Blog moving to a new site - last post here

Since I got my regular website back , I have still been blogging on here and just occasionally updating the website. However, since my website is also a blog, I am moving this blog over there and will only be blogging there from now on. This will be my last blog on here. So, for all my customers and friends, please come on over to my website :) www.edenslittleones.com
The new blog will also be posting on Facebook, just like this one does, but will not post to your dashboard updates unless you subscribe to it. See you there!

Trying out new eyebrows

I'm making a baby for a fundraiser and just got the first issue of the new doll magazine, with the eyebrow tutorial today :) Since I finished the painting tonight, I decided to try it out.

Laptop and new babies

Wow, I can't believe it's been so long since I've done a post! Ok, so I can, since sometimes I'm really bad about it lol. So here's the update: I got a new laptop and so the last week I've been transferring all my stuff from my old half-working laptop to my new laptop - with my favorites list, pictures, and all my websites (including passwords for everything), that has taken quite a while! I've still got a few things to transfer, but most is done. I'm a reborn mentor now, on the DSB (Dolls So Beautiful) forum. I get to start tomorrow and I'm so excited to be able to help a new reborn artist with the dark AA tones board (that's where the boss put me, and I love it)! I've mentored several new/newer artists privately before, just friends or friend/customers who were starting out and needed some help/advice, but never been chosen by a group before :) The one twin (Owen, who decided he didn't want to be a twin, and so the other sculpt was left for another time) was born and adopted while still in the painting process (still needed to do a bit of detailing and shading, but mostly done), the earliest one of my babies has been adopted. This is him, his mama named him Keyshon:

She also sent me a video of her opening him, which was so awesome to get to see her receive him! http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kZPszTv00sM&feature=youtu.be And I am currently working on Grace (Estelle sculpt), who is almost done, but I'll wait to share pictures of her when she's done in a few days. She was also adopted before even being born, by a customer who saw her on my Facebook page when I was posting rooting pictures. Keyshon was so much fun to reborn (all my babies are, but I really saw so many possibilities with him), that I am going to reborn another Owen sculpt next, and try to make this one a girl. :) Another post when Grace is finished!

So much going on

There is just so much going on right now - dr. appointments, van appointments to get an estimate and sell it, getting a car inspected to see if it would be good to buy, regular work, looking into going back to school this summer, and much more.

But through it all I am still working on Estelle, and she is coming along so sweetly! I only have a few details to do (nailtips, lips, eyebrows, and the final "pore" layer) and then I'll do some before-hair pictures of her.

A highlight of this week: My 74th baby went home this week and I got to see his mama opening his box :) Her mom video-taped the opening, with the family all around, and it was so exciting and so much fun to see everyone's reaction and meeting him for the first time! I almost cried, it was so great <3

I'll post again when I get the painting on Estelle (I'm going to have to start thinking of her name lol) done.

Dolls So Beautiful forum

This forum is my home, where I can share my life, especially my love for creating reborns (that most people in my non-online life don't understand, though some of them try). If you create reborn dolls, collect them, make clothes or other items for them, or are just curious about them, then this post is for you.

Dolls So Beautiful has been a fairly small group (in the lower hundreds in comparison to the higher hundreds or even more of big groups), but we're ready to share with you and I think you'll love it here. So here's your invite:


You are invited to join Dolls So Beautiful reborn forum,
specializing in ethnic babies :)

Collectors, seamstresses, and reborn artists - come and find your online home!

We are having a membership drive, so please post who invited you on your first post (in the "Please introduce yourself" section) and then join in the fun.

Share your newest creations or ideas, give input on others' posts, laugh until you cry at some of our rambunctious posts - no drama queens here, just great friends!

http://dollssobeautiful.proboards.com/

Hope to see you there!

My website has moved

Instead of being .weebly.com, it's back to being edenslittleones.com but now it is hosted somewhere else, and so has a new look :) Check it out if you get a minute

New plan

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ok, I started the twins and then just lost interest. I think it's because twins take so much longer and so they take a lot of patience. Also I was getting a little... not really frustrated, but just losing interest and the joy of it... because, even though they are twin sculpts, my mind sees them going in different directions and I find myself wanting to paint them differently. And so, since they are not customs and I can create them however I please, I'm going to. No longer will they be twins, but two babies, and I have no idea of the final outcome. I'm going to create the awake one first, simply because he/she is the one currently on my desk and ready for another paint wash.

I'll keep you all updated! :)

Hello 2012

Website Translation Widget Happy New Year everyone! It's now 2012! I made 10 +? babies in 2011, which isn't bad considering I'm working full time and have a family. I know 10 for sure, but the other two I'm not sure if I did after Christmas or right before, so it might have been 12. The first baby was too long ago to remember, but the last baby of this year was Kirabo. The first babies of this year will be tied, since I am starting a set of twins :) Pictures to come in a day or two!

New logo!

Website Translation Widget I have a new logo! I liked my old logo a lot, but it was using pictures of someone's real babies and over time I began to want my logo to show my art. Here is my old logo:

It has stars and a moon (my previous theme), shows that I do various ethnicities of babies, and is sparkly and pretty - everything I wanted at the time. But as I've been growing in my art, I've starting wanting a logo that showed my work and is all me. However, I don't have the skills or know-how to do that, so I only had 5 pictures and a vision in my head. In desperation I posted on Facebook and a friend hooked me up! She's going to take a little more of the top of the blue hood on the left, but here it is:

These are all babies I have made, my art for my logo :) I love it! Next up on the agenda is some new business cards and birth certificates using my new logo lol

Toddler is finally done!!

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Here she is, my first toddler. I'm naming her Natasha, and she was just finished today. She was created from the Tibby sculpt by Donna RuBert.

In which both babies are still not ready and I fail

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Well, here it is December and neither of the babies are ready yet. So much for having them ready by the 1st of the month. Kirabo is finally rooted, but it will take the rest of the week to get the other layers of glue and dried in between, so she won't be ready to be adopted until right before Christmas. And the toddler is still being painted (working on her more today), finding it difficult to find just the right tones for her.

On the other hand, there are several products in my store now :) Lots more coming when I get some inspiration. If you have any ideas, leave me a comment and I'll make it.

http://www.zazzle.com/edenslittleones

Bumperstickers are awesome!

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So, I just remembered that Zazzle exists and is the coolest place ever. And now I've made it a fraction cooler by using it to create a bumpersticker

And now I've got the itch! More products from Eden's Little Ones coming soon!

Blogging is not my art

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Ok, I'm not witty or cute or fabulous, so I'm really not that great at blogging...or even coming up with a title for each post (see for just one example). I don't blog every day or even every week, so it's understandable that my readers aren't perched on the edge of their seat, awaiting my next post. But lately I've been reading a few blogs and, while some I don't even make it through a single post before nodding off, some are very witty and cute and fabulous, each in their own way. And after reading a few posts from these blogs, my brain begins to think that it, too, can do posts that are lol funny or amazingly wonderful.

The problem is...it's an illusion. An in-my-head show of words and lights and ideas that never sound the same once written down. And so, though I may blog more often for a while, don't expect greatness from this blog, only the mediocre ramblings of a reborn artist.

2 day SALE!!

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In celebration of Thanksgiving, and in the spirit of being thankful for the ability and gift of the art of reborning, I am having a sale.

Joseph is on sale for $120 (original price is $145)

Aurelia is on sale for $150 (original price is $200)

So if you (or someone on your Christmas list) have been wanting a high-quality reborn for an extremely low price, this is your chance!

This sale goes from now until Friday at midnight, and that means payment has to be made (paypal or walmart moneygram) during that time also. Sorry, but too many people say they want a baby, but then back out the day they say they are going to send payment.

Happy Thanksgiving everyone!

It's a boy! ... I think

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My current reborn baby, wip Ava Raine, is getting hair... and is looking more and more like a boy! Could still be a girl, with some help of some hair bows and a lot of pink, but look more like a boy to me. Still has a long way to go, but here he is so far :) More pictures when he's done!

Kirabo - WIP

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This is my newest WIP, Kirabo, who is from the sculpt Ava Raine by Laura Tuzio Ross. I'm not sure if it's a boy or girl yet (have to wait and see after hair), but I am so pleased with this baby so far :)

More pictures after hair!

Love these glass eyes!!

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I just got some new eyes I've been wanting to try...got them right as I was going out the door for work, so I had to wait all day to try them in a baby tonight...and I love them!!

Here are the eyes for the 0-3 month baby I've started, just 5 washes on it, so just beginning.

Here he/she is so far with the eyes:

And a close up:

And here are the eyes for the Hispanic toddler I've been working on:

And a close-up:

A little more green than I was expecting, but that's ok, I've known several Hispanic young 'uns who had green and hazel eyes.

I can't wait to finish these babies now!

Christmas Babies!

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Well, I got called into work yesterday and so only got my Ava Raine started a little and also haven't completely born the little blonde girl yet.

But I get off Friday, so will be working on them more after Christmas shopping, which will also be Friday afternoon (I want to beat the ALL the crowds this year lol).

I have the body for the toddler girl now, just waiting for the eyes to arrive (they were mailed, but could take a while as they are coming from overseas). Then I can work on finished the skin tones. I'm waiting for the eyes because I want just the right tones to match her eyes and hair.

I am determined to have these three - the Caucasian girl (0-3 months), the AA baby (not sure boy or girl yet, 0-3 months), and the Hispanic girl toddler - all completed by December so they are available for Christmas for whoever adopts them.

The two girls will be done within a week or two, it'll just be a matter of getting the other baby rooted by the deadline. I got my Native American boy done in plenty of time (he's been up for adoption for several weeks now), so I have a pretty decent span of ethnic and boy/girl choices for my customers.



There is time for one more custom order to be completed before Christmas, but now is the time if someone has been pondering possibly getting a special baby for that special someone (or for themselves lol). After November 6th, any custom orders placed will not be guaranteed for Christmas unless a small preemie or wigged. There has to be enough time for shipping of materials to me, shipping of the baby to you, glue to dry, and (the most time-consuming for quality) rooting the hair.

So the deadline for a Christmas custom is Nov 6th. Any orders placed after that, I can try for Christmas, but I cannot guarantee that your baby will be completed in time.


I'm so excited about the coming holiday season! At the start of October, I couldn't believe how late in the year it was and that Christmas was so near. Now it seems like time is dragging and it will never get hear. But I supposed it's a good thing it's still 8 weeks away because I'm going to need that time to get these babies done around work, family, and such.

Another post when I get one of these babies done! :)

Everything is on hold

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Everything is on hold...and I don't like it. I really want to finish up Aurelia (my current Caucasian girl - she just needs stuffed, weighted and "born"), work on my Hispanic toddler, and start on my AA baby. But I haven't been able to.

I'm just too tired and my wrists hurt too bad. Not meaning to whine, it's just a fact. Since Thursday before last, every day I have been cleaning where I work after work. Our regular janitor is on vacation and I volunteered for two reasons: 1. As a manager, I feel it's my responsibility to help out when it's needed. 2. The extra income will provide for my family's Christmas presents.

But there's a light at the end of the tunnel! Tonight is my last night cleaning...sorry, apartment, you're out of luck. lol just kidding. Janitoring (is that a word?) every night at my work, of course, not cleaning forever. I'll still be (occasionally) cleaning our apartment and helping the cooks (if they need it) clean on Friday nights, when our janitor usually has off.

Monday and Tuesday are my next days off, so I will be getting to do some doll work during those two days :) hooray!

Aurelia is rooted!

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Her hair is finally done! She will be born soon :) and up for adoption. If you like her, grab her, because I have had several people asking after her and she'll be nabbed quickly.

I need to get more soft stuffing, as she is 1/4 limbs, but more pictures up when she's born