Reborn baby Easter gifts.

Easter is just around the corner and I have most of my Easter shopping done for my family and close friends, but I still need to get things ready for my reborns Easter!
I assume you would like to do something for your reborn babies too, so here aresome ideas that I have come up with.

1. Chocolate milk. so I looked on youtube and couldn't fin anything much on fake chocolate milk for reborns, so I came up with two different methods myself. 

Method one.

You will need:
A sealed baby bottle.
White fabric softener.
Brown acrylic paint.

So just pour your white fabric softener into the bottle, then add a few drops of the acrylic paint. Put the bottle lid back on and shake. Shake, shak-adie, shake, shake, shake. Have a look at it, if it's anything like mine turned out there are little brown "chips" floating around. You can not get rid of it, and at first I didn't like this, but aftre a while I got used to it and thought that the brown "chips" looked like little chocolate chips in the milk. But if you want it to look smooth, go onto the next method.

Method two.

You will need:
A sealed baby bottle.
white fabric softener.
A stick of brown chalk pastels.
A craft knife or some sand paper. (If your young get your parents help with the craft knife please, I don't want to hear of any accidents so close to Easter!)

Pour the fabric softener into the sealed bottle and then shave some of the brown chalk pastel stick with the craft knife or sand paper into the bottle with the fabric softener. Put th lid back on and shake it up. All done, this should look a heap smoother then the other one. Please note that both of the methods seperate when left still for a period of time, so when you want to use then, just give them a quick shake.

2. Chocolate custard. You can get this is real baby food, but I wanted to make a fake one so it lasts a lot longer and dosn't go horrible after a while.
I only just made this, so i don't know if this seperate's after a while, but if it does just stir it with a spoon.


You will need:
Plastic container with lid or a plastic bowl.
A spoon.
sun lotion.
Brown acrylic paint.

Pour some sun lotion into the bowl or container then add some brown paint and give it a stir with the spoon, add more brown paint if it needs to be darker. This didn't turn out very thick so I guess if you wanted it thicker you could add some baby powder to it.


You could always make a tab blanket (You know, the little blankets with ribbon tabs around the whole border.) with an easter or rabbit pettern on the fabric. or if you can't get anything easter-y fabric wise make the tabby blanket and cut out a rabbit shape from felt and sew it to one corner of the blanket.

If you know how to knit you could try to find a patern for chickens or rabbits or something and knit it, my nan knitted me a Peter rabbit bunny quite a while ago and I LOVE it so i'm thinking of giving it to my reborns and having it in their little area of my bedroom.
Or if knitting isn't your thing maybe sewing is, try to find a sewing pattern for something Easter-y and sew it!

Or if your not crafty at all or your a busy person, or you just can't be bothered with making thinks, you could always go to the shops and but Easter toys, clothes and blankets for your reborns. I can't really do that because there is nowhere that sells baby clothes or blankets where I live and i'm not going anywhere where I can buy baby things until after Easter, so I have to make do with what I have at home.

Well thats all I have for now, but I might think of other things for your reborns before the weekend, so if I do I will be sure to write about it!
OH! By the way, I got my second reborn two days ago!! She is beautiful, and HUGE! She is a 24 inch baby, but the artist counts the bend in the legs, so really if she had straight legs she would be 25 1\2-26 inches! With my other reborn, Aidan, the artist said that he was going to be 21 Inches, so i thought thats how tall he'd be, but that how tall he would be with straight legs, so really he is about 19 inches tall, so I was quite surprised when I opened the box with this HUGE baby in it. she is very fat too! so all the clothes I had for her don't really fit, I thought that she would be a 000, but it's a tight fit in even 00, so she will be a size 0 in most clothes!! I will try to post picture of her soon!

-R

How to make reborn baby food.

(Picture of Heinz Organic carrots baby food from:Heinz)

Hi everyone,

I was looking around on the internet for some tutorials on how to make fake baby food for reborns, and I came up with some great tuts on youtube, but not really on google, so I thought I would make my own tut on it with how I make it, if you make this you can change it around a bit for your own liking, don't think that you have to do it exacly how I do :)

well first things first, you will need:

A container or bowl to mix everything up in.
A spoon to mix everything up with.
Lotion of some kind, whether it be sun-screen, hand cream, body lotion or even hair conditioner would work.
Food colouring of your choice.
and/or
Vanilla essence.
A empty and clean baby food jar-With the label still on (Optional.)
Chalk dust (this is also optional, if you can be bothered sitting there with a chalk stick and some sand paper to get chalk dust, it will give your fake baby food some texture.)

Ok so this is what I did:

Food One; Creamy banana porridge:
I grabbed a plastic container and put in it about 2 tablespoons of sun-screen, a drop of egg-yellow food colouring and some chalk dust for some texture as I planned to put the food in to an old, clean baby food jar and the original (real) baby food was a banana porridge and it had quite a bit of texture and I wanted the fake food to look as real as possible. I mixed it all up with a spoon but it looked too yellow and not dark enough...so I added some vanilla essence to it to make it darker and mixed it up again, that worked! I then poured the baby food from the plastic container into an old, clean baby food jar. So now I have jar of creamy banana porridge for my reborns!

Food Two; Carrot puree:

I put some sun-screen (Yes, yes, I know I used this in the last food, but I had an old bottle of it and I needed to get rid of it...) into a plastic container and added about 2 drops of yellow food colouring and 1 drop or red food colouring to get orange, this was a bit of trial and error, and I am still not completly happy with the outcome, so just play around with it a bit until you get a bright orange. I then mixed it all together and covered the container with some cling film and stuck some sticky tape to the edge to make sure it wouldn't come off and spill everywhere, I did this as I didn't have another old baby food jar and I couldn't find the lid to the container. ;D

Food Three; Banana and avocado puree:

This is the same as the carrot puree, but instead of making it orange I added only one drop of green food colouring to it to make it a light green. Again this one is stored in a plastic container with cling film as a make-shift lit. (Hey, I was having trouble finding the lids, it's not my fault my room is un-organised....well, actually, maybe it is...hehe.)

I also played around with other ideas too, like a glue, lotion and water mix, but that didn't work out so great. and another one was white hair conditioner instead of sun-screen with red food colouring to make an apple and strawberry baby food, it worked great actually and I didn't really think it would.

Warning! Do not get the food with the food colouring in it on your reborn baby if you plan to pretend feed your reborn, as it may stain your precious little baby and we do NOT want that!

Have a great day!

-R

First post!

Well, hi everyone. My names is Rebecca, and I started this blog because I love reborn dolls and I wanted to share that love with everyone else! Be prepared for posts about my reborn doll, Aidan and my other reborn doll that is on it's way to me now (i'll write another blog post about my new reborn soon.), also I would like to do tutorials on things to make for your reborns!
I hope you enjoy the blog :)

-R
xx