STRUGGLING WITH WHAT TO PURCHASE

most people would never thing that buying stuff (as a female) would be difficult.

yet, this time it is.
i have set mysefl up for a timeline (of sorts) to begin working on my 1st doll by the start of 2012.
so i have only a few more paychecks to squeak in those items needed to begin when the new year rolls around.

ive reworked my items sheet 5 different times.
and every time, i come out with the thought that a FULL kit, meaning one that has most of the items in it id need, is really the best and economical way for me to go.
it comes out cheaper that way. and gets me a start, plus id have another kit to add to the 10 i currently have waiting, to at least start with.
problem: none of those kits are available.
problem: they are at the lowest 119.00. and we dont have 119.00 to invest to get me started. not right now anyway.
i am fortunate that i do have one kit (Paisley) whom i will be starting my portfolio with as a custom reborn of my son daniel.
i just need some supplies, and they dont come cheap.

i hate to miss the chance this paycheck to not get anything.
maybe i should take what id actually purchase with (money) and set it aside to save up for one of those full kits?
argh!

purchasing every item one at a time is almost rediculous. it would take me well into february (i think) to get everything i needed to start if i was working on a budget of 25.00 a check. thats 5 pay cycles.

and we have Christmas coming too.

im getting anxious to start.
to push this artist to a new level.
to see if i can work on a 3 dementional canvas, and bring a plain blank vinyl doll to lifelike proportions.

i really havnt a clue what to do...

MICHELLE

IM GONNA GET KIRI THIS WEEK FOR MY NEWEST KIT

ive known a new paycheck was coming for some time.

decided the other day to do a cross research inside Bountifulbaby.com, by listing each baby by its order number, and retail value as well as the rate i can get it at.
and try to make some sort of sense out of an organized listing of these dolls.

so, as i was foing this, and finishing it up yesterday, because i knew today id get to buy another doll...
i noticed when ever craig gets paid, the former cheaper dolls, go up about 5 bucks...
and there were a ton of them that were lower than before...
but they allmost ALL had facial expressions, like crying, or they were babies that had closed eyes.

so, my heart wasnt really into getting any of them, none of them struck me as ones i absolutley HAD to have before the rate went back up again on them.

so, i gravitated towards KIRI, again. and noted she had actually, gone down in her rate from 2 weeks ago when i was wanting to get her, but put her off to get PAISLEY instead (who is now Out Of Stock).
so, im thinking ill get KIRI...which will give me 2 of the 4 ten inch babies. theres another one, but i see her even more rarely than the others that i see rarely. not sure shes ever gonna come back into market again.
but i DO have the chance to get KIRI. and i think i will.
im not to crazy about her expression tho, but, shes another doll i can practice on and work on and do, and sell..
i STILL need to get BYRON, but he seems to always be available.
maybe he wont get bumped in 2 weeks and hell be my next purchase.

so today im going to order the KIRI kit.

MICHELLE

PAISLEY KIT HAS ARRIVED

PAISLEY has arrived.
and my intention was to do a replica of my son Daniel as an infant

i had an incident when i posted this kit and the picture of my son on my facebook into a folder.
someone i dont know, im only connected to because of (ill assume) games, stole the image of my son just moments after i had posted it up in that folder on my Facebook account.

so, if you notice his forehead has some markings, on it, its because the image i now use, has watermark on it.

so, anyway, i bought that PAISLEY kit, in the hopes of making a reborn of my son Daniel as an infant.

theres another kit i saw that has a better facial expression...TORY

TORY has more the scowling forhead Daniel exibits in his baby pic. but his mouth isnt open.
PAISLEY has fuller lips than he had. and they are closed.

i REALLY think TORY is a better match for a prototype of Daniel. and eventually ill get that kit.

of course, i may decide that PAISLEY is right once i see those grey/blue yes in the head. making the head look that much more real.

MICHELLE

PAISLEY KIT IS IN THE MAIL!

i just got email confirmation that PAISLEY has been shipped.
so i should see her within the next few days. so excited! i cant wait!

ill have her on standby as i STILL need to get the body, neck flange/ties, paint, brushes, rooting tools, mohair, eyes, to even start any of the kits i have at present.

it will be good that i have her tho, because she will be Daniel when completed.

i really need to get my web page up...if i could decide on a name for it.

i cant decide if i want WitandWhimzy .com
or
ForeverBabies .com
or
WhitandWhimzy. com/ForeverBabies

i want to somehow tie in the fact that allot of my dolls will be primate reborns.
but also human replicas as well.
so not to push people away from the discovery of my work because they may think all i do is one or the other..when the objective is to make sure i cover them both and represent them both as art works.

MICHELLE

ARGH! I MISSED GETTING THE KIRI KIT! BUT I GOT ANOTHER KIT INSTEAD : PAISLEY

well, i waited too long, and my next kit i was in line to get was KIRI, and shes ...*sigh* OUT OF STOCK...
BYRON, as stated in several other posts, STILL resides safe and secure in the numbers.

i was telling my husband about the fact that KIRI went OUT OF STOCK on me, but i had the availibility to get the 2 6 inch dolls (complete, with body, and already painted) AND BYRON, for the same cost as BYRON and KIRI would have been together...
i got no response from him (lol)

so, i also remembered i had gone through the list (the entire selection of available and out of stock kits on bountifulbaby.com) and saw there were 2 kits that were over 60% marked down.

went too see if they were still available, and they are, with a VERY HIGH SELLOUT RISK on them both..

one was: KINSEY

and the other (which i chose to get) is : PAISLEY

this is one of the kits i was hoping to get to fashion into a resemblance of my son when he was an infant.

 

very close in resemblance in my mind.

so, the kit will be here within the week, i suppose.
cant wait! shes my 1st REAL baby kit ill have. SO EXCITED!

im thinking ill keep my Daniel baby. because it memorializes him as an infant. perhaps if he has a little girl, when shes old enough to respect the doll as an art piece and NOT A TOY...ill give the doll to her too keep of her father. hmm, not sure what to do if he has more than one daughter....lol, im an only child, so is he, i dont think in multiples...but it is a possibility...lol

i guess, ill just have to make more...

the ones i keep, are what i call: PORTFOLIO BABIES...ones im working up for my online portfolio so i can show my work, and abilities.

ALL the babies would be that, but the ones that i want too keep will also be live (not as in living) but as in REALITY live displays of my work for shows and stuff...

now i need to think about an outfit for my CUSTOM baby of daniel...something MONKEY (of course)

MICHELLE

REBORN PROTOTYPES TO DO MY SON DANIEL AS

i always look for a reborn doll i can do of my son.
why? because i miss his baby-ness. he was the BEST baby.
and a complete joy to me to have had.
and...sadly time has run by so quickly, hes almost grown. hes 17 this month.
so, i scour the reborn sites looking for that one prototype that resembles him from the 1st picture that was taken of him.
this is a pic of my son.

so the idea is to find a protoype head that matches this face as much as possible.

the images i provide will be reborn dolls, buy other artists, i dont look at the image itself so much as the shape, and similarities that my son had and are present in any prototype

so the images may represent a female doll, but its the stylizing, or coloring, or look that draws me to it alng with the finer details of my son in that face somewhere.

AUBREY

AUBREY BLANK

MOBY PROTYPE

MOBY BLANK

EDEN PROTOTYPE

EDEN BLANK

PROTOTYPE PAIGE

PAIGE BLANK

TANNER

TANNER BLANK

PAISLEY PROTOTYPE

PAISLEY BLANK (comes WITHOUT the eyes)

so those are the canvases i have to choose from to do an original DANIEL ALAN and use it as part of my portfolio for this, as well as a display to show off my talent , when i get good enough to actually have people inquire about possible CUSTOM made dolls.

MICHELLE