I second Harlow Tuzio-Ross Ross. Laura has several really cute awake kits. Her vinyl is neutral and easy to paint. Her newest, Abigail, is really cute, too. She has her own website where you can order.
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I think the Jennie one is just beautiful with eyes open or closed. I really like her.
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Silicone Harlow is realistic and so expensive. I refuse to pay 6,800 but she is adorable.
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And this is why I’m not rich. God knows I would spend it all on frivolous things like this. He’s saving me from the temptation. 
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Right? I used to go on the website my kid needs that. Yeah my kid lol. I love toys and dolls. If I could I would buy Harlow but that’s the cost of fertility treatments or adoption. I can’t fathom it for a piece of silicone.
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My adopted kid only cost me $69. Legal aid paid for everything but the amended birth certificate. He was a bargain baby I guess. For the price of the one silicone doll I could adopt enough real kids to become the old lady living in a shoe with so many children I don’t know what to do…wait. I’m already pretty much that with my 2 elementary kids and my 3 grown kids. Better not adopt any more. 
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I don’t refuse to pay it – I just can’t pay that. 
She really is beautiful!
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I was talking about the vinyl version.
If Laura isn’t selling them on her site, then check MacPherson’s. I believe they still have her. She is a bigger newborn size.
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I posted Harlow’s vinyl kit. I think it is around $100
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Harlow is cute!!!
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Agreed about the fees for Canada!! My order ended up costing me almost $300 USD for Reese and Ashley asleep seconds plus beads and an extra body. I paid the order which was a very reasonable price, but $30 USD for shipping always gets me, even though I know B.B. is probably paying even more than that. Then $30 USD for customs fees when I actually got the box, AND my bank pulled out $35 USD as an NSF fee even though I had the money in the account, it just transferred the same morning as PayPal took it and the bank didn’t like that. Ugh. BB’s prices are so good but the fees involved with getting them to Canada makes them, unfortuantely, not worth it most of the time.
BUT, look at the MacPherson website - they had a realborn listed but he’s sold out, I wonder if they plan on carrying some realborns now???
Exactly! It’s just the worst. I only buy from bb for paints right now, Macpherson’s ghsp jars are half the size and cost a dollar more.
A while ago they had Asher,Presley and I think Kase. But that was before they had sold out. They may sell them in the future which would be awesome.
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I think the awake kits are just babies with eyeholes cut out of them most of the time and the eyes all tend to look the same like a Pratt sculpt, there is nothing wrong with Denise’s work but her style doesn’t go well with realborns, it is more dolly-esque. She has some really pretty babies but I think a more detailed eye on an awake baby would look better. I am not sure how easy this is to accomplish. I am guessing they are scanning asleep babies. Still I love the realborns and BB seem to be the only ones doing sculpts from 3-D photography and I am guessing 3-printed molds.
I am addicted to their realborns.
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I know but that doll is even cuter than the vinyl. I’ve seen some creepy silicone dolls and hers are the best I’ve seen. I love the vinyl version too.
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@Katinafleming I feel like the old lady in the shoe! That’s a great deal on adoption. Before my first baby, I looked into adoption. Wow the least expensive was the Ukraine. That’s great that you adopted and I wish I could.
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My adopted baby really was a blessing. We weren’t even looking for a baby. We had been helping a homeless pregnant couple get on their feet. They were off the streets right before he was born. Then when he was 2 weeks old they said “do y’all want this baby? You can have him if you want.”…like he was a puppy they got and changed their mind about. Ironically, about a year and a half before that, a different lady offered me her baby. At that time I was single with 3 kids of my own. I had no business taking her baby. I prayed about it and asked God to make it to where I would be in a good position next time I was offered a free baby. Then I got married 2 months before my baby Raymond was born. That marriage didn’t last a year, but it did put me in a position to be able to take Raymond. 14 months later, I was offered his little brother too. By then, I was again in no position to take a baby. Raymond was the only free baby offered to me that God said was mine.
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That makes me happy. He went where he is happy and healthy and loved. Wow what was going on with the couple? Are they OK now?
They are great now. They aren’t together anymore. But they both got off drugs and off the streets. Raymond has a relationship with both of them. We haven’t seen the dad in a couple of years. But we saw the mom about a month ago. Raymond knows they are his biological parents but they just couldn’t take care of him, so they gave him to us. We also see his biological sister. She’s adopted too, by a great family who has the same attitude we do about making sure they maintain a relationship with each other and their bio mom. 
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I know it sounds weird but I always had a fantasy that I would find a baby or someone would leave one on my doorstep…still waiting. I may have watched Thumbelina too many times as a kid.
I wish I was younger I would have adopted.
I tried to adopt before my last son was born by mine and my husbands combined age was too old.
What a blessing your were there for that sweet boy.
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