it.

I'm doing a crappy no budget film,photo,website ect ect ect project,would you fly yourself out here on your own dime,do your own clothing and makeup,and be in the project for free?

NO!!!!

I'm doing a crappy no budget film,photo,website ect ect ect project,would you give me some dolls,preferably the most expensive,hard to make and fancy ones you have?????

Not no,but HELLS NO!Last time I checked I wasn't a charity.