Recommended Order Of steps In Creating Your Baby
(click any step for more information on that step)
1. Optional
factory hair paint removal
2. Permanent Eyebrows and Veins
3. Color wash and blushing
4. Nail painting
5. Hair rooting or wig
placement
6. Attaching eyelashes
7. Assembling the body
This guide is for the last step, step #7, assembling the body.
Preparing The Head For Placing On The Body
If you are giving your baby an optional magnetic pacifier, use a
glue such as our E6000 (item #248) to glue a rare earth magnet behind
the baby’s mouth. Making sure you glue the right side of the magnet
to the mouth so that the pacifier with magnet will attract rather than
push away from the magnet inside of the head. If you have opened the
nose and/or mouth, you will need to place dark purple (our item #255)
felt behind them to prevent weighting material or stuffing from showing
through. Cut a square of felt and place it just above and behind the
nose. If the mouth is open too cut the piece large enough to cover the
mouth opening as well and glue piece lightly with Gem Tack, just above
the nose openings on the inside of the head. You want to be sure not
to let any glue get in the nose or mouth openings.
If you have a bag of plastic pellets from your dolls original body,
then place this bag in the dolls head for weighting. If you do not have
this bag of pellets, place a nylon stocking (our item #265 or #266)
that is either seamed or tied on one end inside the dolls head and fill
with Poly-Pellets (our item #218). Tie the end of the bag off. If there
is excess space inside the head fill with Poly-fill stuffing (our item
#217).
Stuffing And Attaching The Limbs
Fill the arms and legs most of the way full of Poly-Pellets (#218).
Top off with Poly-Fil (#217), filling the limbs tightly so the pellets
won’t be able to move around and make noise. Place the limbs into
the arm and leg openings of the body, position them and pull the cable
ties tightly. Cut ties with your cuticle nippers (our item #301). Yes,
normal cutters will also cut cable ties (like our items #251 or #283),
but cuticle nippers create a cut that feels almost polished! Also, these
precision nippers have a cutting head with an angled design to help
you more clearly see where and what you are cutting.
Stuffing The Torso
Place a small amount of stuffing in the bottom of the torso and
then add a 1 pound bag of pellets. Fill the rest of the torso with Poly-fill.
If you want a little more weight and want the neck to be more floppy
add a 5 ounce bag of pellets to the very top of the torso.
Attaching The Head To The Body.
Place the top side of the neck base (our item #421) into the head.
You may need to cut away the inner ring of vinyl or thin out thick areas
of excess vinyl with your utility knife. It may be hard for you to get
the neck base into the head, but this is necessary for a securely attached
head. Try turning the base as you push down or using a screwdriver to
push the base into the head. The neck base should turn freely inside
the head (click
here for additional instructions provided by Dianna Newburn ).
Place the head on top of the body and pull the cable tie tight.
Cut the ends of the cable ties off smoothly with your cuticle nippers.
Be sure to note the time. Your beautiful baby is born!
Dressing Your Baby
You have created the most realistic baby doll ever. Your little
one needs real baby clothing to finish the effect. Our Bountiful Baby
Boutique store offers many beautiful outfits to fit your Reborn baby
perfectly. Babies with 21” newborn bodies will need a size Newborn
or 0-3 month outfit. Most smaller reborns can wear a preemie size. Remember
the diapers and t-shirt too. We prefer newborn size Huggies diapers
for our babies. They fit wonderfully and have Velcro tabs for easy changing.
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