The week is ending with excitement!

Thursdays are my "Fridays" as my husband and I take Friday and Saturday's off.
Clear as mud??
LOL

This is the first time in over three years that I have not had either a custom order or a prototype waiting for me to get started on. This is such a strange and freeing feeling! Now don't get me wrong, I LOVE doing prototypes and pleasing my customers (especially with portrait babies) but I have so many kits I've been waiting to reborn. And I have a big show coming up just shortly in June.

Oh my...who to do first? I prepped 5 more kits yesterday and have a total of 14 ready for paint! Uh, plus many more not prepped! But I've picked out my favorites to start with.

Now I can't reborn that many between now and June~and I do have one prototype that is due mid April or so (Matthew by Jorja Pigott!!) so I just have to start out with who I desire to reborn the most. Oh my...AA babies, Asian babies, Caucasian babies....I just can't decide!

I will not be pre-selling any of my show babies unless I become very desperate but that should not happen because...

As of this morning, the hard drive with my reborning video is being sent to the DVD production company! My editor got stumped in some of the processes of authoring such a large project that he and I have decided just to send it to the bigger pro's and let them do the authoring (putting the chapter buttons and subtitles onto the project) and deciding how many and which type of DVD's to use.

Poor guy. He would get to a place where he had it all done but then he would find something to fix and have to start all over again. Every time a change is made it changes the size of the file and the length of the finished DVD so at this point, we are back to not knowing how many DVD's will be in this set. It's really technical and difficult to work with such large files.

I suspect that the production company won't waste any time getting this project completed since they have the equipment and software to work on large projects, so I am very excited about that! Won't be too much longer now. I need to just do some final editing on the material for the booklet that will go inside the DVD case~everything else has been submitted, even the cover art.

So yes, I am excited! Excited to start on show babies and let these babies decide who they are. Excited that I am nearly caught up on mohair orders and have several textures and colors of hair available to the artists and VERY excited about the forward movement on the Reborning DVD Course!

Happy Thursday to you and Friday to me! (hehehehe)

Portrait baby Laura is on her way home!

Wow, I cannot believe that I forgot to blog this morning! Especially about this precious little one!

It was a weird and wild morning!

I will fill you in on the other exciting news tomorrow but tonight, let's just focus on Baby Laura!

Here is the sweet little REAL baby Laura:

And here is her portrait baby.

I really did not get great identical poses of the doll compared to the baby~that makes me sad but yesterday during the photo shoot, I had a terrible headache and neck ache. Stress, both exciting good stress and not so great stress, gets to me in those areas and I guess my body said ENOUGH STRESS!

I'm feeling better today but Baby Laura is on her way to Texas.

I am very happy with her and she really was interactive and playful with me while I took her pictures. Oh how I love my work!

I'll be back in the morning with all kinds of things to tell you!

XXOO

Reborn dolls, mohair and color guides for sale!

This morning I woke up and found a big invoice in my inbox for my class room fees for the upcoming Down East Doll Show and Conference. Rats. Rats only because it came at a bad time so I thought I better promote what I have available to both collectors and artists.

I will be happy to accept 3 payments on the reborns~1/3 down at time of sale, 1/3 down 30 days after that and the final third with shipping in another 30 days. NO refunds on payments that cannot be completed.

First available is Missy created from Tatiana Schick.

I have a full page on my website for Missy ~HERE~
If you would like to buy her on payments, please contact me through the contact button and disregard the paypal cart button at the bottom of her page.


Then we have precious Noah John, created from the Noah Schick sculpt.

Again, I have a full page for Noah ~HERE~
Noah pictures do not do this beautiful baby justice. I just have not had time to retake his pictures. I will attempt to do that on Sunday.

And preemie Nicky Jack. He is prototype #1 of Nicky Jack by Nikki Britt.

Nicky Jacks pictures are quite terrible too! Must have had my camera settings all wrong during their photo shoots. Ugh.
You can see Nicky Jack's page ~HERE~

I've got a lot of mohair listed ~HERE~ in many different colors with more to come on Thursday! (Thursdays listing will include Kid and curly AA yearling hair!!)

Many of you know that I love teaching my painting skills to others. I have created several
~COLOR GUIDES~ to use with the LDC paints to teach my multidimensional layering technique and exceptional skin tones.

The guide I sell the most is the NEWBORN guide. I use this guide when teaching live classes and also used it in my upcoming REBORNING DVD set.

And of course there is still time to sign up for my 2 day Multidimensional skin tone class at the Down East Doll Show and Conference! Spaces are limited and I expect student signups to fill up the space.

~SIGN UP HERE~

I will be doing door prize drawings featuring some of my angora mohair and the Reborning DVD set! My classes are always fun!

Please feel free to submit any questions regarding any of these items.

Happy Tuesday!!

It's TNGUN's anniversary!

Happy 7th anniversary
They Never Grow Up Nursery!!

Wow time sure does fly! It was 7 years ago this month that

They Never Grow Up Nursery

Came into being.


I began painting my first two kits; two sweet 16" Berenguer LaBaby twins. I was not reborning them as twins, they were just retailed as twins.

Oh those were the days. I learned SO much. The first thing I learned was DO NOT attempt to paint two kits when you are first learning. I had to strip them both three times! LOL

I finally set one aside and worked on just Abby, a blonde little girl. She was finished and ready for auction by the 24th of March 2005.

Oh my...my camera was horrible. The color in the room where I took pictures was horrible! It is amazing to me that she ever found a mommy due to the inaccurate pictures!

But she did find a loving mommy in Canada...for a price tag of $87.50.
What a doll. I still think of her.

Fun memories and times. I wonder what the next 7 years will bring?

XXOO

I didn't do it! More work needed on Baby Laura!

Sometimes when you stand back and look at your work, you realize that you need to bring the hair line down further, as I do with Baby Laura.

This is what I will do today (plus work on mohair).

Maybe Monday I can share pics!

Have a great Sunday.

Saying goodbye to a great artist, Bonnie Chyle

Normally my Bonnie Chyle babies are very happy....

But recently we learned that their creating artist passed away in January and today...

they and we mourn.

Rest in peace Bonnie Chyle.
The love you shared with us will live on.

I did it! Baby Laura is rooted!

I've been horrible about taking progress pictures of portrait baby Laura's hair due to time.

I'm pleased to say that she's rooted though!!

And I have her lashes in.

And I have no pictures to prove it! LOL

I promise to share as soon as I can.

Today is another trip...EARLY morning trip I might add...to the city and doctor again. My husband had xrays on Tuesday and we have been notified that he has a stress fracture in his ankle. No wonder he has been in so much pain. Poor guy.

XXOO