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This article is about the area of Massachusetts. For other uses, see Cape Cod (disambiguation).
For other uses, see Cod (disambiguation).
Coordinates: 41°41′20″N 70°17′49″W / 41.68889°N 70.29694°W / 41.68889; -70.29694
Map of Massachusetts, with Cape Cod (Barnstable County) indicated in red
Dunes on Sandy Neck are part of the Cape's barrier beach which helps to prevent erosion
Cape Cod, often referred to locally as simply the Cape, is an island and a cape in the easternmost portion of the state of Massachusetts, in the Northeastern United States. It is coextensive with Barnstable County. Several small islands right off Cape Cod, including Monomoy Island, Monomoscoy Island, Popponesset Island, and Seconsett Island, are also in Barnstable County, being part of municipalities with land on the Cape. The Cape's small-town character and large beachfront attract heavy tourism during the summer months.
Cape Cod was formed as the terminal moraine of a glacier, resulting in a peninsula in the Atlantic Ocean. In 1914, the Cape Cod Canal was cut through the base or isthmus of the peninsula, forming an island. The Cape Cod Commission refers to the resultant landmass as an island; as does the Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA) in regards to disaster preparedness.[1] It is still identified as a peninsula by geographers, who do not change landform designations based on man-made canal construction.[citation needed]
Unofficially, it is one of the biggest barrier islands in the world, shielding much of the Massachusetts coastline from North Atlantic storm waves. This protection helps to erode the Cape shoreline at the expense of cliffs, while protecting towns from Fairhaven to Marshfield.
Road vehicles from the mainland cross over the Cape Cod Canal via the Sagamore Bridge and the Bourne Bridge. The two bridges are parallel, with the Bourne Bridge located slightly farther southwest. In addition, the Cape Cod Canal Railroad Bridge carries railway freight as well as tourist passenger services.
Contents
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* 1 Geography and political divisions
o 1.1 "Upper" and "Lower"
* 2 Geology
* 3 Climate
* 4 Native population
* 5 History
* 6 Lighthouses of Cape Cod
* 7 Transportation
o 7.1 Bus
o 7.2 Rail
o 7.3 Taxi
* 8 Tourism
* 9 Sport fishing
* 10 Sports
* 11 Education
* 12 Islands off Cape Cod
* 13 See also
* 14 References
o 14.1 Notes
o 14.2 Sources
o 14.3 Further reading
* 15 External links
[edit] Geography and political divisions
Towns of Barnstable County
historical map of 1890
The highest elevation on Cape Cod is 306 feet (93 m), at the top of Pine Hill, in the Bourne portion of the Massachusetts Military Reservation. The lowest point is sea level.
The body of water located between Cape Cod and the mainland, bordered to the north by Massachusetts Bay, is Cape Cod Bay; west of Cape Cod is Buzzards Bay. The Cape Cod Canal, completed in 1916, connects Buzzards Bay to Cape Cod Bay; it shortened the trade route between New York and Boston by 62 miles.[2] To the south of Cape Cod lie Nantucket Sound; Nantucket and Martha's Vineyard, both large islands, and the mostly privately owned Elizabeth Islands.
Cape Cod incorporates all of Barnstable County, which comprises 15 towns: Bourne, Sandwich, Falmouth, and Mashpee, Barnstable, Yarmouth, Dennis, Harwich, Brewster, Chatham, Orleans, Eastham, Wellfleet, Truro, and Provincetown. Two of the county's fifteen towns (Bourne and Sandwich) include land on the mainland side of the Cape Cod Canal. The towns of Plymouth and Wareham, in adjacent Plymouth County, are sometimes considered to be part of Cape Cod but are not located on the island.
In the 17th century the designation Cape Cod applied only to the tip of the peninsula, essentially present-day Provincetown. Over the ensuing decades, the name came to mean all the land east of the Manomet and Scussett rivers - essentially the line of the 20th century Cape Cod Canal. Now, the complete towns of Bourne and Sandwich are widely considered to incorporate the full perimeter of Cape Cod, even though small parts of these towns are located on the west side of the canal. The canal divides the largest part of the peninsula from the mainland and the resultant landmass is sometimes referred to as an island.[3][4] Additionally some "Cape Codders" – residents of "The Cape" – refer to all land on the mainland side of the canal as "off-Cape."
For most of the 18th, 19th, and 20th centuries, Cape Cod was considered to consist of three sections:
* The Upper Cape is the part of Cape Cod closest to the mainland, comprising the towns of Bourne, Sandwich, Falmouth, and Mashpee. Falmouth is the home of the famous Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution and several other research organizations, and is also the most-used ferry connection to Martha's Vineyard. Falmouth is composed of several separate villages, including East Falmouth, Falmouth Village, Hatchville, North Falmouth, Teaticket, Waquoit, West Falmouth, and Woods Hole, as well as several smaller hamlets that are incorporated into their larger neighbors (e.g., Davisville, Falmouth Heights, Quissett, Sippewissett, and others).[5]
* The Mid-Cape includes the towns of Barnstable, Yarmouth and Dennis. The Mid-Cape area features many beautiful beaches, including warm-water beaches along Nantucket Sound, e.g., Kalmus Beach in Hyannis, which gets its name from one of the inventors of Technicolor, Herbert Kalmus. This popular windsurfing destination was bequeathed to the town of Barnstable by Dr. Kalmus on condition that it not be developed, possibly one of the first instances of open-space preservation in the US. The Mid-Cape is also the commercial and industrial center of the region. There are seven villages in Barnstable, including Barnstable Village, Centerville, Cotuit, Hyannis, Marstons Mills, Osterville, and West Barnstable, as well as several smaller hamlets that are incorporated into their larger neighbors (e.g., Craigville, Cummaquid, Hyannisport, Santuit, Wianno, and others).[6] There are three villages in Yarmouth: South Yarmouth, West Yarmouth and Yarmouthport. There are five villages in Dennis including, Dennis Village(North Dennis), East Dennis, West Dennis, South Dennis and Dennisport.[7]
* The Lower Cape traditionally included all of the rest of the Cape,or the towns of Harwich, Brewster, Chatham, Orleans, Eastham, Wellfleet, Truro, and Provincetown. This area includes the Cape Cod National Seashore, a national park comprising much of the outer Cape, including the entire east-facing coast, and is home to some of the most popular beaches in America, such as Coast Guard Beach and Nauset Light Beach in Eastham. Stephen Leatherman, aka "Dr. Beach", named Coast Guard Beach the 5th best beach in America for 2007.[8]
[edit] "Upper" and "Lower"
The terms "Upper" and "Lower" as applied to the Cape have nothing to do with north and south. Instead, they derive from maritime convention at the time when the principal means of transportation involved watercraft, and the prevailing westerly winds meant that a boat with sails traveling northeast in Cape Cod Bay would have the wind at its back and thus be going downwind, while a craft sailing southwest would be going against the wind, or upwind.[9] Similarly, on nearby Martha's Vineyard, "Up Island" still is the western section and "Down Island" is to the east, and in Maine, "Down East" is similarly defined by the winds and currents.
Over time, the reasons for the traditional nomenclature became unfamiliar and their meaning obscure. Late in the 1900s, new arrivals began calling towns from Eastham to Provincetown the "Outer Cape", yet another geographic descriptor which is still in use, as is the "Inner Cape."
[edit] Geology
Cape Cod and Cape Cod Bay from space.[10]
East of America, there stands in the open Atlantic the last fragment of an ancient and vanished land. Worn by the breakers and the rains, and disintegrated by the wind, it still stands bold.
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Henry Beston, The Outermost House
Cape Cod forms a continuous archipelagic region with a thin line of islands stretching toward New York, historically known by naturalists as the Outer Lands. This continuity is due to the fact that the islands and Cape are all terminal glacial moraines laid down some 16,000 to 20,000 years ago.
Most of Cape Cod's geological history involves the advance and retreat of the Laurentide ice sheet in the late Pleistocene geological era and the subsequent changes in sea level. Using radiocarbon dating techniques, researchers have determined that around 23,000 years ago, the ice sheet reached its maximum southward advance over North America, and then started to retreat. Many "kettle ponds" — clear, cold lakes — were formed and remain on Cape Cod as a result of the receding glacier. By about 18,000 years ago, the ice sheet had retreated past Cape Cod. By roughly 15,000 years ago, it had retreated past southern New England. When so much of Earth's water was locked up in massive ice sheets, the sea level was lower. Truro's bayside beaches used to be a petrified forest, before it became a beach.
As the ice began to melt, the sea began to rise. Initially, sea level rose quickly, about 15 meters (50 ft) per 1,000 years, but then the rate declined. On Cape Cod, sea level rose roughly 3 meters (11 ft) per millennium between 6,000 and 2,000 years ago. After that, it continued to rise at about 1 meter (3 ft) per millennium. By 6,000 years ago, the sea level was high enough to start eroding the glacial deposits that the vanished continental ice sheet had left on Cape Cod. The water transported the eroded deposits north and south along the outer Cape's shoreline. Those reworked sediments that moved north went to the tip of Cape Cod.
Provincetown Spit, at the northern end of the Cape, consists largely of marine deposits, transported from farther up the shore. Sediments that moved south created the islands and shoals of Monomoy. So while other parts of the Cape have dwindled from the action of the waves, these parts of the Cape have grown.
Cape Cod National Seashore
This process continues today. Due to their position jutting out into the Atlantic Ocean, the Cape and islands are subject to massive coastal erosion. Geologists say that, due to erosion, the Cape will be completely submerged by the sea in thousands of years.[11] This erosion causes the washout of beaches and the destruction of the barrier islands; for example, the ocean broke through the barrier island at Chatham during Hurricane Bob in 1991, allowing waves and storm surges to hit the coast with no obstruction. Consequently, the sediment and sand from the beaches is being washed away and deposited elsewhere. While this destroys land in some places, it creates land elsewhere, most noticeably in marshes where sediment is deposited by waters running through them.
[edit] Climate
Although Cape Cod's weather[12] is typically more moderate than inland locations, there have been occasions where Cape Cod has dealt with the brunt of extreme weather situations (such as the Blizzard of 1954 and Hurricane of 1938). Because of the influence of the Atlantic Ocean, temperatures are typically a few degrees cooler in the summer and a few degrees warmer in the winter. A common misconception is that the climate is influenced largely by the warm Gulf Stream current, however that current turns eastward off the coast of Virginia and the waters off the Cape are more influenced by the cold Canadian Labrador Current. As a result, the ocean temperature rarely gets above 65 °F (18 °C), except along the shallow west coast of the Upper Cape.
The Cape's climate is also notorious for a delayed spring season, being surrounded by an ocean which is still cold from the winter; however, it is also known for an exceptionally mild fall season (Indian summer), thanks to the ocean remaining warm from the summer. The highest temperature ever recorded on Cape Cod was 104 °F (40 °C) in Provincetown[13], and the lowest temperature ever was −12 °F (−24.4 °C) in Barnstable.[14]
The water surrounding Cape Cod moderates winter temperatures enough to extend the USDA hardiness zone 7a to its northernmost limit in eastern North America.[15] Even though zone 7a (annual low = 0–5 degrees Fahrenheit) signifies no sub-zero temperatures annually, there have been several instances of temperatures reaching a few degrees below zero across the Cape (although it is rare, usually 1–5 times a year, typically depending on locale, sometimes not at all). Consequently, many plant species typically found in more southerly latitudes grow there, including Camellias, Ilex opaca, Magnolia grandiflora and Albizia julibrissin.
Precipitation on Cape Cod and the islands of Martha's Vineyard and Nantucket is the lowest in the New England region, averaging slightly less than 40 inches (1,000 mm) a year (most parts of New England average 42–46 inches). This is due to storm systems which move across western areas, building up in mountainous regions, and dissipating before reaching the coast where the land has leveled out. The region does not experience a greater number of sunny days however, as the number of cloudy days is the same as inland locales, in addition to increased fog. Snowfall is annual, but a lot less common than the rest of Massachusetts. On average, 30 inches of snow, which is a foot less than Boston, falls in an average winter. Snow is usually light, and comes in squalls on cold days. Storms that bring blizzard conditions and snow emergencies to the mainland, bring devastating ice storms or just heavy rains more frequently than large snow storms.
[hide]Climate data for Cape Cod
Month Jan Feb Mar Apr May Jun Jul Aug Sep Oct Nov Dec Year
Average high °C (°F) 2.06
(35.7) 2.5
(36.5) 6.22
(43.2) 11.72
(53.1) 16.94
(62.5) 23.5
(74.3) 26.39
(79.5) 26.67
(80.0) 25.06
(77.1) 18.39
(65.1) 12.56
(54.6) 5.44
(41.8) 26.67
(80.0)
Average low °C (°F) -5.33
(22.4) -5
(23.0) -1.33
(29.6) 2.72
(36.9) 8.72
(47.7) 14.61
(58.3) 19.22
(66.6) 20.28
(68.5) 15.56
(60.0) 9.94
(49.9) 3.94
(39.1) -2.22
(28.0) -5.33
(22.4)
Precipitation mm (inches) 98
(3.86) 75.4
(2.97) 95
(3.74) 92.5
(3.64) 83.6
(3.29) 76.7
(3.02) 62.2
(2.45) 65
(2.56) 74.7
(2.94) 84.8
(3.34) 90.7
(3.57) 92.7
(3.65) 990.9
(39.01)
Source: World Meteorological Organisation (United Nations) [16]
[edit] Native population
Cape Cod has been the home of the Wampanoag tribe of Native American people for many centuries. They survived off the sea and were accomplished farmers. They understood the principles of sustainable forest management, and were known to light controlled fires to keep the underbrush in check. They helped the Pilgrims, who arrived in the fall of 1620, survive at their new Plymouth Colony. At the time, the dominant group was the Kakopee, known for their abilities at fishing. They were the first Native Americans to use large casting nets. Early colonial settlers recorded that the Kakopee numbered nearly 7,000.
Shortly after the Pilgrims arrived, the chief of the Kakopee, Mogauhok, attempted to make a treaty limiting colonial settlements. The effort failed after he succumbed to smallpox in 1625. Infectious diseases such as smallpox, measles and influenza caused the deaths of many other Kakopee and Wampanoag. They had no natural immunity to Eurasian diseases by then endemic among the English and other Europeans. Today, the only reminder of the Kakopee is a small public recreation area in Barnstable named for them. A historic marker notes the burial site of Mogauhok near Truro, although the location is conjecture.
While contractors were digging test wells in the eastern Massachusetts Military Reservation area, they discovered an archeological find.[citation needed] Excavation revealed the remains of a Kakopee village in Forestdale, a location in Sandwich. Researchers found a totem with a painted image of Mogauhok, portrayed in his chief's cape and brooch. The totem was discovered on property on Grand Oak Road. It is the first evidence other than colonial accounts of his role as an important Kakopee leader.
The Indians lost their lands through continued purchase and expropriation by the English colonists. The documentary Natives of the Narrowland (1993), narrated by actress Julie Harris, shows the history of the Wampanoag people through Cape Cod archaeological sites.
In 1974, the Mashpee Wampanoag Tribal Council was formed to articulate the concerns of those with Native American ancestry. They petitioned the federal government in 1975 and again in 1990 for official recognition of the Mashpee Wampanoag as a tribe. In May 2007, the Wampanoag tribe was finally federally recognized as a tribe.[17]
[edit] History
Cranberry picking in 1906
Cape Cod was a landmark for early explorers. It may have been the "Promontory of Vinland" mentioned by the Norse voyagers (985-1025). Giovanni da Verrazzano in 1524 approached it from the south. He named Martha's Vineyard Claudia, after the mother of the King of France.[18] The next year the explorer Esteban Gómez called it Cape St. James.
In 1602 Bartholomew Gosnold named it Cape Cod, the surviving term and the ninth oldest English place-name in the U.S.[19] Samuel de Champlain charted its sand-silted harbors in 1606 and Henry Hudson landed there in 1609. Captain John Smith noted it on his map of 1614 and at last the Pilgrims entered the "Cape Harbor" and – contrary to the popular myth of Plymouth Rock – made their first landing near present-day Provincetown on November 11, 1620. Nearby, in what is now Eastham, they had their first encounter with Native Americans.
Cape Cod was among the first places settled by the English in North America. Aside from Barnstable (1639), Sandwich (1637) and Yarmouth (1639), the Cape's fifteen towns developed slowly. The final town to be established on the Cape was Bourne in 1884.[20] Provincetown was a group of huts until the 18th century. A channel from Massachusetts Bay to Buzzards Bay is shown on Southack's map of 1717. The present Cape Cod Canal was slowly developed from 1870 to 1914. The Federal government purchased it in 1928.
Thanks to early colonial settlement and intensive land use, by the time Henry Thoreau saw Cape Cod during his four visits over 1849 to 1857[21], its vegetation was depauperate and trees were scarce. As the settlers heated by fires, and it took 10 to 20 cords (40 to 80 m³) of wood to heat a home, they cleared most of Cape Cod of timber early on. They planted familiar crops, but these were unsuited to Cape Cod's thin, glacially derived soils. For instance, much of Eastham was planted to wheat. The settlers practiced burning of woodlands to release nutrients into the soil. Improper and intensive farming led to erosion and the loss of topsoil. Farmers grazed their cattle on the grassy dunes of coastal Massachusetts, only to watch "in horror as the denuded sands `walked' over richer lands, burying cultivated fields and fences." Dunes on the outer Cape became more common and many harbors filled in with eroded soils.[22]
By 1800, most of Cape Cod's firewood had to be transported by boat from Maine. The paucity of vegetation was worsened by the raising of merino sheep that reached its peak in New England around 1840. The early industrial revolution, which occurred through much of Massachusetts and Rhode Island, mostly bypassed Cape Cod due to a lack of significant water power in the area. As a result, and also because of its geographic position, the Cape developed as a large fishing and whaling center. After 1860 and the opening of the American West, farmers abandoned agriculture on the Cape. By 1950 forests had recovered to an extent not seen since the 18th century.
Cape Cod became a summer haven for city dwellers beginning at the end of the 19th century. Improved rail transportation made the towns of the Upper Cape, such as Bourne and Falmouth, accessible to Bostonians. At the beginning of the twentieth century, the Northeastern mercantile elite built many large, shingled "cottages" along Buzzards Bay. The relaxed summer environment offered by Cape Cod was highlighted by writers including Joseph C. Lincoln, who published novels and countless short stories about Cape Cod folks in popular magazines such as the Saturday Evening Post and the Delineator.
Guglielmo Marconi made the first transatlantic wireless transmission originating in the United States from Cape Cod, at Wellfleet. The beach from which he transmitted has since been called Marconi Beach. In 1914 he opened the maritime wireless station WCC in Chatham. It supported the communications of Amelia Earhart, Howard Hughes, Admiral Byrd, and the Hindenburg. Marconi chose Chatham due to its vantage point on the Atlantic Ocean, surrounded on three sides by water. Walter Cronkite narrated a 17-minute documentary in 2005 about the history of the Chatham Station.
Much of the East-facing Atlantic seacoast of Cape Cod consists of wide, sandy beaches. In 1961, a significant portion of this coastline, already slated for housing subdivisions, was made a part of the Cape Cod National Seashore by President John F. Kennedy. It was protected from private development and preserved for public use. Large portions are open to the public, including the Marconi Site in Wellfleet. This is a park encompassing the site of the first two-way transoceanic radio transmission from the United States. (Theodore Roosevelt used Marconi's equipment for this transmission).
The Kennedy Compound in Hyannisport was President Kennedy's summer White House during his presidency. The Kennedy family continues to maintain residences on the compound. Other notable residents of Cape Cod have included actress Julie Harris, US Supreme Court justice Louis Brandeis, figure skater Todd Eldredge, and novelists Norman Mailer and Kurt Vonnegut. Influential natives included the patriot James Otis, historian and writer Mercy Otis Warren, jurist Lemuel Shaw, and naval officer John Percival.
[edit] Lighthouses of Cape Cod
Race Point Lighthouse in Provincetown (1876)
Lighthouses, from ancient times, have fascinated members of the human race. There is something about a lighted beacon that suggests hope and trust and appeals to the better instincts of mankind.
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Edward Rowe Snow
Due to its dangerous constantly moving shoals, Cape Cod's shores have featured beacons which warn ships of the danger since very early in its history. There are numerous working lighthouses on Cape Cod and the Islands, including Highland Light, Nauset Light, Chatham Light, Race Point Light, and Nobska Light, mostly operated by the U.S. Coast Guard. The exception is Nauset Light, which was decommissioned in 1996 and is now maintained by the Nauset Light Preservation Society under the auspices of Cape Cod National Seashore. These lighthouses are frequently photographed symbols of Cape Cod.
Others include:
Upper Cape: Wings Neck
Mid Cape: Sandy Neck, South Hyannis, Lewis Bay, Bishop and Clerks, Bass River
Lower Cape: Wood End, Long Point, Monomoy, Stage Harbor, Pamet, Mayo Beach, Billingsgate, Three Sisters, Nauset, Highland
[edit] Transportation
Cape Cod is connected to the mainland by a pair of canal-spanning highway bridges from Bourne and Sagamore that were constructed in the 1930s, and a vertical-lift railroad bridge. The limited number of access points to the peninsula can result in large traffic backups during the tourist season.
The entire Cape is roughly bisected lengthwise by U.S. Route 6, locally known as the Mid-Cape Highway and officially as the Grand Army of the Republic Highway.
Commercial air service to Cape Cod operates out of Barnstable Municipal Airport and Provincetown Municipal Airport. Several bus lines service the Cape. There are ferry connections from Boston to Provincetown, as well as from Hyannis and Woods Hole to the islands.
Cape Cod has a public transportation network comprising buses operated by three different companies, a rail line, taxis and paratransit services.
The Bourne Bridge over the Cape Cod Canal, with the Cape Cod Canal Railroad Bridge in the background
[edit] Bus
Cape Cod Regional Transit Authority operates a year-round public bus system comprising three long distance routes and a local bus in Hyannis and Barnstable Village. From mid June until October, additional local routes are added in Falmouth and Provincetown. CCRTA also operates Barnstable County's ADA required paratransit (dial-a-ride) service, under the name "B-Bus."
Long distance bus service is available through Plymouth and Brockton Street Railway, with regular service to Boston and Logan Airport, as well as less frequent service to Provincetown. Peter Pan Bus Lines also runs long distance service to Providence T.F. Green Airport and New York City.
[edit] Rail
Regular passenger rail service through Cape Cod ended in 1959, quite possibly on June 30 of that year. In 1978, the tracks east of South Dennis were abandoned and replaced with the very popular bicycle path, known as the Cape Cod Rail Trail. Another bike path, the Shining Sea Bikeway, was built over tracks between Woods Hole and Falmouth in 1975; construction to extend this path to North Falmouth over 6.3 miles (10.1 km) of inactive rail bed began in April 2008[23] and ended in early 2009. Active freight service remains in the Upper Cape area in Sandwich and in Bourne, largely due to a trash transfer station located at Massachusetts Military Reservation along the Bourne-Falmouth rail line. In 1986, Amtrak ran a seasonal service in the summer from New York City to Hyannis called the Cape Codder. From 1988, Amtrak and the Massachusetts Department of Transportation increased service to a daily frequency.[24] Since its demise in 1996, there have been periodic discussions about reinstating passenger rail service from Boston to reduce car traffic to and from the Cape, with officials in Bourne seeking to re-extend MBTA Commuter Rail service from Middleboro to Buzzards Bay[25], despite a reluctant Beacon Hill legislature.
Cape Cod Central Railroad operates passenger train service on Cape Cod. The service is primarily tourist oriented and includes a dinner train. The scenic route between Downtown Hyannis and the Cape Cod Canal is about 2½ hours round trip. Massachusetts Coastal Railroad is also planning to return passenger railroad services eventually to the Bourne-Falmouth rail line in the future. An August 5, 2009 article on the New England Cable News channel, entitled South Coast rail project a priority for Mass. lawmakers, mentions a $1.4-billion railroad reconstruction plan by Governor Deval Patrick, and could mean rebuilding of old rail lines on the Cape. On November 21, 2009, the town of Falmouth saw its first passenger train in 12 years, a set of dinner train cars from Cape Cod Central. And a trip from the Mass Bay Railroad Enthusiasts on May 15, 2010 revealed a second trip along the Falmouth line.
[edit] Taxi
Taxicabs are plentiful, with several different companies operating out of different parts of the Cape. Except at the airport and some bus terminals with taxi stands, cabs must be booked ahead of time, with most operators preferring two to three hours notice. Cabs cannot be "hailed" anywhere in Barnstable County, this was outlawed in the early nineties after several robbery attempts on drivers.
Most companies utilize a New York City-style taximeter and charge based on distance plus an initial fee of $2 to $3. In Provincetown, cabs charge a flat fare per person anywhere in the town.
[edit] Tourism
Hyannis Harbor on Nantucket Sound
Although Cape Cod has a year-round population of about 230,000, it experiences a tourist season each summer, the beginning and end of which can be roughly approximated as Memorial Day and Labor Day, respectively. Many businesses are specifically targeted to summer visitors, and close during the eight to nine months of the "off season" (although the "on season" has been expanding somewhat in recent years due to Indian Summer, reduced lodging rates, and the number of people visiting the Cape after Labor Day who either have no school-age children, and the elderly, reducing the true "off season" to six or seven months). In the late 20th century, tourists and owners of second homes began visiting the Cape more and more in the spring and fall, softening the definition of the high season and expanding it somewhat (see above). Some particularly well-known Cape products and industries include cranberries, shellfish (particularly oysters and clams) and lobstering.
Provincetown, at the tip of Cape Cod, also berths several whale watching fleets who patrol the Stellwagen Bank National Marine Sanctuary. Most fleets guarantee a whale sighting (mostly humpback whale, fin whale, minke whale, sei whale, and critically endangered, the North Atlantic Right Whale), and one is the only federally certified operation qualified to rescue whales. Provincetown has also long been known as an art colony, attracting writers and artists. The town is home to the Cape's most attended art museum, the Provincetown Art Association and Museum. Many hotels and resorts are friendly to or cater to gay and lesbian tourists and it is known as a gay mecca in the summer.[26]
Cape Cod is a popular destination for beachgoers from all over. With 559.6 miles (900.6 km) of coastline, beaches, both public and private, are easily accessible. The Cape has upwards of sixty public beaches, many of which offer parking for non-residents for a daily fee (in summer). The Cape Cod National Seashore has 40 miles (64 km) of sandy beach and many walking paths.
Cape Cod is also popular for its outdoor activities like beach walking, biking, boating, fishing, go-karts, golfing, kayaking, miniature golf, and unique shopping. There are 27 public, daily-fee golf courses and 15 private courses on Cape Cod.[27] Bed and breakfasts or vacation houses are often used for lodging.
Each summer the Naukabout Music Festival is held at the Barnstable County Fair Grounds located in East Falmouth,(typically) during the first weekend of August. This Music festival features local, regional and national talent along with food, arts and family friendly activities.
[edit] Sport fishing
Cape Cod is known around the world as a spring-to-fall destination for sport anglers. Among the species most widely pursued are striped bass, bluefish, bluefin tuna, false albacore (little tunny), bonito, tautog, flounder and fluke. The Cape Cod Bay side of the Cape, from Sandwich to Provincetown, has several harbors, saltwater creeks, and shoals that hold bait fish and attract the larger game fish, such as striped bass, bluefish and bluefin tuna.
The outer edge of the Cape, from Provincetown to Falmouth, faces the open Atlantic from Provincetown to Chatham, and then the more protected water of Nantucket and Vineyard Sounds, from Chatham to Falmouth. The bays, harbors and shoals along this coastline also provide a robust habitat for game species, and during the late summer months warm-water species such as mahi-mahi and marlin will also appear on the southern edge of Cape Cod's waters. Nearly every harbor on Cape Cod hosts sport fishing charter boats, which run from May through October.[28]
[edit] Sports
The Cape has nine amateur baseball franchises playing within Barnstable County in the Cape Cod Baseball League. The Wareham Gatemen also play in the Cape Cod Baseball League in nearby Wareham, Massachusetts in Plymouth County. The league originated 1923, although intertown competition traces to 1866. Teams in the league are the Bourne Braves, Brewster Whitecaps, Chatham Anglers (formerly the Chatham Athletics), Cotuit Kettleers, Falmouth Commodores, Harwich Mariners, Hyannis Harbor Hawks (formerly the Hyannis Mets), Orleans Firebirds (formerly the Orleans Cardinals), Wareham Gatemen and the Yarmouth-Dennis Red Sox. Pro ball scouts frequent the games in the summer, looking for stars of the future.
Cape Cod is also a national hot bed for baseball and hockey. Along with the Cape Cod Baseball League and the new Junior Hockey League team, the Cape Cod Cubs, many high school players are being seriously recruited as well. Barnstable and Harwich have each sent multiple players to Division 1 colleges for baseball, Harwich has also won three State titles in the past 12 years (1996, 2006, 2007). Bourne and Sandwich, known rivals in hockey have won state championships recently. Bourne in 2004, and Sandwich in 2007. Nauset, Barnstable, and Martha's Vineyard are also state hockey powerhouses. Barnstable and Falmouth also hold the title of having one of the longest Thanksgiving football rivalries in the country. The teams have played each other every year on the Thanksgiving since 1895. The Bourne and Barnstable girl's volleyball teams are two of the best teams in the state and Barnstable in the country. With Bourne winning the State title in 2003 and 2007. In the past 15 years, Barnstable has won 12 Division 1 State titles and has won the state title the past two years.
The Cape also is home to the Cape Cod Frenzy, a team in the American Basketball Association.
Soccer on Cape Cod is represented by the Cape Cod Crusaders, playing in the USL Premier Development League (PDL) soccer based in Hyannis. In addition, a summer Cape Cod Adult Soccer League (CCASL) is active in several towns on the Cape.
Cape Cod is also the home of the Cape Cod Cubs, a new junior league hockey team that is based out of Hyannis at the new communtiy center being built of Bearses Way.
The end of each summer is marked with the running of the world famous Falmouth Road Race which is held on the 3rd Saturday in August. It draws about 10,000 runners to the Cape and showcases the finest runners in the world (mainly for the large purse that the race is able to offer). The race is 7.2 miles (11.6 km) long, which is a non-standard distance. The reason for the unusual distance is that the man who thought the race up (Tommy Leonard) was a bartender who wanted a race along the coast from one bar (The Cap'n Kidd in Woods Hole) to another (The Brothers Four in Falmouth Heights). While the bar in Falmouth Heights is no longer there, the race still starts at the front door of the Cap'n Kidd in Woods Hole and now finishes at the beach in Falmouth Heights. Prior to the Falmouth race is an annual 5-mile (8.0 km) race through Brewster called the Brew Run, held early in August.
[edit] Education
Each town usually consists of a few elementary schools, one or two middle schools and one large public high school that services the entire town. Exceptions to this include Dennis-Yarmouth Regional High School located in Yarmouth which services both the town of Yarmouth as well as Dennis and Nauset Regional High School located in Eastham which services the town of Brewster, Orleans, Eastham, Wellfleet, Truro, and Provincetown (optional). Bourne High School is the public school for students residing in the town of Bourne, which is gathered from villages in Bourne, including Sagamore, Sagamore Beach, and Buzzards Bay. Barnstable High School is the largest high school and is known for its girls' volleyball team which have been state champions a total of 12 times. Barnstable High School also boasts one of the country's best high school drama clubs which were awarded with a contract by Warner Brothers to created a documentary in webisode format based on their production of Wizard of Oz. Sturgis Charter Public School is a public school in Hyannis which was featured in Newsweek's Magazine's "Best High Schools" ranking. It ranked 28th in the country and 1st in the state of Massachusetts in the 2009 edition and ranked 43rd and 55th in the 2008 and 2007 edition, respectively. Sturgis offers the International Baccalaureate Diploma Programme in their junior and senior year and is open to students as far as Plymouth. The Cape also contains two vocational high schools. One is the Cape Cod Regional Technical High School in Harwich and the other is Upper Cape Cod Regional Technical High School located in Bourne. Lastly, Mashpee High School is home to the Mashpee Chapter of (SMPTE,) the Society of Motion Picture and Television Engineers. This chapter is the first and only high school chapter in the world to be a part of this organization and has received much recognition within the Los Angeles broadcasting industry as a result. The officers of this group who have made history are listed below:
* President: Ryan D. Stanley '11
* Vice-President Kenneth J. Peters '13
* Treasurer Eric N. Bergquist '11
* Secretary Andrew L. Medlar '11
In addition to public schools, Cape Cod has a wide range of private schools. The town of Barnstable has Trinity Christian Academy, Cape Cod Academy, St. Francis Xavier Preparatory School, and Pope John Paul II High School. Bourne offers the Waldorf School of Cape Cod, Orleans offers the Lighthouse Charter School for elementary and middle school students, and Falmouth offers Falmouth Academy. Riverview School is located in East Sandwich and is a special co-ed boarding school which services students as old as 22 who have learning disabilities. Another specialized school is the Penikese Island School located on Penikese Island, part of the Elizabeth Islands off southwestern Cape Cod, which services struggling and troubled teenage boys.
Cape Cod also contains two institutions of higher education. One is the Cape Cod Community College located in West Barnstable, Barnstable. The other is Massachusetts Maritime Academy in Buzzards Bay, Bourne. Massachusetts Maritime Academy is the oldest continuously operating maritime college in the United States.
[edit] Islands off Cape Cod
Like Cape Cod itself, the islands south of the Cape have evolved from whaling and trading areas to resort destinations, attracting wealthy families, celebrities, and other tourists. The islands include Nantucket and Martha's Vineyard, as well as Forbes family-owned Naushon Island, which was purchased by John Murray Forbes with profits from opium dealing in the China trade during the Opium War. Naushon is one of the Elizabeth Islands, many of which are privately owned. One of the publicly accessible Elizabeths is the southernmost island in the chain, Cuttyhunk, with a year-round population of 52 people. Several prominent families have established compounds or estates on the larger islands, making these islands some of the wealthiest resorts in the Northeast, yet they retain much of the early merchant trading and whaling culture.
This one's the front cover for the Usher Burn videomix (done over a 2 hour period in late spring & played on several webisodes & websites already).
The videomix is available Over Here and it's one among several of our most elaborate, visually innovative and creatively challenging multimedia productions created for The Niteshift imprint's multimedia catalog for 2007. It's my hope that you will enjoy this production as much as it was fun developing it.
Feel free to share it with your friends and family & keep buying Usher CDs, show tickets.
I design album covers, book covers etc, get in touch for details.
I got tagged by Mr. Vondergeist. The objective of the tag is to post a screen shot of your favorite monster from the series along with their name and your screen name. Also post an explanation about why you chose that particular monster (or those monsters).
Well, I had actually been thinking about this last night. I love a lot of the characters in the webisodes, but I narrowed it down to these two. They remind me of my friend and me. He's kind of like Heath, and I'm kind of like Jackson. So, I can understand where both of them are coming from.
While I'm not overly fond of Heath's kind of "hit on any female that moves" sort of attitude towards women in real life (I see it all the time), I enjoy it in fiction and can laugh about it. As for Jackson. . . Well, I love "The Strange Case of Doctor Jekyll and Mister Hyde," for starters. Also, if Holt is any indication, he might be a closet rivet-head.
For the record, I almost picked Ghoulia instead.
If you want to be tagged, let me know. I tagged Mr. Vondergeist in the photo to indicate who tagged me.
went to target and other various places with emma today.
this was taken at target. expect another webisode from us soon. :D
if you missed the first, it's here
explore highest position: 8
Webisode 2 of the Sir Bolt ISTE10 series .... will hot redhead Steampunk clank Cecily follow him to Denver?
Tesco, which has been described to me as the equivalent to Wal-Mart (Mal-Wart, to me) in Europe, had their own webisode exclusive, and it was adorable ! Of course, I say that about all the Ghoulia episodes...
You can watch it here - direct.tesco.com/content/specials/monster-high.aspx
I love how they make Toralei so bitchy in the movies and webisodes. Of course she has a backstory as every character does but she's so deliciously catty. And the espresso scene at the cafe is hilarious. And I had to break fearleading Toralei out. She's fabulous.
Meeeow.
I love Ghoulia's character in the webisodes but I also love her doll form!
Here's my two Ghoulias, the original and my slightly customized Ghoulia which I've renamed as Bat. I'm thinking of eventually rerooting her and customizing a bit more so she'll be my alien girl. But I quite like her now too! Girls with attitude are my weak point ;)
I think the pets are cute. But do they ever show them in the webisodes? I know in the video game you use Count Fabulous as your guide/compass.
To see our birds flying outside visit us on youtube and view our Freestyle Flyer Webisodes; youtu.be/XI59D1pRkbc. To inquire on teaching your bird to freeflight outdoors safely email info@birdtricks.com for prices and details.
AKA "Give me 3 hours with some translucent purple pieces, sandpaper, a modeling saw, and risk carpal tunnel syndrome and I'll make a Makuta that almost matches 70795's Mask Maker."
Ever since images of the Winter 2016 sets came out and we got the first glimpses of Onua's parts selection and Umarak's inclusion of the Mask of Control, I wanted a Makuta to match the Ekimu that came out in summer 2015 nearly part-for-part and to look close to the animation model (no transparent purple six-shooters, sadly). Horns bump into the torso shells, but he's really for display only.
The hammer's design was inspired by a friend's, modified to have silver spikes rather than black like in the webisodes along with the transparent purple studs to add contrast like on Ekimu's hammer.
A dead giveaway to the true nature of this lies in the forearm's 3M bones: the three holes on the sides of the ball end are flipped on an actual 3M bone, and, in fact, match the arrangement on the middle ball of a 5M bone.
Tutorial - youtu.be/p-OQ5F9EJoM
Reroot - youtu.be/qEa6w1ndCX0
My #Tutorial on How to Make Jewelry, Webisode Inspired Accessories and Dress for Ever After High Meeshell Mermaid is now on #YouTube channel at JLantisToys! 💙
Atomic City Episode 2 - THE HIT
Welcome to the dark and depraved city of the lost and damned ... Atomic City. It's a rainy night in Atomic City and all manor of evil awaits. In this chapter of our dangerous anthology, an assassin gets ready to make his kill ... or does he?
Learn more about Atomic City and how to become a part of the story at www.atomiccityonline.com. SLURL will become available closer to summer 2022.
Builds created by Filipa Thespian of Club Depot & Gods of Valor, for this series.
Wave 6 of Ever After High Signatures. Completed just recently.
I realize that I never do any group shots for my dolls, so decided to do one for now. And, I know, technically Courtly and Mira aren't Signatures ('cause they're "Special Edition" dolls). But I think that the Signatures line should compose also of first-release characters, so I included them here.
My faves from this group are Justine and Mira. They're just so perf! I love Justine's princess-y design and her dark, lustrous skin. Mira looks like a mashup of every female villain that I love...Regina from O.U.A.T., Melisandre from G.o.T., Ravenna from S.W.a.t.H., and so many others!
But that isn't to say I don't love the rest. Group-wise, I actually like this batch overall. I like Melody's edgy, rebellious design (though I wish she were more fairytale-ish like the rest). I like how cute Courtly is and her loud, outlandish design (the molded stockings are a no-no for me though). I'm even warming up to Farrah and I think she's really pretty (but still, I think her dress is atrocious).
And, ha ha! Finally I got to style Courtly's bangs just right! I managed to curl it and have it cover her right eye, just like her webisode version.
Jackson has offically made his first appearance on the webisodes and is revealed to be Heath's cousin, who seems to not know his secrets. no lines for Jack though, only hotness ;3
His design is definitely altered since his GB appearance but on the bright side, if there was any doubt about his future, I think this cements that he's here to stay. Doll please, por favor!
Another interesting wrinkle in the choices of legacy day dolls/outfits is that the books go make sure to mention that all of these dresses are inherited items passed down to the current generation to wear in homage/to fulfill the legacy day duties. Well, all except Raven who, instead of her mother's gown & gloves, simply decided to wear the outfit she had on that day and pair it with her mother's cape/collar piece and crown instead. She and Apple also get ready apart and for a moment the evil begins to take over but something jolts her back to herself before she sets foot to the podium in a very interesting way. Really, the book makes a much bigger deal of 'Legacy Day' than the webisode and it annoys me that the details, which could've easily been their own half hour special, were watered down to a very condensed 7 minute version but what can you do, right?
In any case it explains why her outfit might not feel as elaborate as the others's gowns while also making me curious as to what exactly does go with the cape and crown. I certainly have my own design ideas but I guess we'll never know for sure.
I got home some new dolls in July.
I really like the details about spectra, like her transculent hands and feet and dark eyes. Not too found about her description though, I don't like her personality in the webisode she was in either...
none the less, the doll is amazing <3
The Monster High facebook just uploaded a picture of Gill with Lagoona as a teaser to his Skull Shores appearance. I was slightly unsure as to how he stacked up to his webisode versions, so I made a collage. Yes, there are some noticable differences - His non fin head should be shaded instead of like Deuce, his fins are the wrong color, his eyebrows are slightly agressive - but overall he's pretty nice & I'm totally excited for him! Not to mention - WRIST ARTICULATION FOR THE BOYS! Awesome.
Ugh - how long until february? XD
OMG!! HAHA XD He looks so funny!! LOL!!
He doesn't look like his webisode self at all, he doesn't even have one eye smaller than the other?!
Picked up the Toralei fashion pack last night, and decided to customize a basic doll into a movie night Toralei!
I cut her hair to look more like the webisodes, and gave her some dramatic night out makeup!
More photos on the Dolly Daydream website!
When I first got the original Rochelle in early summer I was going to use her for a photo story set to 'Lies' by Marina & the Diamonds with her desolate despair at the happiness of her crush & his girlfriend. Confession time - at the time I had nothing short of a incessant hatred towards her. I think it was a reaction to my love for Cleo combined with what I'd anticipated the writers possibly pairing Deuce & Rochelle off. It was silly but it tainted her for me. So much so that I sold, re-bought & resold her doll. In between that I took this picture, using my 2nd Rochelle, and was able to pull focus from Cleo & Deuce's tender moment so that it was blurry & you could clearly see Rochelle. There's a companion to this with Cleo & Deuce in focus and they would've been uploaded as one image in the original plan. Anyway, my hate for Rochelle kept me from truly appreciate her and while she still isn't my favorite I don't hate her anymore & even like both her webisode and her doll for Scaris (second favorite after Clawdeen, actually) so while this fic won't ever come to pass I will at least be able to buy and enjoy both of her dolls now ;3
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Inspired by Nevra I'm editing & uploading some alternate shots and outtakes that I loved but didn't fit their intended purposes.
The most fangtastic treasurer of all is probably Gilda Goldstag, everyone will agree with me lol
I'm so happy they finally produced another background character and especially her as her name was already in some MH books ^^
She's one of the oldest charcater of MH , you can see her in the firsts webisodes ^^
I adore her look a lot, and it's great that mattel gave her her original clothes and not a cheaper version, she's completely accessorized :D
Look at those horns, grrrr love it :D
Oh my god guys, it seems like in the US people haven't been able to watch it yet but here in Belgium/France the link is already online so as I'm a Native French Speaker I've been able to see it and honestly that boovie is a master piece, you guys will totally love it !!! I won't spoil anything I promise, just that one thing that Johnny Spirit is in the boovie and it seems like Oppie and him are together !!!! I so want a Johnny Spirit doll now !!! I wanted him already but now I've seen his Haunted Boovie version, I want him even more, he's sexier than on the webisodes !!!
If anyone want the link to the french version, just ask ^^
Here's a first look at both Rosabella Beauty (daughter of Beauty and the Beast) and Darling Charming (daughter of King Charming) in their cartoon webisode form. I love them both especially Rosabella.
pictures©Mattel
Link to video:
After a long period of "I'll redo her hairstyle one day" I finally honored that promise and I redid her hair, actually I haven't done a lot, I just washed her hair, and removed that elastic I used to put her hair on the back to put the headband over it, but personally I love her more this way, she's cuter and definitely closer to her webserie version even if her curls aren't as curly as in the webisodes but that's fine for me ^^
I'm really happy I got the first version of her, her bang is definitely the best out of the 3 different release and her hair are so soft, I wouldn't trade her for anything ^^
i love the box art rendering using the new 2013 style. unfortunately, the actual movie still uses the character designs from 2006-2007 television series. blah.
on a positive note, the movie's finale has the Bratz wearing clothes from the Princess line. plus there's five Bratzillaz webisodes as a bonus ^_^
While she was cute in the movie, her characterization was slightly flat but her webisode debut 'scare-itage' made me want her. Then Jinkx Monsoon did a 'dios de los muertos' inspired look for this week's episode of 'Rupaul's Drag Race' and the face was almost a perfect match so I NEEDED her. XD
There are a boatload of Skelitas at my local walmart but no sign of Jinafire, who's own webisode debut has made me want her as well. Hrm....
Hello I am very sad to see the Ending of a competition and I will now give placings for the " Bad Bitch" theme
Fist Chantelle I loved it the colors the setting a group of monsters gathering around to see what's happening its great! and the back story was great!
In second we have Sky I loved the colors the setting and the makeup but I would have liked to see a bit more of a back story
Third Sasha I really liked your entry it was really nice but it didn't scream Bad Bitch to me but the photo was good and I loved the fact that you served those bitches you hate good job! :D
Aiola you didn't submit an entry which I thought was quite a bad bitch thing to do lol #FUCKDAPOLICE but I can't tell you if you didn't submit.
So I've thought long and hard about the competition about consistency ideas creativity and effort and the order is........... in fourth im sorry to Say Aiola im sorry you are a great model and photographer but you joined near the end and didn't submit all the photos but the ones you did were spot on but I you had fun in the competition :)
In third we have........ Chantelle I loved everything about you you're style and attitude and you only just missed out because in my opinion everyone did really well but I hope you enjoyed this little competition but it was for fun and I hope you enter cycle two! :D if there is one. ........... So now we are down to the final two Sky and Sasha you're both gorgeous and the photos produced by you two are great but you both did very well but the winner is................................................................................................................................................ SKY! well done you completed all the challenges to the best of your ability and I really loved them so I would like to ask all of the models to take a simple picture of themselves with a white background ( eg plain paper ) because I am putting you all together on a magazine cover and sky will be the main image but yeah well done everyone and thanks for entering and I hope you had a great experience! :D
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Moving on science is getting better im still not very good or confident but I never am so whatever but who knows anything could happen so I have to hope I get At LEAST a D in science or else I'm screwed for life but nevertheless I poofed and crimped Robecca's hair liek it is in the webisodes so yah! I'm bored at the moment going out for lunch tomorrow so Starbucks here I come and I might get a shirt off some shorts idk lol but yezzzz I'm bored also thank you all VERY much for 60 faves on the picture of cupid I almost died when I saw it *.* thank you xo
I've been a little light on photos so far this year but I've taken a few things I like so far & figured it was the perfect time to share them :3
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In the middle of spring cleaning last weekend I had an idea involving one Cleo on my shelf carrying the other's books as an idea, which eventually led to my swapping the head of my DT Cleo and DC Howleen to make a younger/freshmeat Cleo as well as a semi-detailed headcanon for her (and how she became the ghoul we met in the 1st edition diary/season 1 webisodes), which you can read about here (x). Now, I just need more outfits for her, as well as a new identity for the newly taller DC Howleen :3
Guys !!!! Monster High is doing a super great contest at the moment
You can vote for the MH background character you would like to become a doll in 2015 !!! Isn't that clawesome ???
So let's vote guys for your fav ghoul/manster :p
www.monsterhigh.com/en-us/poll/
Personally I voted for Finnegan, he's awesome and look so cool in the webisode we could see him :D
Hunter is so handsome, I wish deuce would've had his body. Deuce is so skinny in doll form compared to his webisode form.
Basic Training: Day One - Teaching Sit, Stay, Sit Up, & Shake, S01/Ep05. In this webisode I work with Zeus & Phoebe reinforcing the sit & stay command while teaching them new tricks such as sit-up and shake. Also, teaching them to take turns while doing tricks including moving back & forth between the front and rear of the stage. Filmed on Saturday, April 07, 2012. It was a very bright day.
Watch it here - www.youtube.com/watch?v=FWrkqjyveXM
I love Cedar's Honesty, especially for someone like myself who hates lies.
I also loved in the new webisode that she was the one asking why the beauty pageant wasnt about inner beauty.
Cedar is amazing.
Title is actually from the back of her box.
YAY finally we got the new ghouls! ^__^
Operetta's hair was a bit messy but my sister managed to re-style it, her hairstyle looks much more like the one in the webisodes now!
This is a little experiment we tried, shaped bokeh: www.flickr.com/groups/shaped_bokeh/pool/with/6968047357/
The results are really pretty and it's fun to do too.
What do you guys think? :-)
Oh and Happy Weekend btw! Teehee :P
I'm no Alberto Garcia but I think I did good, I'm a little ehhhhhh bout it but I tried to get it as close to the webisodes as I could!!!!
Finally her hair looks longer than it actually is. I´m so happy. Now I don´t need to think about getting the SU Kitty or reroot her
She looks so much more like her webisode self
And here she is :p My new dress was actually for Toralei, as you may know I have 4 Basic Toralei and I had planned a long time ago to "customize" at least 2 of them as they don't have a fashion pack or something different from the basic clothes to wear
FINALLY after months I finally did the dress I had in my mind for one of them :p
I have been inspired by the dress she's wearing at the end of the episode Jungle Boo-Gie to make it, even if the dress was actually Venus Dot Dead Gorgeous dress with other colors lol but I think it looks really cute on her and as it's not exactly the same dress as the episode it's even better cause it's not like a pale copy in different colors from Venus' dress
Tell me guys, do you like my Toralei... Let's say, Zombie Shake as it's the dance line of this year :p ??
Sorry for the quality of the pics guys but the sun is not a big friend of Belgium at the moment and as the place I use to take my pic is already a bit dark it's even worse :s
For the one who looks at the webisode, this locker probably reminds you of the one we see in this webisode :
www.youtube.com/watch?v=OhQDVZvnE9s&feature=youtu.be
Where Clawd build a new locker for Draculaura
I was sure Mattel would do it cause it was too cool not to be made !!! I need this playset only for Lala lol XD
Loving the Barbie Life in the Dreamhouse dolls so far!!! I'll probably collect the whole line to be honest!!
Here's Summer, who I'm surprised by! I really didn't think I'd even like her, let alone love her this much, when the first photos were shown. She's cute! Her face reminds me of the Duff sisters - a throwback to Fashion Fever? LOL! Her clothes are cute too. Very in with the spring "sporty" dress trend. Can't wait to see her in the webisodes!
Y'all might recognize this from the last two Bratz Trends webisodes (hanging on the wall at MGA), well I found an HQ version of it! Cute seeing how she started out, and even cuter to see how little she changed from her very first design to production ;)
super slow shutter speed of Occy
little video where I feature at about 2:30 if you wanna laugh at me
billabongpro.com/jbay11/videos-view-gb/webisode-05-beyond...
Here is my Apple White Legacy Day OOAK! When I got her I thought she looked less like the webisode, so I styled her hair, reshaped the head, gave her thicker eyeliner, arranged the big bows on her sleeves! What do you think of her now? :)
And here she is :p My new dress was actually for Toralei, as you may know I have 4 Basic Toralei and I had planned a long time ago to "customize" at least 2 of them as they don't have a fashion pack or something different from the basic clothes to wear
FINALLY after months I finally did the dress I had in my mind for one of them :p
I have been inspired by the dress she's wearing at the end of the episode Jungle Boo-Gie to make it, even if the dress was actually Venus Dot Dead Gorgeous dress with other colors lol but I think it looks really cute on her and as it's not exactly the same dress as the episode it's even better cause it's not like a pale copy in different colors from Venus' dress
Tell me guys, do you like my Toralei... Let's say, Zombie Shake as it's the dance line of this year :p ??
Sorry for the quality of the pics guys but the sun is not a big friend of Belgium at the moment and as the place I use to take my pic is already a bit dark it's even worse :s
I can't believe that there's already been seven waves of the Ever After High dolls! It seems like just yesterday I was on the hunt looking for basic Madeline. As far as these three girls go Melody got her eyes painted a nice warm brown color like in the webisodes, Farah got her wand and shoes glittered, and a nice pair of white glitter tights, and Justine got swarovski crystals on her dress, shoes, sleeves, bracelet, and crown to represent the tree made of diamonds in her story. I think that after these customizations, these girls might be my favorites released in a while!
I have been tag by Simone Laurenta and after I saw Aik's pic it made me want to play too!
Aik and Artsy I want to dedicate this pic for you!
Join the game if you like!
"I am all about being artistic and create and trying new things!" says the little talented and sweet fashionsta. Artsy's approch for fashion is all about using your imagintation and creativty: "Once I even made my friends evening dresses from swimsuits and beach accessories! With a great help from my friends we created fablous clothes!"
"I truly believe that clothes should make you feel comftable and happy, you don't need to follow trends, just stay true to you and don't be afraid to expriment with fashion and the most improtant thing- have fun!" :)
P.S. In case you don't understand Artsy is referring to the Barbie Fashionstas webisode that's called "Life's A Beach".
Thank you for reading :)