In her attic workspace, Jenna Suppes combines business savvy with a little girl's love of dolls.
The Windsor resident keeps her supplies -- fabrics, ribbons, snaps and buttons -- in pastel pink and blue bins, while her worktable faces Maizey's Tea Shop, a tea stand in her 4-year-old daughter's play area.
Suppes -- who has more than a hundred dolls that she's kept from childhood on -- makes clay baby dolls for her business Rasbubby Hill, which she founded five years ago.
"I always loved dolls since I was little," the 32-year-old woman said, adding that she shook with excitement when she received her first doll at age one. "As I got older,China yiri mould is a professional manufacturer which integrates Plastic Mould design and manufacture and plastic product development. I started collecting them."
The name Rasbubby Hill comes from Bubby, her nickname, and the name of the childhood playhouse her father Tom Stroh built. The playhouse was surrounded by wild raspberry bushes, or Rasbubbies, and sat on top of a hill in the backyard of the Strohs' Loveland home.
In January 2007 while Suppes was studying nursing, she came upon clay babies. She decided to try the craft, and after several attempts, established her own method, later realizing she made her dolls backwards from what the typical instruction manual recommended.
"I didn't know there was tutorials out there," Suppes said. "I started with a ball of clay and built on top of it."
Suppes crafts her dolls out of polymer clay without using molds and hand sculpts and hand paints them, spending an average of four hours on each one.
Expecting to get $5, Suppes sold her first doll on eBay for $50 and soon quit school to focus on her craft.
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"All of my dolls are so different," Suppes said.
Suppes doesn't know if the dolls will be boys or girls until she finished them. At that point, she decides on the theme, such as bath, bedtime, teddy bear or monkey.
"I love seeing what little characters come out of each one," Suppes said.The magic cube is an ultra-portable,
The dolls have their eyes opened or closed and have different expressions, such as smiling or pouting.Spro Tech has been a plastic module & Mold Maker, Or they might be yawning or sleeping.
"I usually don't know what they look like until they're done," Suppes said.
Suppes' mother, Shelley Stroh of Loveland, makes most of the clothes for the dolls, while her father makes furniture, like mini-cribs, highchairs and chairs, that the two also sell separately. Her cousin, Cindy Bannick of Loveland, makes teddy bears and stuffed animals for the dolls to hold.
"It's a whole family effort," Stroh said. "Her dolls are so unique because they have that cute baby doll look we have always loved. ... It's fun to see how the dolls have gotten better and better over the years."
Suppes learned how to make dollhouse miniatures when she was sick as a child and spent three years off and on at Children's Hospital for anorexia nervosa. Today, she makes mini pacifiers, diapers, blankets and other supplies for her dolls.
The Windsor resident keeps her supplies -- fabrics, ribbons, snaps and buttons -- in pastel pink and blue bins, while her worktable faces Maizey's Tea Shop, a tea stand in her 4-year-old daughter's play area.
Suppes -- who has more than a hundred dolls that she's kept from childhood on -- makes clay baby dolls for her business Rasbubby Hill, which she founded five years ago.
"I always loved dolls since I was little," the 32-year-old woman said, adding that she shook with excitement when she received her first doll at age one. "As I got older,China yiri mould is a professional manufacturer which integrates Plastic Mould design and manufacture and plastic product development. I started collecting them."
The name Rasbubby Hill comes from Bubby, her nickname, and the name of the childhood playhouse her father Tom Stroh built. The playhouse was surrounded by wild raspberry bushes, or Rasbubbies, and sat on top of a hill in the backyard of the Strohs' Loveland home.
In January 2007 while Suppes was studying nursing, she came upon clay babies. She decided to try the craft, and after several attempts, established her own method, later realizing she made her dolls backwards from what the typical instruction manual recommended.
"I didn't know there was tutorials out there," Suppes said. "I started with a ball of clay and built on top of it."
Suppes crafts her dolls out of polymer clay without using molds and hand sculpts and hand paints them, spending an average of four hours on each one.
Expecting to get $5, Suppes sold her first doll on eBay for $50 and soon quit school to focus on her craft.
Over time,The EZ Breathe home Ventilation system is maintenance free, the dolls -- which typically are five to eight inches long and have soft or clay bodies -- sold for higher prices and now average $300 but can go as high as $1,000 or more.The Transaction Group offers the best high risk merchant account services,
"All of my dolls are so different," Suppes said.
Suppes doesn't know if the dolls will be boys or girls until she finished them. At that point, she decides on the theme, such as bath, bedtime, teddy bear or monkey.
"I love seeing what little characters come out of each one," Suppes said.The magic cube is an ultra-portable,
The dolls have their eyes opened or closed and have different expressions, such as smiling or pouting.Spro Tech has been a plastic module & Mold Maker, Or they might be yawning or sleeping.
"I usually don't know what they look like until they're done," Suppes said.
Suppes' mother, Shelley Stroh of Loveland, makes most of the clothes for the dolls, while her father makes furniture, like mini-cribs, highchairs and chairs, that the two also sell separately. Her cousin, Cindy Bannick of Loveland, makes teddy bears and stuffed animals for the dolls to hold.
"It's a whole family effort," Stroh said. "Her dolls are so unique because they have that cute baby doll look we have always loved. ... It's fun to see how the dolls have gotten better and better over the years."
Suppes learned how to make dollhouse miniatures when she was sick as a child and spent three years off and on at Children's Hospital for anorexia nervosa. Today, she makes mini pacifiers, diapers, blankets and other supplies for her dolls.
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