Class Sale question

Classes are left up on the forum for at least 6 weeks and then students in the class get the eBook free so you can continue working at your own pace and be able to replicate the palette again for other kits. Before I became a moderator, I'd ignore the class section until at least a week went by then I'd do more than one lesson a day. A lesson is designed to be about 45 minutes of painting time.

passionatereborner wrote:

babyblossom wrote:

Linda you could buy the Peaches and Cream Ebook and Lara has Native American Indian and Asian classes coming up in the new year

Classes are fantastic. They go over everything! Lara posts a lesson 6 days a week and you can choose to do the lesson every day or do what I do and wait until most of the lessons are posted and work at your own pace. I am a night owl so it works out well because I reborn when lots of ladies are on the forum.

Okay so it's just there and you can do it whenever in the day you are available?? That sounds like it would be great! I would do the Native American class ... and then whatever ... it's just all so new to me!!

The classes run at different times. One class every 6-8 weeks, so you have plenty of time to complete your baby for each class. They very rarely overlap at all. At you work at your own pace when you have time to do the lessons.

I love the princess idea, that will be fun!! Stoete kits would be great too

Lara wrote:

I think we decided on having this class in September...so it's far away, yes, but will give everyone time to get costumes together. I am thinking to do a fair complexion with the strawberry and cream look. Snow White is ideal for that (so I'll take her! lol) but really any would work. The ethnic princesses would not work for this class, unfortunately. But you can also consider Princess Fiona or even Mulan would be fine with lighter skintone. Real Effect has 2 different vinyls. Their newer one is lighter. I would prefer a lighter vinyl to start with, to make the complexion easier to achieve. The Dolls to Love is more neutral. Stoete has very light peachy vinyl, and so does Dolldreams. I doubt that Linda would give us a generic discount on all her kits, but maybe she would if we limited it to a certain sculptor. Stoete kits, I can get wholesale, so we can of course get those at a nice price...say $75 for them. So, I think we should decide between Stoete, Dolls To Love (with would be $99 through Sandie) or Doll Dreams $65-$85.
Thoughts?

yay ! great class ! i was thinking stoete kits too so if we got those could we order from you Lara like you are doing with the American Indian class.............. the kit and class combo ?

passionatereborner wrote:

Karen wrote:

Classes are left up on the forum for at least 6 weeks and then students in the class get the eBook free so you can continue working at your own pace and be able to replicate the palette again for other kits. Before I became a moderator, I'd ignore the class section until at least a week went by then I'd do more than one lesson a day. A lesson is designed to be about 45 minutes of painting time.

Okay ... I got the BB premixed paints, I am guessing that I would need single colors of genesis to mix up different colors, right?

The colors we mix end up being pretty close to the BB premixed. I started classes with the premixed and little by little I built up my individual colors so I could mix my own. Two colors you should have that is not from the BB premixed set is Burnt Umber and Yellow ochre. Those two colors are used in almost every class.

Yes Linda, you will need some other colours too but there is a great chart on here somewhere that tells you how to mix colours. I'm sure Karen could find the link for you - she is a wizz at that!

That way you could buy the minimum amount of colours you needed to mix all the others you don't have yet

The Genesis basic set will do a lot. Titanium white, burnt umber, genesis red, genesis yellow and blue. From those colors you can mix nearly every single color. The link is down in the Genesis Paint mixing section.

Thank you ALL for all of the information! You ladies are a wealth of information! Hope you know just how much it is appreciated!!

Ok I vote for Stoetes also but I love Bell from shoot I can't remember lol.. I can see the yellow dress ... Oh yea Bell for me ..

Belle is from Beauty and the Beast.

That's it lol... I was sure someone would know lol.... Sherrie

But, if you're going to enter the contest, you shouldn't say which princess you're going to do.

Oh ok lol.. I will have to change it up again lol....pick something else .. I did like others as well lol.. Sherrie

(Or you can just change your post so she's not mentioned...the class won't be until September, I think Lara said. We might forget what you said!)

yep i agree we sure might just forget what we said but I more then many as I have a bad memory anyway lol... Sherrie

There are going to be duplicates and triplicates. There's no way we'll only have 7 or 8 ladies entering the class. It really doesn't matter who says what at this point.

It's true. But, Ariel wears a couple different dresses, Cinderella has a couple dresses (and the rag dress, but I don't think anyone wants to do that one), Belle has quite a few dresses even though the yellow one is the most princess-ish, Aurora (sleeping beauty) has the main princess dress that can either be pink or blue. But, even if the dresses are exactly the same, the princess herself and the surroundings she's going to be posed in will be completely different.

Lara, I hope it's alright, but I compiled a list of Disney Princess pictures and listed pretty much every fair skinned princess in each dress she wears. Snow White and Cinderella have rag dresses, if anyone is interested in those, I can find pictures. I also linked to the online store for ebooks and classes, to make it easier for anyone interested in them.

http://orangegrovenursery.blogspot.com/2011/12/disney-ladies.html

Sine my PM box is filling up, if anyone wants to ask about gowns, ideas, or to commission me to make their baby's costume, email me at jrorange @ charter . net (take out the spaces). Like Karen said, there will be duplicates, but each baby is going to be unique, so don't worry if someone may have taken your idea. I'll also try to make any duplicate costumes slightly different.

Okay who is Megara and who is giselle?

Karen wrote:

Okay who is Megara and who is giselle?

Megara from "Hercules" and Giselle from the animated/live action "Enchanted"

Oh, I should also point out that the majority of these gowns have necklines that don't really work for reborns. I can either raise the neckline or include a peach color insert or shirt (whichever is more appropriate) like I did for my family's Aladdin-themed costumes in 2010: http://costumesandartwork.blogspot.com/2011/01/halloween-pictures.html

That's really cool Rachel, thank you! I was just thinking that about the necklines, they are all lower and on the shoulder. Hmmm, now I have to think about which one to do

I thought maybe this would inspire someone.

Orange_Grove_Nursery wrote:

Lara, I hope it's alright, but I compiled a list of Disney Princess pictures and listed pretty much every fair skinned princess in each dress she wears. Snow White and Cinderella have rag dresses, if anyone is interested in those, I can find pictures. I also linked to the online store for ebooks and classes, to make it easier for anyone interested in them.

http://orangegrovenursery.blogspot.com/2011/12/disney-ladies.html

There is also this dress for Giselle:



which would definitely need a flesh colored shirt underneath!

Thanks Rachel and Becky. That's great info!

I'm sure there'll be duplicates and I don't envy you Rachel making all the costumes lol

Yeah, I didn't think that Giselle dress looked very "princess-ish", but it is hers, so I guess I should have included it.

EDIT: I've updated my blog post with that dress, and I also included Cinderella's and Snow White's rag dresses.

Well, Cinderella was in rags before she became a princess!

A lot of the girls aren't technically princesses, like Alice or Giselle, but I thought to create a broader range of choices, I'd include them too. Technically, Cinderella didn't become a princess until she was wearing the wedding gown at the end of the movie, and Belle never was a princess -at least in the movie, I'm assuming she and the Prince got married later...?

It might be a bit of a stretch away from Princess, but there's always Mary Poppins:

I don't think it would matter if they weren't princesses as long as they had that same pale complexion. There may be some ladies who won't dress their babies as princesses

My baby will be dressed up for sure though

I think the dressing up will be what makes this class that much more fun!

I totally agree Rachel

So looking forward to this class

Orange_Grove_Nursery wrote:

Karen wrote:

Okay who is Megara and who is giselle?

Megara from "Hercules" and Giselle from the animated/live action "Enchanted"

That's awesome, Rachel. Thank you!

No problem. I'm a super huge Disney fan, especially the Princess movies (I grew up wanting to be a Disney animator), so I thought it would be helpful if I compiled a visual list.

Is the fair skin/princess class going to be in September? I'm guessing the class sale will be next week then?

Yes, and yes! Karen and I are working on an updated class schedule, and will get that out and on the website soon.

Awesome, thanks Lara!

I don't know if anyone would go for it, but a possibility could be a monkey and vampire skin tone class...seems a lot of people are making vampires/pale skinned character babies...?


I would love to have this class. I have bought a Quinton to do just this thing with a vampire baby

OK, the sale is starting on Dec 26th or 27th...whenever Karen can get it up. It will run through Jan 3rd....sort of yeah the kids are out of school sale.
Please be sure to take advantage of the special by Jan 3rd. After that....it will be GONE!

Lara wrote:

OK, the sale is starting on Dec 26th or 27th...whenever Karen can get it up. It will run through Jan 3rd....sort of yeah the kids are out of school sale.
Please be sure to take advantage of the special by Jan 3rd. After that....it will be GONE!

Not only gone, but I'm not going to allow Lara to make special exceptions, either! Yes, the Warden is in da' house!

Karen wrote:

Lara wrote:

OK, the sale is starting on Dec 26th or 27th...whenever Karen can get it up. It will run through Jan 3rd....sort of yeah the kids are out of school sale.
Please be sure to take advantage of the special by Jan 3rd. After that....it will be GONE!

Not only gone, but I'm not going to allow Lara to make special exceptions, either! Yes, the Warden is in da' house!

Oh, you go girl!!!

Karen wrote:

Lara wrote:

Karen wrote:

I vote Stoete and no fair you take my choice!! ROFL!!

She's Angie's favorite! How could I not choose her?

How many 49 year old women has the cartoon on DVD and does not allow anybody to watch it besides herself? Snow White is MY favorite, too!

That's too funny. Snow white was my first choice too. She's my favorite as well and think she would be beautiful with her porcelin skintone lol.

There can be more than one Snow White.

Okay ... I was going to read ALL of the post again ... but I don't feel like it LoL
HOW MUCH will this Class offer cost? Is it $40 each class so $80 for 3 of them?
If anyone would look at my clothes I have for sale ... I would love to take advantage of this but I would have to sell some of the items I have for sale in the FOR SALE Area ... I posted a new Carriage Boutique Smocked Romper in there a few days back and I still have some awesome clothing available that would be adorable on your Babies ... so IF I can get enough things sold, I will take advantage of this Class Offer
THANK YOU FOR LOOKING IN ADVANCE ... Hopefully I will be able to join in!!

All classes are $45 so the sale will be 3 classes for $90.

Karen wrote:

All classes are $45 so the sale will be 3 classes for $90.

Oh okay ... not sure where I go $40 ... you never know with me! LoL I am just a crazy lady!! LoL
Thanks so much!!
And we have to pay next week, right?

Sale ends the 3rd of January