A KIT THAT HAS IT ALL TO START WITH

so, Christmas is coming soon, and ive been trying my hardest to think of hat id like to have...

one is the newborn GORILLA KITS..oh yeah! THATS a deffinat!
but theres something else i think would help me along in my quest to get into reborning...

and thats a starter kit with almost everything in it i coud use to start.
after the intial set up cost to get the starter kit (which includes a doll kit) all id need to do is reorder supplies that id run out of, or go and get supplies id run out of (to save on shipping cost) that i can get locally.

this kit, and its just one of about 10 on www.bountifulbaby.com happens to be the ONLY kit available right now, and..one with a kit im really interested in owning as well..

its the SHYANN kit. she reminds me of daniel allot in her looks...

 so the kit includes everything pictured:

  #3618 - Complete ~Peach~ Shyann Reborn Kit!

This is like our complete Avery kit, but for Shyann instead of Avery!

Comes with everything you see in the basket! (basket itself, not included)

Kit includes all items listed below:

1. Peach Shyann, by Aleina Peterson! (item #3039).
2. The correct body is #1804
3. Four 1-pound bags of clear glass ECONOMY beads (item #1663)
4. One pair of nylons for containing glass beads (item #266)
5. SMALL Gem-Tac glue (item #2438)
6. SMALL custom genesis complete set of nine paints. (item #2404)
7. 1/2 Ounce Genesis Thinning Medium
8. Four brush set for painting with Genesis (item #1667)
9. Genesis-safe paint palette(s) (either two 6-well, or one larger palette)
10. 8 inch Curved Hemostats (item #2468)
11. Precision Cuticle Nippers - 4 inch (item #301)
12. Hair cutting and styling comb razor (item #461)
13. Half ounce RRM- MB, DB, AB, or LB Straight (item's #3424, #3421, #3422, or #4075)(not a customer choice)
14. Bountiful Baby Rooting Tool (item #225)
15. Approximately 2 ozs of poly-fil supreme (a portion of item #217)
16. Cosmetic Rounds (item #264)
17. A half dozen Cosmetic Applicators & Manicure Sticks (Q-tips) (a portion of item #263)
18. One dozen Cosmetic Wedges
19. Toothpicks (about 8)
20. 26-page Full Color Instructions (our item #2067, which is a color laser printed copy of our downloadable instructions found by clicking here)
21. NEW! Complete kits now include "Making Reborn Baby Dolls, with Denise Pratt" on DVD (a 90 minute instructional video)

Also, since Shyann is an open-eyed baby, this kit will include any in-stock 22mm eyes, as well as a pair of upper light brown or upper medium brown eyelashes (sorry, this is not a customer choice-- we choose the eyes and eyelashes, depending on what is in stock).

$179.95 per kit

i did a price comparison and found that its  prolly cheaper to buy the entire kit and have most of the supplies for another kit than to buy everything separately.
so....im gonna ask for this as one of my Christmas Gifts,

MICHELLE

some other artists interpretation of the SHYANN kit

this is my fav of the kit styles shown and represented here...those green eyes look so beautiful and engaging with that skin tone. i cant wait to get good enough to be able to do biracial/ethnic dolls. i have the desire to do ethnic dolls of all races...

 NOTE: I HAVE NOT DONE ANY OF THESE DOLLS THESE ARE OTHER ARTISTS WORK IM SHOWING AS A REPRESENTATION OF THE DIFFERENT WAYS AND STYLES A SHYANN KIT CAN BE PRODUCED

I CANT WAIT! IVE EVER BEEN SO EXCITED ABOUT A KIT BEFORE THESE 2 WERE SHOWN TO ME!

i cant remember if i mentioned i had posted on the BountifulBaby forum or not, about my excitment over the fact that i read theres 2 new kits about to come out (gorillas) and how absolutley excited i am about it.

and had mentioned in my post, about the oprotunity to see any images of the kits at all...because i just had to see if they trutlly looked like baby gorillas, or not.

and denise pratt (THE WORLD RENOWNED ARTIST HERSELF!) left a comment on my thread with 2 pics of the protoypes in clay...

pearl

Kiwi

 OMG!
OMG!
OMG!

im gonna SO work on those as soon as i can get my hands on them!
they are tooo cute!
i cant wait, i want there to be enough cash for 2 sets, one for myself and one to sell as soon as im done with mine..cause they are ADORABLE!

so happy to see that they are about to be released next month.

they may very well be my christmas gift for this year, im so excited!

im exstatic, beyond words, i can stare at these images for hours and dream of how to make them...

and...
denise eluded to the fact there was gonna be a 3rd kit as well, so ill have the chance to have gorilla triplettes!

SO EXCITED!!!!
MICHELLE

SIGNED UP FOR A TUTORIAL FORUM FOR REBORNING DOLLS

i was up late last night, couldnt sleep, and i was searching for ANY info on the new BountifulBaby.com kits that are gonna be done as gorills, hoping i may have missed a pic or two here or there in a preview, and when i did i stumbled upon a site that offeres tutorials and classes, as well as contests for reborning dolls.

thats wonderful! such a cool way to dive into the craft and see what you can do.

so i introduced myself...got a bit of feedback already, a few welcomes.
i really cant wait to get started.
i just need the space and the materials and supplies and ill be good to go.

MICHELLE

ARTICLE- FACEBOOK GAME AIMS TO SAVE GORILLAS, TIGERS, AND MORE THROUGH PLAY

ill be adding this flash/game/link (somehow) as an additional page for people to play to help save endangered animals

MICHELLE
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Facebook game aims to save gorillas, tigers and more through play

by Joe Osborne, Posted Aug 8th 2011

If Zynga's past donations to Haiti, Japan and other ailing nations have taught us anything, it's the enormous capacity for Facebook games to help others in need. But Good World Games has decided to extend that good will towards others in social gaming to animals, namely gorillas.

Its newest game is called My Conservation Park, and the developer has joined in partnerships with the Dian Fossey Gorilla Fund, WildAid and three more organizations to donate 15 percent of the profits from all in-game purchases to helping those organizations save a wide variety of endangered wildlife.

Players connect to the game through Facebook, and must preserve and protect a series of parks for five different animal species: gorillas, tigers, whales, monkeys and sharks. Each park has its own native animals that players must care for in both its Protect and Erich modes.

In Protection Mode, players have to track down poachers and click them to rid the park of them. Once the nasty poachers are gone, you must clean up and preserve your parks by decorating them with items found in the shop in Enrich mode.

The game doesn't play much differently from standard social games other than the ability to turn the action on and off through Enrich mode and Protect modes. There are also a few mini games to play like Wildlife Tagging, which tasks you with tagging the animals you save, but not twice or you'll lose points. As you progress and successfully protect and preserve more animal habitats, you'll gain access to new parks, items and animals to save.

However, it's up to you to make donations through the game's primary currency, simply known as Gold. But we bet after one look at those adorable cartoon animals--or the extra information (and video courtesy of Sigourney Weaver) Good World Games provides--you'll start reaching for the old wallet. The only thing this game needs is a cameo from Alanis Morissette.

Click here to play My Conservation Park through Facebook Connect Now

GETTING BYRON THIS WEEKEND? MAYBE EMMA TOO? OR POSSIBLY ANOTHER MONKEY PAINTING?

WOOO HOO! it felt like..FOREVER..since we had any cash...it was 2 weeks, but a very lean 2 weeks...

one of the hopes for this check for me was going to be (given there was enough money to do so) the BYRON kit from bountifulbaby.com

i went too see what was on the site, just because i had an update email pop in telling me of a new kit that was available, and i decided to look at byron..again. and dream.
i was surprised to see, sitting right beside him for the same price ANOTHER kit, for a baby named EMMA.

same price.

so, i asked the hubby of it were possible to get her AND byron, swapping out an extra byron for her instead. he said hed see if we could do that.

this weekend is our anniversary. 5 years married.
and he promised me wed ALSO go and see the animal art exibit (2nd year) so i can see the monkey art.
last year we bought me a GORILLA painting. done by a gorilla here at the Oklahoma zoo.
its so cool. i cherish it. seriously.

so, im kinda hoping i can get another painting this year, to add to my original monkey artwork.
(crossing fingers). i was hoping to get a chimp painting this year...next year id get an orangutan painting...
the paintings are about 100.00 for a painting about the size of a sheet of paper...mines a frame done by the gorilla that surrounds HIS picture.  very vibrant and colorful.

i may have to hold off on byron AND emma...to get this painting. i can only get it once a year. at this particular art show and exhibit.

so, im torn.
because id REALLY like to start with this reborning.
even tho i know that getting just the kits doesnt really get me very far in this industry. i still have allot to purchase to even create these babies.

so my quandry is to go ahead and get the kits, and still be waiting for the rest of the items needed to make them, or getting the painting (if we can afford it) and having another art piece thats original...one of a kind real monkey painting.

kits together are gonna be cheaper than the painting.

MICHELLE

IT HAS COME FULL CIRCLE-KOKO (The Gorilla) 'MOTHERS' HER REBORN APE DOLL

Jul 20, 2011

Koko Continues to "Mother" her Ape Baby Doll

 

Koko doesn't usually bond this closely to her "dolls" but she's been spending a lot of time with this ultra-realistic one lately, giving it a lot of love and carrying it in much the same way as most gorilla mom's carry their newborns. This wil be good practice, should we succeed in helping her adopt — a wish she expresses often in sign language.
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i mentioned in one of my 1st blogs on here, that i had painted a chimpanzee.

theres a long story to that painting, but it all started when my mother handed me a book about KOKO and her kitten.
that one book, changed me. set me for life, with an inner love for primates.
so much so, when i had the chance to paint my 1st, and currently only, painting, i wanted it to be a primate.

so much time has passed, i dont know if i even posses that raw talent i held as a new 18 year old, anymore.
so, my love for both painting and  primates exteneded itself to a 3-D canvas, on reborn dolls.

i love them, but i especially LOVE the monkey ones best. and have even considered just doing them excelusivly.

and today as a feed on my Facebook, i see an image of KOKO, the very being that started my love for Primates, holding a custom made REBORN  'ape' herself.

small world.

MICHELLE

IM REALLY INTERESTED IN REBORNING DOLLS

so, ive had this idea for a while. reborning dolls.
finding the RIGHT doll to do has been a challenge. simply because starting out is a bit costly.

ive already got a set of ORANGUTAN heads (no body, limbs, hair, etc), as well as a set of CHIMPANZEE heads (same as the others, no body, limbs, etc) to make my OWN (and keep, sorry but i MUST keep SOMETHING, lol) REBORN dolls when i get really good at it.

i figured im a pretty good artist, or was, anyway when i wasnt an artist at all..in theory, i had the talent, i just never went anywhere with it.
and deep inside myself i still desire to paint. and ultimately, i desire to have my art work hang in a gallery somewhere, where people will look at it and comment to each other about it...like an actual art show..thats the bucket list dream ,anyway.

the  ideal, for me, in MY art, was trying to make a flat 2-D image "pop" out and seem real enough to touch...being new and not that good at actually being an artist, i didnt achieve that end result...i did pretty good for a kid of 18 who had never painted before, and KNEW i had this in me..by painting the painting i did of the chimpanzee (its been a theme of my life to adore primates) i did. my teacher, at the time in high school (Mr Barry Weinstein) sent my artwork (or a picture of it) to a national arts award institution, to which for the year of 1985, i won for my painting.
a kid, who had a dream to paint people, won an award for her lack of experience.

i STILL have that painting. tucked away in the very room im writing this in, within reach of easy access in case of a fire. its one of the few items id never be able to live without if i lost it.

THAT painting, has fueld the desire to continue in art.
to continue to desire to collect primate art. yes, you read that right. i own an original GORILLA painting, done by one of the Gorillas at the Oklahoma City Zoo.

when i went to pick the painting up at the ga;;ery. yeah, thats irony huh? a primates made the gallery before me..lol, i was showing off MY painting and was told by the gallery attendant, i should consider getting back into painting again.
well, that of course, set my brain in motion...to paint primates, and give some of the proceeds to charities that help preserve them.

sometime before this, i had discovered reborn dolls. if im not mistaken it was through an article i saw come through some online news in my email.
and was delighted to see, that there is offered PRIMATE prototype heads in Chimpanzee, and orangutang. someday i hope to see a baby gorilla done...maybe ill be the one to create that one.

while we struggle with finances, this dream is a long one in the making.
making these babies isnt cheap. under any circumstances.
and on ebay...you can find any doll between 100-2000.00. seriously.
so, i scan the market looking for the cheapest way to do this, to start out, anyway.
never know, i might just completely suck at this...never know.
i paint, but i CANT  graffiti...seriously, one art doesnt always cross over to another.

so, because i painted a chimp, doesnt mean i can emulate one on a 3-d surface.
but thats the dream.

as i look for a cheap way, i have found BERENGUER dolls, that some reborn artist have taken and made look amazingly realistic!!

heres what im talking about:
this is what the doll looks like originally:

and just the head

looks like a doll...nothing special about it.

until, the artist, takes it and reborns it, and this is the same doll type redone as a reborn..amazing.

the quality is amazing to e, how it looses that "doll" look and has been converted into a "baby".
THIS is my new favorite art form.

so, i seek out BERENGUAR dolls. on ebay. as you can get one, or more, for as little as 20.00.
new in the box, they run an average of 30.00-40.00 a doll.

that cost has to be rolled into the total cost of the doll...of course, but whats 40.00-50.00 dollars to get about 200.00 in the end? if you can accommodate that price...everything you do to one of these dolsl has to be rolled into the doll...everything.

im really anxious to get this going.
MICHELLE

PICTURE- CLOSEUP OF KOKOS (The Gorilla) NEW 'APE' DOLL

Jul 11, 2011

Closeup of Koko’s New Ape Baby Doll

In case you were wondering what the doll that Koko was cuddling and kissing in the previous KokoPix looks like, here it is. Fairly realistic. But Koko knows the difference. She handles reality and imagination in much the same way as we do, and enjoys playing with both.

PICTURE - KOKO (The Gorilla) GETS A NEWBORN 'APE' DOLL FOR HER BIRTHDAY

Jul 10, 2011

Koko gets a newborn ape doll for her birthday

Koko received a lot of wonderful presents for her 40th birthday, which she just celebrated on July 4th, but the present she may remember most is this little newborn ape doll. It is very realistic, with the face and feel of an infant gorilla, and it is very unlike any of Koko’s other baby dolls. As you might expect, she treated it more like a real baby too. Koko had a great birthday, and we’ll be sharing more photos, videos and stories in the days ahead to give you a taste of the celebration. But Koko’s reaction to this one gift reminds us of what she “really” wants: a baby of her own. Whether it’s by adoption or conception, we’re doing everything we can to help her realize this wish. Please support us and her with your positive thoughts (and donations). Thank you.
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