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mactopolis · Senior Member

Funny things happen when you take your baby to the store

jburle · Senior Member

She's precious..... I can see way that lady told you not to put your grand-baby in a bag. lol I wouldnot know what to say!

Tina W. · Guru

She is adorable, no wonder she fooled the lady in the store. It's a great feeling isn't it?

mactopolis · Senior Member

Thus far my 2nd reborn is my best and I have a lot of love for that face of hers and then my 5th reborn is starting to really shape up I've done a bit more detailing on her last night and she melts my heart.

The most difficult thing outside of the actual art work is finding proper clothing for them those that actually fit her(yes I only make girl babies)without having to spend $40-$100 on an adorable outfit and without having tamper with the size of it with safty pins or what's worse needles and thread(ugh)

jburle · Senior Member

I have three preemies two of which are a personal collection but the boy he is chuck-ish and I have to sometimes put darts int he neck.. for my girls I definitly have to place darts on the neck even if I buy preemie out fits. My favorite face is the Zoe cause she was the first face I did...

I have a couple more... that I love but I don't remember who they are by... lol I second reborn she melts my heart and she is Identical to the first one I made ever... lol just they are slightly different colors... lol!!!

Play Days Dolls · Guru

You gotta know it's a compliment when some lady embarrasses you about how to take care of your granddaughter. You really did a wonderful job on her! I haven't yet developed the guts to take the dolls out to a store to shop for clothes. Okay... so I haven't taken them anywhere except to the hair salon to ask my stylist how to cut the hair.

I have problems with finding clothes that fit that don't cost an arm and a leg, too. I usually have to take a few tucks in the neck with the dreaded needle and thread. Doll clothes would fit better, but most of them look like doll clothes.

Anyone know anyone who sells reasonably priced clothing that fits these dolls?

Linda

Tina W. · Guru

Sometimes I can get lucky on ebay with preemie size, and I know our WalMart sells preemie sleepers that are sooo tiny they fit perfectly and the price is so reasonable. I catch them on clearance for 3.00 and not on sale 6.00 doesn't kill the pocketbook which I like =)

mactopolis · Senior Member

On several occasions I took the heads off my finished babies and stuufed more polyfiller in them...not too much cause I did'nt want them looking like little piggies...just to fit them into pretty clothes I find at our thrift store..most always new or like new..I paid anywheres from $0.60-$8.00 per set or per dress..I am never embarashed to dig through their baby clothes section..the ladies always ask me.."How old is she?"...I smile and tell a fib.."Oh,she's just 2 months old",I'ds say

I just can't tell them its for a doll of mine....I've been buying baby and toddler clothing for sometime now...I do have 7 very young god-daughters now,and always looking to add more little princesses to my "godfathershipping"...plus my 5 reborns

jburle · Senior Member

I am constantly in the baby section at wally or some other place. HEHE! they ask me what I am having and I have to lie and say it's for a friend of mine she's having a boy and a girl... lol

I love going to wally world.... I always find baby set's for $3.00 and that's regular price... sometimes I go to the fabric dept. and look at the fabric and say oh that would be a nice out fit for a reborn baby... so sometimes it's cheaper to make an outfit or dress...

sage brush nursery · Guru

i just got the cutest preemie onsie and short set at wally for 6.00. actualy i bought 3 .....my bad........lol sage aww

mactopolis · Senior Member

I wish I had a Wally World to go to...I'd love to go to Walmart...but public transportation makes me too nervous and scared and I when I shake and can't control them(onset of parkinson's)

I hardly can get anyone to take me anywheres and if I didn't force myself to walk,I would hardly go anywheres,I use a 4 legged cane and a regular cane..depends upon how I feel

sage brush nursery · Guru

gosh i wish you lived near me ,i'd love to have a baby person to go to the shops with. it's such a shame. sage aww

jburle · Senior Member

Your right Sage though.... When you buy a top and bottom all together it's $6.00.... lol I guess I wasn't thinking.

I love to buy baby outfits and such. Except the neck doesn't fit right when I go and put them on Raven... it's like the neck on the outfit is way to big. I must have not filled her neck full enough or something.. lol I always have to take the neck in hahaha....

Play Days Dolls · Guru

Public transportation makes me a little nervous, too. It's too bad we all live so far apart because it would be fun to shop and talk shop with y'all.

Linda

Tina W. · Guru

Oh I tell them it's for my dolls I get crazy looks sometimes but who cares. I think it's funny watching their reactions after that, some just don't know what to say and other get really into it asking questions.

mactopolis · Senior Member

The thing about the outfit not fitting around the neck properly is very troublesome especially when we're tryin to hide the apperance of a cloth body...if the the fulll vinyl body was set at a reasonable price...loose clothing on a baby looks so real..we would no even bother with the cloth bodies(my option is the cloth idea kinda puts chackles on my artistic creativity)

Face it I'm a freak...I just love dressing them up..try all different colour schemes on them...and stepping back and either adoring their new outfits..or saying that's just not right...not right at all: peach and black nahhh

jburle · Senior Member

I hear ya all.... I wish we lived closer and The crazy looks are funny to watch!!! I try to make my outfits for the ones I try to sell...

Buffington · Guru

I agree, the necks are the worst. But I'll tell you a manufacturing secret I learned years ago when making shoe skates... all peices in one size are not created equal. When I go looking for a preemie outfit, I look at allllll the same outfits and pick out the one that has the smallest neck! If I have to go through 2 dozen pink tops then thats what I do.
Everyone is in a hurry to make production numbers. They have an actual "range" of inches that the neck can be. And if someone makes a few too large and they slip by the QC manager, well so be it.

Take a look at one size in a dress or top and measure them all together once. You'll be surprized at all the different neck sizes there are.

mactopolis · Senior Member

Thank you for tip about the outfits of the same size may have smaller neck sizes....you are a genius

mactopolis · Senior Member

By-the-way anyone here from Illinois?

Need help · Senior Member

I wish we did live closer to each other. We could all go out with our babies shopping and have coffee together. We could all be crazy together. I live in Rome New York it's a city in Up state N.Y. I don't think their are any reborners around here.So I really got looks the day I took my baby to Wally World. It was fun . I'm about ready to do it again. I don't think their are to many doll people of any kind around here. I also make porcelain dolls and theirs are a very few of us But I've really been taken over with my babies they are so much fun . I also know what you mean about can't find clothes to fit right on our babies. I'm going to find a pattern and see about making some. Linda

Dee · Guru

I would love it if I knew someone here in Saginaw Michigan that reborned so that we could get together.

Tina W. · Guru

Dee,
Now that would be fun! Problem is we all spread out too far =(

mactopolis · Senior Member

Well we all have telephones don't we?...From an old AT&T commercial:

"Reach out and touch someone".

If its permitted on this forum to share numbers I don't mind that all you girls have my numbers....

-- Edited by mactopolis on Tuesday 27th of July 2010 03:40:31 PM

jburle · Senior Member

lol I live in Horseheads NY... but there is not anyone close around....

sage brush nursery · Guru

you all just move to my town in fl , oohh .....baby tea parties , reborning lunches,rooting parties and shopping.............hurry,hurry......sage aww

mactopolis · Senior Member

Sage I wish I could move out of Chicago....I lived in St Petersburg for 1 year when I was about 17 years old..

-- Edited by mactopolis on Wednesday 28th of July 2010 01:45:33 AM

Dee · Guru

That is too bad because I think we all would get along very well.

mactopolis · Senior Member

If we all got up and moved to Florida...weather would be great..heck we could then put our heads together(ThinkTank)and open up a large Reborn Clinic,demo's,teaching,selling kits and supplies...it would have maybe 10-15 reborn art teachers..it would surely be a first....have our own Cafe built inside..have lunceons,etc etc etc

-- Edited by mactopolis on Wednesday 28th of July 2010 10:34:24 PM

sage brush nursery · Guru

oohh that sounds great ........everyone start packing quick......we'll make liselle our sales manager.....pat'll make jewlery and babys,emily would most likey be doing the same. just think of the sleepovers...wheeee here we have a fire in the front yard to sit around and roast what ever doesn't move fast enough. we also might drink a little of the old brimestone......oh...purely medicinal........lol sage aww

jburle · Senior Member

This is (lol) planned like two years and I once lived in Fl. when I was super little. But my mom and I are plannin on coming back to live with my brother... lol It's great I love my hometown and miss it truely.. Haven't been there since I was 8yearish...

Liselle · Guru

LOL. Sales manager huh? I could deal with that. I make jewelry as well, but I just kind of dabble at it.

Sure wish we could all get together, it would be a blast!!

Need help · Senior Member

Sure sounds great. I could work in the cafe! I now what to make it would be a Cafe hit. My famous Ready for this??? FROG EYEDSalad. Sounds good right?? Linda

sage brush nursery · Guru

isn't that big reborning show IDEX held in florida , we should all try to go to the next one. that would be so much fun. they hold class' there too .picture it a whole gang of reborners takeing over the town,drag raceing strollers in the streets,dressing babies right out in the open.a wild time. sage aww

sage brush nursery · Guru

frogeyed salad cool that'd fit right in with fried gater yummy. sage aww

Liselle · Guru

OMG, Sage, I'm so glad I didn't have a drink in my mouth, or I'd have just sprayed my computer with it!! You absolutely crack me up!!

Buffington · Guru

Yes Sage, I still admit, you are funnier than me (and I'm usually a riot all by myself!!)!

Being a new "professional jeweler" and reborner, and certified reborning teacher I guess I have all the bases covered and someone could be standing at home plate waiting to catch the customers and students!

We can put the cost of the frogeyed and gater food in their entrance fee along with class fees and then everything (except clothing and stuff for the finished babies) would be included in the price. I'm sure they can't individually eat THAT much! lol

Oh it'd be like reborners disneyland! I love all the ideas!!! What a nice dream eh? Maybe I'll make that image my "happy" place huh? :)

Liselle · Guru

I would certainly love to get together with all you ladies, and gents, just to see if we could have as much fun IRL as we do online.

Ya'll are a trip!!

sage brush nursery · Guru

the real deal would be sooo excellent , everybody off their meds . giveing free rein to they're inner child. i don't know if any one town could handle us. .......lol sage aww

Buffington · Guru

Ya, especially if you and I are there Sage! hehehe We'd have everyone rolling in the isles, including ourselves! I don't know if I'd want to release my inner child any more than I already do hun... it might not be pretty! hahahaha

Liselle · Guru

Bring the Depends, cos we'll be laughing so hard, us old ladies will need them! LOL