Calina's Delivery Service

I don't know about you, but I love Studio Ghibli's movies!! My favorites are Totoro and Kiki's Delivery Service. You know, I already did something for Calina that was inspired on Totoro, so I thought I should so something else too... My idea came a day I was visiting my mom. She has a collection of tiny witches and owl I've been gifting her since a lot of time... some of those are plushies I made for her, an even articulated cold porcelain witch.

Kiki is a witch, too, so I though... why not? I even have the black cat! Poor Kitty Cookie. Anyways, when looking for reference photos to make the outfit (the bag is crappy because I made it myself xD) Kiki was flying in her broom. The conclusion, was obvious: I needed to craft a broom and take photos of Calina flying.

Therefore, I spent a whole Satuday morning balancing two dolls on a broom glued to a doll stand using masking tape and eye putty, while cursing because I was afraid they would fall, and because clouds kept moving, messing with my light.

There is not much on this post, but I do hope you will enjoy the flying Calina photos!

I took so many of those flying photos! I think around eight different sets. But since most of them are similar, I only edited my favorite ones. In particular, I love the second one, with the legs fully folded. I know they are crappy and that a real background would have make them look a thousand times better... but I don't have a backyard, and I honestly do not there to go outside and get shot for the camera =S

Anyways, to my surprise, Calina was able to hold herself on the broom and keep Kitty Cookie standing like a rock in there. I did cheat, though, as I used the cat's tail to grab Calina's waist.Also, here we have the crappy standing photo, because I wanted to show you the full outfit.

Oh well, at least I'm trying fun, ridiculous stuff with my photos. I'm hoping to get a new lens for my camera soon. I didn't told it before, but a couple weeks ago, it gave me a scare: the auto-focus wouldn't work. Turns out, one of the knobs was oh-so-slightly off.

Anyways, hope you are having a great day!