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

Wichita Kansas Doll Show

Well for a first show, Jennifer, Scott and their lovely family, I am very happy to say it was a wonderful success and fun! I got to see old friends and met new ones. The 2018 show participation started out a little shaky but in the end vendors joined in. They were helpful and wonderful hosts. In the previous shows that I have done that kind of special touch was never offered and everyone we encountered were friendly and fun. It was very well organized and coordinated, you wouldn't have known it was a first for them. I might add that they sold out for the 2019 doll show within 24 hours! It was a mad rush after all of the lovely reviews and had I not happened to go on FB that particular evening, I would have completely missed out! Whewwww, in less than 24 hours! Now they have a waiting list just in case some vendors may not be able to attend next year! I knew that they would grow fast, but....wow! Now, I just pray that they keep that reference of personalization, because in 2020 they will definitely need a larger venue and more help. LOLROTF

Marita (Monty) Winters hosted the Wizard of Oz Doll contest using her specified kits and I must say there were some imaginative and beautifully done depictions of the Oz characters! We weren't allowed to show any pictures or naming the entry catagory until after the contest was over. It was all secret and I liked that even though it was hard not to share. That being said, yes I did enter "Zane" as Glinda the Good Baby Witch. I had a ball doing this and I am going to say that it was a shock and honor. She placed 1st as "Glinda" and Best In Show! Never in a million years would I have thought that!

Now for the recap. It was fun and inspiring! I met old and new friends and I loved the special touch!  It was hard to see how they could top this year's venue of "Follow the Yellowbrick Road", but I think that they might have! Stay tuned. Now for pictures!



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

Meet Jenny the wrangler and her horsey Storm

She is all ready to wrangle up some cows! What a porcelain beauty! I really love how "Storm" her hobby horse turned out. He's all hand made and has gorgeous glass eyes. 

She's got it all! The Bling accents her real suede purple vest and chaps, her horse and the calf! 16" porcelain beauty is all ready to go on the road!


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

Meet Pavel my newest baby

Introducing Pavel (PAW-vel) my newest baby boy 3 lbs. 8 ozs. and 16 inches long! He was formerly the Ltd. Ed.  "Brandon kit by the talented Tamie Yarie. This tiny prince has gorgeous Caucasian skin tones that were achieved using the brand new Ultimate Fusion Air dry Paints. Yes, I like to try new things. These paints very durable (I mean durable) and after the proper curing time, they are extremely difficult to remove! I am in love (with him too! 💋)!!! This little preemie which is what his name means in Russian (small) has 3/4 limbs, doe suede body, micro-rooted and hand rooted eyelashes with black alpaca baby soft hair by J's Premium Mohair, hand painted eyebrows, milia, veining, tummy plate, magnetic binky and more! Just sooooo sweet and easy to pose!!!

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

Welcome to the New Year!

I hope that you had an enjoyable Christmas and New Year! Christmas was fairly nice, family fun with lots of good food and games, but draining. Still...someone was missing and I know that it will NEVER be the same and 2016 wasn't very kind. I had a few issues going on with me personally, hope to have that resolved very soon. We had a rather serious upset in the reborn world. Seems someone has tried to monopolize the description of reborn combined with baby doll. Another big mess, using Baby FX air dry paints and loving them, then I find out they felt compelled to give up a wonderful product because of the expense in producing it. Shissh, that's so sad.

I have to have a new outlook, the other way definitely wasn't motivating to say the least, so I'm starting now! I have some custom memory babies that I am beginning to work on and completed a few cuties over the last year. 2017 is going to be an AWESOME year...one way or another! LOL

I will slowly continue my progress until I am a full throttle and hopefully with fewer setbacks~I have finally modified my nursery work area to my liking, don't know why it took me so long to figure it out. Duhhh. No matter, I was always told better late than never!

One of my problems was that my work area was too small when I redid it. I don't even think it is more than 10 inches wide. The idea before was to rid myself of free-standing tables. It didn't quite work out for me as you can see. I literally felt right down claustrophobic before, hence the free standing table.

Happy to say that the new year, my creative juices once again began to slowly flow. A lady named Theresa at Menards was very helpful and resourceful in getting me what I needed to accomplish my design modification after we got on the same page. It's the first time that the men made no sense to me nor I to them apparently. I just needed and wanted to keep it simple, not elaborate. On January 1, I worked on staging my drop down leaf  (in truth it will probably never get dropped down (chuckling to myself)), but it's always possible if I need to! By the 2nd of January I had it all set up and ready for work. YEAHHHH!

The legs fold neatly under and attach to the bottom of the leaf with a hook and eye which was her great idea, I had something else in mind but this was just as sweet, cost effective and easier. Now that's more like it!

Well, I'll stop here and I have some wonderful photos to add for the next time that I hope that you'll enjoy. Until then sweet dreams and blessings!


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