Life gets in the way again...

First I want to wish everyone a safe and HAPPY 4th of July! Be careful with the fireworks and don't eat to much BBQ! We just got back from my sister's celebrated a day early! Food was deelish!

Now about life...
My husband spent a week in the hospital due to fluid buildup due to his bad heart and it was on the other side of town. Running back and forth really takes time out of your day and energy! Prayerful and thankfully he has gotten out and has lost a lot of fluid so he is much more comfortable and a lot thinner 2 weeks later. Now I am on antibiotics due to a tooth abcess and happily waiting for a tooth extraction next week (a very expensive tooth I might add considering a root canal, crown and $1600 later oh did I mention the bone graphs). I am now looking at about the same amount for the extraction and a partial to replace it, the tooth probably should have been pulled at first. Oh well who knew?

The good news is that I am learning proper color mixing techniques in my class and getting the pretty brown shades instead of muddy-what-the-heck-is-this. It is so interesting how two colors can create a value that can go on and on by adding a little more each time and add orange and watch it totally change!


I will start painting on my canvas next class now that I have it drawn. It's a 3 hour class that goes by so quickly that it is unbelievable. I am trying to hold off painting AA's until I see what techniques I can apply with the paints that I already have. I will take my primary colors next class to get a true feel for them. Not saying that I won't be using my premixes, but I can sure enhance them when doing my AA babies! I am very very tempted to start painting my caucasian and asian babies that have been waiting, patiently I might add, but every time I get all set, something happens. They had their baths weeks ago! I have always believed everything happens for a reason...I believe this better be a real good one! lolrothf So my thought is I keep getting slowed down (some how that doesn't sound like proper english but you get the message) not knocked out. I have hope!

From my heart to yours... Hugs, Judie

I got my "Jack" and Tamie's done it again!

Meet little soon-to-be-reborn Jack by Tamie Yarie!

He is definitely the most adorable micro-preemie done with Tamie's master touch!! I thought that I was in love with Samiah. He's her very first EXCLUSIVE edition limited to 250, world wide!

He is so tiny and so adorable, all 12 inches of him! He even has a few little fat folds on his legs and his little face has that very newborn puffy look. Can you see them? Even the shape of his tiny head is very realistic! I've done a lot of preemies and micro-preemies and I must admit that he has more detailing than some that I have done being this tiny.

Now in the real world, we know that preemies have very little if any fat reserve, so just the hint makes him all the more cuter and healthier looking! I gave him his bath and I just have a strong feeling that he will be the start-up of my babies! I will certainly enjoy doing his skin tones with Genesis paints (he will fit in my little oven very nicely). I just love the little ones, they are so determined to survive that they put their all into making it into this world, with every breath an effort. It's a small tribute to their huge effort, the fight that many more can win now and that is why I so love to reborn them! I thank God for modern medicine, which can give them that extra push to help them through all of it.

Oh, did I say that I am excited about my art class (hehe)? I must be VERY excited, because in my excitement...I forgot to tell you what really did it for me! My instructor will teach me / her students how to make, yes I said make, my/ our own shade ranges of brown. I never did like having to depend on the "factory" made browns because when you try to enhance them they become a very muddy dull color. So, I always felt at their mercy of too much red or too much yellow. There never seemed to be a happy medium for me, work with what you have or pay the price of "stripping"! When this class is over, I will probably have a lot of colors for sale. Lol She said that she uses a very limited palette of colors to make many colors. I CAN'T WAIT!!!! Her paints of choice are the Liquitex brand interesting enough, but she's going to work with the colors that I already have. I have their mediums but have never tried the paints. I thought that it was very nice of her...now all I have to do is make a list of all of the colors that I have. Hummm, I should have that list done by June don't you think? lolrotf

Check Jack's page for his progress!!!

From my heart to yours... Hugs, Judie

HAPPY NEW YEAR 2010

First and foremost, I want to thank all of my clients for adopting from Love Is Forever Nursery! I look forward to meeting more adoptive parents in 2010! I sincerely hope that you had a wonderful Christmas and have a very blessed and HAPPY NEW YEAR!


I cooked dinner and had a wonderful Christmas with my family in spite of my falling in my driveway Christmas evening. I ended up getting my hand xrayed and placed in a splint to support it. It has slowed down my baby making considerably. Thank God it was in 2009, Thank God! Still brought in the New Year quite but nice with my hubby, pup and bird sons, so that was special!

I had previously painted "tiny one" by Kymberli Durden. She's a 10 inch sculpt, of which I was completely glad of, however she's taking me 3 days to root her tiny head and I'm only half way done, a painfully slow process (My husband says I just have to be doing something. lolrothf). I'll be posting pictures of her soon, I think that she is coming out absolutely adorable! Have to decide on her eye color. She has in temporary eyes right now

Now for the good news! Remember little Nani (Samiah by Tamie Yarie)? Well, she went on a lonnnnnnggggg trip and now this little sweetie has a new mommy in Switzerland! Her mommy just sent a very sweet email that I want to share!


Saturday, January 2, 2010 9:30 AM Baby Nani arrived !!


My
dearest Judie!
On the last day of the old year your cute package with sweet
little Nani arrived here at our home!!!
Wow, she is even cuter than on all
pics I saw!!!
She is adorable, so gorgeous,a little miracle,an angel.....
you did a very very good work on her!Thank you so much, and thank you also for
the cute little things you put in the package for her - You are very kind and
your package was made with such a love and kindness.....just wonderful!!!!!!
The whole family(and we are a big family with 7 children!!) enjoyed to open
the American package!!!!!!
Now little Nani is very tired and she just has a
little nap in a clothes basket, she lookes so nice in there!
She is really
fantastic, a sweetie-cutie-honey-darling,hihihi........
Oh, I am really
happy and proud that I could buy a baby from you, you are a very special and
popular artist, I always look on your ebay auctions, you make it
phantastic.............A GREAT ARTIST YOU ARE!!!!!
The promised chocolate
package is on its way to you,enjoy it!!!!
So my Dear, now I must close for
today, it is already evening here,I have to start cooking with our dinner, today
we make a speciality from Switzerland,called Fondue chinoîse, with very thin
filet meat leaves in a hot bouillon and with many different dips like garlic
cream,curry cream,spices,cocktail cream, and more,yummy.....
Thank you again
for all you did for me and little Nani, she is my little sunshine and will learn
the Swiss language very fast............
Love and hugs, kindly,
Monica


Wow, and I never had real Swiss chocolate, a sweet gesture! We will see!

Keep checking on me, I soon hope to have a new look on my website! I have lots of new babies planned for 2010.


From my heart to yours...

Nani's had a Birthday!

Well Nani had her birthday 9/10/09 7:12 p.m., weighing in at a hefty 2lbs 11 ozs, 15 inches. Being a little premature she needed a little oxygen therapy to help her get started, but she's doing great now. She'll need lots of TLC from her mommy-to-be!

She takes her special formula really well in spite of her little sensitive tummy! She still spits up quite a bit, especially after a good burp! lol

But she sleeps good through the night in her little bassinet!

Now,

Her anatomically correct tummy plate I still haven't gotten for some reason. I hope that I can match her coloring whenever it shows up, whenever. I hope that you like her! She's definitely a little sweetie!

From my heart to yours...

Samiah is transforming into Nani

She was waiting to get rooted here.
Such a little sweetie. Now she's got hair and from my heart to yours...she's getting there...meet little Samiah now known as Nani [nah' nee] which means Beautiful or pretty in Hawaiian. I think that she is just a real cutie. She was done with genesis heat set paints. I have micro-rooted her hair with deep dark brown “curly” from “Slumberland Nurseries” and it is by far the best that I have worked with. I had developed allergic symptoms to a lot of the mohair that I have been using and liked, but her mohair bothered me very little! It’s soft and hardly any waste. She has a client for life if it continues that way! I really enjoy working on her, for several reasons! First, I love doing preemies they are such valiant little fighters. She’ll be about 15 inches when complete and I just love her little fat cheeks, she has the sweetest little face! She still has some more work but she’s got tiny little pierced ears and whenever her tummy plate arrives she’ll have an anatomically correct one! She's just so tiny and sooooo sweet, that I am going to have a hard time giving her up!

Have a very happy and safe Labor Day!