Jenny dropped her bottle and I simply could not find it. As I searched I felt a movement by my foot and there was the nanny tiger keeping an eye  on the lost bottle nearly under the the stroller. Peace reigns again in that corner of the house.
Yesterday the boxes of dolly parts arrived from eBay and I am discovering how kind other doll makers are! Freda actually  included a body slip for the set of arms and legs I had bought from her. I was so touched! Others sent extra supplies, little gifts and even a necklace & earring set in a Chinese brocade purse. Seeing all the heads made me finally attack the search for the boxes under the stairs. To my surprise, the topmost boxes were my porcelain dolls and a box of wigs shipped in 2003. Seeing the old dolls I realized where I had seen body slips! Those are the same as the ones I used on the clay dolls! I was suddenly connected to my old life 12 years ago. All day I have gathered the supplies I will need to finish the dolls sent in a kit to get me started in reborning. There was even a book which answered so many questions YouTube left unanswered. Thank you for my new Bible!
When I got out the box of wigs and was looking at each one (they were all perfect) Angie set up a fuss until I let her try one on. In an instant she went from baby to little girl. She was so happy with the change. I do not know if I can get her to give up the wig. And only yesterday she was thinking of becoming a little boy!

Can you see the smile that is just ready to break out on her face? I told her that if she wants to be a little girl she can keep the wig with braids if she stops wetting in her panties. We will see how that goes. What she does not know I that I have a perfect little girl dress made in France that should fit her. Among the wigs was a pair of white sandals she did not see.

Okay, when does an animal become a dolly? Maybe when she is a she and wears clothes? This is the rabbit girl I finished on Saturday. I made her a second hat (following instructions!) and debated whether to take this one off or make a new doll starting with the hat. I see already that I have alterations I want to make in the next try. Her legs need to be longer because instead of sewing them to the bottom of her body (like teddy bears) I used buttons to make them movable -  (so she can sit or stand) and to give her a real crotch. It seemed that especially crocheted dollies need a crotch since I confuse the two words so easily in my mind. I also want to attach her arms that same way with buttons and therefore I need to end off the arm differently. I prefer to make the head and body in one piece and didn't in this one (following instructions) because I thought the head needed more direction, but I see the neck came out in the same place the body ended. It is adding the muzzle that makes the head bigger. Those ears add a lot of weight that could pull the head over. I may need some reinforcement in the neck. I could make the ears in white acrylic so they aren't so massive and heavy.
After making the lavender and white blanket yesterday I am a bit tempted to make lavender clothes. Ah, but then my already made hat is the wrong color! I would need lavender in the cotton thread too as the acrylic is too soft. I have no purple in cotton. Hm. . .shopping?  I still have no idea what I will make today when I get off the computer.

Here Angie is resting, and being comforted with her paci and lamb after some minor surgery. Last night while looking at her I realized her legs and feet were so thin and  small and did not fit with her  protruding tummy. So today I did a bit of liposuction there and gathered up the extra skin in a new and sexier butt. On YouTube I had seen the baby's bottoms with a gathering stitch up the middle crack that gave two separate little po shapes and that idea turned out to be a good use of the extra skin from the fat loss.
Angie took the operation in stride and never even cried. She wiggled a lot while on my lap so I calmed her down by putting her in her sleeper and allowing her the paci. I dislike seeing kids with pacis in their mouths (you cannot see their sweet lips) but felt she needed the relaxation of my rules
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I also felt she needed a new blankee to cover up with. Fortunately I a big ball of lavender and one of white in baby yarn from a sale on Amazon that matched the blanket she came in. I made the little afghan in the granny square pattern  expanded to be the whole piece. That went fast and by late afternoon I could give it to her. You can  see that she has recovered from her morning and has adjusted to her new basket bed.

It has been noisy in the nursery today with the added excitement of a new baby. Jenny, hoping to make Angie feel more girlie, loaned Angie her pink headband. So Angie and Hello Kitty would get along better I fixed up a Hello Kitty necklace to add to her jewelry. You can see her name bracelet on her wrist that Cynthi sent with her. I also positioned the cupcakes so one can see the "papers" they sit in.  Every one seems quieter and more settled in now.

 Big news! Meet Angie 

This is my newest reborn done by Cynthi Marie in Nevada! The kit was "Kimber" and all the pink clothes that came with her are adorable. She even has a lamb and Angie is one, also.
She is 18 inches long and seems a slightly younger sister to Jenny. In fact, Angie looks a lot like my second daughter, Bambi. I had not seen this likeness in the photos on eBay but here in the real I am making this connection.

Cyndi's way of signing the doll was to include this tiny sleeping baby that carries her signature, hugs, and good wishes. I was touched when I laid the little doll down while adding the lamb when Angie's arm dropped down and she laid her hand just like this. It seemed to me that she wanted to touch and keep in touch with her other mom, the one who made her so lovely. Thanks Cyndi for all the work and love you put into her!

That shirt with the words, "cute as a cupcake" reminded me today (when I could think again) that I had crocheted cupcakes last month so maybe they belonged to Angie. I did not get a good shot of the cupcakes but Angie is darling even though she seems a bit shocked to have a new Hello Kitty with a butterfly instead of her lamb.

Meet Suzy

Here she is with her new name and new clothes. I call her Suzy because she is so saucy and she looks as if she is licking sauce off her lip. She is tomboy which is why she likes her cap with the pom-pom which also covers her messy hair (missing with only the holes left!). I would love to get some shoes for her but she claims she feels better being barefoot for now. I could crochet her some booties but the idea of such a baby item for her appalls her so much that she sticks our her tongue when there is nothing to lick off her lip.

While I was photographing Suzy I felt eyes upon me. I turned and there was

the yet unnamed doll I had crocheted in January. She felt abandoned without a name even though it was only the day before that I put all my turtles, the bird and the mouse at her feet. I have been promising myself I would make her a sister and yet each day I pick some new project so she still sits on the unused wood stove all alone.

The new book with crochet patterns for animals arrived from Amazon yesterday and I at once found the perfect Easter bunny so I started right in on it. I was not happy with the arigumiru rabbits (you can see Sugar-bunny in this photo holding the Oreo cookie) from the Hello Kitty book.

Finally the blog and I got here! Amazing how well Google can hide things!

This little doll came in parts as a hurt reborn kit on eBay. The head has many little holes which showed how someone had tried to root hair but the effect was evidently so bad they pulled it all out. Thus, the holes remain and the price was only $4. I thought, from the photograph that the doll was bigger and so also ordered a body slip for the smallest doll but this doll was much smaller than that. So I crocheted a body.  I had to rip out the neck piece and redo that but otherwise it fit the arms and legs.

Sitting this doll is 6 inches tall.

Then yesterday I made clothes for him/her. The hat is made from leftovers from the wool I used for Dietlind's hat that Bambi had bought in Iceland. It covers the holes completely and sits perfectly on the little head. The pants fit too and I was relieved to be able to get them on this morning. The t-shirt was too big, too long, too bulky. I had used the cotton Sugar n' Cream yarn I had on hand but think I will need a softer yarn for the next try. The t-shirt will be either pink or gray - those are the only colors I have in baby yarn.  I love how the tongue sticks out on this face. I have not seen this on a doll before a fact that makes it even more precious to me.