Wichita Kansas Doll Show 2019

It has been a wild few months and yes still here! I finally accepted the fact that I cannot do everything...thereby not getting something done. Moving forward, did another Wichita Kansas Doll Show and it was even better than the last! Saw some old friends and met new ones!
Getting ready for setup:

All done:

 We were so happy doing a pre-setup, made life so much easier!

My long time friend /co-worker was my show assistant

and first customer of the day!⬇😊

my little fugly contest baby. I am seriously thinking of making him an AA baby. I just couldn't connect to him. He seemed quite content with big eyebrows ( I redid them 4 times that I can remember and they always came out the same...go figure) 😖😂😂😂😂 I'll have to add the photo where he's in his competition outfit, they were adorable. The contest was really set up nice, didn't actually get to see the babies close up, but the pictures shared showed some beautiful babies for sure!

I also have my online store up and running! It was a bit hair raising but "I got er done"!

So feel free to browse and shop at my store!

https://squareup.com/store/love-is-forever-nursery

From my heart to yours... Hugs, Judie www.loveisforevernursery.com

The tiny triplet babies yes, I forgot to show the rest of them reborn! LOL

They are known as "Dichorionic diamniotic triplets"

made them their own modified ultrasound too

The girls have anatomically correct tummy plates and Jon has half tummy plate and an anatomically custom soft body. Custom made "dried" umbilical cords.

now meet Jada, Jasmine and Jon!

They all have chocolate caramel skin tones, mottling, veining and dry skin effect achieved with Miracle Blend Air Dry Paints. They are micro rooted with "beautiful baby soft kid black mohair" from (TNGUN Debbie Henshaw) with hand applied Lanugo facial hair and birthmarks on their tummies!

The girls have pierced ears Jada (pearl) Jasmine (silver) and all have magnetic pacifiers

Their skin is sealed with Final step Reborn FX matte sealer.

I am so happy excited with them, that I built them a "prop triple stroller" that now really works for them, it folds down for easy transportation! I ended up doing a little modifying on the base and switched to much lighter wheels (not pictured) of which I am much happier with! So, here they are!

From my heart to yours...
Hugs, Judie
 https//www.loveisforevernursery.com

Special BABY Sale, a SWEETHEART of a Deal!

I AM SO EXCITED!!! It's been in the works for some time now I know. I have hunted and hunted and finally found what I can live with! It's basic, but my heart is in it (as well as a few of my brain cells)! LOL
I am pleased to announce...
I finally have my store on board and I felt that this would be a great time for a "Sweetheart" BABY SALE!!!

"Sweetheart Special 10 day sale" starts today 2/5/19 at 6:35 pm CT (no special reason, it equals 14)!
Go to my my website to get to the store. Click on "Baby Boutique" under Available Babies! My Valentine Special to you! Select dolls will be 28% off (get twice the love)! 

                                                    FYI. The sale price does not include S/H nor layaway.

From my heart to yours...

 Hugs, Judie
 www.loveisforevernursery.com

WIP and presenting these little cuties!

Jada, Jasmine and Jon the triplets are tiny, happy and adorable,they are known as

Made their little tee-shirts correspond with their birth time! Didn't put the names on them (just in case mom wants different names), that's just to know which baby was which with the names that I gave them.

the girls are identical twins

even made them their own "triplet" stroller! 

and now for my latest WIP, Marcus (sold out) LE Kit by AK Katigawa, now known as Harper:

The eyes are just for aesthetic purposes just in case. Didn't want to freak anyone out with empty eye orbits! LOL I can't wait to get her finished!!! She's a cooing sweetheart for sure! 💓

From my heart to yours... Hugs, Judie
 www.loveisforevernursery.com

The tiny triplet babies WIP

WIP: The tiny triplets (before), 2 sleeping girls identical and anatomically correct Jada and Jasmine ("Rosebud kit by Cindy Musgrove)

and a wide awake boy Jon (Chance kit by Sabine Hansen) with tummy plate are coming along.

Their skin tones, using.Miracle Blend permanent air-dry paints, will be a lovely chocolaty caramel color all with birthmarks. That's all that I can tell you now so stay tuned!




From my heart to yours... Hugs, Judie www.loveisforevernursery.com

WOW!

I have made a big dent in getting the rest of my "stuff" put up, but I still have a few things that I am going to have to work out as far as it's new home. I don't have nearly as many hidey-holes as before! So it will take some ingenuity on my part. Mostly, I have a lot of kits that are begging for attention! LOL I think that I am OCD to a degree, I have to have everything where it belongs or I just can't paint! I AM plugging along so that there are no more excuses! Bear with me! As Arnold Schwarzenegger says...I'll be bock! Hahaha!

Felicia is going home for Christmas!

I just had to come back and share the good news! Felicia Renae' (Nicky sculpt by Jackie Gwin) my little two toothed toddler has been officially adopted and is all ready to be shipped out Monday to Virginia!


From my heart to yours... Hugs, Judie www.loveisforevernursery.com

micro-preemie Daris Alan

I promised pictures and I think that I have some good ones of little Darius Alan!

I was aiming for the skin tone of this little cutie ~ still haven't perfected it yet, but one DAY!

 well this is as far as I could get. What do I mean by that...the paint kept slipping even after heating, just about drove me nuts, because he's so cute I kept going! It's not perfect but, meet Darius Alan anyway~

Now you can see him with RoPan hair! LOL

 

 I made his little "bunny" onesie, his little take me home outfit matching

 

diaper pants, tee-shirt, cover shirt and "no scratch" mitts and crib hat. That's his puppy "Woofy" beside him!

 Here he is with his matching crib cap and tiny little bowtie bib....just about make you go blind working on these teenie tiny little outfits, but I LOVE making them! I even made him some teenie tiny leg warmers! LOL I wish I could knit or crochet but I can't, so I found a little knit outfit that I had and it was perfect for him.

 

Ohh and he's a thumb sucker too!

 

 

Hope that you enjoy him!

 

From my heart to yours... Hugs, Judie www.loveisforevernursery.com

Felicia FINALLY! LOL

It took a WHILE, but I finally got her parts to match! It took so many layers, washes and time that I didn't even try to write it down, thank God that I didn't have to re-root her too!

I have redone this little girl several times and was never happy since I first did her skin tones with the air dry paints only because she wouldn't fit in my little convection oven. Yes, I have a bigger one now and I haven't used air dry paints since. LOL! Now mind you she came out perfect (as far as I was concerned) with a beautiful coffee and cream skin color (even with the stress that I was very much under, that being, the loss of my husband). However, after months of curing, I found that the paint DID NOT adhere like it should all quite by accident and to my dismay. At that point you were told not to apply any Genesis sealers over your "air drys", because they didn't think it would work well with their paints. So I stripped her for the first time. It seemed logical that they should know their product. But, Genesis is not a true oil based paint and she was ruined! Grrrrr I wanted to cry and rip my hair out, but I didn't. I just stepped away from the curve so to speak I already knew that that would be a lot less painful! Now, long story short, I stripped and stripped and stripped and stripped. Every attempt she was too red or the paint just didn't look right. I left her for dead well over a year (sarcasm) because I was so disgusted. I finally decided it's a new year, how about another try?

She has more of a chocolate skin tone than I went for but I don't care! It's fine with me, because she still looked cute with her little tooth buds! LOL She's back to her adorable self and I am finally as happy as I am going to get!

Meet little Ms. Felicia Renae'!!!

 

I hope that you can see why all of the agony! LOL If not...taken outdoors / partial sun

 Just look at that face and I loved how her hair rooted, it is so versatile, I just couldn't let it go!

So there you have it and now we have: 

 Now for her to find her forever mommy!

 

   From my heart to yours... Hugs, Judie www.loveisforevernursery.com

Babies are coming along!

Just checking in and updating! Well Felicia / Nikki and Jazzie / Candy are coming along! Still not real crazy about Felicia's coloring but it's much better than it was. Jazzie is on her last skin tone steps so I hope to be rooting her by tomorrow! I was going to paint her hair, but a trusted friend wants me to root. Okay, so I will! LOL I have never had a hard time figuring out the eyes for my babies until Jazzie! Haven't figured out why either! LMAO However I do have some selected so once she completes her coloring I will make a decision then. I will be getting fresh pictures up hopefully by next week!

From my heart to yours... Hugs, Judie www.loveisforevernursery.com

Getting there...

As of 7/15/13 little Felicia is going through reconstruction! Sorry it took so long but had a million other things going on and I want her to get my full attention!

Why? she's under reconstruction right now because I wasn't happy with her color. I want more of a honey color and she keeps giving me something else. So I put her aside until...yeah I know another tease, I know! You still can't see her face until I like what I see!  I have my fingers crossed, because she's been a little pain! LOL I just loved how her hair turned out so I refuse to give up on her.

 

This is as good as it gets for now!

 

 

  As for the twins that isn't my doing, I am still biting at the bit to show them! LOL
From my heart to yours... Hugs, Judie www.loveisforevernursery.com

Nadia really is coming along!

Finally got back to her but then disaster struck! My sister was bitten by her cat on her hand, they are fairly sure that he had Feline Leukemia he wasn't doing well and she's got several other cats. The bite got infected rather quickly and spread up her arm. That resulted in a 3 day hospital stay, but doing better now, him not so good he was euthanized.  If I had my druthers I'd rather be bitten by a dog than a cat, their little mouths harbor all sorts of bacteria. Although I have been bitten by a dog and my hands blew up like two Goodyear blimps, it didn't travel up my arms! Ahhhh, maybe not getting bit period would be the best thing. hahahaha

Then Nadia's limbs didn't fair very well in the bake off. Needless to say I really wasn't that fond of them anyway so maybe it was for the best or my subconscious, I didn't like her flat feet. LOL No matter I found the perfect limbs for her and I really have to admit that I like them much better! You will never guess who's limbs! They are BB "Joey" limbs I couldn't believe my luck. So I went back to work and she's got beautiful blue Masterpiece eyes "Stormy" that work so well with her bi-racial skin tones. I can't wait to start rooting her hair. I am going to use my "Black/brown" kid mohair from TNGUN for her. It has a slight wave to it so I think it will be really nice.

I promised updates:

 

 

From my heart to yours... Hugs, Judie www.loveisforevernursery.com

WIP Nadia and Fraternal twins

It's been a heck of a month for April, as the Bible says we won't know one season from the next. Well it has been true. Hot one day frost the next, just pray that May is a little gentler, it would be my hubby's 68 birthday! We survived a tornado touch down that was barely over a mile away. I felt and still feel so blessed and sorry for those hit by it, it just seemed to choose a street and demolished it. The true blessing is no one was killed. Some injuries of course. The only casualty was a line repairman, he was electrocuted the next day trying to restore power to the community. We didn't lose power, but there was dimming. The thunderstorms that followed were powerful. Last year we were dealing with a drought and this year possible floods. LOL to keep from crying, but we're still here me and my babies. I think a lot about my husband especially at times like these. Just don't know what to say anymore, I just know that he's safe now. Just be very careful wherever you are. Anyway on to more positive things, what I have been working on!

Nadia (1st Peep) is coming along! I have been playing with her skin tones and I think that she's going to be beautiful if I may say so myself! I am using bi-racial skin tones and she's developing a beautiful light honey colored flavor! I will be showing pics of her soon! Promise!


Twins Tavis and Tavia are in progress and I would love to show their progress, but I don't  want to mess up because I am trying a new process, a very long process, but truly seems worth the effort.



LOL I will tell you this, that they are going to be Caucasian preemies. The kits are actually twins by Jackie Gwin (Angie and Cody), they are just adorable! I am dying to finish them!!! I put in his eyes so it won't look so weird and if you didn't know...I LOVE REBORNING PREEMIES and no I don't really know why. I think that I just love how tiny and delicate they look, but in reality they can be true little warriors.

Great news Paris and Raven did make it to France to their new mommy!!! I am slowly cleaning out the nursery so that I have some place for the new babies. Hopefully Jiselle and Jenelle are as lucky, I had them on eBay for five days! Poor little Jai-Lin, been on eBay twice now, just won't budge, many watchers though. I will just hold off on her for a little while longer, just wasn't her time.

Anyhoo, have a wonderful and blessed day! Pictures coming soon!


From my heart to yours... Hugs, Judie www.loveisforevernursery.com

HE MADE IT!!!! YEAH!!!

Jeffrey is now officially an Australian!!

 

 

Received: Tues., April 9, 2013 4:46 AM Hi Judie... Well my little man has finally arrived to me in Australia,I am totally in awe of his sweetness, cuteness and adorability.. You have done an amazing work of art in reborning him, And love his Blue eyes, even though I was told they were Brown..You have also done an amazing job of presenting him in his box with all his goodies, to me it was just like xmas opening all the parcels..I thank you so much for his reborning so I can now have the pleasure of being his new Mummy, I love the birth certificates as well... Jeffrey is now sitting in his new stroller with a huge smile on his face and watching TV :) The weather here is warm so I have taken his winter clothing of..I will be changing him soon into his pyjamas ready for bed.. Many Thanks again.. Kind Regards... Shirley & Jeffrey :)


I have to laugh, never had this happen before because his eyes are "supposed to be ebony brown from Masterpiece Eyes. I did look at them once she mentioned that they looked blue and depending on the light there was a lot more blue, but I promise, they were brown! Then while looking at another picture I took, they do look blue, weird, who knows.




LOL Maybe while waiting so long for a mommy crying made his brown eyes blue...Just happy that she's happy!!

From my heart to yours... Hugs, Judie www.loveisforevernursery.com

Twins have been officially adopted!

 and they are shipping home today! That soon being France! YEEEEEEEESSSSSS!!!

That was the biggest box and the heaviest that I have ever had to wrap to ship, but she wanted them in one box. Luckily I had one that would work! NO MORE TODDLER twins! Now I will chew on my nails until Jeffery makes it to Australia and Paris and Raven make it to France. Ump, dolls are going places that I wish I could go, but hopefully with a lot less hassle! Maybe one day! LOL

From my heart to yours... Hugs, Judie www.loveisforevernursery.com

No Pun intended!

Well officially but not official yet, I am excited to say that Paris is going to France, but she was looking soooo sad! LOL It was touch and go but I am really happy to say the girls won't be split up. They are going together! Their new mommy to be actually bid on Paris and won, but later communicated that she wanted her sister as well! I won't say that it's officially official until (LOL) I see da money! It's gonna be one heavy box with these girls! She has been communicating with me on numerous occasions so I think everything will turn out fine...eBay...now that's another story.

Well, in the end hope to have happy, happy news about them traveling to distant lands! Boy I bet my husband would have loved to hear that. This year I have covered the Ukraine, US, Canada and now France Truly I am glad that they get to go together. Now...just wait...

From my heart to yours... Hugs, Judie www.loveisforevernursery.com

Jeffrey"s ALL smiles!

He's going to live In Willaston South Australia Why? Because he finally

 

got a NEW mommy! He's all excited and he's all packed to waiting to go! I am so very happy for him and I can feel myself breath again! LOL He's the Donna RuBert's "Stinker" sculpt.


From my heart to yours... Hugs, Judie www.loveisforevernursery.com

I had to try it

I truly hope that everyone had a very nice Valentine's Day. It's just not the same for me, definitely a day for lovers!

 

So, I've been busy trying to get my taxes together so I can file, finally finished that today. I broke down and got me a "NEATDESK" and love it! I was so sick of pieces of paper here, paper there I could scream. I can see the bottom of my desk again!!! Highly recommend if you are like me, I HATE CLUTTER! 

 

I finally got my big "fugly" baby Jeffery on eBay, FINALLY. If you would like to visit his auction and pray for me that he gets a home real soon! LOLROTF. Here's his auction link:

 

http://rover.ebay.com/rover/0/e12000.m43.l1123/7?euid=146760c037ca44fa84f2ccc712d8e2c8&loc=http%3A%2F%2Fcgi.ebay.com%2Fws%2FeBayISAPI.dll%3FViewItem%26item%3D160994540329%26ssPageName%3DADME%3AL%3ALCA%3AUS%3A1123

 

Okay I went off on another direction again! LOL I haven't painted on canvas since I painted my husband's portrait about a year and a half ago. I took the class to learn how to make my own browns for my AA babies and had to paint on canvas. Not what I wanted to do, but at least I painted what I wanted to paint. Well I got a wild hair and bought a canvas just for the heck of it. I didn't know if it would work, if I could do it or if I just wasted my money. Then I remembered what my instructor told me. "They start out ugly, you just have to keep going...so I dove in.

 

This is a beautiful picture of a bobcat in the snow that I thought was so beautiful! I choose it over the white wolf because I figured it would be the "big" challenge. So here we go:

 

 

The ugly...

 

After I drew it to scale on the canvas I looked at it for two weeks and realized that wouldn't work, So I dug out my acrylic paints by Liquitex and decided to start with the eyes. Why? I figured if I can't get them right wasn't any point in going any further. Then I started working on the nose at the same time. Another stumbling block if there is one...

 

The good...

 

Okay, I could work with this I thought. Now for the really, really big test! Her coat, which was soooo stunning to me. I just gotta do this right I thought or it's going to the trash.

 

The BEST!!!

 

I did step away to see things that I didn't see while upon it and finished her coat put in snow and this is my artist rendition! I took her to Michael's and had it framed. Another challenge because I wanted her eyes and her fur to POP! I picked out what kinda caught my eye, but I was scared.

 

 

 

 The Final cut! The brushed antique gold trim brings out her eyes and the brown frame makes her fur just say "touch me"!

I was never so pleased with how "she" turned out in my life! Usually I don't like what I do, but this was different! I was inspired after I started painting...finished in two days and my hand didn't let me forget! LOL So now...I have to get back to painting my babies...I have too, they've been waiting so patiently. So back to little Nadia (1st Peep)!

From my heart to yours... Hugs, Judie www.loveisforevernursery.com