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  1. Name, or name you want to go by here.
    Carla

  2. Artist, collector, curious
    Artist and collector. I currently have 4 babies, but will be making at least three other keepers (my 2 daughters in law, and my son in law), and then I need 2 for my grandchildren :slight_smile:

  3. How did you discover this hobby/art form
    I was looking for a portrait baby of each of my kids. searched google and found a already made doll that looked like my first born. So I looked up some artists and ordered my first baby. Figured I could make these myself, so I bought a starter kit and made my first baby - Scarlet as a boy like my youngest son.

  4. Favorite three babies
    Tigerlily, Loulou, Saskia

  5. How long have you been on this forum
    I think a little over 2 years

  6. GHSP or AIRDRY
    Heat set, but recently bought RebornFX paints. Will be trying those in the fall

  7. The perfect sculpt would have…
    Nice hands and feet

  8. Pet peeve
    When I leave water in sink for those who haven’t finished eating, and then they leave their dishes next to the sink

  9. State you live in (if you feel comfortable)
    I’m in Alberta, Canada

  10. What is the weather like today
    19C (66F) a bit windy, cloudy. We’re expecting rain showers.

  11. What are you three go to dinners
    Fettuccini Alfredo, BBQ with salads, hamburgers

  12. kids, vinyl kids, furry kids
    4 kids, 2 DIL, 1 SIL (actually on Friday), 2 grandsons
    4 vinyl
    1 Mini Schnauzer

  13. Favorite Netflix binge
    Grey’s Anatomy

  14. Beverage of choice
    Water

  15. Satin and lace, little grown up outfits, decayed edges, vintage, fantasy, down to earth cotton
    Down to earth cotton

16.When all this improves and we find a new normal where would your dream place to vacation
England

17.What totally silly thing did you hoard during SIP, (can’t be toilet paper)
Didn’t hoard anything

18.One cool thing you learned to do during SIP
Bake bread from scratch

19.Going to ROSE next summer
Yes, hopefully!

20.Did you plant a garden this year
I only planted sunflowers. Our raspberry bushes took over the bed, and we have great crop! Same with our strawberries…lots of those. My front flower bed didn’t do so well, though it looks pretty. We’ve had so much rain. My peonies didn’t last long. Plus, a neighborhood cat laid on my hosta and broke much of it.

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No way! that is wild!!!

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Hope to see you at ROSE. Let me know how the air dry goes. I think it is safer than GHSP but I am invested and use to it, afraid to switch.

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I am watching the same You Tube, NDE’s are amazing, I fall into them. I just don’t like it when the person who had one thinks God has chosen them to tell other people how to live or what to believe, as soon as it goes down the road I turn it off. My daughter drowned when she was 13 and had to be resuscitated. I asked what it was like and she said “nothing” just nothing. I do remember when she was resuscitated the fire chief and our neighbor had to hold onto her, she was fighting to go back into the pool. All she said was she got mixed up, didn’t know which was her real life. I think there must have been something but she didn’t remember it. She died again when she was 19, she was resuscitated at a hospital and the first things she said to me was, “why did you bring me back?” When she died the third time I let her go. Like you I want to know if it was beautiful who came to get her, and where the heck she went. I almost died in January, not near death experience level, I was bleeding and they could get blood back into me fast enough (6 units) , and had to go into emergency surgery, I knew my body was dying. I though it would be more scary but I felt very relaxed, a little warm, and very accepting. I didn’t want to die but I felt ok with it if it happened, if that makes sense. No tunnel, lights, no floating relatives in corners only I could see, just calm. I am grateful for it, it helped heal me a little, I know that sounds crazy but it made me less afraid.

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Paris and Rome, loved both. That certainly is a dream vacation. What did you eat that you will never forget?

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-because I know you I know you have had a pretty cool life and I can’t wait to meet you in person at ROSE.

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Gabriell, i can see why your very dramatic hospital experience could help you heal and it doesn’t sound at all crazy to me. I wonder if it might have happened for that reason, so you could feel that beautiful feeling of peace, too possibly feel the peace that your daughter experiences. I consider myself spiritual and not at all religious, I believe we are here to learn there is only love, we are all the same, maybe some folks seem more “damaged” in the earthly sense than others. I believe in reincarnation, so there is no angry vengeful God, He\She is only love. We are here with free will. I believe we all have choices to make about what we want to experience maybe making different choices than we made in a past lifetime before coming back. There is no blame or question why this is happening to ME! Now I must say I do blame myself at times because this has been a very intense and at times painful experience, but I do know I am a better person than I was 30, 20 years ago. And if course I also know it is not the loving thing to do blame myself for wanting these experiences. It is so wonderful on the other plane that we actually forget how difficult Earth can be😇
This may be flagged, but that’s ok

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All types of pasta :rofl::rofl::rofl::rofl::rofl: and REAL PIZZA, im a picky eater so no strange foods for me

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Why would it be flagged? It’s not offensive.

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@anon81835189 and @PenelopesRebornDolls You and I share the same wavelength.

I love the way you think.

I hope it isn’t flagged and I hope no one is offended, I think its beautiful to share experiences in a positive way especially when they are so profound. I really believe that she was with me that day, I talked to her the whole time and here is something I have shared before. She had a bell (like a vintage hotel bell) that she kept by her bed and rang it if I was out of the room and she needed me. I keep it by my bed now. I always told her “ring that bell let me know you are ok” at some point I stopped asking because it felt a little mean, she no longer had a body how could she ring the bell, how frustrating for her. I went to bed worried that maybe I was bleeding more than was ok but I was so tired. I woke up hours later, that bell rang twice, rang loud and I couldn’t ignore it. In my sleep state I thought it was my seven year old up and goofing around. I checked, he was sound asleep next to me in my bed.

I got up and went to the bathroom, the bleeding was a little more scary, I thought I am going to take a warm bath, wash up, and go back to bed I will call the doctor in the morning.

I washed up, and when I went to lay down I got this “feeling” to go to the hospital now. I can’t explain it, it wasn’t a voice but a very strong feeling I couldn’t ignore.

Not only did I go to the hospital but when I was in the car I chose a hospital farther away, the one where my daughter died. My husband said “lets go to the closer hospital we will be there in five minutes” and I insisted we go to the other one.

Skip to being in the emergency room and the ER doctor leaves to order blood and get a consult. Who comes in but the OB who was on call not only when I lost my baby but she also delivered my youngest son. She got me in surgery faster than I could have imagined and she raised hell to get blood, a lot of blood.

She saved my life, she just happened to be there delivering a baby that came a little early and was on her way home when they asked her to peek in.

Kinda cool.

Sorry for the overshare, I love telling that story, it brings up all the gratitude all over again.

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What a beautiful and profound story, I’m so glad you shared this. I completely understand and accept what you are sharing. I think I can feel your you joy when you wrote this. I too have had a few of these life events and the thrill of wanting to share is huge! Many of our life events are beyond what we could make up.
Thanks

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Gypsy Rose, I wish I had included you in my response to Gina, I agree with her, I have felt you on my wave length before with something you wrote on here.
Thank you for your message.
Penelope

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I want to preface this by saying I’m writing about my miscarriage and if that will effect you negatively don’t feel the need to read it!

This all has been really emotional for me to read, looking back on the last year, I knew I was dying for over a year before I had life saving surgery this spring, just a few month before surgery I lost a pregnancy, if that pregnancy had continued I’d have died. I was really early on barely even had time to process that I was pregnant.
I can’t even explain it all really but I had held a soul inside of me for my entire life from my earliest memory, I always joked I was holding my future child’s soul, when I lost the pregnancy that soul left, I was and still am devastated being as early as I was in the pregnancy but to lose the little soul I love with all of me was really hard.
I would have been due sometime this month. I’m still processing it all but gosh my heart is aching, I know that if my pregnancy hadn’t naturally ended I would have died, but I’m still so devastated. And I’ve been trying really hard to keep it together this month, but reading all of this has brought out some strong emotions (not bad emotions since I don’t believe any emotions are bad, just big ones) and I guess I just wanted to share. Life’s been such a whirlwind, I took two weeks to grieve after my miscarriage but since then I’ve been in school, recovering, and working, thank you to anyone who’s read this and held space for this. the topic of grief and near death expiernces has really got me emotional apparently.

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Sometimes if we ask our guides before we go to sleep if they will work with us to help us understand you will get some answers. It seems to me this beautiful soul that made herself aware to you at a very early age, wanted to be with you and share your experiences. Maybe she wanted some of the same experience s you were going to have but didn’t want the earthly life at this time? I think you were both a gift to each other and both of you have a strong love for each other Thank you for sharing this experience. You are another person on this forum I felt a connection.

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  1. Name, or name you want to go by here.
    Emily
  2. Artist, collector, curious. Artist
  3. How did you discover this hobby/art form. I saw an article about these “crazy” people who collect reborns that they purchase for $10,000 each, so I thought I could try that and if I’m any good I’ll make tons of money! HAHAHAHAHA not so much…
  4. Favorite three babies. ** Lovelyn, every baby by Adrie Stoete, Ramsey **
  5. How long have you been on this forum YEARS but I just started participating a few years ago
  6. GHSP or AIRDRY. GHSP, my air dry skills are sub par to be generous
  7. The perfect sculpt would have… slightly open mouth, sleeping, naturally slightly curled hands, slightly separated toes, deep nasal and ear canals, full limbs and the ability to perfectly finish painting itself if I get frustrated
  8. Pet peeve thick, dark, misplaced or pencil thin eyebrows, pluggy mohair, dark unnatural creases, babies that look completely unpainted but advertised with mottling, veining and hundreds of hours put into it
  9. State you live in (if you feel comfortable). Ohio as of 2017, but I’m from California
  10. What is the weather like today. 102° f but pouring rain…
  11. What are you three go to dinners. Garlic butter pasta, Burritos, Door Dash
  12. kids, vinyl kids, furry kids. I have a Doghter, May she’s 4
  13. Favorite Netflix binge. Ozark
  14. Beverage of choice. Tea, Odwalla Super Food
  15. Satin and lace, little grown up outfits, decayed edges, vintage, fantasy, down to earth cotton. Love organic soft cottons
    16.When all this improves and we find a new normal where would your dream place to vacation. I would love to go to Ireland, or to Prague where I have spent several months years ago
    17.What totally silly thing did you hoard during SIP, (can’t be toilet paper). Coconut Oil, my dog has skin allergies and it was sold out so when I found it I bought 16 HUGE jars
    18.One cool thing you learned to do during SIP garden!
    19.Going to ROSE next summer Probably not, I’ve never been :frowning:
    20.Did you plant a garden this year. Yep, I’ve tried for about a year with no luck, now all of a sudden it’s actually still alive and it’s producing like crazy
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Thank you for sharing your story. :two_hearts:

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I want to start off by saying I am so sorry for the loss of your child.

I lost my Daughter to brain cancer at age 19, and later I would lose my daughter Claire in my 18+ week of pregnancy ( her kidneys did not develop). I gave birth to her and held her and its strange how someone so tiny can be so perfect and you can love them with every cell of your body.

Loss is loss and grief is powerful. You can’t take a shortcut, you can’t schedule it or manage it, it has a “life” of its own and it asks what it asks. I think our job is just to live with it and understand that even though it is a part of us we don’t have to be defined by it… and even weirder thing is that it’s a precious gift.

I knew all my children before they were born, I heard them call me to be born, it wasn’t a voice, it was a knowing. 19 weeks, 19 years they were still my children.

Your loss is real and deserves to be honored and I hope you can. When that wave hits, let it pull you out to the deep end, feel it all, that wave will bring you right back to shore again.

I dont know you personably but I am glad you shared, glad you are still here and healing.

The thing about that soul child is she isn’t gone, she is just resting up and she will find you again when everything lines up like it should, and that may be in a most unusual way, prepare to be enchanted.

Sending you strength.

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1. Name, or name you want to go by here.
I’ll answer to anything that isn’t mean.
2. Artist, collector, curious
Artist with a couple of keepers.
3. How did you discover this hobby/art form
I can’t recall. I believe it was probably box opening videos on youtube though.
4. Favorite three babies
I like most of the babies. My short list is of babies I DON’T like. That list contains Saskia, Liam, Maggie/Maddox, etc…
5. How long have you been on this forum
Three years, I think…?
6. GHSP or AIRDRY
Heat set.
7. The perfect sculpt would have…
I don’t know.
8. Pet peeve
Too many. We’ll stick with an easy one though, to avoid a laundry list. Lint and/or dust particles sticking to wet paint.
9. State you live in (if you feel comfortable)
California
10. What is the weather like today
Sunny. A bit cooler than it has been lately. A slight breeze, which is nice.
11. What are you three go to dinners
Oh man, I’m a total fat kid so anything with carbs. Pasta, potatoes, etc… Why’d you have to go and make me think about foooood? argh :rofl:
12. kids, vinyl kids, furry kids
One of the human female variety. Two keepers (for now). Three pointy eared ankle biters.
13. Favorite Netflix binge
Tough one. I really dig true crime, but I’m also big into some of the darker shows like Locke & Key and Umbrella Academy.
14. Beverage of choice
Water.
15. Satin and lace, little grown up outfits, decayed edges, vintage, fantasy, down to earth cotton
It really depends upon my mood. Most of the time I will leave them in cotton onesies and simple outfits that won’t stain their vinyl. Occasionally I will dress them up for pictures.
16.When all this improves and we find a new normal where would your dream place to vacation
I really want to visit Austin. I some half siblings there that I discovered a few years ago and would love to meet.
17.What totally silly thing did you hoard during SIP, (can’t be toilet paper)
I didn’t hoard anything.
18.One cool thing you learned to do during SIP
Limit my social media intake to preserve my emotional health.
19.Going to ROSE next summer
I would love to, but I really doubt it will be happening this time around.
20.Did you plant a garden this year
I did not. I would love to get a sweet little herb garden together for my apartment patio though. I love cooking with fresh ingredients.

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  1. Name, or name you want to go by here.
    Valerie

  2. Artist, collector, curious
    “artist”

  3. How did you discover this hobby/art form
    Church Ladies meeting, my friend had a reborn at her home

  4. Favorite three babies
    Micro babies, Laila, Summer Rain.

  5. How long have you been on this forum
    About 2.5 years

  6. GHSP or AIRDRY
    GHSP but I’d like to try air dry someday.

  7. The perfect sculpt would have…
    None that I know of.

  8. Pet peeve
    Dolls with no creasing. Makes me crazy.

  9. State you live in (if you feel comfortable)
    South Carolina…I hate it…going back home to FL asap

  10. What is the weather like today
    92 with heat index of 100…it’s cooler today.

  11. What are you three go to dinners
    We love chicken, pizza and grilled cheese with tomato

  12. kids, vinyl kids, furry kids
    1 girl and 1 boy, both adults, 6 grandchildren

  13. Favorite Netflix binge
    I’ve never been on Netflix

  14. Beverage of choice
    Sparkling water

  15. Satin and lace, little grown up outfits, decayed edges, vintage, fantasy, down to earth cotton
    I love lace, vintage and cotton

16.When all this improves and we find a new normal where would your dream place to vacation
Biblically, this is more than likely a warm up of things to come. We are living in the end times.

17.What totally silly thing did you hoard during SIP, (can’t be toilet paper)
Hand sanitizer for travel.

18.One cool thing you learned to do during SIP
Collected more kits

19.Going to ROSE next summer No

20.Did you plant a garden this year No

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@anon81835189 @Gabriell @PenelopesRebornDolls thank you three for sharing your words of love and stories, my friends, little sister (we’re a year apart and close as can be) and sweetheart all know, but the rest of my family has no idea since it was an accident, I’ve lost friends and loved ones before losing my pregnancy, but I’ve never held grief so deep and strong as when I lost my pregnancy, I felt like a sobbing zombie for days. I knew for weeks before getting a positive, it’s so incredible to hear stories like mine, it makes me feel less alone. Because I was the only one grieving my baby, after all I didn’t even have time to tell my friends I was pregnant, just that I was miscarrying, I’m grateful to hold each of your stories, and words of love and encouragement, thank you each and I am sorry for those of you who have also been through this grief. :two_hearts::two_hearts:

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