Portland Doll Show pictures :)

I will get right on posting these pictures and do the Sauder Village pictures sometime this week.

I had a wonderful time at the show and talked to so many people!  

Here is my table all set up the night before the show:

The babies looked content in their baskets:

Jaylen, ADOPTED (Thank you!!)

EVERYONE loved this baby!

 Petunia, AVAILABLE

Solid platinum silicone full body micro-preemie

$500

 Sebastian, AVAILABLE

 micro-preemie vinyl

$395

 Kimmy, AVAILABLE

Simple Treasures vinyl

$500

Skinny Linny

ADOPTED (Thank you!)

Here she is with me on the left and her new twin mommies!

Prescilla~ADOPTED (Thank you!)

Catherine~adoption pending:

And I always have my reborning DVD available:

$149 shipped in the US and Canada, $154 shipped worldwide

I brought some mohair back home so I'll be putting that up for sale soon on my Artfire site.

This show is always so well attended!

I tried to capture just how many people were browsing the isles but it's so hard unless up above the crowds.

I just love this show!  

I always find treasures here and this year brought home this mechanical kitty!

She is VERY cool!

 I also brought home a stuffed Olaf snowman from the movie Frozen but I didn't take a picture of him.  He'll come out during the winter  :)

I was so busy visiting with people at my table that I really didn't get around too much and didn't take any pictures of vendor tables.  It's such a hoping and wonderful show!

Fun, FUN times!

Friday Funnies! Spike, the Barefoot little Farmer Boy

Portland show babies are finished!

The two new babies being added to what I have left from Sauder Village are ready for the show...

Well, almost!

The micro-preemie full body silicone is still waiting for clothes, but who needs them when you are this cute???

She's a girl and her name is Linny  :)

Miss Chubby-Wubby Catherine is also ready!

And, she has clothes!  

Available in Portland will be:

 2 newborn sized silicone dolls

2 micro-preemie full body silicone dolls

2 newborn size vinyl reborn dolls

1 micro-preemie vinyl reborn doll

My full reborn course DVD sets

and mohair!

I am excited and ready.

Nearly ready!

I set the LuLu prototype aside yesterday to finish a micro-preemie full body silicone head.

Oh she is cute!  Her outfit should arrive today and then she will be ready for the Portland Doll Show.

The chubby Berenguer doll will be ready as well.  

I am almost ready!!!

Matte Sealer test

I decided to try a little experiment with the Plaid Folk Art Outdoor Matte Sealer.

Some have said that they like to just brush it on and allow it to dry.

I prefer to pounce it on and pounce it until it is just dry.

Plus, I decided to try adding a second layer as I noticed the instructions on the bottle state to use 2 coats.

Here is what I found.

I coated these two dolls once to start:

(click on the picture to see full size)

The doll on the left was pounced on while the doll on the right was brushed on and allowed to dry.

Here are the limbs of both dolls.

Two things that I noticed are that the brushed on coating is still sheeny and I also found some areas where the matte had pooled.  Where it pooled it was white and pasty. I was able to scrape it out of the creases where it pooled with a wet wooden pick and a lot of work.

I pounced the second layer onto both dolls which took away the sheen on the brushed on layer.

I do not have side by side pictures of both as I guess I got anxious to get the smaller doll on the left done and sent to his new mommy but here are individual pictures of both dolls.

From now on, I will be doing two coats of the outdoor sealer or any matte product that I use and I will be pouncing both layers on and pouncing until just dry.  :) 

Portland, Oregon Doll and Teddy Bear show Saturday August 30th!

The Portland, Oregon 

~Crossroads Doll and Teddy Bear show~

is my favorite show of the whole year and it's happening THIS Saturday!

I'll have a table of reborn babies, silicone babies ( a new one in each category that you've not seen yet), my reborning DVD and....

MOHAIR!

Will I see YOU there???  :)  

I hope so!! 

 

Just sharing a little business secret, why so angry??

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  The other day, I was browsing through Etsy and found another seller using prototype pictures to gain custom orders.  

  
  

  As usual, I started out by sending a simple question asking if they had pictures of their own work.

  
  

  After I received a reply I then shared a business secret with the seller.  She became so defensive.   Why can't we all just work together and work with integrity???

  
  

  Here is the conversation that ensued:

  
  

  
  

  
  

  Hello Ami,
  Do you have any pictures of your work from past custom orders or other dolls you have made?
  Debbie
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  Ami Taylor

  4 days ago

  Hi,
  The Leah doll I have listed on my store is a custom I did. You can see 5 photos on that listing. Here are a few more.

  
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  DebbieHenshaw

  4 days ago

  Oh, that doll was not there when I looked this morning. There was another doll with the prototype pictures listed. I don't recall who it was though.
  
  Your work is nice. Will you start using pictures of your own work in the future? May I share a little business secret with you? Prototype pictures really are not to be used to gain custom orders. They are to be used for doll dealers to sell kits. It can be very misleading to customers. Your dolls are cute. I think you are at a place in your art where your own pictures will sell your dolls for you :)
  
  Best of luck!
  Debbie
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  Ami Taylor

  4 days ago

  That doll was absolutely there, this morning. I don't know what point you're trying to make but that doll was listed more than a week ago.
  
  Here's a "business secret" for you: Mind your own.
  
  Do NOT message me again or I will report you for harassment.
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  DebbieHenshaw

  4 days ago

  I suppose I could have seen it wrong. I was looking at a lot of listings on eBay and Etsy this morning, but I was pretty sure there were three listings with prototype pictures used.
  
  I AM glad to see a listing using your own pictures. That will fare you well in the doll world. :)
  
  Why are you so upset? I was just sharing some secrets of the trade with you since you are new within the last year.
  
  You can report me if you like but I am pretty sure that Etsy will not find that I am harassing you. We work in the same business and communicating about that business is not harassment. I was simply trying to help you make it in the field.
  
  I am only a buyer on Etsy. I do not sell on Etsy.
  
  Take care.
  Debbie

  
  

  
  

  I am just so frustrated with the way people are using other artists pictures to gain custom orders.  It is simply wrong.