Little peek at Simple Treasures AA baby girl!

Isn't she cute??

I've not named the little one yet and I need a bigger body but I just adore her!

I have her hair all picked out and colored. Rooting will start in the evenings next week.

Things went well with Riley yesterday and I'm anxious to get back to her today.

I took a few pictures of Noah John this morning. I don't know, I just can't capture the tone and beauty of this precious boy. He is fair skinned but has gorgeous depth. And putting them on this blog washes them out even more. ~sigh~

Have a good Wednesday!
XXOO

Let the birthing begin! Down East Doll Show

I have two reborns on my painting table that I have begun for the Down East Doll Show!

One is a "Simple Treasures" ethnic/bi-racial/AA baby and she is painted :) I have to matte varnish her limbs today but oh is she ever cute!

The other one is Riley Schenk. She is going to be bi-racial as well but you know, I am using Genesis paints for these two as I love using Genesis for ethnic babies, and the same mixture of paint would not coat Riley properly. It went on the Simple Treasures baby (a Berenguer) just fine. Just goes to show that different vinyls need different treatments.

So basically, I have nothing done on Riley yet except for textured eye brows.

Maybe I will have time to share a picture of the little Simple Treasures baby tomorrow morning.

Have a great Tuesday!
XXOO

Sweet Pickles (and I) are thankful

"Thank you God for giving my creating artist (Bonnie Chyle) and her sisters such great parents! They must have been great to make such three (and more??) delightful people who care enough to share their talents, love and words with all of us. We have been blessed by them! So God, please bless Nancy, Nellie and the rest of their family. And please give Bonnie and hug and a kiss from me, my siblings and my Mommy. Amen."

(Thanks for taking time to drop by the blog Nancy and Nellie. Your words have touched my heart...and obviously Sweet Pickles heart too! XXOO)

~sigh~ Jenny Gannon again. Scammer Update

Today I would much rather share how touched I am that two of Bonnie Chyle's sweet sisters have visited the blog and commented on the post I shared about Bonnie's passing but...

Jenny Gannon (AKA Jenny Singleton) is at it again and you know how passionate I am about keeping the dolly world a clean and safe place for all of us.

~CLICK HERE TO SEE PREVIOUS POSTS REGARDING JENNY~

Jenny has been quite quiet for a while (read that three times fast! LOL) but she's has been active on Facebook over the weekend changing her ID's. It's pretty easy to detect that it is her. Her grammar is horrible and her spelling atrocious.

The names that Jenny created over the weekend are these:

Jenny Tyler
Gem Lewis

Both of those ID's have been turned in and removed from Facebook but I don't think it will be long before she shows up with another ID name and she could used those names in other avenues such as websites and on doll forums.

She simply does not learn or quit.

Please if any of you know of any other ID's that you have detected Jenny Gannon under, feel free to comment~I will keep your contributions private and will not post anything about you here.

Keeping the dolly world pure,
Debbie

Sharing my collection Friday~Crib Cap babies!

Poor neglected little girls!

Crib Cap babies (dolls that are small enough to fit in a real baby's crib cap) used to be quite popular. These are mine:

Baby Emily by Linda Webb and Ashton Drake. I reborned this one for me:

Here she is next to an Original Emily by Linda Webb. (These are the small versions of the bigger Emily~the original is 10 inches, my reborn is 11 inches)

This is Beata, named and reborned by me. She was once a Paradise Galleries doll named "Lizzy" scupted by Kymberli Durden.

Here is Beata with her original doll:

And this is precious Giana. She was reborned from an 11" Berenguer LaBaby.
Tina Moothart of Heaven's Garden of Angels reborner her.

Her original is in the picture on the far left next to her.
This is a group shot of them all with originals and well, Little Miss Mindy had to jump in there too! They all had gotten new outfits when I took this picture~even Mindy, the tiny OOAK.

Hope you enjoyed my Crib Cap Babies...and Mindy!
XXOO

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