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medici wrote:It is not the first time May has made this statement, but the other times I have ignored it and based it on her lack of knowledge
AS a doll lover trying to join in on a doll board that is really rude. Not the first time I made this statement?????My lack of knowledge????
what the hell are you talking about.
I agree I don't have alot of knowledge I just saw this post at the top of the "new posts" page and asked a question and made a statement about it. WE all have likes and dislikes when it comes to dolls. Medici, I am not sure why I am not allowed to have a question or a statement. The first thing you said was directed to me about upsetting you. Upsetting you over a doll post. Where I was just making a statement. I wa shocked that my statment about food, dolls whatever would 'upset you'. I am ALLOWED to say I don't want food items on my dolls. Doesn't mean it is wrong or right and should not upset anyone. I have read posts on here where mice gnawed at peoples silicone dolls. When I saw this post about sugar I immediately thought of that. BADME. Good grief.
I am an older lady who enjoys dolls and enjoys coming here.
You are saying how miuch you love to add powdered sugar to your dolls ...I am just questioning why? AT first before you were so rude to me I thought you dusted them with powdered sugar like baby powder. Now I understand that you wash it off...I still would rather not have sugar on my dolls. JUST MY OPINOINS jeez![/quote]
Rude? I am seldom very rude to anyone, and hope I am not perceived that way.
This is what Wendy writes in her tutorial;
There is a difference in these two materials as the first, powdered sugar, is non toxic and leaves the finished baby just a tad lighter after sealing but much much safer and WAY easier to use. The Cabosil is trickier to apply and toxic as it is
finely powdered glass and easily inhaled and stays in the air for awhile. The only benefits to Cabosil is that it leaves your pieces not quite as light and the tone is ever so slightly blue tinted and a bit easier to get a thin coat of matting powder. The draw back is that it takes FOREVER- no joke- to rinse the pieces clean of the Cabosil and it also is very much more difficult to apply than powdered sugar. It takes quite a bit of force and quite a few washings to get that Cabosil powder off of the cured pieces. Very slight difference in both products but I prefer Cabosil but do use
powdered sugar a.k.a. factory matting powder.
Of course any residue from matting is washed off; be it powdered glass or powdered sugar.
Secondly she writes this;
the special matting powder thatfacturers is actually POWDERED SUGAR!!!!!!
No: I am not a "silicone artist" nor a reborner. But I believe that Wendy is???
Anne
Edited to add; Firstly I had the impression that it is not a process you are familiar with so therefor I wrote lack of knowledge (about the silicone painting process). I am sorry if I was unclear as to what I referred to.
I do not understand this either "AS a doll lover trying to join in on a doll board ". I have been a member I think, for several years (had a lapse of membership that i let run out). I think I became a member in -05?
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I am just giving my opinion like you are giving yours. I personally would not want sugar on my babies. I realize sugar is not a health hazard however, the first thing I thought about was bugs or other animals/insects being attracted to it because of the residue or smell. I mean really - am I the only person who thought of that? 
I was so excited when i saw this thread and this technique...such a relief. I love your baby Joey!!!!! 
. Soft squishy silicone: he is as sweet in RL. The other baby head has become my table decoration on our kitchen table; laying so sweetly...and decapitated in her bowl, patiently waiting for mummy to finish her hair (a looong time away 
