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!

This conversation reminds me that : I may be fat but at least I am sane!

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.

I did find a couple pages online with pics of some of my dolls

There are 5 pages of pics on this site (a few years old)

http://groups.msn.com/BarbieOnTheEdg...ns.msnw?Page=1

and one doll on my (not updated in a couple of years) spark page

http://www.sparkpeople.com/mypage.asp

Cool mermaid Kaplods, and you did an interesting job of gaying up Ken. It looks like you have a lot of fun and are very talented.
Sarah in MD

I dunno about the Reborns, but I've seen ads in women's magazines for So Truly Real dolls, are they similar? Sounds a little weird to me

If you haven't seen any of them, look up reborn doll on eBay.

Some of the auctions creep me out more than the dolls themselves...the way they talk about them like it is a real baby.

I personally think they look like baby corpses...they are freaky. I wouldn't have one in my house.

*shudder*

aphil - that is exactly what I was thinking! Its definitely very corpse like.

For those of you who haven't seen them-here is a photo of a reborn doll:

Oh my, here is an ebay auction, selling for almost $1500!!
Scary reborn

OMG that's creepy!

Word.

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.

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?