Heading towards the finish line! Danene painted

It is time to put down the paint brushes (okay, what I really need to do is pack them up for my painting class...) and fully grasp onto the rooting needles!  

I've completed the paint on the last baby for the Down East Doll Show~prototype Danene 

by Violet Parker.

This little girl just emits sunshine!

She just makes me smile!!!

Today I will box up the babies that are finished in order to send them on ahead of me to North Carolina, but I think I'll delay sending the box until Tuesday.  I should have big girl Mariana finished and photographed by tomorrow noon so that she too can travel with the other dolls.  Then I will begin rooting Danene and I hope to finish rooting tiny Gus before my flight on Tuesday the 19th.  

There are a lot of things going on behind the scenes as well, such as getting all of the babies "goodie" bags and birth certificates ready; creating a show manual for the two amazing friends who are manning my table on the Friday of the show while I teach; preparing for my class, both mentally as well as physically compiling all of the needed supplies; preparing for the weighting workshop in the same manner as my painting class; gathering items that I am donating to the charity raffle; putting together a baby shower gift for the big party on Sunday; making price tags for the dolls, mohair and DVDs; and price tags for these amazing combo bassinet/bags made by Dizon Designs that I will be offering at my table:

  

 and of course making sure that all of my animals, plants and men (husband and adult son) left at home will be well cared for.  They can clean the house though  :) 

Oh, and paying the bills in advance.

I am contemplating opening up an online "show" on Saturday June 23 for my customers who cannot attend the show.  If I do this, the "show" will be from 11 am-1 pm where customers can purchase any of the doll show babies via the internet.  My android phone will notify me of any sales immediately and I can mark said dolls as sold as soon as payment is received. 

I can only do this if I have time to set it up and have it ready to make live on that Saturday of the show.  Just one more little task.  :)

I better hop to it!

XXOO

Sharing my collection Friday~Matthew is excited!

This is a BIG weekend for Matthew the little cowboy/Harley Davidson lover!

In our little city of 10,000, the seams of downtown will swell with thousands of motorcycles and motorcycle riders as we sponsor the 2012 Hell's Canyon Motorcycle Rally.

Remember Matthew's new high chair that has the Orange County Riders decal on it?  

Well he is proudly sitting in his chair down at the Art Gallery on Main Street waiting to see all of his buddies.  (This picture was taken at home and it's really blurry, but you get the idea!)  

 This picture was taken years ago from the back of my horse as we carried in the Colors to open the celebration. (this picture is blurry too!  BAD day for pictures  LOL!)  This is just a small glimpse of the bikes.  I am tempted to make it a point to get downtown tomorrow and take some new images  :)

Have a great weekend!

Nigel prototype pictures!

Please welcome this beautiful, realistic sculpt/reborn baby to the nursery!

Nigel by Lilianne Breedveld

I am simply delighted with this little super-star!

This sculpt is ultra realistic, beautifully proportioned and wonderful to work on.

Dealer information is coming soon.

Hugs!

Just one student

The deadline for signing up for my 2 day painting class in North Carolina has passed and I get the supplies ordered/gathered.  

I'll be spending the two days with just one lucky student...of course I am not sure who is luckier...she or I! I love doing one-on-one classes and always come away feeling accomplished and motivated.  

I look forward to an amazing time with this student!

I also look forward to working on one of Jessica Schenk's triplets!  These are the sculpts that I chose for this class.  

So where is Nigel???

I was going to take his pictures yesterday but when I went to the nursery to assemble him, his eye gloss had developed bubbles so I had to redo them.  I'll try again today.  He looks really, REALLY real!

Master Artist of the Month award :)

I have not be entering Artist of the Month (AOM) competitions due to lack of time to choose photos, load them into photobucket and enter them to the contest coordinators but when May's AOM notice came out at Whispering Moments Reborn Baby Guild, I happened to have time to enter.  

This is the baby I entered;  precious Lotte by Sebilla Bos:

And she won!

Eventually I will receive a logo from that guild but they happen to be the coordinators/managers of the Down East Doll Show so are very busy right now.

Just 15 days until I fly!!  Whooo!

Sunday/Monday

Sunday's are my Monday's so on the agenda today is this:

Nigel is rooted as of 11:30 last night.  Today I will trim his fine face hairs, insert his round glass eyes (do NOT look forward to that chore!) and finish him up with gloss and lashes.  I'll let all that dry as I begin painting Prototype Danene by Violet Parker.

Tonight, I will continue rooting Mariana~she has such a large head!  

Two weeks, two days from flying!  I will ship most of the babies out this Friday.  

Getting pretty excited!

Sharing my collection Friday~Beata

Beata is a little baby that I reborned many years ago.  I had fallen in love with her and when she did not sell on eBay, I kept her  :)

I changed her outfit the other day:

Isn't she sweet?