TORY KIT ARRIVES (just In Time For My Birthday!)

i am excited. way more than before.
i mean i had allot of enthusiasm for reborning, but THIS kit..i think will make the difference.

i finally decided to get the Tory kit, to do a custom of my son as an infant.

its that intense scowling look i was after. and i think the TORY kit, will follow through for me in my delivery of what i envision in my head.

so, we ordered the kit. and today (the day before my birthday) she arrived!

here spics of what all i ordered,because i got more than just the kit, i got everything i needed to make TOry into a custom of my son Daniel.

and, i wanted the custom of my son to be my 1st adventure into reborning. i adore my son, and he was an excellent baby. my memories of him as an infant are pricless, so i wanted to take on as my 1st project Him, because he was such a delight. i thought if i did him, and did ok, id do others as good, if not better.

i am well aware that my 1st attempt at a doll, and it being Him, may not be a successful adventure, but..i will love every minute of it, because its my son. :)

Polly Fill, used to stuff the body.

Tory Kit, blank, head and limbs

Tory kit head -upclose

plugs and neck ring, neck ring is used to give the head turnability. plugs are used to keep glass beads and filling in the head and limbs once filled.

cloth doe suede body

has joints! so the limbs cab be posed.

i didnt know this, but the bodys come with zip ties for you already in place...

mohair. Dark brown-wavy (2pks), 1 Ash Blond-wavy. its not well known but my son has a small bit of blond hair (fine baby whispy hair) at the hair line on his forhead. when his hair is cut just right, and you have the right lighting, it glows like a halo. i bought the blond in case i decided to root that. i may end up painting it, i havnt decided yet.

close up of the dark brown Mohair

close up of the Ash blond mohair

i also ordered 3 different sets of blue eyes, because i couldnt decide which one i thought would be perfect in this kit for a custom of my son. so i got: True Blue, Newborn baby blue, and new born blue grey

TRUE BLUE EYES

NEWBORN BABY BLUE

NEWBORN BLUE GREY EYES

pantyhose to hold the glass beads and allow for the mobility of them, they are used to weight the baby. Daniel weight 7lbs 15oz when he was born. i want to try to get that

Zip ties, in 14inches and in 8inch lengths

the ends of the 14 inches

the ends of the 8inches

GLASS BEADS..this is what you weight the head, and body and limbs with to give the doll that newborn floppy feel. Daniel weight 7lbs 15oz when he was born. i want to try to get that as close to his actual weight as much as possible, so i ordered..6 pounds, given the weight of the vinyl as the other part to the dills weight.

all of this..for less than 150.00!!!

MICHELLE

SO MY 45th BIRTHDAY IS RIGHT AROUND THE CORNER

and i asked my husband if he had purchased this one item (not anything really to do with reborning) yet, to which he says, "no. i was waiting for you to decide what you wanted off that baby site (refering to BountifulBaby.com).

i was like...UGH! SERIOUSLY?!?! we had had a disscussion about this just this week, and how i was trying to wait for them to come out with the blank versions of KIWIW and PEARL (which are available right now, prepainted and pre-rooted.

i want to make them myself...not have had someone else make them, altho...this way (the way they are right now) would be super easy to push out and sell.
i just dont feel right charging regular prices (for a doll *I* did) for a doll kit someone else took the time to do. i feel the value would be in the kit price, and the stuffing, and the weighting material, clothes, etc i would also sell along with it. which isnt nearly as much as a doll id do on my own and took the time to invest into.

so, anyway, i go looking on BountifulBaby.com and saw that TORY (a kit ive been wanting) was still on sale.
so, i figured id do TORY, and make her into my son, Daniel. as my 1st Custom doll.

so, i did some calculating, figured out what the cost of all the parts and pieces would be all together, and it comes to just under (as i have figured with almost every other kit) 150.00 as a base price.

so i tell craig that to whcih he says: "ok."

im confused is that "ok" telling me to order everything? or thats just "ok" to know?

i dont know cause he went to bed, lol

so, im planning on getting TORY at least for a Birthday gift, to make into my 1st custom.

MICHELLE

THE PRESS PHOTOGRAPHERS YEAR 2011 - IN PICTURES -REBON DOLL

The Press Photographer's Year 2011 - in pictures

Photograph of the Year and First Prize: Features - Charles McQuillan, Pacemaker Glenda Ewart's Yellow Cottage Nursery creates facsimiles of infants to order for customers around the world wishing to have a permanent memento of their child's early years. The dolls are known as 'reborns'. Sara, the daughter of a customer, with her recently completed likeness, photographed near her home in Downhill, Northern Ireland. May 20th 2010

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