Art and Magic Ethnic reborn progress

This will be a SLOW process!  

All Ethnics are.

This one is just slower since I have never perfected the ethnic tones in air dry paints so I am learning as I go which makes the process even slower.

So here is the blank kit that I coated with Genesis Matte Varnish

And the kit with a layer of the Dark Ethnic with some added blue.  This is all I got done yesterday.  She has no color on her lips and nails yet, just a little shading around the outer edges of the upper lip.

I will continue on today.  :)

DVD color guide revisions for Art and Magic paints

When I produced my Life-Like Reborning DVD Tutorial, I was using the LDC paints and 

the LDC retarder.

Since then,  began using the Liquitex Ultra Matte Gel in stead of the LDC retarder with the LDC paints.  I really, REALLY like it a lot.

Then the Art and Magic Water Borne Air Dry Paints (A&M) came out and I began using them with the Liquitex Ultra Matte Gel (LUMG).

 I have had many people ask me about using the A&M paints with the Life-Like reborning DVD so this morning, I took some time to revise the color guide that goes along with the DVD set also adding in the newest product I have been using, the Folk Art Glass and Tile Medium as a primer.  I will start sending that color guide along with all DVD purchases and will send it to anyone who has purchased the DVD and wants a copy.

If you have purchased a copy of the DVD, please contact me for a revised email copy of the guide.

I am off to begin processing mohair and to begin work on my first A&M Ethnic reborn  :)

Sharing Christmas at my house :)

This year was the first year ever that my oldest granddaughter lived so close.  We did so much together!

I love my adult kids very much and enjoyed time with them as well but this year, it was all about the grandgirl and the critters!

She and I had some quality time together.

I took her to the Festival of Trees where she met the REAL Santa:

We made a gingerbread house:

We dressed up the animals and took pictures:

(She did not help with the horses as she was not around but I'll share them anyway because they are so adorable!)

Ruger, Toby and Scout:

 Sniper:

 Deuce:

 Soda Pop, Jena's guinea pig that I care for since she can't have pets at her new home:

 And Yuumei, my 5 month old kitten:

I also dressed up the kid!  LOL

We did our annual Christmas day Jingle Bell ride around the pasture 

in a blizzard!  Yes indeed, we had a white Christmas!  :)

We ate and ate and ate and exchanged gifts.  

It was a dolly Christmas for her.  You see, she loved the prototype Nicky Jack that I reborned in December of 2010.  Every time she visited, she wanted to hold him and told me how much she loved him.  She thinks he is so unique.  I had placed him on eBay right after his "birth" but he did not sell.  I had him on my website and took him to every show...but he did not sell.  After my last show in September, I removed him from all sale lists and set him aside for her for Christmas.  

I took a video of her opening him:

And we took studio pictures of some of the members of our family:

 THIS is what reborning is all about!

Grandgirl Jena and her mom, Jesse (my daughter):

My oldest step-daughter Nike and her husband Jason: 

 

 My youngest step-daughter Jill and her husband Zach:

 My husband, Calvin and I:

And last but not least...
We knew we were going to be grandparents again in May (Nike and Jason's first)
but wrapped up under the tree was this telling us WHAT the baby would be:

Yay!  Another grandGIRL to play with!

I pray that each of you had a wonderful Christmas with special moments spent with family.

God Bless!

Task overload!

I woke up this morning with much too much on my plate.  

I don't have it in me to share about Christmas today.  

I'll try tomorrow  :)

Beginning a new project: Air Dry Ethinc!

Over the years, I never fully perfected painting an Ethic doll with LDC air dry paints.  

I was just at the point where in my mind, I was ready to do so, but then the new 

Art and Magic Water Borne Air Dry paints became available. 

So, I'm going on an adventure!

This is the kit I have selected, Alasia by Lorna Miller Sands:

Yesterday, I spent the afternoon coating her with Genesis Matte Varnish (GMV).

I opted to use the GMV instead of the Folk Art Glass and Tile Medium because I know I will be using a lot of layers of the Art and Magic paints.  

With any acrylic paints I've used, I find that the more layers that are applied, there is a greater potential for shine.   Plus, I love the visual texture that GMV leaves for Ethic babies.  

I'm setting Alasia aside today though as it's my last work day of the week.  I don't like to begin a new project like this with only one day available to work on it so I'll work with mohair instead.  

In the evenings for the next couple of weeks, I will be rooting on little Miss Nala Faber:

I was making this sweet girl just to make her and put her up for adoption but she has since been spoken for by one of my drawing winners from last year.  

This "mommy" could not decide on a sculpt that she wanted for her custom order but when she saw a preview for Nala, she decided that SHE was THE one  :)

I'm simply delighted!  

Tomorrow, I'll drop by to share some Christmas pictures and stories with you.

Have a great day!

XXOO

TOO many COOKIES! A picture story

"Hewwo!  I am Joylynne!  Wook at ALL dees cookies!

Mmmmm, yummy!  

I might eat toooo many!

"Mommy say's dat Christmas is over and it's time to frowe da west of da cookies awayed....

(It appears that Sweet Pickles drooled over the cookies until the very end!)

.....put on our wurkout cwothes...

...and det moving!   Dees ball aerobics should do da twick!

 Do I sparkle???

...and free, four, five...

 Dis is hard wurk but I tan feewl it!

Sweet Pickles is too small for da ball so I'll jest sit on hers feet so hers tan do situps...

Does you feel da buwrn Sweet Pickles??

DAT was a GREAT wurkout!  We'll teep doing our wurkouts~

you jest watch!  By dis time next year, we won't weigh

a single pound more!"

Wubs always,

Joylynne and Sweet Pickles

And the winner is.......

Happy New Year everyone!!!!

The first thing I did when I got up this morning was to draw from the pot of 

valuable buyers from 2012.

And the winner is....

Jackie!  

Jackie is 2012 "mommy" to the Lottie Prototype

Congratulations Jackie!

I will be waiting to hear back from Jackie to see if she desires to accept her winning and will keep you posted.

Enjoy this first day of a new year!

I'll be back tomorrow with a little picture story called

"Too Many Cookies"...something we can all relate to this time of year.

XXOO