Looking forward to Portland!

Now that the toddler head is finished and the eye setting went well AND the body is weighted and assembled AND for sure one of the mini silicones will be going with me,

I am really looking forward to the Portland Oregon show!

I have all day to work today and then I can do final assembly and photo shoots tomorrow night.

I probably won't get anything posted before I leave early on Friday morning but I'll catch up on all of that next week.

Next week, this sweet prototype will be started on:

That picture is courtesy of Samantha Gregory, her sculpting artist.

Since I could not get to Joy this week, Samantha kept her and has been playing with her.

She said that it is SO hard to send her away!  

I can't wait.  What a bundle of perfect chubbiness! 

Hugs!

I did it! Toddler head is rooted!

Just to refresh your memory of what he looks like:

And here are quick, and I mean QUICK shots of the back and side of his hair.

I'm not yet fully sure how I will style it and these pictures have "bed head" as I just grabbed the head

from where it had been drying all night (I sealed it just before bed).

 Now to set those full, round glass eyes.  

THAT will be work!

I think I'll make it!

For some strange reason, rooting the big toddler head went so much better yesterday than it did the last week that I worked on it.  

I do believe I will be finished rooting it by bedtime tonight!

That means I'll have two Master Artist Series dolls to take to the show,

one Little Bit Series doll and 

one Create a Babies...Created doll.  

I am still going to try to get two mini full-bodied silicones painted as well.

Not sure I can though.

Away I go!

Back to work...did you miss me?!?!

The 10 days that we took off just flew by!

But I'm ready to be back to work and to attempt to get ready for the 

PORTLAND CROSSROADS DOLL AND TEDDY BEAR SHOW

that is this Saturday, August 31st.

The first task at hand...finishing this big toddler head!

Here are just a few pictures from our wonderful camping trip.

We celebrated Yuumei's FIRST birthday!

(Hahahahaha...always have more fun than should be legal!!)

I took this picture at home on the actual date of her birth...

But we waited until our son and his girlfriend visited us at camp to light the candle and enjoy the cake.

"I will help you blow it out Yuumei!"

Look at her tongue!  She is ready for cake!  LOL

 

 Yummei was excited to learn that she had horses!  

(from inside our little camp trailer)

 5 year old Ruger and I out on the trail taking a break.  

 We brought three horses so I switched off between my 5 year old, Ruger, and my 31 yr old, Toby.

Here Toby and I took a picture of husband, Calvin, on his 8 yr old horse, Scout.

 We saw elk in the woods  :)

 Riding Ruger.

 I love the mornings in camp, especially when the horses come to visit...

 Grandson Jarrod came to visit.  

He says, "I wuv my gwampa".

He is 6 months old already!

 He got to meet and "ride" Toby for the first time!

 And he thought Ruger was really cool.

 

 Fun times!

Now...back to work!

Hugs!

Sharing my collection Friday~New silicone to reborn...for ME!

Just after the Down East Doll Show I jumped on the opportunity to purchase a 

silicone doll that Jorja Pigott (from Pigott's Playpen) had decided to sell.

Jorja intended to reborn the doll that was created by Nellie Beardslee

who is Bonnie Chyle's sister  :)

These are Jorja's pictures that she took to advertise the doll that she prepped for reborning by taking her apart, stripping her paint off and removing her hair.

 This picture is the original silicone doll as Nellie created it (before Jorja took her apart):

 And I believe that this is am image of the OOAK sculpt before she was produced into silicone

which is the picture on the COA:

I am so very excited and honored to have this doll join my collection.  

I love Bonnie's dolls and to have a very limited doll of Nellie's 

(Bonnie's sister) just thrills me to no end.

Nellie commented on my post that I wrote when Bonnie had left this world.  

That touched my heart so much.  Nellie herself is a charming and warm person.

I am THE luckiest girl!

And my quite big Nellie Rose just may find herself to be a darling BOY when I finally get to reborning him.

XXOO

 

~On Vacation~

It is VACATION time!

I will taking the next 10 days off for vacation.

We aren't going anywhere big, like Hawaii, but we'll be doing some camping, horseback riding and home projects.  :)

I may pop in on the two Friday's to share from my collection

so don't totally forget about me!

Enjoy your August.  Summer is coming to a close...

Hugs!

Silicone madness!

I showed you the other day that I would be doing the prototype for 

Debbie DeGraaf's new silicone doll Rio, right?

Well since then, I have signed on with another artist to do her 

artist proof/prototype~yay!

This one is for Rachelle Ferrell (Chelle) and it is Preston!

Rachelle has completed the first 2 AP/PT's and I'll be doing another.

Here are her pictures of Preston:

 

Preston is a 20 inch solid silicone with full limbs :)

But not only will I be doing one of the AP/PT's, I will be getting another Preston 

to offer up to my collectors.  I will do one a boy and one a girl  :)

And not only that!

I will be completely reborning one of Chelle's  Dawson silicone kits for her 

AND

I am getting another Dawson silicone kit to reborn to offer to my collectors.

Yep, silicone MADNESS...and JOY!