I sold my first reborn! Also, pics of Matty at the track!

I sold my first reborn on EBAY this morning and he will very shortly be on his way to his new home in Illinois! He was a "Squeaky" kit by Pat Secrist. I have to say that this is a very fun and very addicting hobby! I cannot wait now to start on my 3rd reborn!

Well, I had "Baby Jacob" listed on EBAY for $125 or 'Best Offer' and he sold for $115, plus $15 for shipping making a total of $130! I have to pay shipping and that will come out of the profit but we get an awesome deal on shipping through our kart shop so it still comes out to a nice, tidy little profit.

Here is a link to Jacob's auction page if you are interested in seeing more pictures of him:

ADORABLE! REBORN BOY AKA FAKE BABY DOLL SECRIST SQUEAKY - eBay (item 120266351437 end time May-28-08 09:03:34 PDT)

Also, I took some pictures of my little racer sweetie at the kart track a couple of weeks ago. He is such a ham! :)

I sold my first reborn! Also, pics of Matty at the track!

Melissa's New Hobby.

No, that is NOT a real baby you are looking at!

I have a new hobby to take up some more time in my already busy life. ;) I recently started making Reborns! If you are unfamiliar with the art, just search the term "Reborn Doll" on EBAY and you will get the jist of it pretty quick. In short, the term means that you are taking a real baby doll, or you purchase a mold from an internet store that sells reborn supplies, and you strip all the factory paint off of the doll and then add your own layers of paint to give the "baby" realistic skin tones that mimic that of a real human newborn baby! Some reborn artists even root the hair with quality mohair and a rooting needle that roots only 1 or 2 hairs at a time! And, yes, it takes FOREVER! I recently completed my 1st reborn the other day and, overall, it took me about 25 hours from start to finish over the course of about a week. I was mostly working on the doll after Matthew went to sleep when I had a few hours to myself. It is a very time consuming, and sometimes tedious hobby, but it has been a blast! I think dollmaking is in my blood anyways. As some of you may know, my mom made porcelain dolls for a quite a few years when I was growing up. I am going to keep this reborn but I will try to sell my others. I plan to auction them off on EBAY. They go in price from anywhere to $100 all the way to $25,000!!! Hmmm....maybe one day I will be good enough to sell one of my reborns for that much? Well, a girl can dream, can't she? ;)

Here is what the doll looks like when you first get the mold, unpainted:

Some pictures of the finished product:

I have another mold being shipped to me right now and I cannot WAIT to get started on the next doll! This art is all learned by trial and error so now I know the mistakes I made on the first doll so it will be fun to perfect the next doll even more learning from my first mistakes. This next one though I wont keep. :( I will be putting it on EBAY and selling it. It will be hard to see something that I have put so much work into sold, but I cannot keep a million dolls around my house, you know? That wouldn't be very good for room in my home nor room in the pocketbook. Well, hope you enjoyed pictures of my first doll! :)

***P.S. : As I was making this doll I felt that it looked a lot like Matthew did as a newborn. But I was, in a way, trying to make the doll look like him with the dark hair and all. Take a look at this picture of Becky holding Matthew in the hospital. Doesn't the doll look like him? :)