Red-head Chanel now Kathleen

As promised, here she is!

This is the Chanel sculpt by Joanna Kazmierczak.

She is a cloth body silicone doll with full limbs.

She is my only custom order doll for 2015.  This spot was won during my New Years Day drawing.

It is almost time for that drawing again!  This year has flown by!

Chanel has been renamed by her "mommy" to Kathleen.  

And...she has moveable eyes!

It was her "mommy's" idea to leave her eyes unglued so that she could move them for different expressions.

Chanel had very large sockets behind her eyes so I cut foam wedges into balls to fit behind the eyes.  The foam allows just enough squish to allow the eyes to be moved yet holds them flush against the front of the socket.  What a lovely idea!

I also rooted mohair over her painted brows and gave her rooted lashes as well.  

It was requested that she have brows that extended into the bridge.  They turned out very nice!

Kathleen is such a sweet heart!

She will be traveling home soon!

XXOO

First peeks of FBS Jazz Prototype WIP

Oh my, am I ever enjoying painting Jazz!  

First I should mention that Jazz, when complete with his head on, weighs 

NINE pounds SIX ounces!  

I was wondering how I was going to manage this heavy boy while painting and then, I got a brilliant idea...

Karen Valtin had shared her plans for making  silicone drying rack for cloth body silicone parts.  

My husband and I made the rack when I first started painting silicone dolls and I do love it for hanging the drying pieces.  

~Here are the plans for Karen's silicone drying rack~

I removed the long legs from the rack and used the top part as a rack to lay Jazz's body across.  

WOW!  This makes my work so much easier!  

CAUTION....NAKED BOY DOLL PICTURE...

Without having to hold this heavy sculpt, my body stays limber and relaxed and I can reach far more places at once as I paint.  

When I am finished painting that layer, I can cover my work with a clear storage tub to keep wandering hairs and fuzz off the silicone:

Isn't that great?

Now for those work in progress pictures...

At the end of day 1:

End of day 3:

I am enjoying this little man so much!

In other news...

Chanel is FINISHED and I've completed her photo shoot.  

I will post her pictures on Sunday.  

She's such a cutie!

XXOO

I couldn't resist: Photo's of blank silicone Jazz!

I had some time in between the final touches on Chanel, so how could I resist taking pictures of Jazz??

I will let the pictures speak for themselves

(Warning NAKED anatomically correct doll pictures)

I am already in love and so excited to bring this one to life.

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Full Body Silicone Jazz video!

Claire Taylor made a great video of the Artist Proof and the Prototype of 

Full Body Silicone Jazz by Lilianne Breedveld.

I have been selected to reborn the prototype of Jazz and he is the second baby shown in this video...the lighter Caucasian toned doll.  Lilanne herself will be reborning the Artist Proof. 

Please know that as artists, we encourage our collectors to handle their silicone dolls with care however, that is not displayed here in this video.  

Claire shows how flexible silicone Jazz is as well as how secure his head is attached.  

It looks a bit brutal, but I can promise that no silicone dolls were harmed in the making of this video.

 MY prototype of Jazz arrived yesterday and he is PERFECT!  :)   

I am still working on red-headed silicone Chanel by Joanna Kazmierczak for my customer who won the spot for a custom made doll.  I may be able to finish her rooting today.  My customer would love to have her to take on a trip November 16th. 

For now, Jazz will sit tight in the studio...

It will be a quiet week on the blog

I have word that Jazz will be shipping out possibly on Tuesday.  That means he could be here by the end of the week.

I MUST finish this little red-headed wonder, Chanel.

So, unless anything really BIG comes up, I won't be posting on the blog this next week.

Every moment is going to count on finishing Chanel.

Have a GREAT week as we enter NOVEMBER!!!

(Just how did that happen???)

Hugs!

ROAR!!!!!!

I had a moment to change and photograph wee little Kimiko.

(Kimiko is in my personal collection and is not for sale)

ENJOY!

I love my new little man!

Meet "Oliver", a charming silicone boy!

When I am working on vinyl dolls, I only work on one at a time because that paint dries quickly enough for me to continue on that one doll.  

But with silicone, it takes 2 hours between layers and techniques so it is good time management to work on 2 newborn size dolls and a couple of smaller, micro-preemie sized dolls.  

I had 5 doll on the table when I was working on Chanel:

Chanel, who is being rooted now

Oliver, who will wait around a while for his hair

and three full body micro-preemies who are at the blushing stage and who will be finished painted when I work on Jazz.  

I couldn't resist stuffing Oliver's parts in a stuffing filled onsie, popping in some eyes that won't be his and snapping a few pictures!

He just makes me smile!!!

Oliver is roughly 19 inches long.  

He was sculpted and poured by Kristina Reid in Canada.  

Kristina's babies have so much character!

Meet Oliver!

I hope to have Oliver available for sale in time for Christmas delivery.

I must finish Chanel first and Jazz is due by the end of next week so I need to start on him then.

XXOO