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loves dolls is right, sometimes you just over work a doll, becoming so frustrated and dissillusioned. Take a break from her, work on another doll or two before coming back to her.

i know also at times when i've become frustrated and hate everthing i do to one of my babies, when i keep adding and trying over and over i begin to think nothing is working out and can get myself so worked up that i just want to throw the thing away. I have to force myself to stop, to step back and do something else. Sometimes its just a state of mine and when i come back to the baby the next day i realise that it actually looks fine and it wasn't the doll that was the problem after all rather my mood at the time. I'm a terrible perfectionist and sometimes this can work against me. If my mood is low then i often enter a state of mind where anything and everything i do isn't good enough. If i step back, go out for a while clear my head more often than not i find its not the doll that was problematic but my thougts and own criticism.

Don't give up, just take a break - a day, a week, a few weeks if need be. Work on another baby in the mean time to boost your confidence again and approch Ember a new once you've cleared your head from the frustration.

Hi Karen your not alone hun belive me hehehe Ember was my most favorite too i must have stripped her 5 times! everytime i did somthing it didnt look right to me, then oneday my mum came to visit id just done my 4th layer and ember was sitting on the bench cooling down from the oven she wowed over her said she looked great i said your kiddin me right? hehe anyways after a long discussion mum said to me has it ever occured to you that your favorite might just be the one your going to be most critical over? looking back i realised i wasnt so fussy with the other ones, so i made myself fully complete her no matter what i thought! the result was a stunning little baby she didnt seem that stunning to me at first so i got her ready and put her on ebay she sold for quite alot $370.00 i still to this day look over her photos and wish id never sold her I hope this helps you in some way xxxxx

PS: to get into the corner of the eyes and the palms etc try using a small stencil brush dabbing the paint into the pieces it worked for me

Cheri wrote:

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Hi all!   I have only made 1 Ember, and she was my easiest and favorite so far!!  LOL!  I guess I was lucky.  She just sold on Ebay.  Here's a couple of pics.

https://i186.photobucket.com/albums/x135/RBRpics/8.jpg

https://i186.photobucket.com/albums/x135/RBRpics/97.jpg

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She is beautiful! I love the detain around her eyes. Thank you for the close up!

i  I am only a new reborner too, I have been making porcelain dolls for 21 yrs, so have found it interesting and not as hard as I first thought it would be. i have also sold three of my dolls and past the hobby onto my youngest daughter.She has only made 2 but has sold them already.I,v just finished the trilets. at first I didn,t like the body but got lazy and used it they came up realy nice. I cut the eyes out and put little glass ones in, that made it easy,also used little lashes and cut them short. I know a lot of doll reborners are using Genesis heat set paint, but I have been using Color Box crafters pigment ink, it to is heat set in a normal kitchen oven on 130degrees for 15 mins. It is also water based so you can thin it. Dont give up on your dream. Old saying, if at first you dont succeed try, try again, I,m surwe you will get the results your looking for. June M from Oz.

karen wrote:

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O.K, It's official, I HATE EMBER, LOL.
No, but seriously, I fell in love with the Ember doll a long time ago and wanted to make one for myself but no matter what I do I can not do that doll.
It doesn't matter if I make the paint thin or thick, if I colour correct the pink vinyl or anything.  Also I just can't get the paint into the spaces near the eyes and nose and the palms of the hands. the fingers are giving me trouble too and the feet.  Reading this I sound like the worlds worst reborner but I'm not honest, LOL. I have made quite a few dolls now and sold some too and people are fooled by my dolls so I don't know why I am having such a hard time with this doll kit.  It really knocks my confidence when I try to do this doll.
Has anyone else had this problem with this kit or is it just me. Like I said she is my very favourite of all the babies I have seen and I am so dissapointed at not being able to have a sucsess with this doll.
Has anybody got a clue as to where I am going wrong with this kit or should I just give up and sell the kit on once it is stripped down (YET AGAIN).
Thanks
Karen. X

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Cheri wrote:

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Hi all!   I have only made 1 Ember, and she was my easiest and favorite so far!!  LOL!  I guess I was lucky.  She just sold on Ebay.  Here's a couple of pics.

https://i186.photobucket.com/albums/x135/RBRpics/8.jpg

https://i186.photobucket.com/albums/x135/RBRpics/97.jpg

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Hi Cheri,  Your Ember is beautiful, Just hope I have as much sucsess with mine in the end.
   Just out of curiosity what kit are those arms from
They aren't the arms that come with Ember are they?  they look lovely.
My Ember is all stipped down again and I am going to take the advice of eveyone and take a breather for a few weeks with that kit. I have plenty of other kits to be getting on with so I will do one of those first.
Thanks to everyone for your help

You could well be right about the vinyl colour although I think it just comes up different in some batches.   I had an Avery kit and even though she was pink she wasn't quite so pink as both Embers I've had and she was beautiful to do.
she is my very best yet. I can't part with her although that was the original plan. My excuss for keeping her is I use her as my reference/comparison, LOL

Hi Cheri,
I may steal your idea and try different limbs and body. She does seem to have a very small head.  The Avery I have is O.K but I think she has a big head anyway (meant in the nicest way possible,LOL
Thanks for the tips.

O.K I have a confession to make,  I did try to leave Ember alone for a while but she kept on and on calling me, what was I to do, LOL
I started her again but after reading some of the replies I had about how you can overwork some dolls and that you can be to crittical of your favourite, I went into it in a different frame of mind.  I also realised that I like her lip colour lighter than all the other dolls I have done.
with all this in mind I began again and, SHE IS BEAUTIFUL. her skin colouring is much better with lovely little blue undertones.
I havn't completely finished painting her yet, I still have finger/toenails to do and creases and eyebrows and all the little fine details that really bring them to life but I am past the stage that I was having all the problems with.  
I wanted to just say thank you to everyone for their good advice.
If I can ever work out how to post a link (I'm not a computer person) I will put on a few pictures when she is all finished.
Thanks everyone.
Love Karen. X

Karen -- I'm glad you are happy with her now!

Tina -- thanks for the tip about getting in and around those deep places. I'm having that problem right now with a doll. If you ever buy a super-soft sculpt again try stuffing the head with polyfil -- it helps with the rooting and should also help with the painting.

Try taking photos outside under a tree on a bright sunny day. You can take various photos with various degrees of light in these conditions. The only thing I can tell you about photographing your dolls is to keep on trying until you find out what looks good.