Precious Pixie silicone I made for my friend

My dear friend Becky was instrumental in helping me finish my Dolly House.  

She taught me all of the steps I needed to know and spent many a days right beside me laboring through the hard work.  I never could have completed the house without her.  

And she's just a wonderful person anyway so I made her this sweet micro-preemie

full body silicone doll to show my appreciation of her.

This is the "Pixie" sculpt by Melissa McCrory. 

She is 12 inches long.

I have named her Ezmararah and gave her to Becky over the weekend  :)

Laurie Duncan of Fancy Pants and Flounces made her darling pixie set!

Carol Prentice made her petal dress:

Of course, she loves her! 

Mohair is listed and selling fast!

Oh we had a WONDERFUL time at the doll show in Portland, Oregon!

I found a few treasures and my grandgirl purchased a new bjd for her collection, along with some wigs and clothing.  

And I drove a LOT of miles!  

So happy to have that part over with...but I did have good company for the trip  :)

My first task at hand back to work yesterday was to get the mohair listed and I did.

~FIND THE MOHAIR LISTINGS HERE~

These are the colors that are left:

( I wish I could find the perfect place to take mohair pictures in my new house!)

Pale Blonde: 

Chocolate brown SUPER KID!

 Brown/black:

 Carrot Red:

Light Carrot Red.

These two reds make a perfect combo.

And dark blonde/light brown:

They are selling fast so if you need mohair, don't delay!

Hugs,

Debbie

Taking a little time off for a doll show!

So many things are close to being completed right now, but I simply don't have time to do the final touches and take pictures....or list mohair  :)

I am finished painting and matting my two OOAK clay babies.  They are still in parts on the painting table and will remain that way until next week.  (I do still have to glue hair on Lahne.)

I will be completing a mini full body silicone today that I won't have time to show off either!

I will be packaging one more color batch of mohair this morning and doing the final washing, rinsing, combing, double rinsing and removing bands on two other big batches today.  I may not have time to package them tomorrow when they are dry.  

I am leaving tomorrow afternoon on a road trip to pick up my 13 year old granddaughter and we'll be headed for the 

~Portland Crossroads Doll Show~ 

on Friday!  

I don't enjoy road trips much but since my grandgirl doesn't live between here and the show, I will just have to go get her.  

She loves dolls and we love our time together in the car as well as at the show.

This is her second show and I wasn't planning on going but it is close to her birthday so...we are GOING!  :)

The show is just on Saturday and I hope that I bump into some of you there! 

I'll be back to work on Tuesday.

XXOO

Laurie Duncan does it again!

Laurie Duncan of Fancy Pants and Flounces has worked with me for most of my reborning years. 

I love being able to send her a message with an idea I have (usually very general and vague such as a theme or a color/style) and let her run with it.

For this micro-preemie silicone doll, I said that I needed a hooded bath set in a duck theme.

Here is what she came up with!

Precious ducky wash cloth:

Hooded towel:

(I told her it was best to use cotton because terry type fabric would be too fuzzy for a silicone doll)

And a little diaper!

This baby is Melissa McCrory's "Punkie" full body sculpt.

I would like to root hair on him before I offer him for sale but some have expressed love over his baldness.  Oh to decide!  

Here are a few more pictures...

I am HAPPY, HAPPY, HAPPY once again with Laurie's work!

Dabling into unchartered territory using Baby FX POWDERS!

I have been processing mohair by day and rooting a full body mini silicone by evening and last night I simply just HAD to take a break and play!

My mission was to re-weight two of my newest OOAK clay babies.

Do you remember these two by Lilianne Breedveld?  I purchased them in October.

Well, I began taking them apart and remembered that they really do not have any color left and thought to myself..."well, I now have Baby FX powders!  Let's see how they work on clay!"

So, I washed the clay and started work on Lahne, the one on the left above.  She had hair but it was a clear cap wig and I wasn't totally in love with it as it was super pluggy so I took it off.  I will glue wonderful hair onto her later.

(Cell phone pictures taken at night)

I didn't want to go to bed!!!!  

I have her limbs colored and did this much to her face.  I will seal all of this with the SureBond and water spray then do more.  Since she is mine, I can see how she holds up over time.

I'm super excited because my own baby is getting face lift, something I rarely have time for!  

I'll keep you posted  :)

So pleased, so proud, so excited!

Last week was a busy and thrilling week as Jazz's auction ran.

He ended at $7500....my highest sale date...and is going to a follower of this blog!

THAT makes me much more excited than the money does!

It is awesome to be compensated for a job well done, but with so much of my heart into each baby, I love having a connection of some kind with the adopting family.  

The top question on everyone's mind on a high end doll and sale is always....

"Did she get paid?"

Yes!  My buyer paid and Jazz is on his way to Australia!  

Please wish him well in his travels.  It is always a breath holding experience while they are enroute anywhere.  

I simply am so anxious for his "mommy" to meet him in person!  

I couldn't be any more excited for her!!

So, let's talk about that  $7500.

Any other artist reading will attest to the fact that daily, we get asked to give our dolls away or sell them at very low prices, like $100.

I have been called greedy before.  

It is assumed that time should be given away.

It is assumed that "it's only a doll" so should be cheap or free.

I only post the following numbers in hopes that some will see this break down and be educated.  

Feel free to share it.

Please understand that I am in no way complaining and diminishing the outcome of this sale!

I feel VERY blessed!

The final sale was $7500

PayPal's fee on this payment were $298.22

The Final Value Fee and auction fee on eBay were $753.25

The cost of the blank sculpt was $2200

(Yes, I know it is a prototype and typically prototypes are sent to the artist at no charge...IN VINYL.  This is not vinyl and rarely are silicone prototypes sent at no charge.  I did get a small discount on his sculpt but as you see, he was not free.)

I did not figure the cost of outfits, blankets, accessories, needles, mohair, paints, painting supplies etc etc but I'll throw a number out there of $150.

That leaves a profit of 4098.53

I worked on Jazz for 8 full weeks, plus the time I did not calculate to process the mohair for his hair.

Dividing $4098.53 by 8 means I was paid $512.32 per week ($12.80 per hour) for my work.

I do believe I got a raise!!!!  

From my heart

XXOO

Onto the next project....

MOHAIR MADNESS!

Doing the photo and video shoot of Jazz and getting his auction up was largely stressful and my body is feeling it!  

I've not been able to have my weekly massage for the last 2 weeks due to lack of funds and my shoulders, upper back and neck are causing me trouble!  Mohair processing should be fun...

NOT!  

But, here I go and I WILL be able to get back on my weekly massages again this week so I will survive  :)

Have a great day everyone!

XXOO

Ps...what I really WANT  to do (besides play in my dolly house) is to make my Angelica. 

She is Reva Schick's 5 year old child doll.  I've had her kit now for 2 years or more and she is for me.

I try to make a doll for me every year but I think I am going on my 3rd year without making myself a doll.  :(  

I need to take Decembers off.  Please remind me of that next year!