How long does it take everyone to complete a baby rooting included? I have some woman on my facebook that will announce they are starting a new baby…BOOM…a few days later baby is complete! I am sooooo slow. It take me almost 2 weeks just to root the head!!! I buy kits and they just keep piling up. I’m going to have to have an addition built on my house for all the kits…lol
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Hey don’t worry about the slow thing, I am exactly the same, I totally understand how you feel about everyone getting their dolls done so quickly, specially the rooting. I’m with you, it takes me at least 2 weeks to root and I stay at it pretty constantly, though I haven’t been at this too long and have only rooted 3 heads so far. I am looking forward to being able to get that sparse rooting thing down. I love that look and always wind up with a bit too much hair for my liking. I wish I could build an addition for my dolls, wouldn’t that be the greatest thing. Keep going, we’ll make it someday!
It takes me about 20 hours to paint a kit (I count flash time, 8 minute bakes and cool time) in that number. The quickest I have ever rooted a head was Harley Hess in about 14 hours and the longest was almost 35 for my last Presley Asleep. It usually takes me around 20 hours!
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I’m a very slow painter, takes me about a week to paint a kit and at least 2 days to paint the hair. Rooting…that’s another story…slow, slow, and SLOW. Been a long time since I rooted a head, though.
I have never understood how people can get a reborn done in just a couple of days.
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Anyone who can finish a reborn in a few days must not have a job … Or, I guess they probably treat Reborning as their occupation. If you could work on a doll for 8-10 hours a day you could probably finish 1-2 a week. That would take way more discipline than I have though! 
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I’m retired, and I don’t have time to put more that 4 hours a day and not every day into reborning. If I’m lucky, it usually takes me a week to finish one.
I would love to be able to spend hours in a row working on babies, but I am lucky to get in 2-3 hours a day so it also takes me a week to paint one and then I usually only root in 2-3 hour sessions, so that takes a week or two at that rate. I started my 2 Presley’s on February 13th and finished painting and sealing on February 21st. Rooting took me until March 12th - so it took me one month for 2 babies and I was at it a bit more than my usual pace.
It takes me a while also with all the interruptions of work and life. I’m amazed also at people who can finish a doll fast. It’s a good thing I’m not in it for the money. I’d be very poor.
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There is no why I could complete a reborn in a few days and I’ve been doing them for 6yrs plus. The faster I try to go the more mistakes I make so I keep it slow and study. It takes me 3-7 days to paint and I don’t even bake because I use air dry paints. It takes me twice as long to root than it does to paint. Don’t worry about being slow. Just take your time and have fun.
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I have a tendency to work steadily and then slack off for two or three days, or work on another project. I am home and have the time, but have many other irons in the fire so it takes me a long time. I’m putting about three hours a day in on Irelyn, and have a ways to go with the paints and powders before I will get to rooting. Rooting, at my pace, usually takes a couple weeks. If I root for too many hours in a row, my hands kill me and I hallucinate hair when I close my eyes. (Wierd, I know, but I’m not kidding.) I am not a prolific reborner, but I hope, someday, to be a good one.
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Haha! When I take a break from rooting, I “see” hair strands everywhere. I’ve even dreamed about rooting.
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Oh, I’m so glad you “see” hair. I thought I was a real freak!
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I work a 40 hr week approx. so I don’t get too much time to work on the dolls, but I do prefer to go slow and get it right. I want to enjoy the process and make less mistakes as well. 20 to 30 hours to root and cut a head of hair. Oh and those little ‘sticky’ rollers are perfect for picking up pieces of hair that end up ‘everywhere’.
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OMG! I thought I was a little loony. I see hairs too and dream I’m rooting.
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I had a rooting dream too when I was rooting Molly LOL! It takes me forever too because of work and school. I don’t get but maybe 2 or 3 hours per week sometimes to devote to baby making. So yes it may take me a couple months to complete a doll LOL.
~Mandy
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Since we’ve confessed a few strange dreams, the other day I dreamed my hubby and some of our friends went out and I took little Aubrey Pratt with us. I had her next to me in a car seat. All was well until she started moving and cooing. I remember thinking it was perfectly normal as I spoke back to her. Everyone was starng at me.
What’s with that?! 
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You are lucky, Amy. You really got to see one of your reborns come to life. Lol! (I think we’re all right there with the crazy cat ladies!)
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It takes me about a month also. Between work an sports with my son an just being a mom it’s hard to do everyday. I try to do atleast a hour a night rooting if possible. The mohair has a lot to do with it too. I’m using mohair from singerfalls she’s on eBay an omg what a difference. I’m moving right along with Owen. It’s been 2 weeks an im almost done. I better shut up im probably jinksing myself an will mess him up lol
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