I admire the craftmanship, but I found it kind of creepy (too real.) There's doll collecting, and doll collecting and I was a little weirded out by some of the behavior of the women who are attached to these dolls. I have to admit that the crafters have mad skills-some of the pics I saw looked real!
I HATE dolls. Not Barbies and the like but the porcelain kind with glass eyes. They totally unnerve me. They stare at you and follow you with those eyes . . . <shudders> Nope, definitely not for me. The reborn dolls -- don't bother me as much because alot of them have their eyes closed. It's those Victorian dolls that get to me. Ah, the 'Night Gallery, Twilight Zone and /or Outer Limits' influence is my best guess as to why I just can't stand 'em!
There's people carring these dolls around and pretending that they're real? Come on, seriously? lol, now thats creepy!
LOL yes, I am Sid (though I've never blown a doll up... yet).
Darn though, this half-kaput computer I'm using doesn't have photo software, so I don't think I can upload a pic. I can't download any new software onto it, because it crashes when I do, and when I restart anything that was on it, becomes inaccessible. Hubby says it isn't really disappearing, but it can't be accessed, so it might as well be. When my computer crashed, our neighbor gave us his broken one. It works for my absolute minimal needs, but I can't wait until we have the money to repair or replace mine.
OMG!!! That picture reminds me of my sis. Her first grandchild was born without a medula(the part of the brain that handles involuntary functions, breathing and such). After two weeks on life support and testing they finally pulled the plug and let her go in peace.
A few months later I was visiting her and she asked me to hand her her keyring. On the keyring she had a "Sleeping Angel" picture of Kaylee(that's what they called the pictures of babies that had died). FREAKED me out!!!! It was clear that the baby was dead, not sleeping. A lot like Aphil's picture, but bluer.
Talking to my niece later, she had been really upset b/c my mom and sister got so wrapped up in themselves that they seemed to forget that it was Angie, my niece, who lost her first child. Poor girl basically had to deal with the loss of her child while emotionally supporting her mother and grandmother thru it. Plus, she knew for two months that the baby wouldn't live but had to wait to deliver at full-term in order to prevent physical trauma to herself.
On the keyring she had a "Sleeping Angel" picture of Kaylee(that's what they called the pictures of babies that had died). FREAKED me out!!!! It was clear that the baby was dead, not sleeping.
Definitely YMMV, I can understand if someone wants to keep a post-mortem photo (if post-mortem was the only way they could get it) of their dear departed for the sake of their own closure, but why on earth would they want to share it?
They totally unnerve me. They stare at you and follow you with those eyes . . . <shudders> Nope, definitely not for me. The reborn dolls -- don't bother me as much because alot of them have their eyes closed. It's those Victorian dolls that get to me. Ah, the 'Night Gallery, Twilight Zone and /or Outer Limits' influence is my best guess as to why I just can't stand 'em! 
