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My name is Claire Hughes and I am the artist behind Droplets of Love Nursery. I am a stay at home mum and I live in Rayleigh, Essex, which is in England. I have been happily married to my husband Steven for 15 years and we have three wonderful children together. Jack is 15, Charlotte is 13 and our baby Stevie is 5. I fell in love with reborn babies when I first saw them on eBay back in 2003. I knew I had to try this art for myself and set out to find out as much information as I could! I am lucky that I have the full support of my husband Steven who has encouraged and helped me along the way. I would also like to thank my wonderful mum! Who is always around when I need her :-) I soon joined the online classes, Simply Reborn. This was the best thing I could have done to get me started! The lessons were fabulous and the members made me feel welcome and gave me all the encouragement and help I needed. The best part? I made the most wonderful friends :-) My very first reborn was called Rosie. She was reborn from a Berenguer Rosebud doll, and although not perfect, she was my very own creation and I love her. To this day I still have her laying in a crib in my doll room. I could never let her go and she reminds everyday how lucky I am to be doing something I love so much.

There have been a lot of changes in Reborning since I started. From painting with ink pads and oils, through to the more advanced techniques you see on today’s babies using Genesis paints. This is what keeps Reborning so exciting for an artist! It is forever evolving and everyone is striving for the ‘perfect’ baby.

One of my first achievements was to become the First UK Certified Teachers for the Secrist Doll Company. I held a Live class at the very first Discover Dolls show back in 2007. I was lucky enough to work with Pat Secrist himself!

I ran my own company called 'Everything Reborn', selling Secrist Doll kits and many other reborn supplies through my website and ebay, still continuing to make my precious babies x

The next move in my reborn career, was being invited to Tutor on the online classes. I was overjoyed at being asked and jumped straight in! Being able to share what knowledge I have gained since I started reborning with others is great. I love to see how other artist's grow and gain confidence in what they are trying to achieve.

I have also written many Tutorials for the UK's Premier doll magazine, Discover Dolls.

I regularly attend doll shows, if not exhibiting, then I go to meet up with the many friends I have made over the last five years. We always have such a great time and I love to take one of my babies along to show of my work.

I am lucky enough to have travelled to the US and Germany, as well as around the UK, to attend shows and to teach this wonderful art in the Live Classes. The Live classes are held twice a year in the UK. The class is held over two days and each person who attends, paints and assembles their very own reborn which they get to take home with them. Seeing the women walk out of the class with their beautiful creations just makes me smile so much! I cannot tell you how proud myself and the other tutors feel. I look forward to these classes so much, they are hard work but I thoroughly enjoy them :-)

In May 2008 I opened Simply Reborn Limited along with Ruth. One of the only companies in the UK to produce its own kits! The range of Doll Kits are called the ‘Ruby Hues’. I was fortunate enough to work with some of the most famous artists in the industry as well as promote the new sculptor’s, both here in the UK and the rest of the world. Along with Ruby Hues doll kits, we stocked reborn supplies and other independent artist kits.

Due to health reason's, I resigned as Director of Simply Reborn Ltd. However, I will continue to make these beautiful babies and will be attending several doll show's through out the year. You can find out details of show dates here:-)