Are all the ladies who have disappeared from this forum no longer reborning dolls? I was just going back through the list of all the users and goodness, there have been a lot who don’t seem to be here any longer… (some I know and others I don’t) I know many of the ladies that were here for the 3 or so years I was on here (2014 - 2016 0r 2017) don’t seem to be coming here any more so wondering if they have all stopped making dolls… anyone know???.. eg Teresa, Nikki, Helen, Izzy, Miss Kitty (can’t remember her name - might have been Meghan or Melody or something like that but she was always very cheerful), Anne, Tammy, Amanda and others of course - can’t remember everyone’s name off hand - it has been a few years…haha! Just curious - 
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Teresa is @GrammysReborns, she still reborns but not active on here a ton
Nikki isn’t. She sadly had some medical issues that makes reborning impossible.
Helen isn’t - she is still active on her personal Facebook
Izzy is sculpting and has multiple amazing sculpts out. @izzy isnt active here though. She is in silicone mostly but has a vinyl coming in 2025 I believe.
@Miss_Kitty is Megan and she does occasionally and active on her personal FB more.
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Thanks so much Jennie… Sorry to hear about Nikki…always loved that girl… Glad to hear that Teresa is still making her wonderful creations… and Izzy, well I KNEW that girl would do something wonderful… so proud for her… will have to go have a look at the link. I don’t do facebook but if you ever pop in to talk to some of the ladies, please say hello for me. ox 
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Tammy is @CamsGigi and not on often
Amanda is @quiltsabunch and active here 
Anne might be but not active here.
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I just realized you might have meant Mandy… which is @colee1970 and still active here
Melanie is @Blissfulbabies and active, mostly silicone lately, currently returning to the US on a cruise ship. 
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I know that when I disappeared for a long time I wasn’t reborning.
I went into a deep depression for some time, as well as an insecurity crisis. I no longer had confidence that I did anything “well,” really. My creativity in particular.
Then one day I woke up and thought, “I want to be creative again. I miss reborning so much.” And where did I go? Directly back here, LOL. I wanted to connect again,
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Ah-ha… so Amanda is camouflaged under a new name…hahaha! So glad she is still here…So I have been seeing her babies and they are really lovely…
YES 
Mandy popped on recently and said hello… I have not seen Melanie but I did see some recent post from her and others wishing her a safe trip so I added my wishes as well hoping she got them before she left… Thank you for the updates…nice to know that they ladies are still out there… reborning or not…
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So glad you did come back. I have not experienced depression myself but have known others that have and it seems a hard place to be… Not even sure one who has not gone through it can fully understand so not even suggesting I know how it is but I have an in-law that suffers from it and I try to always cheer them up as much as possible… it is good to have friends around when you are going through something like that… It helps a lot but ultimately I think it is something you have have to work through and I am glad that you came though all that and I think it is wonderful you have started back here and with the reborning…
Reborning is a very peaceful and ‘peace-full’ hobby. For me, I always found it best to just let it flow and if it did not come out as well as planned, well the doll went to a nursing home to make someone there happy and that always took the aggravation away and made me happy in the long run… I have dropped of a good few dolls to nursing homes over the years I can tell you… hahaha! Just a little incident I experienced recently to let you know how rewarding our perceived ‘flops’ can be… I stopped at one of the nursing homes I had not been back to for 6 years and arrived about the time they were having activities for some of the elderly folks there… Low and behold, a carer wheeled in a table on wheels with 3 of the dolls I had given them years before… The carer did not know I was the one who had supplied the dolls and I did not say anything, partly because I was not exactly proud of them (they were my flops after all…lol) so I just sat and watched… they were having a session on how to diaper a baby… even the elderly gents were giving it a go…haha! I gave me a a lot of pleasure seeing them having such a good time. Never thought the dolls would still be around after all those years… SOoooo the point being, even failures can bring joy to others and ultimately to us so there is no such thing as a failure with reborning… beauty is in the eye of the beholder and at the very worst… old folks don’t have great eyesight anyway so they will love whatever you give them…hahaha! Just kidding… ox Rarely are we the big failures we feel at times. We all fall off the horse from time to time and just need the confidence to get back in the saddle again and sometimes that might take a friend or two to give us a foot up… I have always found the ladies here a very lovely caring lot!
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Thanks for the support, lovey. What a great way to look at reborning or at any creative venture. I appreciate it.
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the forum has changed so much over the last few years! I imagine lots of people come in and out as life gets busy and then quiet again.
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Glad to see you back!
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Good to see you, Maddie 
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Either way thanks Jenni 
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After a very long time, I just got the urge to pop in this evening, and immediately found your post, Starr x
I’m so sorry to hear about Nikki. She was always such a sweetheart.
I stopped reborning a good few years ago now. Not because I wanted to, but it was because I had nowhere to safely store/display my creations. I didn’t sell my babies anymore, so I was keeping every single one that I had made. However, I still have all my supplies and kits, so I’d love to get back into it at some point.
Since I stopped reborning, I discovered vintage coach built prams and I turned my hand to refurbishing a few of them. I now display one of my favourite reborn creations in a huge vintage pram in my kitchen.
Anyway, it’s lovely to see a lot of names I recognise from my past time here xxx
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Hi Sam, So nice to see you again… I have been away 8 years myself so was very happy to see some of the long timers still here… and some new faces I am getting to know… very lovely ladies and beautiful reborning… I have another friend who buys and refurbishes the vintage prams… she does beautiful work… She was one of my long time collectors so some of my babies have the privilege of residing in some of her beautiful prams…
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Hi Starr x The feeling is definitely mutual xx
I think reborn babies and vintage prams go very well together. A lot of the ladies on the pram groups I’m a part of take their reborns out in their vintage prams (myself included).
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