First photo's of Orlando/IDEX!

Hello from Sunny Orlando! YES! We have had sunshine and warmth since that tropical storm! It can be a bit windy at times but none-the-less, if at anytime I can go outside barefoot in January, I am happy!

The first two days here found us enjoying the dolls that we brought with us. Here is one of my TNGUN reborns, Stig (previously Dalton) owned by one of my room mates and my personal reborn that I adopted from Little Barn Babies, Molly, posing for us in their sun-ready attire:

My TNGUN reborn, Dimples and Molly outside by the pool:

Molly makes a gorgeous Florida postcard!

And Dimples just sleeps!

Thursday night found us in the presence of friends:
From left to right are:
Jayne (Tinkerbell Creations from the UK), Cassie Peek (Baby Dust Nursery in the UK), Emma Cousins (Emma's Rose Artistry in the UK) , Rachel Maynard (Precious Little Babies in the UK), Stacey Haskins (Haskins Heavenly Nursery in the US), myself (They Never Grow Up Nursery in the US), Lisa Lovern (I have had a major brain bubble on Lisa's Nursery name! but she is here in the US~SORRY LISA!!!) and Becky Nelson (collector from Oregon and my wonderful friend).

We had attended the IDEX 20 year reception sponsored by Ashton Drake. I realized that I have now been to the 15th AND 20th anniversary celebrations of IDEX!

Myself, Cassie Peek and Rachel Maynard on the IDEX show floor. Gosh I just love these gals from the UK! They were so kind to me...Rachel brought some of her money to show me and actually gave me one of each of the coins from her country! I am simply thrilled! I look forward to seeing these two in the future.

I apologize for not taking very many pictures of the dolls on the show room floor. I just get so sidetracked and usually end up just visiting all the artists who have become such good friends. But here are a few that I took:

Haskins Heavenly Babies:(Reborns)

These little gals are from Ashton Drake. They are just adorable in person and I might just have to get the entire collection! I didn't have my camera on the proper setting so many of my pictures did not turn out but the full series of the little cowboy dolls are just so cute! I think there are 6 of them.

Rosie's Baby Patch: (Reborns)

These next two dolls were absolutely gorgeous! They were created by Brazilian artist Luciana Miglioranzi of Bubbles n' Babies:

Ashton Drake has a new line of stuffed animals coming out soon. Oh my they are soft and have the most delightful faces! I might have to buy some of these for my website store when I get it up and running:

LOOK at that face!

This charming doll was created by Sarah Niemela:

I thought this display was just so cute:

My room mate, Sally, took pictures of two tables of dolls for your enjoyment. They are posted on Doll Fan.

Huti Babies!

Jen Printy Dolls


Rachel Maynard brought along her reborn of Enny, now Jacob. Oh my goodness he is beautiful!

This gorgeous baby boy is on eBay right now!

(Sorry for the lighting...the IDEX show floor lighting is terrible but this baby is truly real looking and spectacular!)

Imagine my delight at the privilege to hold a Precious Little Baby reborn!

LOOK at this darling little Melissa Mcrory hollow cast silicone baby boy! His name is Tommy:

And he is MINE! You really did not think I would not adopt anyone at this show now did you??? (Okay, I was trying hard not to but he pulled my heart strings!)

And Molly says that we should head to bed soon.....

Goodnight! Tomorrow is day 2 of IDEX.........
oh and PS...I've signed on to do two more prototypes. More info on those later!
Hugs!
Debbie