Born in the North of England, loving every second of my art classes at school and started knitting baby clothes age nine. Loving all things related to babies my whole life, I loved my dolls and would make baby clothes out of tissues! Our family emigrated to South Africa when I was 17. Having three beautiful children by the age of 24! Sadly, on 2nd January 1997 my husband and children were involved in a fatal car accident, in which my 9 year old son Derry James was killed. My girls Joelle and Ashton and I returned to England shortly after. I began a new life in the South of England where I met my now partner and together we have 5 grown up children between us and now 9 grandkids who we adore. My love for knitting set me on a path to reborning. I had made a large stash of baby cardigans and wanted to list them on e-bay, so I searched for a baby mannequin to model them. To my utter delight I stumbled upon reborn babies! I need one to model my knitted baby clothes, so I purchased my first reborn from e-bay and when it arrived, I took her out of the box and her head fell off ! I knew immediately that I could do better than that, so I jumped onto google and researched for days and then purchased everything I would need to teach myself. It was The Doll Show in Brighton at the exact same time, so I purchased 4 kits and spent hours at night, because I was working full time. I sold my first doll for 175.00GBP on e-bay. That was 18 years ago. I love every aspect of reborning from painting, rooting, dressing and photographing and I have now gone a step further in my love for all things baby by making baby clothes, most of which are sent home with my babies and some I sell directly to reborn collectors.
