Ok, now I'm going to do 2 fairies LOL

I was originally going to do the first design as a Caucasian baby, with blonde/strawberry blonde mix of hair, but now I am going to do it AA baby (light honey-chocolate coloring) and I'm not sure about the hair. Maybe silver highlights mixed with brown. I have some grayish silver hair that would look cool.

So now I am going to do 2 fairies - the AA baby fairy with the original design is going to come after the Caucasian baby fairy with my new design shown here. The Caucasian baby told me she needed a lighter scheme LOL. I will be starting her tomorrow :)

The fairy I'm starting on Monday.

On Monday I will be done rooting the twins and, while waiting for them to dry, will be starting my fairy. After much researching and painting various designs and colors, I've come up with the design and colors I will be using on my fairy. I am so excited about starting this fairy, esp since I've never seen a fairy decorated like this before and am excited to be doing something very different :) I'm going to use the flower design for a forehead crown-type thing and then the curlies and dots on the ear too. This one looks messy because it's a test head and I used air-dry gloss to cover the genesis so it doesn't come off. That way I don't have to bake it and can take off the stuff I don't like on the rest of the head. LOL

Few more things that I want to remember

I am using this blog as sort of a reborn diary, so today I am writing a few things I want to remember.

http://www.realistic-reborn-dolls.com/reborn-ethnic-dolls.html - an article I wrote, sometime between March and July of 2008 (this year lol), that was published on the Realistic Reborn Dolls website.

Also in early 2008 I was invited to do an artist display at the Prince George's County library (Clinton branch). I had a lot of fun getting things ready, creating poster boards showing how to create a reborn, and showing 2 of my babies (Jailynn and Eirin).

Well, back to rooting the twins! I did lower lashes for the first time today, on the Honey. They aren't styled yet, but I am very satisfied with my first time. :)

Custom girl done

Finished the custom baby tonight, just need to do the paperwork tomorrow :) She is such a cute little girl, I loved making her. She was done from the Jacob sculpt by Shawna Clymer, one of my favorite sculptors!

Applied for the PRA*ISE award

Well, I've come a long way from my first baby, so today I decided to apply for the PRA*ISE award. If I get it, it will confirm to me how very far I've come and if I don't then I'll get feedback telling me what I need to work on. It was quite a process, with 10 pics of 10 different babies (specific parts and sizes of photos) as well as 10 customer references, but it will be well worth it either way!

Here's a compare picture of my first reborn's face and my 27th reborn's face. Quite the difference! I am now working on my 32nd and 33rd (the Sugar and Honey AA twins) reborns. I decided that, after 30, was when I would apply.

At 40, I will apply for the Excellence in Reborn Artistry membership.

When I hit 100, I will apply for the Collii Award. The PRA*ISE is a big one, the Collii is huge.

If you know of any others, let me know :)

Trying something new

I went to start rooting the boy twin yesterday and discovered that I didn't have enough of the right color for both twins. The other 2 colors I had that were even close, one was too light and the other too dark. So I decided to try something new, that I have been wanting to try for a long time, but have been too busy with custom orders - combine 2 colors. The colors looked to be from the same angora goat, since they had the same wave, but one was jet black and the other medium brown. I put them together, the black over the brown, and rooted through both. Here's a picture of how it's going so far. It looks better in person, the combined colors give it a natural highlighting color variation. I did notice that, in a few places, one color was a bit more prominent than the other, so I will have to watch out for that while rooting, but all in all I like the look :)

Sugar and Honey coming along

Here's a pic of Sugar and Honey right now. Honey just needs 3 more layers, Sugar needs 7 more. Then they'll be ready to root!

Check out these eyes on Honey - these are the glass eyes from bountiful baby. I just love them! My first time using them, def NOT the last. I'll be using these a lot more now that I know how wonderful they look. Couldn't tell much from the picture on the site, but in a baby they look so real.