Vacation is OVER! Kits, kits, and more kits!

Getting my creative juices flowing again, finally! lol I am so excited! I had a family situation that was ongoing and honestly I became totally side tracked. That has now been resolved!

I will be taking a continued education art class for different paint mediums to improve my skin tones in my AA babies starting in June. I had the opportunity to talk with a wonderful instructor and she was so interesting and interested, being a doll collector as well, in working with me. I always feel that I never know enough and I always want to improve my painting techniques (any chance that I get) so that you as a reborn collector will never be dissappointed in purchasing my babies. I have so many in mind that I want to start, I can't make up my mind where to start (have I said that before? :0))! They are all adorable kits! For example and just to name a very few:

Jolina (awaken) by Master Artist Manuela Muth, 1st Peep by Charlotte Parry, Jiao by Adrie Stoete, Erika by Shawna Clymer, Tessa by Didy Jacobsen and Max by Tamie Yarie

I am waiting patiently on my Jayden by Claire Taylor, Jack by Tamie Yarie (I love doing preemies), Marco by Master Artist Nel de Man and Capri by Jorja Pigott (Gooooooo JORJA!!!). Debbie Henshaw of "They Never Grow Up Nursery did an amazing job on her prototype too!! Yeahhhhh Debbie!!!

In addition, I am now the proud owner of some gorgeous Suri Alpaca fiber from Renee of Black Meadow Farm in a NATURAL black from her Kona that I am dying to use, it is definitely a different finer texture which will work great for my "day old" newborns and preemies. I know that my mohair fiber is luxiouriously soft and of very high quality (from Ellen of Slumberland Nursery)with very little waste and works very well for my newborns and toddlers. The clincher is that I love the fact that it is not dyed and the color is even (no reds or white hairs that I have seen). I have had no luck with the darker colors of mohair, through time, they still seem to bleed. Okay, I guess that I am excited about everything and just need to get busy! They have all had their baths so I will be posting my before photos when I get started soon!

Don't forget to visit my website and sign my guestbook! I'd love for you to see my new look!
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Playing catch up everywhere! First things first!

Mind you my nursery is getting smaller and smaller! lol I finally got motivated and re-furbished two doll cradles that my sister "insisted" that I needed from one of her many finds. The cradles were in bad shape and I wasn't really interested in them but I gave it a go! I forgot to take a "before" photo of the larger one so use your imagination, just imagine the little one 10 X's bigger and a little darker and not quite as bad looking. I am still finessing the larger one which has a "Mickey Mouse" theme and the little one which is completed has the "Pooh Bear" theme. Here's the small one Before:


After:


Here's the big one in comparison:


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My new camera

I have been using a camera that I really like which is the Olympus SP-550 UZ, 7.1 mega pixel, zoom 18x optical + 5.6x digital, 2.5” (6.4cm) color LCD display, 4.68 – 84.24mm (28 – 504mm equivalent in 35mm photography) it has great distance, and wonderful for the dolls. It has lots more but I have been wanting a digital SLR, like forever. I finally bit the bullet and got me a Nikon D3000 10.2- mega pixel, 3"color LCD display, the lens that it comes with the distance is only 3x 18-55mm Zoom but a very light weight NIKKOR VR Image Stabilization Lens, it has split-second shutter response which I love because my lil puppy now two years old, clears out when she see my Olympus and I was always getting her tail or nothing but where she was (a lot of nothing of where she used to be) because of it's slow response. Anyway here's my little girl as a baby and now a teenager!!! I can't wait to see how it works on my "reborns"!





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Website up and running!

I finally got it done! My website is up and running! I still have a little more to do but I hope that you enjoy it, and please don't forget to sign my guestbook to let me know that you were there! Natalie of Reborn Websites did a wonderful job designing my site!







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My New website is under construction!

Urrrrggggggggggggggggggghhhh!!!! I am so behind but I am happy to say that I am beginning to see the light, or a light or some one's penlight, but a light nevertheless! I miss doing my babies and grouping!

It has been a nightmare (as usual). I taught myself how to do the HTML on the pages, but sizing this and tables for that...yadayadayah NO CLUE. I just wasted money buying a program that was "supposed" to make that easy with "drag N'drop"...yeah so they said! lolrothf I stopped (babies, forums) everything fooling with this bright idea for several months and finally it hit me, lets say that I had a revelation...I don't like designing (or in my case trying to design) WEBSITES!!! DUHHHHH I can now truly say this with great honesty, even though I continued to try being too stubborn to give up. lolrothf It is like reborning you have to love it, I didn't, I don't! That is definitely NOT my thing!

Why did I want to change? To start, this new one is my third "I need a change" website since 2005. The previous two were both done in lavender and seemed more oriented to girl babies. My nursery was re-done in peach with splashes of lavender and I needed a new color website change for 2010! So, the website has been completely redone in peach (thank you, thank you and God Blessy you Natalie), but it may depend on your computer as to what color it looks like (it ain't orange baby) lol and I think, represents both sexes. Now don't get excited...in a couple of years...you might see those lavender pages again!

I have been working feverishly and literally day and night getting my new website put together since I "had it customized". I really love it, I owe so much thanks to Natalie of Reborn Websets! Very pleasant, easy to work with, just a wonderful and understanding lady, an angel in disguise!
You can see her work at http://www.rebornwebsets.com

Well I just had to let you know that I miss you but I gotta get back to work, cause I want my dolly life back!!! I hope that you will visit and sign my guestbook to let me know that you visited and what you think!!! Hugs!!!



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