THINKING OF MAKING A REBORN YOUTUBE PAGE.

i have been looking at some reborn artists on youtube .com, to see how to do different things on reborns. and i thought, maybe i should make ANOTHER youtube channel, for my own reborn dolls, as well as "favorite" others videos. Capture and upload some others videos, and show case my own work as well through video.

again, i come to the name of this channel as the starting point.

 if i got really good, i could show techniques ive used, and have a HOW-TO do this or that kinda feel, as well as a showplace in video format of the dolls im making, can even use it for stills and make slide shows of the progression of a doll from a blank to a reborn.

id really like it to be able to show all the other videos (for now, anyway) and have a place for them all to be for the different aspects you do to create a doll...

i have to give it some more thought before i decide to go into that as an avenue.

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

IM GONNA NEED SOME KIND OF CRAFT DESK....

i was at hobby lobby a while back...like 2, maybe 3 months ago. getting supplies for a youtube cooking channel im a part of with a very good friend of mine...

and when i go by the easles, i always drool over them...wishing i had one, so i could paint again.

but in the same area, under the display is a display of craft and drafting tables as well.

and i knew the last time i was there i was going to be needing some kind of "table" for a craft area to make these babies on. as well as store the supplies to make them.

so, tonight, i was bored and i went looking for one of those craft tables...on hobbylobby.com.
i can remember looking at one and thinking, "this would do." but looking again, i doubt it...lol.
so i looked online for anything in a craft table...

and i kept seeing THIS kind of design.

i also went and  looked for do-it-yourself craft desks, and also, again, came across the same idea, over and over and over again...

the basic idea is 2 small book cases and some kind of board across them for the desk.
simple, cheep, and i think i can do this...

walmart has 2 shelves available (i can see from online, anyway)
this one for 15.00

and this one for 20.00

i really need to go look at them, and see if some plastic bins with lids would fit on them, as well as a baby bottle dry rack...

this would hold various parts of the kits. heads, limbs, whatever.
another would hold all the painting supplies.
another all the fill supplies (if i can get it in there, stuffing is kinda bulky)

another idea i have, as im looking for plastic bins/containers is to use this (have 2 of them)

Dimensions: 15.25"L x 21.75"W x 24"H

with a shelf, or board across the tops of them, im just not sure how sturdy that would be in the long run.
i like the depth of the draws, because that can hold allot, and they are clear, so i can easily see whats in them, for quick retrieval...

reading reviews on walmart.com allot of people said you shouldnt put anything heavy on this (im not sure they were thinking like i am with 2 of them and distributing the weight across both of them) because they say the drawers buckle and become difficult to pull out.

i also remembered that OFFICE DEPOT has a storage unit in plastic, so i went to go look at it.

what i like about this is the fact theres 2 deep bins and 2 shallow ones, so all my smaller things would go in the shallow drawers, and all my larger things would go in the deeper ones.
sells for 22.00 for just one tho.

ill have to go and size these up sometime soon, so i can have my desk ready for me when i start this venture.
im actually running out of space on my shelf as it is, since i own  5 kits at present with a 6th arriving soon.

if i have something to put this in, and its handy, and available then i can free up that space on my shelf for other stuff...

so, my next big purchase will be some kind of utilizing craft storage area so ill be able to start and house my kits as i work on them.

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

CLOTHES PATERNS FOR PREEMIE BABY CLOTHES

Fits 4 to 6 lbs.  Interlock knit works best for these sleepers.

Sew shoulder seams. Sew ribbing on sleeves. With facing folded back 1" wrong sides, to wrong sides, overlapping facing at crotch 1". Pin front sleeper, sew crotch. Sew ribbing legs (or ankles). Matching sleeve hems, underarm seams, sew side seam from sleeve to foot, repeat other side. Fold 3 inch ribbing in half lengthwise and then widthwise. Trim center front ribbing widths to 1/4", tapering to full width at center back.  (foldline is center back and raw edges are center fronts). Unfold ribbing widthwise and divide ribbing into four equal sections. Mark sections with three pins. Divide sleeper neck into four equal section and mark with two pins - center back seam need not be marked with a pin. With right sides together, pin raw edges of ribbing to sleeper neckline, matching pins and center back seam.  Center front ribbing ends should be 1" in from front seamline. Fold facing over ribbing covering ribbing ends. Pin. Stitch, stretching ribbing to fit sleeper neckline.  Trim corners and turn right side out. Sew three button and button holes down the front of sleeper opening. You may also use snaps, sew-on snaps or Velcro.

Lorrabelle's Gown

All seams are 1/4 ”. To gather pieces, use 1/8” and 1/4 ” seams .4 or 5 on machine stitch length. Read all directions before starting pattern.
Cut out gown pieces. Sew bodice pieces together. Clip neckline carefully to lay flat. Turn right side out and finger press. Embroider of trim bodice front through top layer only. Turn and press flat.
For the back of gown skirt, turn under 1” The whole length of the gown. Turn under 1/4 ” and press, leaving 3/4 ” seam. Sew down the length of the gown.
Gather all three skirt pieces. Pin front of skirt to bodice. Baste together and sew. Top layer only. Do the same with both back pieces.
Gather, pin, and baste sleeves to bodice. Top layer only. Sew. Add lace to the sleeve cuff and attach to gathered sleeve bottom. Pin and sew. Sew or serge whole length of gown, matching seams.
Turn gown inside out. Pin bottom layer of bodice to top layer. Do this front, backs, and around sleeves, hiding seams. Sew with tiny stitches. Turn cuffs up and sew.
Pin bottom of gown. Fold under 1” with 1/4 ” turned under. Match back seams, making sure they are the same length. Hem.
Cut two pieces 1/8” white ribbon, 9” long. Tack to back of bodice, about 1/4 ” from finished seam.

X-Small Boy's Gown

Note: This pattern can be used for infant girls by substituting a ribbon rose or bow for the neck tie.
Cut out pattern pieces. Embroider sleeves on marked lines. Turn under sleeve ends ¼” and sew. After sleeve is sewn to bodice, turn under cuff and sew with tiny stitches by hand, catching the embroidery lines so that you can't see stitches from the top.
Embroider outside collar line on bodice top only. Sew narrow bias to bodice front at waistline, before attaching the skirt. Gather skirt pieces and pin to bodice top. Turn outside length of skirt back under ¾”. Turn end under ¼” leaving ½” for hem. Press and sew all the way down.
After skirt is together, sew gathering lines on bottom of skirt, (2 rows). Pin sacque bottom to bottom of skirt and gather to fit. Sew together. Sew lining bottom to cover raw seams on the inside. Turn on right side. Tack right side of skirt to left side, 2 ½ “ up from sacque bottom. Cut two pieces of 1/8 ” ribbon, 9” long and tack on back of gown seam at neckline about ¼” in, on each side.
To make tie:
Use bias tape, 5 ½” long. Press flat. Turn short ends under ¼” and press. Bring corners down to form a peak. Turn left side under a scant ½” and press. Turn right side under a tiny bit and then again to form a seam line, and pin. Take tiny stitches all the way down by hand through back only to press again. Do not stretch. With right sides facing you, turn in half. Tack ½” down, right over left. Bring peak down to make what looks like a tie knot, and sew on back to secure. Tack to bodice where marked. Use the same color bias tape for the ties as you use at the waistline.

Preemie Hat Tutorial – Easy Sewing (this will be great with little baby socks i find with monkeys on them!)

First, start with a pair of fun-looking kids’ socks. I got these in the dollar section at Target.

Cut the socks at the ankle, right above the heel.

These are the parts you’ll be using.

Sometimes socks have a visual seam where the pattern is slightly jagged. If yours has that (you can see it in the sock in the background, near the edge), cut there. If not, cut wherever you want… lengthwise from your previous cut to the cuff of the sock.

So now you have two pieces that look like this

Put the two pieces together, right sides facing each other.

And zig-zag stitch up the sides. If you’re hand-sewing, a simple whip stitch will do.

If you want, you can flip the hat right side out and gather the top with a running stitch. You can cover the raw edge by adding a pom pom or some other embellishment.

But I didn’t do that. I zig-zagged over the top edge to make a rectangular hat.

Flip right side out.

Then basically you’re going to gather two little ears, by making a diagonal running stitch “cutting off” each corner.

Like this. Maybe an inch in from the corner, diagonally across to about an inch below the corner.

Pull tight, add a few back stitches to secure, knot and trim. Repeat on the other side to make the second “ear.”

You can leave it like that if you’d like. (this would look so cute if i could find a sock with a face of a monkey on it large enough to make the ear parts into...ears! )

Or add any embellishment you think looks nice.

Voila! Teeny hat for the smallest sweet girl.

Now you don’t want your hat recipient to get sick because of a germ introduced by your gift… so wash it on hot water and machine-dry it, then immediately put it into a ziploc bag so that nothing unintended makes it into the NICU.

POSSIBLE *NEW* WEBSITE NAME FOR MY REBORN SITE?

 i was talking about reborning today, with my husband and my 17 year old son, on the way to drop my kif off at school.

i was saying that i was thinking of getting an IPAD with some of the income tax return...and...also made a mention that id start to supply myself with the basics for reborning with some of the money as well.

my son said, very vocally, "reborn babies are...DUMB!" with that ever present "teen" attitude attatched.

to which i went into WHY i feel its an avenue im interested in doing.

1)- its hot right now, people pay for them.
2)- you can command your own price. (basic set up for 1 doll is around 150.00, double that for labor and you can sell a baby for 300.00 -not bad)
3)-its an ART FORM..i explain it by saying its a 3-dementional canvas.
4)- you can do CUSTOMS and charge even MORE for your abilities, because people may desire your esthetic to do a 'memorial' baby for them.
5)- in this economy, people are STILL purchasing them.
6)- its a ONE OF A KIND ART WORK.
7)- its a COLLECTABLE.

while i was talking all this out in the few minutes to try to make the kid understand the uniquness of this craft, i said...something to the effect of..." and id be making someone a forever baby"
and it hit me...my possible NEW web page name.."FOREVERBABIES. com

doesnt have anything to do with monkeys, but its...as my kid said to me as soon as i said it was good for a web page name: "QUITE CATCHY".

i dont rememebr if craig has actually purchased WhitandWhimzy. com yet. i like it too...has that "whimzicle', 'fun'. 'magical' feel to it....
maybe ill just use WhitandWHimzy as my umbrella name and have everything else under it as subdomains.

like this:

WhitandWhimzy. Com/ForeverBabies (reborn babies)
WhitandWhimzy. com/EndangeredExotics (primate/endangered art work i have done for sale)

looking online to see if the URL : foreverbabies .com has ben taken showed me that there is NO one holding that URL. there are a few other 'FOREVERBABIES' like names...
Myforeverbabies.com
GrannysForeverbabie.com

but NO foreverbabies.com

so, looks like if i wanted it i could get it.

MICHELLE

KIRI & BYRON ARE BOTH AVAILABLE

i bought EMMA on craigs last check. and now, shes out of order, i might have been the last person to snag her...

this week, im gearing up for an opportunity to get BYRON - who has been pushed back a month now, because i have to wait for a new paycheck to arrive before i can actually purchase anything...so, for a bit more than a month, hes been waiting for me to purchase him.
i go to look, the other day, and now, KIRI is also available.
theres 4 in this set. the 4th is an extremly rare purchase. not sure ill ever be able to get her.

but now i have a NEW quandary...should i push BYRON back another month, and get KIRI? she is about as available as EMMA is...not as much as BYRON is. he never seems to go  "OUT OF STOCK".
and it hasnt been too often ive actually ever seen KIRI, i mean, i have seen her, but not as much as her brother.

shes the same price as emma and byron.

if im lucky, maybe i can get both?

not getting any primate painting this time..already did that, so were not pressed to hold any funds for anything...except bills. *sigh*

i still need to find some clothing patterns for a 10inch baby.

MICHELLE