Shaylie Jade

Story time: This is Shaylie, she’s been in my life about two years. How I got her was quite the miracle. (Maybe that’s not the correct word for it) I saw some photos of her as a completed baby on the Instagram of  @little_leela I immediately fell in love with her. I’ve never really fallen in love with any other reborns, even most that I have ever had in my collection. I would always ogle over every photo that was posted of her, to me she was perfect! Then one day when I was babysitting, I saw that she was for sale, but I think she was pending at the time. I was disappointed, but I just thought it wasn’t meant to be. Then a few days later I saw she was back up for sale! I thought about it for an hour or so before taking the leap. I was making small payments every other week. I was waiting for a check, so I could finally pay her off. I remember that she wanted her to be paid in full by a certain date. The check still wasn’t to me. I was freaking out, big time!!! Then it finally came a couple weeks before the money was due. Whew! I really think that she’s my forever baby 😍 She is a Saskia by Bonnie Brown, I believe she was in the first kit batch made. I don’t have her documentation, but it’s not too big of a deal! 

4 years into the Future

It’s the middle of 2019, it’s been 4 years since my last blog entry. I have been through a lot of changes since then.  I was let go of my job, December 24, 2015. Yes, I was let go on Christmas Eve. Doesn’t that just Suck! I was let go due to having a disability, lumbar spondylosis and neuropathy.

Since then it’s been hardship after hardship.  I bought a house only a few months before being let go. Soooo, yeah, my house was foreclosed on. My mom and I got an apartment together and lived together for about a year. We chose not to renew our lease because rent was going up another $100-$200.  My mom moved in with her boyfriend, I got a little on bedroom house to rent. While all this was happening my body has increasingly gotten weaker. I needed to find an apartment that was handicapped accessible. Luckily, I was able to find something realitively quick! They work with people who are like me and need extra help.

While all this was going on my mental health has taken quite the dive. I am on medication and go to a behavioral health therapist. We are working on coping and trying to find something that makes some money while I wait on disability. I’ve been diagnosed with stress and anxiety. I’m losing my vision do to this. I have seen an eye and retina specialist, we know my eye pressure and optic nerves are still doing great. I started going back to church 6 months ago and doing volunteer work once a week. That’s helped me mentally, I think.

Last year in May I started to sell Scentsy. It was great meeting new people and being excited by something. Unfortunately, this might be my last month because I haven’t been able to hit my numbers the past few months. It’s tearing me up inside! I like being an Independent Scentsy Consultant, it was awesome to have a little extra money for groceries and toiletries. I don’t know what to do. I’ve tried really hard to become the best Scentsy Consultant I could be, but unfortunately it wasn’t enough.

I’m also getting my reborn business back up and running, I even re opened my Etsy store a couple weeks ago. I currently have one reborn on there, and I’m working on two more.

Reborn dolls

Hi guys,

I just received my first custom reborn doll.  She's the Arianna kit by Reva Schick, and was made by Kimberli Wingard of Angel Baby Maker Nursery.  She was not cheap by any means, but she was definitely worth it!    Since she was a custom I got to pick out her details; skin tone, eye color, and hair color.  It took me about three months to get her paid off.   I did a box opening of her on my YouTube Channel.  I named her Mabelynn, I haven't decided on a middle name yet.  

Finally Finished and Just Getting Started!

Hi guys,

I'm excited to write that my last day of classes was on September 7, I also just got my grades back and I got A's in my final two classes.  I've been in talks with a career counselor, and I hope to get a new job really soon.  As my current job, is becoming a horrible place to work at.  There are some monetization stuff that I'm trying on YouTube, which is working out okay.  Click here to view my channel!  Warning, it's has a hog posh of different topics on it.

I'm also taking into reborning dolls, I have one that was poorly made.  I'd like to fix him, but his rooting is horrible and the body is the wrong size, so it might be more feasible to start completely over with him.  I'm sure I can sell him to a younger collector for what I paid for him.  I do have the Libby kit by Cindy Musgrove that I'm really eager to get started on.  She's going to be approximately 3 month old size.  I just need to get the genesis paints and counter top over than I've got everything I need to get started on her.  I'll probably be documenting her process.  This is very therapeutic for my biological clock, lol!  I'm going to attach a photo of her prototype, so you can see what she might look like when done.  Every reborn is one of a kind, since all artist have different taste and what she likes in a baby.

                                         Photograph:  Bountiful Baby  Artist:  Melissa George