Hand rooted eyelashes.

Hi guys just sharing these long luscious hand rooted eyelashes over glued in lashes.  I could not remove the old so I just rooted some long ones over them and they looked so pretty!  I did trim them down just a tad afterwards.  Neveah is so cute!  Her new mommy loves her so much!  

Holiday Happenings!

Shekeia Kaandra has been adopted.  She is currently reserved but will be leaving us for the Christmas holiday to go be with her new family!  We are going to miss her!

I am also working on a custom light ethnic baby named Lillian Marie.  I am so excited to do a new project for someone special!  I am creating her using the Lillian Sculpt from Bountiful Baby!  Updates are coming soon!

And this weekend I am having a Ugly Sweater Christmas Party so that should be lots of fun!  I hope I can clean up my baby mess in time!

Just having fun!

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Working on 2 new babies Nevaeh Serenity and Kendal Paige

Vein detailing on head

Vein detail on cute hands

More vein detailing on legs and feet

Hi guys, Sorry I have not been around much, and even though I am technically a grandma to two beautiful grandkids and a mom to 4 children which of 3 are out of the home, I am a college student. So last spring was a nightmare because all I did was study and it was so difficult to go to full time school at a hard university that I only went part time this semester but it is still a lot of work.  I worked my tail to the bone and got an A+ and an A in my last two classes.  I was going full time so I had absolutely no time to work on much and being as how I was just learning to reborn it was too much for me.  But I learned so much.  I am doing such a great job on my two new girl babies and I have plans for more.  I am going to do a boy too, yay!

I also went on vacation to the Caribbean.  We got to visit our timeshare in St. Thomas, Virgin Islands for 10 whole days!  It was so beautiful, I will share pictures later!

I ordered some supplies for my next babies as I work on my other two babies.  But I am freaking out because two large storms are coming.  I am keeping my eye on those hurricanes as they should arrive this coming week.  I am in Virginia so who knows what is coming our way next week and I am praying we do not have to evacuate!  As it is, I should be working on a paper right now but I am so excited to make my new babies, I am looking at videos online of course!  I love to watch videos of people as they get their new babies and I also like seeing what other artists are working on.  It's fun to see how people react to their babies and I enjoy seeing them sharing their tips, techniques and watching them play with their little tykes.

This week I found that some artists are doing larger dolls and I can't imagine how some are quite large and lifelike.  But I hope I can do some of the full body reborn dolls in the near future and maybe even silicone but like anything, learning is a process and I must be patient.  It's so hard for me because I have always been a painter so I am super excited for the next project.  Once again I am in school so I have to work hard on a class for my Information Technology Degree with a focus in cyber security.  Strangely all I can think of is painting my dolls!  What the heck?  I know.  It's strange. Especially late at night but I have found it's best not to paint at night because the lighting is too dark.  I will work on getting better lighting in the near future but I am still rearranging my house because I am painting my house new colors!

Strangely my husband likes the idea of me painting dolls so he never ever complains when I order a lot of supplies.  For some reason, it makes him happy to see me happy and he loves that I am an artist (and a good cook).  But I admit I love to see him happy too.  Like tonight when he went to go see "It" with my 20-year-old daughter and her husband.  I was like, no thanks, but have a lot of fun and don't eat too much popcorn!  He smiled like a kid in a candy factory because he is a huge comic, sci fi, and movie buff.  So I hope he enjoyed it.  No thanks on the clown thing for me.  Clowns don't freak me out too much except in that movie.

Anyhow, I am excited to show you pictures of my new babies as soon as I can!  I am going to start doing videos on my progress as well so you can see how I am doing.  I need to share to see what you think.  I am also going to start some videos to help you all learn if you want to make your own babies.  Since I am a mom, I have lots of experience and so maybe I can make some great recommendations to you!  Despite the fact that my daughter says my dolls are "creepy" she really does love them and probably wants one for herself.

Here are some pictures and videos so enjoy and say hi, please!  I love hearing from you all!

Love and blessings!

Kimberly

Gracie Rose Is 100% Cute and Almost Ready To Go

I captured this photo of Gracie Rose while she snuggled in my arms.

~ GRACIE ROSE ~

Messing around and put a bow on a pink knit hat.  Hat does not come with reborn doll. I will be making some as time frees up in different colors.

Gracie is so cute, and so spoiled.  She comes with a huge lot of clothing, binkies, bows and more.  I am so thrilled to finally finish my first doll.  I am not asking a lot because she has a couple small issues.  One is a tiny oblong grey spot on her torso.  The second is a tiny issue in her eye but I am going to put a clear coat of crystal clear resin in her eye to gloss her eyes and hopefully she won't be a problem for any new mommy who wants to spoil her.

I decided to give her a beautiful wardrobe complete with a pretty layette and a gorgeous Easter ensemble.  I think every reborn mommy and collector needs a lot of goodies to dress their reborn baby up.  I think Gracie Rose looks a lot like a 3 month old baby.  She wears newborn to 3 months old clothing.  She fits newborn shoes pretty well and guess what I am sending 2 pairs to color coordinate with all her clothing.  You will find more on my page for Gracie Rose as soon as I can get it up.  But homework comes first and it's my first day back to Regent University in Virginia Beach, VA.

Later today I will have her listing up on my website with better photos.  I just have to get started on my first day back to college at Regent University.  I have to get my stuff together for first day of class.

She also has this cute mix and match Sleeper which I forgot to put in the picture.

I see a lot of people dissapointed with their purchases and dissapointed that clothing and goodies did not come in their box.  Well, honey, with this girl, the wardrobe is to die for, she is fully outfitted.   She is spoiled beyond belief.  She will have plenty of goodies to go with her so the new mommy should be having a great time with her.

Pretty finger nails and toe nails

Gracie has a small grey oblong flaw in her doll body right about where the appendix is on her left side.  The diaper covers it.  Her hands and feet have a realistic look to them.  Her skin is mottled and pale with a light blushing.

Gracie Rose has a huge very expensive layette and lots of bonus items.

Gracie Rose has two bows, a couple of pacifiers in case you lose one, a pacifier holder (still waiting for it to arrive), 2 pairs of socks and 2 pairs of shoes.  She even comes with a receiving blanket and a nice snugly plush fleece blanket in the prettiest colors.

She also has this cute sleeper but I forgot to put it in the larger picture.

She is not perfect though, as I stated above she has a couple of tiny flaws and it's because I am a brand new reborn artist.  I worked very hard to make her as beautiful as I could for my second doll. I did my best to make her feel snugly and she is all that newborn floppy baby you want to cuddle.  She will need to be dressed and held like a newborn.  Her arms, legs, and head do turn and move so you can pose her.  She would make an excellent therapy doll.

I am excited though because she does have a certain flair to her.  Her big brown eyes warm the heart.  She feels nice like a newborn baby and smells yummy.  She has a scented wafer in her that smells like baby powder.

Her hair is not the best painting I could do but I need to get finer new brushes and work on my rooting so it is less thick.  I want to get lifelike hair on the babies and also do some painted hair.  I baked her hair in the NuWave oven so it should hold up, but be careful because it can scratch off with careless activities.  She should be very carefully moved and held just like a newborn.

 

Here are some pictures with her in her pretty Easter outfit.  As you can see it also has a cute bolero jacket with lace and ruffles and a pretty sparkly button.

 

I hope you enjoyed seeing my first available reborn!  I will be doing better pictures of her later today.  If you are interested please email me at kimberly.stevens@hauteswan.com or hauteswanfashionboutique@gmail.com.

I accept Paypal and Credit Cards via Braintree Financial.  If you have any questions feel free to post or email me.  As soon as her resin is done on her eyes and her binky clip arrives she is ready to go.

Shipping is not included in that price.  I would estimate shipping to be somewhere between $20 and 50 dollars.  Shipping can be paid separate or you can email me your zipcode so I can get a quote from USPS.

Have a blessed day!

Kimberly
Snuggle Babies Nursery

Gracie Rose Was Born Today at 7:06 PM

 Happy Birthday Gracie Rose!!!

Celebrating the birth of Gracie Rose.  Well almost.  I still am going to order some of that Crystal Resin to gloss her eyes up with instead of the Aileen's Paper Glaze.  I hear when Aileen's expires, it leaves the eyes unclear.

For the most part she is good to go.  I did find a small error on her doeskin body which makes me mad.  I wish I had caught it earlier.  It looks like a tiny grey oblong blob.  I also have to put crystal clear resin her eyes and hope it makes her eyes glossy like tears.  I am thrilled that she came out as pretty as she did.

She does have painted hair.  I have rooted another doll but I wanted to try my hand at painting.  It's not perfect but it's not bad either.

Why does the brown come out so reddish yellow even with the blue paint in the brown.  Ugh.  I need more colors to experiment with.  Over all it looks fine for my first doll.  I am sorry the lighting in this picture is so bad.  It's usually under this work light that is bright and does not show the shading very well. 

I will do a photo shoot with her tomorrow maybe.  And get her resin for her eyes on order.  I start school again tomorrow so I hope to have enough time to get the other reborn finished up too before my classes get hard and heavy.  I go to Regent University and I am working on my Information Systems Technology with a minor in Cyber-security.  So I will be knee deep in homework soon!  One of my classes this semester will be hard and the other will be easy.  I don't want to learn intermediate programming Java and Information Security Systems.  I just wanna reborn!  Hahah!

 

I can't complain.  Her magnets aren't real strong but they are working holding her binky and bow on.  I am ordering stronger ones.  Of course they are coming from china so it will take a while.  Until then I am forced to deal with the weak ones I can get.

She feels good like a real baby.  I will have to weigh her and fill out her birth certificate now.  I will start getting her ready to go.

My grandson absolutely was infatuated with her.  He thought she was a real baby and wanted to feed her the bottle and give her the pacifier and try to hold her.  It was hilarious as she looked like a real baby in his arms.

I think I am going to list her for $600.  I think she is worth that much since I used all top notch materials. Due to a two small issues one with her body and one with her eye that is why I will list her cheap.  Also she has a very expensive wardrobe.  Her clothing is almost all from Kohls, Carters, etc.  I am going to decide what she gets and get her listing up to date.  I may be putting her up on ebay shortly AS IS.  She is my first completed baby and she is so cute, I want to keep her...

Happy Birthday Gracie Rose...

With Love,

Kimberly
Snuggle Babies Nursery