Absolutly 100% agree with Andama gorgeous both of them

Berenguer Special edition dolls all have such beautiful details in face and limbs.
Alot of work in the old Berenger's sanding back the hair etc.....
I still have a first day, first tear and a Leonor to do BUT the new Berenger's are surposed to be softer vinyl I look forward to doing one of these in the not to distant future.

What part of the world are you from Chardonnay


All the best

I've a few great reborn stories, as I'm sure we all have, but this one has to be my best.........We have a little shop attached to the front of our house. When we first moved in, to keep my 'babies' out of the dust I put two of them, in a lovely vintage Silver Cross pram, into the then undecorated shop, without giving a thought to the uncovered shop window. Went out to collect a few more bits and pieces of furniture and returned to find the $3000, specially made back door smashed to pieces, and blood everywhere!
The door had been left boarded up and a note from the Police attached. A burglar, a mad rampaging door hater??? I phone the police station an was told in polspeak that "urgent entry had to be gained to your premises after the observance of an abandoned baby." I was completely nonplussed and told the Sergeant the my Baby was 31 years old! Then it dawned on me, not my Baby but my 'babies'!!!!! Once I started laughing he told me that someone had reported the babies, they'd sent a constable who'd confirmed that there were indeed two poor little ones in a pram alone, and the machinery went into action. The door, the poor Sergeant's hand, and I suspect, some macho ego's became casualties of the rescue operation....the babies however were unharmed. Just to add to the drama local people told me there were detectives and an Ambulance in the forecourt next door, and that it was all very exciting!! Lol

Wow that's a story alright.
I once had a police man tell me the child (reborn) I had in my arms looked cold.
He must have thought I was a bad mother the middle of winter and a little onsie was all the little one had on.
I told him it was a doll and he says "that's alright then"
He looked so embarrassed but I'm still not sure he believed me.

You are right essee there will be heaps of funny stories to be told.


All the best and thankyou for your story

Dianna,I live at caloundra,Qld,at present but I used to live at Noosa and before that,at Kingscliff NSW,just over the Qld/NSW border and used to shop at Tweed City so I would have been there to see those reborns for sale had we still lived there!I would love to know of any doll shows near me now,if anyone knows.I heard theres a good one at Buderim in the Easter break so will definately be at that.
I bought a reborn Adrie Stoete Benjamin on ebay and just never liked him.He sat on a shelf for ages then I was at the nursing home my mum lives in,and there are Alzheimers patients there,so I gave Benjamin to the Diversion Therapist and she uses him as a reward for the ladies,if they are good they get to have him for a day.He is so loved and popular,I urge anyone with a first attempt that doesnt quite make the grade or a reborn you just cant sell,to consider donating it to a nursing home.They really appreciate them so much and it brightens the lives of the ladies so much.I have a second reborn I am not that keen on to donate this weekend.I think if theres one I dont have on display,then I dont like it enough to keep.Just remember to remove any magnets first.

Oh that reminds me,when I took Benjamin in,I had him lying over one of my forearms and two people warned me to "hold that baby properley or you will drop him!"

Dear Chardonnay,
I really like that 204 face as it is so life like and with doing shows I have found the public also really like it.
If you want to know where the doll shows are up your way then call into a news agent and get a mag called Markets and Fairs, it has every market, dolls show, pretty much everything listed for the whole of australia and covers the entire year, it is also only about $5.
Most doll shows now have reborns. Let me know how you go as it really is a good mag.

Hi,
I love all of the great stories!

I'm very new to reborning. I'm still waiting for all of my supplies to come in the mail, but in the meantime, I decided to practice on some second hand dolls. Well, one poor little guy is now part acrylic, part oil, and now that the genesis paints have come in, part genesis. He's a small citytoy doll, and I didn't do a great job of painting his veins so I named him Frankie, as in Frankenstein's baby. I hand rooted him with my dog Mac's hair...Mac is a poodle, and I even used poodle hair for the dolls eyelashes and brows. Well, my dog Mac doesn't know what to think of Frankie...who's still only a head. Twice now the Frankie head has gone missing and each time I found him in Mac's dog bed, soaking wet from being licked. The dog must think the doll is a weird kind of puppy, and he keeps grooming him! So, I've decided that once I get good at this (practice, practice,lol), I'm going to name my website "Puppyloveable Nursery" and have a subspecialty of dolls rooted with Mac's hair. I'm going to call those dolls "Big Mac's Smallfries".

I tried to add a pic, but first it gave me a "file too large" size, and when I resized the pics, it gave me a "you've reached your alloted attachment usage" message, and as far as I know, none of the photo's i tried to upload went though. Oh well.

Have a great day!'
Kat

This post was last modified: 03-09-2008 06:19 AM by Kat.

Hi Kat,

Great story.
You got it right Practise Practise Practise........
One layer at a time

Now Kat under the Cry baby thread I have posted a short message on how to load Pic's here that should help you I hope

All the best

Hi Dianna,
Thanks; I read it...I just didn't realize that it was the only way. Usually photos can be uploaded onto websites without doing that, especially if you can resize them yourself. I guess I"ll take a look a that program.
Kathy

oh my sister is a police office and she got called to a job similar to the one above except was a baby lock in car the man who called it in was in tear thinking the baby was dead (mind you this was about 2 days after a baby had died lock in a car)
my sister looked in the window and thought is that baby or is that a doll she sent her partner into the hospital (was just in the hospital car park) a dr came out and said he thought i was a real baby but most likely dead so just as they were about to smash the window the car owner came scream out of the hospital don't you break my window or you'll be paying for it ranting at the cops and everyone else around.
was a reborn after all but honestly if you have it in the car cover them up lol could save yourself the cost of a new window