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Hi, Tesa!

Your little baby Jacob is so beautiful that I had to look at every single one of your pictures!  What a sweetheart!

Congratulations!  You did such an incredible job that it's amazing he's your first baby!

Rosemarie 

you've done so well, what a beautiful little man he is. you have a real tallent there and will only get better with each baby you do. I'm finding this still to be true of my own babies and i've almost done 50 now, but i'm still constantly improving my technique, playing and finding even more ways to enhance the realism of my babies.

I think you're going to really shine in your reborning/newborning.

my only criticsm is the hair colour - although this could be a) the photographing or b) my own computer screen. It looks a little bright in the yellow hue, almsot a little green... but this might not be true of him in real life.

regardless i think you've done a splended job.

I had an order for a lady to do hanna as jack that was on ebay. I couldn,t get the right coloured mohair , so I bougth a permanent hair colour and tried that after i finished him. I did my hair the same colour then I didn,t want to part with him. I used a baby comb and squeze the dye along it and combed it through, I can tell you I was scared that it would get onto the vynal but I hung him upside down to wasit out and then i conditend it and it turned out great. The lady loved him.

June,

Thanks for the suggestion.  I'm really afraid to try it though.  I'm not very good at coloring hair.  I have had several horrifying experiences when I've tried to color my own hair.  Yikes!  I think I might color the remaining mohair and try it on my second baby.  I was really stressed out about cutting my first dolls hair.  This might seem bad, but I practiced on my son's hair first.  His can grow back!

Tesa

Hi June,
I absolutely love Genesis heat set paints.  I have done many different types of art and used many different types of paints in the past.  When I became interested in newborning I wasn't sure if I should purchase Genesis either.   I'm so glad I did.  They are so easy to work with.  I purchased the petite premixed paints to start with.  I love how they can easily be wiped off (before baking) when I didn't like what I did.  Since Jacob was my first I probably wiped the paint off over twenty times on certain ares until I felt it was right.  Especially when it came to the eybrows.  The only color that didn't wipe off easily was the vein blue, so I tried really hard to get that right the first time.

What type of paint do you like to use?  

Tesa

Hi June,

I didn't have any problems with my first baby looking powdery.  I did have this problem with my second one I've been working on.  I fixed it by thinning the paint a little more.  Today I'm having a new problem with the matte sealer.  After I baked it there is a powdery film on one foot.  I don't know how to fix it. I guess maybe I pounced it on to thick in that area.  I'm just not sure.  I have never had the opportunity to see anyone else's work in person (just through photo's) so sometimes it's hard to see the actual skin texture.  I just try to use my best judgement to acheive the skin tone.  I live in a very small town (LaGrange, MO were all the flooding is now) and most people here have not heard of newborning.  Hopefully someday I will be able to go to a show.  If your paints are working beautifully I wouldn't change.  I just decided on Genisis because I wasn't familiar with other types of paints that would work on vinyl and I heard a lot of good things about them.

Tesa